Load Balancing Job Trends in London

Load Balancing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 362 423
Rank change year-on-year -2 +61 +105
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 51 35 78
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.27% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.28% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 31 20 60
10th Percentile £45,000 £50,050 £54,750
25th Percentile £47,617 £53,938 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £67,500 £79,875
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.49% -0.16%
75th Percentile £90,000 £100,938 £87,813
90th Percentile £106,250 £130,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Load Balancing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 16,406 12,317 21,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 82.90% 96.02% 91.37%
Number of salaries quoted 10,795 7,519 16,058
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £52,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £122,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £59,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.92% +9.09% -12.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Load Balancing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in London

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in London

Load Balancing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +4 6 £90,000 +5.88% 6
South London +18 2 £47,500 -7.77% 1
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.92%) nginx
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (3.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 21 (41.18%) AWS
2 14 (27.45%) Azure
3 8 (15.69%) Amazon S3
3 8 (15.69%) GCP
3 8 (15.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (13.73%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (11.76%) SaaS
6 5 (9.80%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.80%) AWS Direct Connect
6 5 (9.80%) Entra ID
7 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (7.84%) Datadog
7 4 (7.84%) Route 53
7 4 (7.84%) Serverless
8 3 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub
8 3 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (58.82%) Firewall
2 25 (49.02%) VPN
3 19 (37.25%) WAN
4 17 (33.33%) BGP
4 17 (33.33%) DNS
5 16 (31.37%) LAN
6 13 (25.49%) SD-WAN
7 12 (23.53%) OSPF
8 10 (19.61%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (19.61%) TCP/IP
8 10 (19.61%) VLAN
8 10 (19.61%) VoIP
9 9 (17.65%) Cisco ISE
10 8 (15.69%) DHCP
11 5 (9.80%) Multicast
11 5 (9.80%) Network Security
12 3 (5.88%) WLAN
13 2 (3.92%) MPLS
13 2 (3.92%) SAN
13 2 (3.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.80%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (13.73%) GitLab
2 3 (5.88%) Git
2 3 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (37.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (27.45%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Banking
4 8 (15.69%) Retail
4 8 (15.69%) Retail Banking
5 7 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (9.80%) Law
7 4 (7.84%) Back Office
7 4 (7.84%) Financial Institution
7 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (5.88%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.92%) Legal
9 2 (3.92%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.96%) Advertising
10 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.96%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Network Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (19.61%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (17.65%) Senior
5 6 (11.76%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.84%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Administrator
8 2 (3.92%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.69%) 802.1X
2 4 (7.84%) RESTful
3 3 (5.88%) Node.js
4 2 (3.92%) LEMP Stack
5 1 (1.96%) AWS CDK
5 1 (1.96%) gRPC
5 1 (1.96%) Kafka
5 1 (1.96%) Next.js
5 1 (1.96%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.96%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 23 (45.10%) Data Centre
2 7 (13.73%) Cloud Native
3 6 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.88%) Blog
4 3 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.92%) Replication
5 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.92%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.96%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Linux
3 5 (9.80%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.88%) Ubuntu
4 3 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.92%) CentOS
5 2 (3.92%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (35.29%) CI/CD
2 18 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (31.37%) DevOps
4 15 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (27.45%) Platform Engineering
6 12 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (23.53%) ITIL
7 9 (17.65%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 9 (17.65%) Observability
7 9 (17.65%) Validation
8 7 (13.73%) High Availability
8 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (11.76%) Low Latency
10 5 (9.80%) Agile
10 5 (9.80%) Configuration Management
10 5 (9.80%) Incident Response
10 5 (9.80%) Mentoring
10 5 (9.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 17 (33.33%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) Bash
3 7 (13.73%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.76%) Go
5 4 (7.84%) Java
6 3 (5.88%) Bicep
7 2 (3.92%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (27.45%) CCNP
3 4 (7.84%) Degree
4 3 (5.88%) CCIE
4 3 (5.88%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.92%) CCNA
5 2 (3.92%) CCSA
5 2 (3.92%) CCSE
5 2 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) CCSP
6 1 (1.96%) CISM
6 1 (1.96%) CISSP
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.80%) SOC 2
2 4 (7.84%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) COBIT
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
System Software
1 12 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (9.80%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (7.84%) Docker
5 3 (5.88%) vSphere
6 2 (3.92%) Firmware
6 2 (3.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 24 (47.06%) Terraform
2 12 (23.53%) Ansible
3 10 (19.61%) Kubernetes
4 9 (17.65%) Check_MK
5 4 (7.84%) Grafana
5 4 (7.84%) Prometheus
6 2 (3.92%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (3.92%) Istio
6 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.92%) Nagios
6 2 (3.92%) Proxmox
6 2 (3.92%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (3.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.96%) Argo
7 1 (1.96%) Cilium
7 1 (1.96%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (43.14%) Cisco
2 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
3 12 (23.53%) Palo Alto
4 11 (21.57%) SolarWinds
4 11 (21.57%) VMware
5 5 (9.80%) F5
5 5 (9.80%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.84%) Dell
6 4 (7.84%) Zscaler
7 3 (5.88%) CheckPoint
7 3 (5.88%) Fortinet
7 3 (5.88%) Splunk
8 2 (3.92%) Infoblox
8 2 (3.92%) Veeam
9 1 (1.96%) AlgoSec
9 1 (1.96%) Cognizant
9 1 (1.96%) Commvault
9 1 (1.96%) EMC
9 1 (1.96%) iManage
9 1 (1.96%) Meraki