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 23 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 396 382
Rank change year-on-year +65 -14 +125
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 52 29 87
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.36% 0.19% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.20% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 22 16 72
10th Percentile £41,625 £47,875 £47,500
25th Percentile £46,592 £58,125 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - -3.45% -7.94%
75th Percentile £86,875 £96,250 £85,313
90th Percentile £106,250 £122,500 £96,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -13.73%

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 12,709 14,716 18,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.25% 94.76% 92.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,119 8,029 14,524
10th Percentile £36,750 £43,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,750 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £121,500 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 23 January 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 23 January 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 +32 4 £102,500 +17.14% 5
South London +38 1 £47,500 -5.00% 2
East London - 1 - - 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 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (26.92%) MS Visio
2 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 23 (44.23%) Azure
2 15 (28.85%) AWS
3 6 (11.54%) SaaS
4 5 (9.62%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (9.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.69%) GCP
5 4 (7.69%) Route 53
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.92%) Datadog
8 1 (1.92%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.92%) Stackdriver
8 1 (1.92%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 35 (67.31%) Firewall
2 29 (55.77%) LAN
3 22 (42.31%) WAN
4 19 (36.54%) VPN
5 18 (34.62%) BGP
6 17 (32.69%) SD-WAN
6 17 (32.69%) Wireless
7 14 (26.92%) OSPF
8 12 (23.08%) DNS
9 10 (19.23%) Wireshark
10 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
11 8 (15.38%) Network Security
12 7 (13.46%) DHCP
13 6 (11.54%) EIGRP
13 6 (11.54%) VLAN
13 6 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (9.62%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (9.62%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (9.62%) Ethernet VPN
15 4 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) GitLab
1 3 (5.77%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (46.15%) Finance
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 11 (21.15%) Telecoms
3 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (19.23%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (13.46%) Banking
5 6 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (9.62%) Law
6 5 (9.62%) Marketing
6 5 (9.62%) Retail
7 4 (7.69%) Back Office
7 4 (7.69%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.85%) Legal
8 2 (3.85%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 29 (55.77%) Network Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 14 (26.92%) Senior
3 10 (19.23%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Deployment Engineer
4 7 (13.46%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 6 (11.54%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Network Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Network Support
6 4 (7.69%) Network Support Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
7 3 (5.77%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) 802.1X
1 4 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (1.92%) Next.js
2 1 (1.92%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 29 (55.77%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.62%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Team
5 3 (5.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.77%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.85%) Replication
6 2 (3.85%) Web3
7 1 (1.92%) Blog
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.92%) PKI
7 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
2 5 (9.62%) Windows Server
3 4 (7.69%) Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
1 15 (28.85%) Validation
2 14 (26.92%) Change Management
2 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (21.15%) Change Control
3 11 (21.15%) Inventory Management
3 11 (21.15%) Network Monitoring
3 11 (21.15%) Network Virtualisation
4 10 (19.23%) Capacity Planning
4 10 (19.23%) Customer Service
4 10 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
5 9 (17.31%) CI/CD
5 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (17.31%) Problem Management
6 8 (15.38%) Asset Management
6 8 (15.38%) Coaching
6 8 (15.38%) Low Latency
6 8 (15.38%) Network Planning
6 8 (15.38%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) Python
2 9 (17.31%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.69%) Bash
3 4 (7.69%) Go
3 4 (7.69%) Java
4 3 (5.77%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) CCNP
1 21 (40.38%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (28.85%) Degree
3 14 (26.92%) CCIE
4 7 (13.46%) CCSA
4 7 (13.46%) CCSE
5 4 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (5.77%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.92%) CCNA
8 1 (1.92%) Check Point Certification
8 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SOC 2
2 4 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 4 (7.69%) PMO
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) Virtual Desktop
2 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.69%) Docker
4 3 (5.77%) vSphere
5 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.85%) ProxySG
5 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.92%) Firmware
6 1 (1.92%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 16 (30.77%) Terraform
2 8 (15.38%) Ansible
3 7 (13.46%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.85%) Check_MK
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.92%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 39 (75.00%) Cisco
2 21 (40.38%) CheckPoint
3 19 (36.54%) F5
4 16 (30.77%) Palo Alto
4 16 (30.77%) SolarWinds
5 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
6 8 (15.38%) Meraki
6 8 (15.38%) VMware
7 6 (11.54%) Infoblox
8 4 (7.69%) Arista
8 4 (7.69%) Motorola
9 3 (5.77%) EMC
9 3 (5.77%) Splunk
10 2 (3.85%) Aruba
10 2 (3.85%) Blue Coat
10 2 (3.85%) Fortinet
11 1 (1.92%) AlgoSec
11 1 (1.92%) iManage
11 1 (1.92%) Intapp
11 1 (1.92%) Zscaler