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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 403 350
Rank change year-on-year +80 -53 +175
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 61 36 96
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.46% 0.21% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.23% 0.56%
Number of salaries quoted 18 22 83
10th Percentile £46,832 £48,675 £47,500
25th Percentile £51,338 £60,625 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £73,750 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +1.72% -3.33%
75th Percentile £106,250 £86,250 £93,500
90th Percentile £142,500 £109,250 £103,750
England median annual salary £75,450 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.75% +9.09% -12.00%

All Process and 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 11,965 15,663 17,146
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.51% 92.13% 93.52%
Number of salaries quoted 7,617 9,181 13,933
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,750 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £121,250 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 3 December 2025.

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 3 December 2025. 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 +41 3 £102,500 +17.14% 5
East London - 2 - -
West London - 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 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.28%) Apache
2 2 (3.28%) JBoss
2 2 (3.28%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 19 (31.15%) MS Visio
2 13 (21.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 25 (40.98%) Azure
2 21 (34.43%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) SaaS
4 4 (6.56%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
5 3 (4.92%) GCP
5 3 (4.92%) Route 53
6 2 (3.28%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.64%) Datadog
7 1 (1.64%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 41 (67.21%) Firewall
2 39 (63.93%) LAN
3 26 (42.62%) WAN
3 26 (42.62%) Wireless
4 24 (39.34%) BGP
4 24 (39.34%) VPN
5 21 (34.43%) OSPF
6 19 (31.15%) SD-WAN
7 14 (22.95%) Network Security
7 14 (22.95%) Wireshark
8 12 (19.67%) DNS
8 12 (19.67%) EIGRP
9 10 (16.39%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (13.11%) DHCP
10 8 (13.11%) TCP/IP
11 7 (11.48%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (11.48%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (11.48%) Ethernet VPN
12 6 (9.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 6 (9.84%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.28%) KDB
2 2 (3.28%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Git
1 3 (4.92%) JIRA
1 3 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.28%) Ant
2 2 (3.28%) Artifactory
2 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.28%) Maven
General
1 34 (55.74%) Finance
2 26 (42.62%) Social Skills
3 13 (21.31%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (18.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (16.39%) Telecoms
6 8 (13.11%) Law
6 8 (13.11%) Marketing
7 7 (11.48%) Banking
8 3 (4.92%) Back Office
8 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.92%) Retail
9 1 (1.64%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 36 (59.02%) Network Engineer
2 19 (31.15%) Senior
3 15 (24.59%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (14.75%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Deployment Engineer
6 8 (13.11%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
7 4 (6.56%) Network Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Network Support
7 4 (6.56%) Network Support Analyst
7 4 (6.56%) Support Analyst
8 3 (4.92%) Architect
8 3 (4.92%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.28%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.56%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.92%) RESTful
3 2 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.28%) Kafka
3 2 (3.28%) Middleware
3 2 (3.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 34 (55.74%) Data Centre
2 10 (16.39%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.20%) Public Cloud
4 4 (6.56%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (6.56%) Low-Code
4 4 (6.56%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.56%) Web3
5 3 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.92%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (3.28%) PKI
6 2 (3.28%) Replication
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (11.48%) Windows
2 5 (8.20%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.92%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (4.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (3.28%) Linux
4 2 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (27.87%) Change Management
3 14 (22.95%) Inventory Management
3 14 (22.95%) Network Monitoring
4 13 (21.31%) Change Control
4 13 (21.31%) Network Virtualisation
4 13 (21.31%) Validation
5 12 (19.67%) Capacity Planning
5 12 (19.67%) Customer Service
5 12 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 11 (18.03%) Low Latency
6 11 (18.03%) Process Improvement
7 9 (14.75%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (14.75%) Migration
7 9 (14.75%) Platform Engineering
7 9 (14.75%) Problem Management
8 8 (13.11%) Asset Management
8 8 (13.11%) CI/CD
8 8 (13.11%) Computer Science
8 8 (13.11%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (36.07%) Python
2 6 (9.84%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.20%) Java
4 3 (4.92%) Go
5 2 (3.28%) Bash
5 2 (3.28%) C
5 2 (3.28%) C++
5 2 (3.28%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 30 (49.18%) CCNP
1 30 (49.18%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (36.07%) Degree
3 21 (34.43%) CCIE
4 9 (14.75%) CCSA
5 8 (13.11%) CCSE
6 7 (11.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.92%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
8 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.64%) CCNA
9 1 (1.64%) Check Point Certification
9 1 (1.64%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) PMO
2 5 (8.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (6.56%) SOC 2
4 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (3.28%) SLA
6 1 (1.64%) GDPR
6 1 (1.64%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.84%) ProxySG
1 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.20%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (6.56%) vSphere
4 3 (4.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.28%) pfSense
6 1 (1.64%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 15 (24.59%) Ansible
2 14 (22.95%) Terraform
3 8 (13.11%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.28%) Podman
4 2 (3.28%) Puppet
5 1 (1.64%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.64%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.64%) vRealize
Vendors
1 47 (77.05%) Cisco
2 28 (45.90%) CheckPoint
2 28 (45.90%) F5
3 21 (34.43%) SolarWinds
4 17 (27.87%) Palo Alto
5 9 (14.75%) Meraki
5 9 (14.75%) VMware
6 8 (13.11%) Infoblox
7 6 (9.84%) Blue Coat
7 6 (9.84%) Motorola
8 5 (8.20%) Arista
8 5 (8.20%) Aruba
8 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
9 3 (4.92%) EMC
9 3 (4.92%) Zscaler
10 2 (3.28%) Broadcom
10 2 (3.28%) Netskope
10 2 (3.28%) Symantec
11 1 (1.64%) AlgoSec
11 1 (1.64%) Splunk