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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 334 414
Rank change year-on-year -38 +80 -36
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 67 57 43
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.48% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.52% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 38 13 27
10th Percentile £64,400 £50,750 £52,000
25th Percentile £68,125 £55,000 £66,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% +10.34%
75th Percentile £89,688 £142,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £97,875 - £93,750
England median annual salary £65,576 £75,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -12.57% +30.43% +0.88%

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 20,840 11,039 16,543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 80.48% 93.89% 89.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13,708 6,992 9,838
10th Percentile £40,825 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £122,500 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 £97,500 - 12
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 (8.96%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.99%) Confluence
3 1 (1.49%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.49%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.49%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.49%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 27 (40.30%) Azure
2 26 (38.81%) AWS
3 13 (19.40%) GCP
4 10 (14.93%) OpenShift
5 8 (11.94%) GitHub
5 8 (11.94%) Serverless
6 7 (10.45%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (8.96%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
9 4 (5.97%) Datadog
9 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
10 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (4.48%) IaaS
10 3 (4.48%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (4.48%) PaaS
11 2 (2.99%) ChatGPT
11 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (2.99%) Nutanix
11 2 (2.99%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 34 (50.75%) Firewall
2 28 (41.79%) VPN
3 24 (35.82%) DNS
4 22 (32.84%) BGP
4 22 (32.84%) Network Security
5 14 (20.90%) TCP/IP
6 13 (19.40%) WAN
7 10 (14.93%) OSPF
7 10 (14.93%) VLAN
8 8 (11.94%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 8 (11.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (11.94%) IPsec
8 8 (11.94%) LAN
9 7 (10.45%) MPLS
9 7 (10.45%) SD-WAN
9 7 (10.45%) SSL
9 7 (10.45%) VXLAN
10 6 (8.96%) HTTP
10 6 (8.96%) NetScaler
11 4 (5.97%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) Big Data
2 6 (8.96%) Apache Hive
2 6 (8.96%) Hadoop
2 6 (8.96%) HBase
2 6 (8.96%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.48%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.99%) Metadata
5 1 (1.49%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.49%) KDB
5 1 (1.49%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.49%) MySQL
5 1 (1.49%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.49%) Power BI
5 1 (1.49%) Redis
5 1 (1.49%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (7.46%) GitLab
1 5 (7.46%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.99%) Git
2 2 (2.99%) JIRA
General
1 32 (47.76%) Finance
2 16 (23.88%) Social Skills
3 12 (17.91%) Law
4 11 (16.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 11 (16.42%) Marketing
5 6 (8.96%) Military
5 6 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Legal
7 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.99%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.99%) Banking
9 1 (1.49%) Aviation
9 1 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.49%) Public Speaking
9 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (20.90%) Network Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (16.42%) Senior
3 9 (13.43%) Architect
4 7 (10.45%) Lead
5 6 (8.96%) Network Security Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Network Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Security Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Network Security Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Network Specialist
5 6 (8.96%) Senior Security Specialist
6 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
6 5 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Lead Software Engineer
7 4 (5.97%) Network Architect
8 3 (4.48%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (29.85%) Terraform
2 7 (10.45%) Node.js
3 6 (8.96%) Kafka
3 6 (8.96%) REST
4 3 (4.48%) Dropwizard
4 3 (4.48%) Micronaut
4 3 (4.48%) Middleware
4 3 (4.48%) OAuth
4 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
4 3 (4.48%) OpenAPI
4 3 (4.48%) OpenID
4 3 (4.48%) pytest
4 3 (4.48%) RESTful
4 3 (4.48%) Swagger
5 2 (2.99%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.99%) JWT
5 2 (2.99%) Pulumi
6 1 (1.49%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.49%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (1.49%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Onboarding
2 10 (14.93%) Data Centre
3 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
4 5 (7.46%) Private Cloud
5 4 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (4.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (4.48%) Public Cloud
6 3 (4.48%) Replication
7 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.49%) Blog
8 1 (1.49%) CMDB
8 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.49%) Driving Licence
8 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.49%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.85%) Linux
2 9 (13.43%) Windows
3 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
5 1 (1.49%) CentOS
5 1 (1.49%) Rocky
5 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.49%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (38.81%) Infrastructure as Code
2 25 (37.31%) CI/CD
3 18 (26.87%) Roadmaps
4 17 (25.37%) Analytics
5 14 (20.90%) DevOps
5 14 (20.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 14 (20.90%) Mentoring
6 13 (19.40%) Containerisation
6 13 (19.40%) Zero Trust
7 12 (17.91%) AI
7 12 (17.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (17.91%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (17.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (16.42%) Computer Science
8 11 (16.42%) Technical Leadership
9 10 (14.93%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (13.43%) Observability
10 9 (13.43%) Service Delivery
11 8 (11.94%) Cloud Security
11 8 (11.94%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 27 (40.30%) Python
2 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
3 9 (13.43%) SQL
4 7 (10.45%) Bash
4 7 (10.45%) C
4 7 (10.45%) Java
5 6 (8.96%) C#
5 6 (8.96%) PHP
5 6 (8.96%) Ruby
6 2 (2.99%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (16.42%) Degree
3 10 (14.93%) CCNP
4 7 (10.45%) CCNA
5 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
5 6 (8.96%) Security Cleared
6 4 (5.97%) Azure Certification
6 4 (5.97%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (4.48%) CCIE
7 3 (4.48%) CCSP
8 1 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.49%) JNCIE
8 1 (1.49%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.97%) QA
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
4 1 (1.49%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.96%) Docker
3 4 (5.97%) vSphere
4 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.99%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.99%) ProxySG
5 2 (2.99%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.49%) BitLocker
6 1 (1.49%) Firmware
6 1 (1.49%) XenApp
6 1 (1.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 23 (34.33%) Kubernetes
2 14 (20.90%) Ansible
3 9 (13.43%) FortiGate
4 8 (11.94%) Grafana
4 8 (11.94%) Prometheus
5 6 (8.96%) Hadoop YARN
6 3 (4.48%) Argo
6 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.49%) Check_MK
7 1 (1.49%) Proxmox
7 1 (1.49%) Puppet
7 1 (1.49%) SCCM
7 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (22.39%) F5
2 14 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.90%) VMware
3 13 (19.40%) Cisco
4 11 (16.42%) Zscaler
5 10 (14.93%) Palo Alto
6 7 (10.45%) Fortinet
6 7 (10.45%) IBM
6 7 (10.45%) Oracle
6 7 (10.45%) SAP
7 6 (8.96%) HP
8 5 (7.46%) Splunk
9 4 (5.97%) CheckPoint
9 4 (5.97%) Meraki
9 4 (5.97%) Red Hat
10 3 (4.48%) Citrix
10 3 (4.48%) Dynatrace
11 2 (2.99%) Arista
11 2 (2.99%) Netskope
11 2 (2.99%) Symantec