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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 359 427
Rank change year-on-year -2 +68 +71
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 53 38 78
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.26% 0.30% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.31% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 34 21 59
10th Percentile £42,750 - £60,000
25th Percentile £65,000 £50,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £65,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £88,125
90th Percentile £108,375 £130,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +3.45%

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 16,586 12,149 21,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.78% 96.08% 91.12%
Number of salaries quoted 11,138 7,429 15,994
10th Percentile £40,000 £42,464 £37,580
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £51,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.38% -6.00%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -2 6 £90,000 +5.88% 5
South London +14 2 £47,500 -7.77%
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 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.77%) nginx
3 2 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.89%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.89%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.89%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.89%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 25 (47.17%) AWS
2 19 (35.85%) Azure
3 12 (22.64%) GCP
4 7 (13.21%) Amazon S3
4 7 (13.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.43%) Datadog
6 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
6 5 (9.43%) SaaS
7 4 (7.55%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (7.55%) OpenShift
7 4 (7.55%) Serverless
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (5.66%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (5.66%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub
8 3 (5.66%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 31 (58.49%) Firewall
2 28 (52.83%) VPN
3 20 (37.74%) BGP
3 20 (37.74%) WAN
4 16 (30.19%) DNS
5 15 (28.30%) LAN
6 14 (26.42%) OSPF
7 12 (22.64%) SD-WAN
8 10 (18.87%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (18.87%) TCP/IP
8 10 (18.87%) VLAN
8 10 (18.87%) VoIP
9 9 (16.98%) Cisco ISE
10 7 (13.21%) Network Security
11 5 (9.43%) DHCP
12 4 (7.55%) Multicast
13 3 (5.66%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (5.66%) MPLS
13 3 (5.66%) VXLAN
13 3 (5.66%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.77%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) GitLab
2 3 (5.66%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.66%) JIRA
3 1 (1.89%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (28.30%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.09%) Banking
3 8 (15.09%) Retail Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Retail
5 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.55%) Law
6 3 (5.66%) Back Office
6 3 (5.66%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.77%) Legal
7 2 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.77%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.89%) Advertising
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) Network Engineer
2 12 (22.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (16.98%) Senior
4 5 (9.43%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.55%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
6 3 (5.66%) Test Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Architect
7 2 (3.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.09%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.66%) Node.js
2 3 (5.66%) RESTful
3 2 (3.77%) LEMP Stack
4 1 (1.89%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.89%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.89%) gRPC
4 1 (1.89%) Kafka
4 1 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (1.89%) Next.js
4 1 (1.89%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (1.89%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 20 (37.74%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.09%) Cloud Native
3 5 (9.43%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (5.66%) Blog
4 3 (5.66%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.77%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.77%) Replication
5 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Linux
2 10 (18.87%) Windows
3 3 (5.66%) Ubuntu
3 3 (5.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.77%) CentOS
4 2 (3.77%) Rocky
4 2 (3.77%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (3.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (41.51%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (37.74%) CI/CD
2 20 (37.74%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (32.08%) DevOps
4 16 (30.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (22.64%) ITIL
5 12 (22.64%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (16.98%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (16.98%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 9 (16.98%) Observability
6 9 (16.98%) Validation
7 8 (15.09%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (13.21%) High Availability
8 7 (13.21%) Mentoring
8 7 (13.21%) Test Automation
9 6 (11.32%) Incident Response
10 5 (9.43%) Containerisation
10 5 (9.43%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (9.43%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.08%) Python
2 10 (18.87%) Bash
3 6 (11.32%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.43%) Go
5 3 (5.66%) Bicep
5 3 (5.66%) Java
6 2 (3.77%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (33.96%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (26.42%) CCNP
3 4 (7.55%) Azure Certification
3 4 (7.55%) CCNA
3 4 (7.55%) Degree
3 4 (7.55%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) CCIE
4 3 (5.66%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.89%) CCSA
6 1 (1.89%) CCSE
6 1 (1.89%) CCSP
6 1 (1.89%) CISM
6 1 (1.89%) CISSP
6 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) SOC 2
2 3 (5.66%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.77%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) COBIT
4 1 (1.89%) GDPR
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (13.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.55%) Docker
3 4 (7.55%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (5.66%) vSphere
5 2 (3.77%) Firmware
6 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.89%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (47.17%) Terraform
2 15 (28.30%) Ansible
3 13 (24.53%) Kubernetes
4 9 (16.98%) Check_MK
5 5 (9.43%) Prometheus
6 4 (7.55%) Grafana
7 2 (3.77%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (3.77%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.77%) Istio
7 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.77%) Nagios
7 2 (3.77%) Proxmox
7 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (3.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.89%) Argo
8 1 (1.89%) Cilium
8 1 (1.89%) Puppet
Vendors
1 19 (35.85%) Cisco
2 12 (22.64%) Palo Alto
3 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.75%) SolarWinds
4 10 (18.87%) VMware
5 6 (11.32%) Red Hat
6 5 (9.43%) Zscaler
7 4 (7.55%) Dell
7 4 (7.55%) Fortinet
8 3 (5.66%) F5
8 3 (5.66%) Splunk
9 2 (3.77%) CheckPoint
9 2 (3.77%) Infoblox
9 2 (3.77%) Oracle
9 2 (3.77%) Veeam
10 1 (1.89%) Citrix
10 1 (1.89%) Cognizant
10 1 (1.89%) Commvault
10 1 (1.89%) Computacenter
10 1 (1.89%) IBM