Load Balancing Job Trends in Manchester

Load Balancing
North West > Manchester

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 145 170
Rank change year-on-year +3 +25 +61
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 3 7 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.083% 0.29% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.31% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile £53,875 £59,000 £56,500
25th Percentile £57,813 £76,250 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £110,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.77% +62.96% +14.89%
75th Percentile £75,313 £115,000 £89,688
90th Percentile £79,625 - £107,125
North West median annual salary £48,445 £110,000 £61,750
% change year-on-year -55.96% +78.14% +7.39%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,736 2,289 3,311
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.31% 95.38% 89.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,750 1,168 2,731
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,675 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £74,144 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

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

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in Manchester

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) NGN
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Ant
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Head of Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Linux DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Scripter
1 1 (33.33%) Linux/Unix DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Release Management
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Groovy
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Podman
2 1 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto