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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 154 170
Rank change year-on-year -35 +16 -33
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 15 1 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.042% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.047% 0.30%
Number of salaries quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51,250 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 - £88,000
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £67,788 - £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 5,784 2,116 3,375
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.11% 89.25% 83.40%
Number of salaries quoted 4,390 1,200 1,726
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,988
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £86,250 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 25 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in Manchester

Load Balancing
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 September 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
Stockport - 2 - -
Load Balancing
North West

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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub
3 3 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (13.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Firepower
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (26.67%) Network Security
2 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (13.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) NetScaler
4 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) GitLab
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) React
3 2 (13.33%) Pulumi
4 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Driving Licence
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (13.33%) CSOC
4 2 (13.33%) Fat Client
4 2 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (13.33%) Thin Client
5 1 (6.67%) Online Gambling
5 1 (6.67%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (46.67%) Platform Engineering
3 6 (40.00%) Change Management
3 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 5 (33.33%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Clean Code
5 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (26.67%) Low Latency
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) Network Design
5 4 (26.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (20.00%) Analytics
6 3 (20.00%) Observability
6 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
7 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Go
2 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) CCNA
3 4 (26.67%) CCNP
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (13.33%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (13.33%) MCSE
5 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (13.33%) UAG
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (20.00%) Argo
2 3 (20.00%) Grafana
2 3 (20.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (13.33%) AirWatch
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
3 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
4 1 (6.67%) Istio
4 1 (6.67%) linkerd
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Aruba
1 4 (26.67%) Cisco
1 4 (26.67%) HP
1 4 (26.67%) New Relic
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Google
3 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (13.33%) Thales