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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 159 190
Rank change year-on-year -13 +31 -35
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 14 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.20% 0.040% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.044% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 9 1 6
10th Percentile £48,100 - -
25th Percentile £51,250 £46,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -20.83% +3.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £48,750 £81,625
90th Percentile £79,500 - £88,000
North West median annual salary £59,038 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +24.29% -20.83% +13.21%

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 5,310 2,266 3,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.20% 90.57% 81.70%
Number of salaries quoted 4,140 1,325 2,268
10th Percentile £32,978 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,719
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 26 August 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco Firepower
2 5 (35.71%) Network Security
2 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (7.14%) DNS
4 1 (7.14%) HTTP
4 1 (7.14%) LAN
4 1 (7.14%) MPLS
4 1 (7.14%) NGN
4 1 (7.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.14%) VLAN
4 1 (7.14%) VPN
4 1 (7.14%) WAN
4 1 (7.14%) Wireless
4 1 (7.14%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Senior
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Operations Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) React
3 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
3 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (7.14%) Pulumi
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 4 (28.57%) Driving Licence
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) Online Gambling
3 1 (7.14%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
5 4 (28.57%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Clean Code
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Low Latency
5 4 (28.57%) Network Design
5 4 (28.57%) Proactive Monitoring
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Data Architecture
7 2 (14.29%) Observability
8 1 (7.14%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) Go
2 4 (28.57%) TypeScript
3 2 (14.29%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) CCNP
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (28.57%) CCNA
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
1 2 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (14.29%) Argo
2 2 (14.29%) Grafana
2 2 (14.29%) Prometheus
3 1 (7.14%) Istio
3 1 (7.14%) linkerd
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Cisco
2 4 (28.57%) Aruba
2 4 (28.57%) HP
2 4 (28.57%) New Relic
2 4 (28.57%) Splunk
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto