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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 162 208
Rank change year-on-year -9 +46 -6
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 10 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.17% 0.047% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.049% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £49,675 - -
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% +3.90%
75th Percentile £78,750 £48,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 - £96,250
North West median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% -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 4,237 2,049 4,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.05% 95.79% 84.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3,121 1,149 3,467
10th Percentile £32,875 £30,600 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £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 28 May 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 (40.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (60.00%) Network Security
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (20.00%) DNS
4 2 (20.00%) LAN
4 2 (20.00%) MPLS
4 2 (20.00%) NGN
4 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
4 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (20.00%) VLAN
4 2 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (20.00%) WAN
4 2 (20.00%) Wireless
4 2 (20.00%) WLAN
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Head of IT
4 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 4 (40.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Change Management
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (20.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Strategic Planning
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNP
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Aruba
2 4 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (20.00%) VMware