Load Balancing Job Trends in the North East

Load Balancing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 86 56
Rank change year-on-year +3 -30 +24
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 2 4 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.19% 0.41% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.46% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £49,500
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.00%
75th Percentile - - £65,000
90th Percentile - - £66,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -4.17%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 862 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.35% 88.32% 90.77%
Number of salaries quoted 543 386 469
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,875 £28,950
25th Percentile £30,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £81,000 £85,000 £74,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the North East

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Durham - 2 - -
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAAS
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless Security
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) Motorola
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds