Network Load Balancing Job Trends in the North West

Network Load Balancing (NLB)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Network Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 - 301
Rank change year-on-year - - -28
Permanent jobs citing Network Load Balancing 2 0 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.018% - 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% - 0.035%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £74,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 - -
75th Percentile £74,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £74,500 - £48,900
% change year-on-year - - +11.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

Network 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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,823 4,558 8,553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 70.56% 93.15% 79.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6,021 2,142 6,397
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,775 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,960 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Network Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Network Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the North West

Network Load Balancing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Network Load Balancing

Network Load Balancing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Network Load Balancing within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Manchester - 2 £74,500 - 1
Network Load Balancing
England

Network Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Control Tower
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Auto-Scaling
1 2 (100.00%) BCP
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft