Load Balancing Job Trends in Scotland

Load Balancing
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 142 172
Rank change year-on-year +21 +30 +31
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 21 2 22
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.77% 0.078% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.084% 0.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 18
10th Percentile £62,650 - £46,306
25th Percentile £65,875 £47,231 £46,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,500 £48,507 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +53.59% -7.61% -
75th Percentile £81,500 £49,784 £53,750
90th Percentile £83,750 - £57,125
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,185 2,384 2,929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 79.86% 92.87% 93.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,001 1,817
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,904 £41,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in Scotland

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 January 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
Edinburgh +12 20 £74,500 +53.59%
Glasgow - 1 - - 1
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) JBoss
1 1 (4.76%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (23.81%) AWS
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (19.05%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 20 (95.24%) Firewall
1 20 (95.24%) LAN
1 20 (95.24%) WAN
1 20 (95.24%) Wireless
2 16 (76.19%) SD-WAN
2 16 (76.19%) Wireshark
3 4 (19.05%) BGP
3 4 (19.05%) MPLS
4 3 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Ant
2 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Maven
2 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (95.24%) Social Skills
2 17 (80.95%) Finance
3 16 (76.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Network Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Network Support
2 4 (19.05%) Network Support Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Lead
3 1 (4.76%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Linux Scripter
3 1 (4.76%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 1 (4.76%) Windows DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 19 (90.48%) Data Centre
2 17 (80.95%) Management Information System
3 4 (19.05%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
3 4 (19.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Asset Management
1 16 (76.19%) Capacity Planning
1 16 (76.19%) Change Management
1 16 (76.19%) Coaching
1 16 (76.19%) Customer Service
1 16 (76.19%) Network Monitoring
1 16 (76.19%) Network Planning
1 16 (76.19%) Network Virtualisation
1 16 (76.19%) Problem Management
2 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
2 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 4 (19.05%) Data Protection
3 4 (19.05%) Observability
3 4 (19.05%) People Management
3 4 (19.05%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (19.05%) Roadmaps
4 3 (14.29%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Kanban
4 3 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (14.29%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Groovy
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Ansible
2 4 (19.05%) Grafana
2 4 (19.05%) Prometheus
2 4 (19.05%) Terraform
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Podman
3 1 (4.76%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (95.24%) SolarWinds
2 16 (76.19%) CheckPoint
2 16 (76.19%) Cisco
2 16 (76.19%) Meraki
2 16 (76.19%) Palo Alto
3 4 (19.05%) F5
3 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
3 4 (19.05%) ServiceNow
3 4 (19.05%) Splunk