Load Balancing Job Trends in the South East

Load Balancing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 262 241
Rank change year-on-year -7 -21 +152
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 6 40 28
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.058% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.072% 0.49% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 21
10th Percentile £45,250 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £49,375 £48,750 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £43,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +39.53% -28.33%
75th Percentile £63,375 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £66,150 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £61,250 £56,250
% change year-on-year +6.12% +8.89% -6.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,378 8,110 6,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.85% 87.72% 89.80%
Number of salaries quoted 4,956 3,982 4,915
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £34,000 £44,253 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,000
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 South East

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the South East

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in the South East

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

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

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the South East

Load Balancing
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hampshire +9 2 £60,750 +8.00% 1
Thames Valley 0 2 - - 3
Buckinghamshire +1 1 - -
Berkshire -3 1 - - 3
Kent - 1 £45,000 - 1
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (16.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) IKE
3 1 (16.67%) IPsec
3 1 (16.67%) Junos
3 1 (16.67%) MPLS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SAN
3 1 (16.67%) SSL
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) RBAC
2 1 (16.67%) Server Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CCNA
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
1 3 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Argo
2 1 (16.67%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Pure Storage
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (16.67%) SAP