Load Balancing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Load Balancing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Load Balancing over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 170 234 239
Rank change year-on-year +64 +5 +19
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 6 7 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.10% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.12% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 11
10th Percentile £53,750 £38,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,313 £41,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +5.26% -26.92%
75th Percentile £77,813 £60,000 £48,750
90th Percentile £84,875 £64,500 £56,250
South East median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% - +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,902 5,700 5,790
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.07% 85.11% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,224 3,989 3,139
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,938 £38,000 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,587 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,688 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the Thames Valley

Load Balancing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Buckinghamshire +42 3 £62,500 +25.00% 1
Berkshire +42 2 £83,250 +28.08% 3
Oxfordshire +39 1 £60,000 +60.00% 2
Load Balancing
South East

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Apache
1 1 (16.67%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (16.67%) IaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (33.33%) DMZ
2 2 (33.33%) DWDM
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) VSAN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Retail
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Presales
3 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Hardware Maintenance
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) CCNP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) CCSE
2 2 (33.33%) CCSM
2 2 (33.33%) CISSP
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
3 1 (16.67%) Squid
3 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) HP