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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 178 241 241
Rank change year-on-year +63 0 +27
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 6 8 22
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.17% 0.12% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.14% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 9
10th Percentile £53,750 £39,625 -
25th Percentile £60,313 £44,688 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.91% +21.05% -26.92%
75th Percentile £86,063 £67,500 £48,750
90th Percentile £90,500 - £50,250
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 3,235 5,678 5,594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.99% 84.54% 94.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 3,870 3,051
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
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 18 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 18 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
Oxfordshire +44 2 £73,750 +96.67% 4
Buckinghamshire +37 2 £56,250 +12.50% 1
Berkshire +26 2 £83,250 +28.08% 5
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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) DMZ
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) DWDM
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) Network Security
4 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (16.67%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Change Management
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 1 (16.67%) Data Security
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) Machine Learning
4 1 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCSE
2 1 (16.67%) CCSM
2 1 (16.67%) CISSP
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) 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 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) HAProxy
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto