Load Balancing Jobs in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 27 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 563 474
Rank change year-on-year +28 -89 +55
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 33 192 297
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.26% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.32% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 29 138 133
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £46,563 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,000 £73,750 £76,250
UK median annual salary £61,250 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +8.70% -8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 35,974 60,639 55,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.75% 82.65% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 17,037 41,817 28,998
10th Percentile £26,500 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the UK excluding London

Load Balancing
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East +58 11 £67,500 +20.00% 56
Midlands +17 10 £49,844 -5.06% 29
West Midlands +30 9 £46,000 -12.38% 20
North of England +21 6 £75,000 +25.00% 52
Yorkshire +53 5 £75,000 +22.45% 22
South West +86 3 £46,250 +2.78% 26
East of England +27 2 £65,000 +26.83% 21
Wales +40 1 £37,733 -56.25% 4
East Midlands +28 1 £60,000 +20.00% 7
North West -16 1 £47,500 -20.83% 26
Load Balancing
UK

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
1 2 (6.06%) Skype for Business
2 1 (3.03%) Apache
2 1 (3.03%) IIS
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
2 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 17 (51.52%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) AWS
3 8 (24.24%) GCP
4 6 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (15.15%) Entra ID
6 4 (12.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (12.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (12.12%) OCI
6 4 (12.12%) Route 53
7 3 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (6.06%) Serverless
8 2 (6.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (3.03%) GitHub
9 1 (3.03%) IaaS
9 1 (3.03%) PaaS
9 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (69.70%) Firewall
2 20 (60.61%) VPN
3 13 (39.39%) WAN
4 10 (30.30%) SD-WAN
5 9 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 9 (27.27%) VLAN
6 8 (24.24%) DNS
7 7 (21.21%) BGP
7 7 (21.21%) LAN
7 7 (21.21%) Network Security
7 7 (21.21%) OSPF
8 6 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
9 4 (12.12%) HTTPS
9 4 (12.12%) MPLS
9 4 (12.12%) Wireless
10 3 (9.09%) DHCP
10 3 (9.09%) DMZ
10 3 (9.09%) DWDM
10 3 (9.09%) Internet
10 3 (9.09%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 1 (3.03%) Endeca
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
3 1 (3.03%) RDBMS
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Git
1 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) GitLab
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.03%) Selenium
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.06%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Retail
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Police
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Network Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (21.21%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Lead
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior
6 3 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Lead Network Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) IT Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) JSON
2 3 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (6.06%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.06%) LAMP
3 2 (6.06%) XML
4 1 (3.03%) 802.1X
4 1 (3.03%) Classic ASP
4 1 (3.03%) CSS
4 1 (3.03%) HTML
4 1 (3.03%) JWT
4 1 (3.03%) LDAP
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth
4 1 (3.03%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.03%) RESTful
4 1 (3.03%) SAML
4 1 (3.03%) SOAP
4 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Data Centre
2 3 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
4 1 (3.03%) SCADA
4 1 (3.03%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (36.36%) Windows
2 9 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 5 (15.15%) Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (3.03%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (42.42%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (24.24%) Collaborative Culture
4 7 (21.21%) Network Design
4 7 (21.21%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (15.15%) Change Management
5 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (15.15%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (15.15%) Software Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Zero Trust
6 4 (12.12%) Cost Management
6 4 (12.12%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (12.12%) DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (12.12%) Privileged Identity Management
6 4 (12.12%) Proactive Management
6 4 (12.12%) Security Operations
6 4 (12.12%) Task Automation
6 4 (12.12%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) PowerShell
2 8 (24.24%) Python
3 5 (15.15%) SQL
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) Go
4 2 (6.06%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) PHP
5 1 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) Scala
5 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.03%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.03%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (15.15%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.12%) AWS Certification
4 4 (12.12%) Azure Certification
4 4 (12.12%) CCNP
4 4 (12.12%) CompTIA Security+
4 4 (12.12%) Degree
5 3 (9.09%) CCNA
5 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.03%) CCIE
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) PCI DSS
1 2 (6.06%) SLA
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 6 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (15.15%) Docker
4 4 (12.12%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
6 1 (3.03%) Firmware
6 1 (3.03%) Squid
6 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.03%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) Ansible
1 7 (21.21%) Terraform
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.09%) SCCM
4 3 (9.09%) SCOM
5 2 (6.06%) FortiGate
5 2 (6.06%) SCOrch
5 2 (6.06%) SCSM
6 1 (3.03%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (3.03%) HAProxy
6 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Cisco
2 6 (18.18%) VMware
3 5 (15.15%) F5
3 5 (15.15%) Google
4 4 (12.12%) CheckPoint
5 3 (9.09%) Juniper
5 3 (9.09%) Palo Alto
5 3 (9.09%) Veeam
6 2 (6.06%) HP
7 1 (3.03%) Aruba
7 1 (3.03%) Avaya
7 1 (3.03%) Citrix
7 1 (3.03%) CyberSource
7 1 (3.03%) Dell
7 1 (3.03%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.03%) Oracle
7 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
7 1 (3.03%) SolarWinds
7 1 (3.03%) Tufin