Load Balancing Job Trends

Load Balancing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Load Balancing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 560 590 662
Rank change year-on-year +30 +72 -120
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 194 87 222
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.18% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 136 56 181
10th Percentile £46,446 £44,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £50,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £64,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +3.20% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +18.18% +3.77%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,315 44,278 84,054
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.86% 90.47% 82.35%
Number of salaries quoted 49,904 24,657 59,064
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,772 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.54% - -9.09%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Load Balancing job vacancy trend in the UK

Load Balancing
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Load Balancing

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 July 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
England +29 184 £60,000 -7.69% 60
UK excluding London +5 114 £60,000 -7.69% 36
London 0 66 £82,500 +26.92% 28
Work from Home +34 60 £65,288 +0.44% 20
South East -20 37 £60,000 -22.58% 15
North of England -11 35 £52,500 -30.00% 8
Midlands -21 18 £60,000 +30.43% 3
North West +14 17 £52,500 +10.53% 4
East of England -1 11 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North East - 10 £48,445 - 1
West Midlands -13 9 £70,000 +52.17% 3
East Midlands -14 9 £60,000 -
Yorkshire -30 8 £48,445 -39.44% 3
South West -53 7 £36,423 -21.25% 1
Scotland - 4 £39,250 - 1
Wales -46 2 £56,750 +50.40% 1

Load Balancing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 10 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.58%) Apache Spark
2 5 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.58%) nginx
3 4 (2.06%) Confluence
3 4 (2.06%) IIS
4 3 (1.55%) Apache
4 3 (1.55%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.52%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.52%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.52%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.52%) WildFly
Applications
1 10 (5.15%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
1 1 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (53.61%) Azure
2 74 (38.14%) AWS
3 39 (20.10%) Azure AKS
4 36 (18.56%) IaaS
5 29 (14.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 28 (14.43%) Azure Key Vault
6 28 (14.43%) Azure Storage
7 19 (9.79%) GCP
8 15 (7.73%) OCI
9 11 (5.67%) PaaS
10 10 (5.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 10 (5.15%) Serverless
11 9 (4.64%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (4.64%) Azure DevOps
11 9 (4.64%) OpenShift
12 8 (4.12%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (4.12%) GitHub
12 8 (4.12%) GitHub Actions
12 8 (4.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 7 (3.61%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 103 (53.09%) Firewall
2 73 (37.63%) DNS
3 62 (31.96%) VPN
4 50 (25.77%) BGP
5 44 (22.68%) WAN
6 35 (18.04%) LAN
7 34 (17.53%) Network Security
8 33 (17.01%) OSPF
9 31 (15.98%) VLAN
10 27 (13.92%) VXLAN
11 25 (12.89%) NGFW
12 22 (11.34%) TCP/IP
13 20 (10.31%) Wi-Fi
14 19 (9.79%) Cisco Firepower
14 19 (9.79%) Cisco Nexus
15 18 (9.28%) SD-WAN
16 15 (7.73%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (7.73%) Wireless
16 15 (7.73%) Wireshark
17 11 (5.67%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.19%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (3.09%) Big Data
3 6 (3.09%) MySQL
3 6 (3.09%) NoSQL
4 5 (2.58%) Apache Hive
4 5 (2.58%) Hadoop
4 5 (2.58%) HBase
4 5 (2.58%) Redis
5 4 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.52%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.52%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.52%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.52%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (3.61%) GitLab
2 6 (3.09%) Git
3 4 (2.06%) JIRA
4 2 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.03%) PHPUnit
4 2 (1.03%) Selenium
General
1 49 (25.26%) Analytical Skills
1 49 (25.26%) Social Skills
2 38 (19.59%) Finance
2 38 (19.59%) Law
3 23 (11.86%) Public Sector
4 11 (5.67%) Retail
5 8 (4.12%) Legal
5 8 (4.12%) Retail Banking
6 7 (3.61%) Banking
7 6 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.09%) Marketing
8 5 (2.58%) Aviation
8 5 (2.58%) Military
8 5 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.06%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.55%) Back Office
10 3 (1.55%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.03%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.52%) Advertising
12 1 (0.52%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 55 (28.35%) Network Engineer
2 47 (24.23%) Senior
3 39 (20.10%) Cloud Engineer
4 35 (18.04%) Azure Engineer
5 28 (14.43%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 23 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (11.34%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (9.28%) Operations Manager
9 17 (8.76%) Architect
9 17 (8.76%) Network Manager
10 15 (7.73%) Network Operations Manager
11 12 (6.19%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (6.19%) Platform Engineer
12 11 (5.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (4.64%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.61%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
15 6 (3.09%) Network Security Specialist
15 6 (3.09%) Senior Network Security Specialist
15 6 (3.09%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.15%) Kafka
2 9 (4.64%) RESTful
3 8 (4.12%) 802.1X
3 8 (4.12%) Node.js
4 7 (3.61%) OAuth
4 7 (3.61%) OAuth2
5 5 (2.58%) Middleware
5 5 (2.58%) REST
5 5 (2.58%) YAML
6 4 (2.06%) Apache NiFi
6 4 (2.06%) JSON
6 4 (2.06%) JWT
6 4 (2.06%) RabbitMQ
6 4 (2.06%) SOAP
6 4 (2.06%) XML
6 4 (2.06%) XML Messaging
7 3 (1.55%) AWS CDK
7 3 (1.55%) LAMP
7 3 (1.55%) OpenID
7 3 (1.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 67 (34.54%) Data Centre
2 18 (9.28%) Cloud Native
3 15 (7.73%) PKI
4 12 (6.19%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.15%) Distributed Systems
6 9 (4.64%) Driving Licence
7 8 (4.12%) Public Cloud
7 8 (4.12%) Replication
8 6 (3.09%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (2.58%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (2.06%) Blog
10 4 (2.06%) Clustering
10 4 (2.06%) CMDB
10 4 (2.06%) Management Information System
10 4 (2.06%) Private Cloud
10 4 (2.06%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.06%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 37 (19.07%) Linux
2 21 (10.82%) Windows
3 12 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.55%) Ubuntu
4 3 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.03%) CentOS
5 2 (1.03%) Rocky
5 2 (1.03%) Unix
6 1 (0.52%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (28.87%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (26.29%) Containerisation
3 50 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 49 (25.26%) Agile
4 49 (25.26%) CI/CD
5 48 (24.74%) High Availability
6 46 (23.71%) Root Cause Analysis
7 42 (21.65%) DevOps
8 39 (20.10%) Mentoring
9 33 (17.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (12.89%) Platform Engineering
11 24 (12.37%) Disaster Recovery
12 23 (11.86%) Coaching
13 22 (11.34%) Collaborative Working
13 22 (11.34%) Computer Science
14 21 (10.82%) Analytics
15 20 (10.31%) Observability
16 18 (9.28%) ITIL
17 17 (8.76%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 59 (30.41%) Python
2 45 (23.20%) PowerShell
3 25 (12.89%) SQL
4 15 (7.73%) Bash
5 13 (6.70%) Java
6 10 (5.15%) PHP
7 6 (3.09%) C
7 6 (3.09%) Go
8 5 (2.58%) C#
8 5 (2.58%) Ruby
9 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 40 (20.62%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (19.59%) Azure Certification
3 35 (18.04%) Security Cleared
4 34 (17.53%) CCNP
5 25 (12.89%) SC Cleared
6 24 (12.37%) Degree
7 16 (8.25%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (7.22%) CCNA
9 12 (6.19%) CCIE
10 10 (5.15%) DV Cleared
11 9 (4.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 1 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.52%) CCSE
13 1 (0.52%) CCSM
13 1 (0.52%) CCSP
13 1 (0.52%) CISM
13 1 (0.52%) CISSP
13 1 (0.52%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.15%) PMO
2 8 (4.12%) PCI DSS
3 6 (3.09%) QA
4 5 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.55%) SLA
5 3 (1.55%) SOC 2
6 2 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.03%) GDPR
6 2 (1.03%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.52%) COBIT
7 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.52%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (8.76%) Docker
1 17 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (6.70%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.15%) ProxySG
4 6 (3.09%) Firmware
4 6 (3.09%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.06%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.55%) Squid
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.52%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.52%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 71 (36.60%) Kubernetes
2 57 (29.38%) Terraform
3 32 (16.49%) Ansible
4 11 (5.67%) Grafana
5 9 (4.64%) Check_MK
5 9 (4.64%) Prometheus
5 9 (4.64%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.09%) Argo
6 6 (3.09%) FortiGate
6 6 (3.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (2.58%) Hadoop YARN
7 5 (2.58%) Istio
8 4 (2.06%) Nagios
9 3 (1.55%) Dell DRAC
9 3 (1.55%) Proxmox
10 2 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.03%) Kustomize
10 2 (1.03%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.52%) linkerd
11 1 (0.52%) Puppet
Vendors
1 54 (27.84%) Cisco
2 43 (22.16%) Microsoft
3 32 (16.49%) Palo Alto
4 26 (13.40%) F5
5 25 (12.89%) VMware
6 23 (11.86%) Aruba
7 22 (11.34%) Arista
8 21 (10.82%) SolarWinds
9 16 (8.25%) CheckPoint
9 16 (8.25%) Fortinet
10 15 (7.73%) Infoblox
10 15 (7.73%) NetScout
11 10 (5.15%) Blue Coat
11 10 (5.15%) Motorola
11 10 (5.15%) ServiceNow
12 9 (4.64%) Dell
12 9 (4.64%) HP
13 8 (4.12%) Oracle
13 8 (4.12%) Zscaler
14 7 (3.61%) Red Hat