Load Balancing Jobs

Load Balancing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 637 634 521
Rank change year-on-year -3 -113 +113
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 74 287 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.28% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.33% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 52 205 232
10th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,750 £51,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £93,625 £92,500 £92,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

All Process and 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 14 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 28 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
England -19 71 £65,000 +4.00% 113
UK excluding London +40 36 £60,000 +9.09% 72
London +69 34 £65,000 -18.75% 44
Work from Home +19 30 £62,500 - 71
South East +64 12 £72,500 +28.89% 19
Midlands +10 10 £49,844 -5.06% 8
West Midlands +26 9 £46,000 -12.38% 8
North of England +16 8 £75,000 +25.00% 22
Yorkshire +53 7 £80,000 +30.61% 8
South West +96 3 £46,250 +2.78% 13
East of England +34 2 £65,000 +26.83% 9
Wales +42 1 £37,733 -56.25%
East Midlands +27 1 £60,000 +20.00%
North West -13 1 £47,500 -20.83% 12

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (9.46%) nginx
2 6 (8.11%) Apache
3 4 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.41%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.70%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.35%) IIS
5 1 (1.35%) JBoss
5 1 (1.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (10.81%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (10.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.35%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 33 (44.59%) AWS
2 32 (43.24%) Azure
3 18 (24.32%) GCP
4 10 (13.51%) Entra ID
5 8 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (9.46%) Amazon EC2
6 7 (9.46%) SaaS
7 6 (8.11%) IaaS
7 6 (8.11%) OCI
7 6 (8.11%) PaaS
8 5 (6.76%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (6.76%) Azure Storage
9 4 (5.41%) Azure App Service
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (5.41%) Azure Table
9 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (5.41%) Route 53
9 4 (5.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (4.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (4.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 37 (50.00%) Firewall
2 29 (39.19%) VPN
3 20 (27.03%) DNS
4 19 (25.68%) Network Security
5 17 (22.97%) WAN
6 16 (21.62%) VLAN
7 14 (18.92%) LAN
8 13 (17.57%) SD-WAN
9 12 (16.22%) TCP/IP
10 11 (14.86%) BGP
10 11 (14.86%) OSPF
11 8 (10.81%) Ethernet VPN
11 8 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (8.11%) DHCP
12 6 (8.11%) MPLS
12 6 (8.11%) Wireless
13 5 (6.76%) HTTPS
13 5 (6.76%) IPsec
14 4 (5.41%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (5.41%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) MySQL
2 6 (8.11%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.35%) Endeca
5 1 (1.35%) KDB
5 1 (1.35%) Kdb+
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Power BI
5 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.86%) Git
2 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.05%) GitLab
4 2 (2.70%) Maven
5 1 (1.35%) Ant
5 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.35%) Gradle
5 1 (1.35%) JIRA
5 1 (1.35%) Selenium
5 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (21.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Banking
3 12 (16.22%) Finance
4 8 (10.81%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.46%) Telecoms
6 5 (6.76%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (5.41%) Law
8 2 (2.70%) Marketing
8 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.70%) Retail
9 1 (1.35%) Police
Job Titles
1 24 (32.43%) Network Engineer
2 16 (21.62%) Senior
3 14 (18.92%) Cloud Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Lead
5 8 (10.81%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (8.11%) Lead Network Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Support Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support
9 4 (5.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Architect
9 4 (5.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.76%) .NET
1 5 (6.76%) Node.js
2 4 (5.41%) JSON
2 4 (5.41%) LAMP
3 3 (4.05%) LEMP Stack
3 3 (4.05%) Web Services
4 2 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.70%) LAPP Stack
4 2 (2.70%) React
4 2 (2.70%) RESTful
4 2 (2.70%) XML
5 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.35%) ARM Templates
5 1 (1.35%) JWT
5 1 (1.35%) Kafka
5 1 (1.35%) Laravel
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth
5 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.35%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.46%) Data Centre
1 7 (9.46%) Public Cloud
2 5 (6.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.41%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.35%) Clustering
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.35%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.35%) PKI
6 1 (1.35%) SCADA
6 1 (1.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 19 (25.68%) Windows
2 16 (21.62%) Linux
3 13 (17.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.05%) CentOS
4 3 (4.05%) Rocky
5 2 (2.70%) Unix
5 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (18.92%) Change Management
2 14 (18.92%) CI/CD
2 14 (18.92%) DevOps
3 13 (17.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (14.86%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (13.51%) Validation
6 9 (12.16%) Collaborative Culture
6 9 (12.16%) High Availability
6 9 (12.16%) Network Design
7 8 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.81%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
8 7 (9.46%) Change Control
8 7 (9.46%) Configuration Management
8 7 (9.46%) Data Management
8 7 (9.46%) Mentoring
8 7 (9.46%) Software Engineering
8 7 (9.46%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (29.73%) Python
2 16 (21.62%) SQL
3 14 (18.92%) PowerShell
4 9 (12.16%) Bash
5 5 (6.76%) Java
6 4 (5.41%) Go
6 4 (5.41%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.05%) PHP
8 2 (2.70%) C#
8 2 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.35%) C
9 1 (1.35%) C++
9 1 (1.35%) Groovy
9 1 (1.35%) Scala
9 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.35%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.35%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (18.92%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.57%) Degree
3 12 (16.22%) CCNP
4 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
6 5 (6.76%) AWS Certification
6 5 (6.76%) Check Point Certification
6 5 (6.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
7 4 (5.41%) CCNA
8 3 (4.05%) CCIE
8 3 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.05%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.70%) CCSA
9 2 (2.70%) CCSE
10 1 (1.35%) CEH
10 1 (1.35%) CISSP
10 1 (1.35%) Master's Degree
10 1 (1.35%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.41%) QA
1 4 (5.41%) SLA
2 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (21.62%) Active Directory
1 16 (21.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (12.16%) Docker
3 5 (6.76%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (4.05%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.70%) Firmware
6 2 (2.70%) KVM
6 2 (2.70%) ProxySG
6 2 (2.70%) Xen
7 1 (1.35%) Squid
7 1 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.35%) VMware Server
7 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (21.62%) Ansible
1 16 (21.62%) Terraform
2 12 (16.22%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.41%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.41%) SCCM
5 3 (4.05%) Nagios
5 3 (4.05%) Puppet
5 3 (4.05%) Red Hat Satellite
5 3 (4.05%) SCOM
6 2 (2.70%) CFEngine
6 2 (2.70%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (2.70%) Grafana
6 2 (2.70%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.70%) SCOrch
6 2 (2.70%) SCSM
6 2 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.35%) Podman
7 1 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.35%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 18 (24.32%) Cisco
2 17 (22.97%) VMware
3 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 13 (17.57%) F5
5 12 (16.22%) CheckPoint
6 9 (12.16%) Fortinet
7 7 (9.46%) Google
8 6 (8.11%) SolarWinds
9 5 (6.76%) Palo Alto
9 5 (6.76%) Veeam
10 4 (5.41%) Arista
10 4 (5.41%) Citrix
11 3 (4.05%) Juniper
11 3 (4.05%) Oracle
11 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
12 2 (2.70%) AlgoSec
12 2 (2.70%) Blue Coat
12 2 (2.70%) Meraki
12 2 (2.70%) Rapid7
12 2 (2.70%) Riverbed