Load Balancing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Load Balancing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Load Balancing over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 609 546 616
Rank change year-on-year -63 +70 -124
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 303 511 766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.51% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.53% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 214 244 499
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,125 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,313 £46,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +11.61%
75th Percentile £78,438 £84,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,125 £94,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Load Balancing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,921 96,445 150,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.59% 95.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59,902 56,808 82,456
10th Percentile £29,010 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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 11 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the UK

Load Balancing
Top 17 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 11 May 2024. 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 -57 267 £60,000 +1.27% 63
UK excluding London -66 207 £55,000 - 39
Work from Home +63 144 £62,500 +4.17% 25
London +83 82 £80,000 - 26
Midlands +2 64 £52,500 -12.50% 11
West Midlands +21 52 £52,500 -17.97% 8
South East -4 37 £55,000 - 10
North of England -27 34 £60,000 +26.98% 8
South West -23 28 £45,000 +3.45% 4
Yorkshire +74 17 £61,250 +75.00% 3
Scotland -64 17 £52,500 -4.55% 2
North West -42 15 £60,000 +13.21% 5
East of England +7 14 £51,250 -12.77% 5
East Midlands -19 12 £50,000 -13.04% 3
Wales +9 9 £65,000 -
Northern Ireland +18 4 - -
North East -15 2 £85,000 +126.67%

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 49 (16.17%) WebLogic
2 29 (9.57%) IIS
3 24 (7.92%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.64%) Skype for Business
5 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.65%) Apache
6 5 (1.65%) nginx
6 5 (1.65%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.66%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.33%) Confluence
8 1 (0.33%) Moodle
8 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.33%) Weka
Business Applications
1 46 (15.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.33%) HFM
2 1 (0.33%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 193 (63.70%) Azure
2 143 (47.19%) AWS
3 48 (15.84%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (15.18%) Amazon SQS
5 45 (14.85%) GCP
6 28 (9.24%) SaaS
7 27 (8.91%) Amazon S3
8 25 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
9 22 (7.26%) IaaS
10 21 (6.93%) PaaS
11 19 (6.27%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (5.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (4.95%) OneDrive
14 14 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
15 12 (3.96%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (3.96%) Serverless
16 11 (3.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 10 (3.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 9 (2.97%) AWS CloudFormation
18 9 (2.97%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 126 (41.58%) Firewall
2 121 (39.93%) DNS
3 103 (33.99%) WAN
4 82 (27.06%) BGP
5 80 (26.40%) TCP/IP
6 76 (25.08%) VPN
7 66 (21.78%) LAN
7 66 (21.78%) SSL
8 41 (13.53%) Wireless
9 36 (11.88%) MPLS
9 36 (11.88%) Network Security
10 29 (9.57%) Internet
11 28 (9.24%) DHCP
11 28 (9.24%) OSPF
12 26 (8.58%) SD-WAN
13 25 (8.25%) SAN
14 19 (6.27%) BIG-IP
14 19 (6.27%) IPsec
15 18 (5.94%) SNMP
16 17 (5.61%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (19.47%) Amazon RDS
2 56 (18.48%) SQL Server
3 54 (17.82%) Relational Database
4 53 (17.49%) RDBMS
5 47 (15.51%) Oracle Database
6 31 (10.23%) MySQL
7 15 (4.95%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (4.62%) MongoDB
9 11 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.97%) Redis
11 7 (2.31%) BigQuery
12 6 (1.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.98%) Data Lake
12 6 (1.98%) InfluxDB
13 5 (1.65%) DB2
13 5 (1.65%) Neo4j
13 5 (1.65%) TimescaleDB
14 3 (0.99%) NoSQL
14 3 (0.99%) Power BI
15 2 (0.66%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (4.95%) Git
2 14 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.97%) GitLab
4 5 (1.65%) GDB
5 4 (1.32%) JIRA
5 4 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.99%) Selenium
6 3 (0.99%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.66%) git-flow
7 2 (0.66%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.33%) JMeter
8 1 (0.33%) JProfiler
8 1 (0.33%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.33%) Maven
8 1 (0.33%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 102 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 39 (12.87%) Finance
3 27 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (8.91%) Law
4 16 (5.28%) Telecoms
5 15 (4.95%) Retail
6 12 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.31%) Advertising
8 6 (1.98%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.65%) Legal
10 4 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.66%) Banking
12 2 (0.66%) Games
12 2 (0.66%) Military
13 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 85 (28.05%) Senior
2 80 (26.40%) Architect
3 56 (18.48%) Lead
4 52 (17.16%) Solutions Architect
5 50 (16.50%) Network Engineer
6 46 (15.18%) Lead Architect
6 46 (15.18%) Lead Solutions Architect
7 30 (9.90%) DevOps Engineer
8 29 (9.57%) Administrator
9 25 (8.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 24 (7.92%) Systems Engineer
11 20 (6.60%) Senior Network Engineer
12 18 (5.94%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 16 (5.28%) Senior DevOps
13 16 (5.28%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 15 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
14 15 (4.95%) Systems Administrator
15 14 (4.62%) Systems Architect
16 12 (3.96%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 11 (3.63%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.18%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (15.18%) Spring Boot
2 24 (7.92%) REST
3 23 (7.59%) WebRTC
4 17 (5.61%) 802.1X
4 17 (5.61%) Elastic Stack
5 12 (3.96%) HTML
6 11 (3.63%) .NET
7 10 (3.30%) SAML
7 10 (3.30%) YAML
8 8 (2.64%) XML
9 7 (2.31%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.31%) LAMP
10 5 (1.65%) CSS
10 5 (1.65%) Django
10 5 (1.65%) FastAPI
10 5 (1.65%) Flask
10 5 (1.65%) Kafka
10 5 (1.65%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (1.32%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 65 (21.45%) Public Cloud
2 54 (17.82%) Data Centre
3 47 (15.51%) Enterprise Software
4 39 (12.87%) Clustering
5 14 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 14 (4.62%) PKI
6 12 (3.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (3.63%) Greenfield Project
8 10 (3.30%) Client/Server
9 9 (2.97%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.64%) Video Conferencing
10 8 (2.64%) Virtual Team
11 7 (2.31%) IoT
12 5 (1.65%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.65%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.32%) Replication
14 3 (0.99%) Security Posture
15 2 (0.66%) PropTech
15 2 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 130 (42.90%) Linux
2 75 (24.75%) Windows
3 68 (22.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (12.87%) Windows Server
5 15 (4.95%) Unix
6 12 (3.96%) Windows 10
7 10 (3.30%) CentOS
7 10 (3.30%) Ubuntu
7 10 (3.30%) Windows 7
8 8 (2.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (1.98%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (1.65%) Debian
10 5 (1.65%) Solaris
11 4 (1.32%) Android
11 4 (1.32%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.06%) Agile
2 79 (26.07%) Migration
3 77 (25.41%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (20.79%) Open Source
5 61 (20.13%) DevOps
6 51 (16.83%) Project Management
6 51 (16.83%) TOGAF
7 50 (16.50%) Data Migration
7 50 (16.50%) High Availability
8 49 (16.17%) SDLC
9 48 (15.84%) Collaborative Working
9 48 (15.84%) Scrum
10 47 (15.51%) Cloud Operations
10 47 (15.51%) Kanban
10 47 (15.51%) Re-Platforming
11 46 (15.18%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (15.18%) ArchiMate
11 46 (15.18%) Systems Engineering
12 45 (14.85%) CI/CD
13 43 (14.19%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 52 (17.16%) PowerShell
2 49 (16.17%) SQL
3 47 (15.51%) Python
4 26 (8.58%) Bash
5 16 (5.28%) T-SQL
6 15 (4.95%) C#
7 14 (4.62%) PHP
8 13 (4.29%) Java
9 12 (3.96%) JavaScript
10 11 (3.63%) C
10 11 (3.63%) Perl
11 8 (2.64%) Go
12 6 (1.98%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.99%) Bicep
13 3 (0.99%) C++
14 2 (0.66%) ActionScript
14 2 (0.66%) Lua
14 2 (0.66%) Ruby
14 2 (0.66%) Rust
Qualifications
1 98 (32.34%) Security Cleared
2 85 (28.05%) SC Cleared
3 57 (18.81%) AWS Certification
4 49 (16.17%) Azure Certification
5 48 (15.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 44 (14.52%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (9.90%) CCNA
7 30 (9.90%) CCNP
8 25 (8.25%) Degree
9 15 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.30%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.31%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.65%) RHCA
12 5 (1.65%) RHCE
12 5 (1.65%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.65%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.32%) CCIE
14 3 (0.99%) CCDA
14 3 (0.99%) DBS Check
15 2 (0.66%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.97%) QA
2 7 (2.31%) ISO 13485
2 7 (2.31%) PCI DSS
3 6 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.65%) SLA
5 4 (1.32%) NIST
6 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.99%) SOC 2
7 2 (0.66%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 59 (19.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (14.19%) Active Directory
2 43 (14.19%) Docker
3 30 (9.90%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (8.58%) vSphere
5 15 (4.95%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.97%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (2.31%) VMware Server
8 3 (0.99%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.66%) Firmware
9 2 (0.66%) NFS
9 2 (0.66%) Shibboleth
10 1 (0.33%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 1 (0.33%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.33%) XenApp
10 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (17.82%) Terraform
2 36 (11.88%) Ansible
3 34 (11.22%) Kubernetes
4 28 (9.24%) Puppet
5 15 (4.95%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.62%) Progress Chef
7 12 (3.96%) Nagios
7 12 (3.96%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (3.63%) HAProxy
9 10 (3.30%) Grafana
9 10 (3.30%) Graphite
10 7 (2.31%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (1.98%) NetCrunch
12 5 (1.65%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.32%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.32%) FortiGate
13 4 (1.32%) Istio
13 4 (1.32%) Prometheus
14 3 (0.99%) SCOrch
14 3 (0.99%) vMotion
Vendors
1 97 (32.01%) Microsoft
2 78 (25.74%) Cisco
3 72 (23.76%) VMware
4 55 (18.15%) Oracle
5 46 (15.18%) Sparx
6 45 (14.85%) F5
7 43 (14.19%) CheckPoint
8 29 (9.57%) Palo Alto
9 27 (8.91%) Juniper
10 21 (6.93%) Google
11 18 (5.94%) Meraki
12 15 (4.95%) Aruba
13 14 (4.62%) Fortinet
14 13 (4.29%) Citrix
14 13 (4.29%) SolarWinds
14 13 (4.29%) Splunk
15 12 (3.96%) Red Hat
16 9 (2.97%) Riverbed
17 8 (2.64%) Ribbon
17 8 (2.64%) Tufin