Load Balancing Jobs in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 205 230
Rank change year-on-year +19 +25 +30
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 10 48 37
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.23% 0.64% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.78% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 8 39 22
10th Percentile - £37,980 £46,625
25th Percentile £44,000 £41,250 £53,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,844 £52,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.06% -17.97% +6.67%
75th Percentile £90,000 £63,125 £75,313
90th Percentile £102,750 £63,750 £77,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -5.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,903 6,174 6,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.13% 82.45% 96.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,622 4,565 3,154
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,375 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,905 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Load Balancing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Load Balancing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Load Balancing in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Balancing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
Birmingham +27 6 £46,000 -26.40% 4
Herefordshire - 2 - - 1
Shropshire +13 1 £80,000 -
Staffordshire - 1 £53,688 - 5
Load Balancing
England

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Azure
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (40.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (40.00%) Route 53
5 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Pulumi
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) VPN
3 5 (50.00%) SD-WAN
4 4 (40.00%) DNS
4 4 (40.00%) HTTPS
4 4 (40.00%) VLAN
4 4 (40.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) DHCP
5 2 (20.00%) SAN
5 2 (20.00%) Skype
5 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (10.00%) BGP
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (10.00%) IPsec
6 1 (10.00%) Network Security
6 1 (10.00%) OSPF
6 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
1 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Law
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Police
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Management
2 4 (40.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (40.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 4 (40.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Proactive Management
2 4 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 4 (40.00%) Security Operations
2 4 (40.00%) Threat Management
2 4 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (20.00%) Machine Learning
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (20.00%) SCOM
3 2 (20.00%) SCOrch
3 2 (20.00%) SCSM
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Aruba
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper