Load Balancing Jobs in the West Midlands

Load Balancing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 231 253
Rank change year-on-year +46 +22 -57
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 57 45 31
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.81% 0.65% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.67% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 48 22 31
10th Percentile £40,350 £46,625 £46,250
25th Percentile £47,511 £53,125 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £76,250 £73,750
90th Percentile - £78,625 -
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% +11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,883 6,670 6,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.15% 96.93% 95.45%
Number of salaries quoted 4,509 3,312 4,807
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 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
Warwickshire +70 20 £52,500 -17.97%
Birmingham +4 19 £62,500 -7.41% 3
Coventry +39 5 £44,295 - 1
Solihull - 5 £31,250 - 5
Shropshire -1 4 - -
Worcestershire -21 1 £49,000 -12.89%
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 22 (38.60%) IIS
2 18 (31.58%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (73.68%) Azure
2 8 (14.04%) AWS
3 2 (3.51%) Azure App Service
3 2 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.51%) GCP
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 36 (63.16%) WAN
2 23 (40.35%) Firewall
3 19 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 10 (17.54%) MPLS
5 9 (15.79%) BGP
6 8 (14.04%) DHCP
6 8 (14.04%) DNS
7 7 (12.28%) LAN
7 7 (12.28%) SAN
7 7 (12.28%) VPN
8 6 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
8 6 (10.53%) IPsec
8 6 (10.53%) SD-WAN
9 5 (8.77%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (8.77%) Wireless
10 4 (7.02%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (7.02%) IPv6
10 4 (7.02%) OSPF
10 4 (7.02%) Remote Desktop
11 3 (5.26%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.51%) MongoDB
2 2 (3.51%) MySQL
3 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.02%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (5.26%) JIRA
3 2 (3.51%) MSBuild
General
1 16 (28.07%) Law
2 14 (24.56%) Organisational Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Finance
4 2 (3.51%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Senior
2 16 (28.07%) Administrator
3 15 (26.32%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 15 (26.32%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (21.05%) SharePoint Administrator
5 7 (12.28%) Network Engineer
6 6 (10.53%) Support Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (8.77%) WAN Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Server Administrator
8 4 (7.02%) VMWare Administrator
9 3 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) SharePoint Developer
11 1 (1.75%) Data Engineer
11 1 (1.75%) Logistics Engineer
11 1 (1.75%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (35.09%) REST
1 20 (35.09%) WebRTC
2 2 (3.51%) .NET
2 2 (3.51%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 22 (38.60%) Clustering
2 8 (14.04%) PKI
3 3 (5.26%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) CentOS
2 4 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
2 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (43.86%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (38.60%) High Availability
3 15 (26.32%) Validation
4 9 (15.79%) Task Automation
5 6 (10.53%) Change Control
5 6 (10.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.77%) DevOps
7 4 (7.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (7.02%) Migration
7 4 (7.02%) Patch Management
7 4 (7.02%) Roadmaps
8 3 (5.26%) Agile
8 3 (5.26%) Coaching
8 3 (5.26%) Incident Management
8 3 (5.26%) ITIL
8 3 (5.26%) Mentoring
8 3 (5.26%) Network Architecture
8 3 (5.26%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 2 (3.51%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (66.67%) SQL
2 15 (26.32%) T-SQL
3 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 4 (7.02%) Bash
5 2 (3.51%) C#
5 2 (3.51%) PHP
Qualifications
1 24 (42.11%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) CCNA
3 5 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.02%) CCNP
5 2 (3.51%) Degree
5 2 (3.51%) MCSE
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.75%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (43.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.79%) VMware NSX
3 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.02%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (7.02%) VMware Server
3 4 (7.02%) vSphere
4 1 (1.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Ansible
2 4 (7.02%) vCenter Server
3 3 (5.26%) Terraform
4 2 (3.51%) Nagios
4 2 (3.51%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (47.37%) Microsoft
2 25 (43.86%) F5
2 25 (43.86%) VMware
3 22 (38.60%) CheckPoint
4 9 (15.79%) Cisco
5 8 (14.04%) Juniper
6 7 (12.28%) Palo Alto
7 3 (5.26%) ServiceNow
7 3 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 2 (3.51%) Remedy
8 2 (3.51%) Riverbed
8 2 (3.51%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (1.75%) Avaya
9 1 (1.75%) BT
9 1 (1.75%) Citrix
9 1 (1.75%) Zscaler