Load Balancing Jobs

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 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 649 518 641
Rank change year-on-year -131 +123 -147
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 282 492 796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.53% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.56% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 199 222 471
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,625 £46,063 £47,573
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £62,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.26% +7.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,063 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,392 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% - -4.55%

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 90,269 88,624 164,784
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.80% 95.42% 95.92%
Number of salaries quoted 62,401 53,794 83,120
10th Percentile £29,605 £33,838 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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% +9.38%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -99 251 £62,500 +8.70% 54
UK excluding London -125 190 £55,000 +4.76% 28
Work from Home +2 124 £62,500 +4.17% 26
London +61 84 £80,000 -2.44% 25
Midlands -13 56 £51,250 -14.58% 12
West Midlands +5 41 £52,500 -12.50% 5
South East -25 40 £57,500 +4.55% 5
North of England -49 33 £60,000 +27.66% 2
South West -33 22 £51,250 +7.89% 3
Yorkshire +60 16 £61,250 +75.00% 1
Scotland -68 16 £53,750 -2.27% 2
East Midlands -36 15 £50,000 -13.04% 7
North West -64 15 £60,000 +13.21% 1
East of England -17 13 £50,000 -13.04% 6
Wales +8 6 £86,250 -
Northern Ireland +5 4 - -
North East -22 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 50 (17.73%) WebLogic
2 23 (8.16%) IIS
3 19 (6.74%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.84%) Skype for Business
5 7 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
6 6 (2.13%) nginx
7 5 (1.77%) WebSphere
8 3 (1.06%) Apache
8 3 (1.06%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.35%) Confluence
9 1 (0.35%) Moodle
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Weka
Business Applications
1 46 (16.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.35%) HFM
2 1 (0.35%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 166 (58.87%) Azure
2 130 (46.10%) AWS
3 49 (17.38%) Amazon EKS
4 47 (16.67%) Amazon SQS
5 43 (15.25%) GCP
6 27 (9.57%) Amazon S3
7 25 (8.87%) SaaS
8 22 (7.80%) Amazon EC2
8 22 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (6.74%) PaaS
10 18 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (6.38%) IaaS
11 15 (5.32%) OneDrive
12 14 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (4.96%) Serverless
13 10 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (3.55%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (3.19%) GitHub
14 9 (3.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 113 (40.07%) DNS
2 109 (38.65%) Firewall
3 88 (31.21%) WAN
4 80 (28.37%) BGP
5 74 (26.24%) TCP/IP
6 69 (24.47%) VPN
7 64 (22.70%) SSL
8 58 (20.57%) LAN
9 35 (12.41%) MPLS
10 30 (10.64%) Network Security
10 30 (10.64%) Wireless
11 27 (9.57%) SAN
12 25 (8.87%) OSPF
13 24 (8.51%) DHCP
14 23 (8.16%) SD-WAN
15 21 (7.45%) Internet
16 20 (7.09%) IPsec
17 17 (6.03%) SNMP
18 14 (4.96%) VoIP
19 13 (4.61%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (21.63%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (19.15%) Relational Database
3 53 (18.79%) RDBMS
4 47 (16.67%) Oracle Database
5 41 (14.54%) SQL Server
6 31 (10.99%) MySQL
7 13 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (3.55%) MongoDB
10 9 (3.19%) Redis
11 7 (2.48%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.77%) DB2
12 5 (1.77%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.77%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.77%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.06%) Data Lake
13 3 (1.06%) Power BI
14 2 (0.71%) NoSQL
14 2 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (7.80%) Git
2 13 (4.61%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.84%) GitLab
3 8 (2.84%) Selenium
4 7 (2.48%) PHPUnit
5 5 (1.77%) GDB
6 4 (1.42%) JIRA
7 3 (1.06%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.71%) git-flow
8 2 (0.71%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.35%) JMeter
9 1 (0.35%) JProfiler
9 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.35%) Maven
9 1 (0.35%) NeoLoad
General
1 99 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.89%) Finance
3 27 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.51%) Law
5 15 (5.32%) Retail
5 15 (5.32%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.19%) Advertising
7 8 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.42%) Legal
10 3 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Games
11 2 (0.71%) Military
12 1 (0.35%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 80 (28.37%) Senior
2 79 (28.01%) Architect
3 53 (18.79%) Lead
4 51 (18.09%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (16.31%) Lead Architect
5 46 (16.31%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 39 (13.83%) Network Engineer
7 29 (10.28%) DevOps Engineer
8 26 (9.22%) Administrator
8 26 (9.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (6.03%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (5.67%) Systems Engineer
11 14 (4.96%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (4.96%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 14 (4.96%) Systems Architect
12 13 (4.61%) Developer
12 13 (4.61%) Systems Administrator
13 12 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (4.26%) Senior Systems Engineer
14 11 (3.90%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (16.31%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (16.31%) Spring Boot
2 18 (6.38%) REST
3 17 (6.03%) WebRTC
4 16 (5.67%) 802.1X
4 16 (5.67%) Elastic Stack
5 13 (4.61%) HTML
6 11 (3.90%) .NET
7 10 (3.55%) YAML
8 9 (3.19%) LAMP
9 8 (2.84%) .NET Core
9 8 (2.84%) SAML
9 8 (2.84%) XML
10 6 (2.13%) CSS
11 5 (1.77%) Django
11 5 (1.77%) FastAPI
11 5 (1.77%) Flask
11 5 (1.77%) jQuery
11 5 (1.77%) Kafka
11 5 (1.77%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.92%) Public Cloud
2 52 (18.44%) Data Centre
3 47 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 31 (10.99%) Clustering
5 14 (4.96%) Management Information System
6 12 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
6 12 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 12 (4.26%) PKI
7 10 (3.55%) Client/Server
8 9 (3.19%) Cloud Native
9 8 (2.84%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.84%) Video Conferencing
10 7 (2.48%) IoT
10 7 (2.48%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.77%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.77%) Replication
12 4 (1.42%) Cybercrime
13 3 (1.06%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 2 (0.71%) Bitcoin
14 2 (0.71%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 121 (42.91%) Linux
2 68 (24.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 65 (23.05%) Windows
4 38 (13.48%) Windows Server
5 13 (4.61%) Windows 10
6 11 (3.90%) Unix
7 10 (3.55%) Windows 7
8 9 (3.19%) CentOS
8 9 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (2.13%) Ubuntu
9 6 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (1.42%) Android
10 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
11 3 (1.06%) VMS
11 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.71%) Debian
12 2 (0.71%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (29.43%) Agile
2 82 (29.08%) Migration
3 67 (23.76%) Problem-Solving
4 60 (21.28%) Open Source
5 58 (20.57%) DevOps
6 52 (18.44%) Data Migration
6 52 (18.44%) Project Management
7 51 (18.09%) TOGAF
8 49 (17.38%) SDLC
9 48 (17.02%) Collaborative Working
9 48 (17.02%) Kanban
9 48 (17.02%) Scrum
10 47 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
11 46 (16.31%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (16.31%) ArchiMate
11 46 (16.31%) Re-Platforming
11 46 (16.31%) Systems Engineering
12 44 (15.60%) High Availability
13 43 (15.25%) Infrastructure as Code
14 36 (12.77%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 49 (17.38%) PowerShell
2 44 (15.60%) Python
3 34 (12.06%) SQL
4 20 (7.09%) Bash
5 19 (6.74%) PHP
6 12 (4.26%) C#
7 11 (3.90%) T-SQL
8 10 (3.55%) C
8 10 (3.55%) Go
8 10 (3.55%) JavaScript
9 9 (3.19%) Java
9 9 (3.19%) Perl
10 3 (1.06%) ActionScript
10 3 (1.06%) C++
11 2 (0.71%) Bicep
11 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (32.27%) Security Cleared
2 78 (27.66%) SC Cleared
3 59 (20.92%) AWS Certification
4 51 (18.09%) Azure Certification
5 49 (17.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 37 (13.12%) Cisco Certification
7 29 (10.28%) CCNA
8 25 (8.87%) CCNP
8 25 (8.87%) Degree
9 14 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.55%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.48%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.77%) RHCA
12 5 (1.77%) RHCE
12 5 (1.77%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.42%) CCIE
14 3 (1.06%) CCDA
14 3 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.71%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.55%) QA
2 9 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.48%) ISO 13485
4 6 (2.13%) SLA
5 5 (1.77%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.42%) NIST
7 3 (1.06%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.06%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.71%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.71%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 51 (18.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (16.31%) Active Directory
3 44 (15.60%) Docker
4 29 (10.28%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (8.51%) vSphere
6 13 (4.61%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.84%) VMware Server
8 7 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (1.06%) NFS
10 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.35%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.35%) Firmware
11 1 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.35%) PowerDNS
11 1 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.35%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.35%) XenApp
11 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (19.50%) Terraform
2 39 (13.83%) Kubernetes
3 38 (13.48%) Ansible
4 24 (8.51%) Puppet
5 14 (4.96%) vCenter Server
6 10 (3.55%) HAProxy
6 10 (3.55%) Progress Chef
7 9 (3.19%) Grafana
7 9 (3.19%) Nagios
7 9 (3.19%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (2.84%) Graphite
9 7 (2.48%) Prometheus
10 6 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
10 6 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
10 6 (2.13%) NetCrunch
11 4 (1.42%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (1.42%) Istio
11 4 (1.42%) SCOM
11 4 (1.42%) SCOrch
11 4 (1.42%) vMotion
Vendors
1 95 (33.69%) Microsoft
2 67 (23.76%) Cisco
3 63 (22.34%) VMware
4 56 (19.86%) Oracle
5 46 (16.31%) Sparx
6 35 (12.41%) F5
7 34 (12.06%) CheckPoint
8 29 (10.28%) Palo Alto
9 25 (8.87%) Juniper
10 21 (7.45%) Google
11 15 (5.32%) Meraki
12 14 (4.96%) Splunk
13 13 (4.61%) Citrix
13 13 (4.61%) Fortinet
13 13 (4.61%) Red Hat
14 11 (3.90%) SolarWinds
15 9 (3.19%) Arista
15 9 (3.19%) Aruba
16 8 (2.84%) Ribbon
16 8 (2.84%) Riverbed