Load Balancing Jobs with Work from Home Options

Load Balancing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 495 499
Rank change year-on-year +47 +4 -73
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 137 165 403
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.41% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.43% 0.59%
Number of salaries quoted 76 106 269
10th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,281 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £91,250 £94,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,883 38,813 68,245
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.21% 96.05% 97.04%
Number of salaries quoted 23,380 26,991 41,246
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Load Balancing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Balancing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Load Balancing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Load Balancing.

Load Balancing salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Load Balancing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Load Balancing salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Load Balancing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 48 (35.04%) WebLogic
2 16 (11.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.92%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.46%) nginx
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (0.73%) Apache
5 1 (0.73%) Confluence
5 1 (0.73%) IIS
5 1 (0.73%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 46 (33.58%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 106 (77.37%) Azure
2 86 (62.77%) AWS
3 46 (33.58%) Amazon EKS
3 46 (33.58%) Amazon SQS
4 26 (18.98%) GCP
5 22 (16.06%) Amazon S3
6 19 (13.87%) SaaS
7 12 (8.76%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (8.76%) Serverless
8 11 (8.03%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (7.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (7.30%) IaaS
10 9 (6.57%) PaaS
11 8 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
12 7 (5.11%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (4.38%) Azure Functions
13 6 (4.38%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (4.38%) Google Compute Engine
13 6 (4.38%) Stackdriver
14 5 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 67 (48.91%) DNS
2 59 (43.07%) TCP/IP
3 50 (36.50%) BGP
4 46 (33.58%) SSL
5 45 (32.85%) Firewall
6 31 (22.63%) VPN
7 19 (13.87%) WAN
8 16 (11.68%) LAN
9 15 (10.95%) BIG-IP
10 11 (8.03%) Wireless
11 10 (7.30%) Internet
11 10 (7.30%) SAN
12 9 (6.57%) SNMP
12 9 (6.57%) tcpdump
13 8 (5.84%) Network Security
14 7 (5.11%) Cisco ASA
14 7 (5.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 7 (5.11%) MPLS
15 4 (2.92%) IPsec
15 4 (2.92%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (41.61%) Amazon RDS
2 52 (37.96%) Relational Database
3 51 (37.23%) RDBMS
4 46 (33.58%) Oracle Database
5 22 (16.06%) SQL Server
6 19 (13.87%) MySQL
7 11 (8.03%) MongoDB
8 9 (6.57%) Elasticsearch
9 7 (5.11%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (4.38%) BigQuery
11 5 (3.65%) InfluxDB
11 5 (3.65%) Neo4j
11 5 (3.65%) TimescaleDB
12 4 (2.92%) DB2
13 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
13 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
13 2 (1.46%) Redis
14 1 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.65%) GDB
3 3 (2.19%) GitLab
4 1 (0.73%) JIRA
General
1 78 (56.93%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.22%) Finance
3 13 (9.49%) Telecoms
4 12 (8.76%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.76%) Law
5 11 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (5.11%) Advertising
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.46%) Games
8 2 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.46%) Military
8 2 (1.46%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 58 (42.34%) Architect
2 49 (35.77%) Lead
3 48 (35.04%) Solutions Architect
4 46 (33.58%) Lead Architect
4 46 (33.58%) Lead Solutions Architect
5 23 (16.79%) Senior
6 16 (11.68%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (10.95%) Network Engineer
8 14 (10.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (8.76%) Administrator
10 10 (7.30%) Infrastructure Architect
10 10 (7.30%) Linux Engineer
10 10 (7.30%) SharePoint Administrator
11 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (6.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Developer
12 8 (5.84%) Linux DevOps Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Linux/Unix DevOps
12 8 (5.84%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.84%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (33.58%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (33.58%) Spring Boot
2 12 (8.76%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (6.57%) YAML
4 5 (3.65%) .NET
4 5 (3.65%) Django
4 5 (3.65%) FastAPI
4 5 (3.65%) Flask
4 5 (3.65%) Kafka
5 4 (2.92%) .NET Core
5 4 (2.92%) WebSphere MQ
6 3 (2.19%) AWS SAM
7 2 (1.46%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.46%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.46%) ASP.NET
7 2 (1.46%) AWS CDK
7 2 (1.46%) JWT
7 2 (1.46%) Node.js
7 2 (1.46%) OAuth
8 1 (0.73%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 52 (37.96%) Public Cloud
2 46 (33.58%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (11.68%) Data Centre
4 10 (7.30%) Clustering
5 8 (5.84%) Cloud Native
6 7 (5.11%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (4.38%) Management Information System
8 4 (2.92%) Private Cloud
9 3 (2.19%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.46%) Client/Server
10 2 (1.46%) PKI
10 2 (1.46%) PropTech
10 2 (1.46%) Replication
10 2 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.73%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.73%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 74 (54.01%) Linux
2 52 (37.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 27 (19.71%) Windows
4 11 (8.03%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.11%) Windows 10
6 5 (3.65%) Windows 7
7 3 (2.19%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (1.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.73%) Unix
9 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (49.64%) Migration
2 58 (42.34%) Agile
3 51 (37.23%) Open Source
4 50 (36.50%) TOGAF
5 48 (35.04%) Kanban
6 47 (34.31%) Cloud Operations
6 47 (34.31%) Project Management
7 46 (33.58%) Actionable Insight
7 46 (33.58%) ArchiMate
7 46 (33.58%) Collaborative Working
7 46 (33.58%) Data Migration
7 46 (33.58%) Re-Platforming
7 46 (33.58%) Scrum
7 46 (33.58%) SDLC
7 46 (33.58%) Systems Engineering
8 26 (18.98%) Infrastructure as Code
9 23 (16.79%) DevOps
10 22 (16.06%) Disaster Recovery
11 21 (15.33%) CI/CD
12 20 (14.60%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.52%) Python
2 16 (11.68%) SQL
3 15 (10.95%) PowerShell
4 12 (8.76%) Bash
4 12 (8.76%) T-SQL
5 9 (6.57%) Java
5 9 (6.57%) Perl
6 7 (5.11%) C#
7 6 (4.38%) Go
8 5 (3.65%) PHP
9 4 (2.92%) C
10 2 (1.46%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.46%) JavaScript
10 2 (1.46%) Lua
10 2 (1.46%) Ruby
10 2 (1.46%) Rust
11 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 53 (38.69%) AWS Certification
1 53 (38.69%) SC Cleared
1 53 (38.69%) Security Cleared
2 49 (35.77%) Azure Certification
3 48 (35.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 13 (9.49%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (7.30%) CCNA
6 8 (5.84%) CCNP
7 4 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.92%) Degree
7 4 (2.92%) RHCA
7 4 (2.92%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (2.19%) CCDA
9 2 (1.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.46%) CCDP
9 2 (1.46%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.73%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.19%) NIST
1 3 (2.19%) SLA
1 3 (2.19%) SOC 2
2 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (14.60%) Docker
2 16 (11.68%) vSphere
3 15 (10.95%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (8.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (7.30%) Active Directory
6 9 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.46%) NFS
8 1 (0.73%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.73%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 26 (18.98%) Terraform
2 17 (12.41%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.76%) Ansible
4 11 (8.03%) HAProxy
4 11 (8.03%) vCenter Server
5 9 (6.57%) Grafana
5 9 (6.57%) Graphite
5 9 (6.57%) Nagios
5 9 (6.57%) Puppet
6 4 (2.92%) EMC NetWorker
7 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.46%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.73%) NetCrunch
9 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 52 (37.96%) Oracle
2 46 (33.58%) Sparx
3 30 (21.90%) F5
4 28 (20.44%) Cisco
5 27 (19.71%) Microsoft
6 16 (11.68%) VMware
7 12 (8.76%) Google
7 12 (8.76%) Palo Alto
8 11 (8.03%) CheckPoint
9 9 (6.57%) Juniper
10 6 (4.38%) Meraki
10 6 (4.38%) Red Hat
11 4 (2.92%) 3PAR
11 4 (2.92%) Aruba
11 4 (2.92%) Commvault
11 4 (2.92%) Fortinet
11 4 (2.92%) IBM
11 4 (2.92%) Nimble Storage
11 4 (2.92%) SonicWALL
11 4 (2.92%) Zerto