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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 605 522 628
Rank change year-on-year -83 +106 -117
Permanent jobs citing Load Balancing 292 535 782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.54% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.56% 0.50%
Number of salaries quoted 208 243 497
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £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 £80,000 £83,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £94,400 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% +8.00% -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 85,108 95,066 155,930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.18% 95.58% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 59,794 56,135 83,138
10th Percentile £29,071 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 20 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 -60 261 £60,000 +2.56% 69
UK excluding London -101 197 £55,000 +1.85% 41
Work from Home +57 136 £62,500 +4.17% 25
London +68 83 £80,000 - 28
Midlands 0 60 £52,500 -12.50% 15
West Midlands +24 48 £52,500 -17.97% 8
South East +3 39 £55,000 - 10
North of England -39 33 £60,000 +27.66% 7
South West -19 28 £45,000 +3.45% 3
Yorkshire +69 16 £61,250 +75.00% 3
North West -53 15 £60,000 +13.21% 4
Scotland -76 15 £52,500 -4.55%
East of England -8 12 £51,250 -10.87% 6
East Midlands -22 12 £50,000 -13.04% 7
Wales +6 6 £86,250 -
Northern Ireland +19 4 - -
North East -12 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 (16.78%) WebLogic
2 23 (7.88%) IIS
3 22 (7.53%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.74%) Skype for Business
5 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.71%) Apache
6 5 (1.71%) nginx
6 5 (1.71%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.68%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.34%) Confluence
8 1 (0.34%) Moodle
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.34%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.34%) Weka
Business Applications
1 46 (15.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.34%) HFM
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 179 (61.30%) Azure
2 138 (47.26%) AWS
3 48 (16.44%) Amazon EKS
4 46 (15.75%) Amazon SQS
4 46 (15.75%) GCP
5 28 (9.59%) SaaS
6 26 (8.90%) Amazon S3
7 22 (7.53%) IaaS
7 22 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (7.19%) PaaS
9 19 (6.51%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (5.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (5.14%) OneDrive
12 12 (4.11%) AWS Lambda
12 12 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (4.11%) Serverless
13 10 (3.42%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (3.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 9 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (3.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 119 (40.75%) DNS
1 119 (40.75%) Firewall
2 95 (32.53%) WAN
3 82 (28.08%) BGP
4 78 (26.71%) TCP/IP
5 74 (25.34%) VPN
6 66 (22.60%) SSL
7 62 (21.23%) LAN
8 36 (12.33%) Network Security
8 36 (12.33%) Wireless
9 35 (11.99%) MPLS
10 28 (9.59%) Internet
10 28 (9.59%) OSPF
11 27 (9.25%) DHCP
12 26 (8.90%) SAN
13 24 (8.22%) SD-WAN
14 20 (6.85%) IPsec
15 18 (6.16%) BIG-IP
16 17 (5.82%) SNMP
17 16 (5.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (20.21%) Amazon RDS
2 54 (18.49%) Relational Database
3 53 (18.15%) RDBMS
4 48 (16.44%) SQL Server
5 47 (16.10%) Oracle Database
6 31 (10.62%) MySQL
7 13 (4.45%) Elasticsearch
8 11 (3.77%) MongoDB
9 10 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.74%) Redis
11 7 (2.40%) BigQuery
12 5 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (1.71%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.71%) DB2
12 5 (1.71%) InfluxDB
12 5 (1.71%) Neo4j
12 5 (1.71%) TimescaleDB
13 3 (1.03%) Power BI
14 2 (0.68%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.68%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (5.82%) Git
2 13 (4.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.74%) GitLab
4 5 (1.71%) GDB
4 5 (1.71%) Selenium
5 4 (1.37%) JIRA
5 4 (1.37%) PHPUnit
5 4 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.68%) git-flow
8 1 (0.34%) JMeter
8 1 (0.34%) JProfiler
8 1 (0.34%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.34%) Maven
8 1 (0.34%) NeoLoad
General
1 101 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 42 (14.38%) Finance
3 26 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (8.90%) Law
4 15 (5.14%) Telecoms
5 14 (4.79%) Retail
6 11 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (2.40%) Advertising
8 6 (2.05%) Public Sector
9 5 (1.71%) Legal
10 4 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.68%) Banking
12 2 (0.68%) Games
12 2 (0.68%) Military
13 1 (0.34%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 80 (27.40%) Architect
2 78 (26.71%) Senior
3 54 (18.49%) Lead
4 52 (17.81%) Solutions Architect
5 46 (15.75%) Lead Architect
5 46 (15.75%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 45 (15.41%) Network Engineer
7 29 (9.93%) Administrator
8 28 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
9 25 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (6.51%) Systems Engineer
11 18 (6.16%) Senior Network Engineer
12 15 (5.14%) Systems Administrator
13 14 (4.79%) Linux Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Senior DevOps
13 14 (4.79%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Senior Systems Engineer
13 14 (4.79%) Systems Architect
14 12 (4.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 11 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (15.75%) RabbitMQ
1 46 (15.75%) Spring Boot
2 20 (6.85%) REST
3 19 (6.51%) WebRTC
4 17 (5.82%) 802.1X
5 16 (5.48%) Elastic Stack
6 13 (4.45%) HTML
7 10 (3.42%) .NET
7 10 (3.42%) SAML
8 9 (3.08%) LAMP
8 9 (3.08%) YAML
9 8 (2.74%) XML
10 7 (2.40%) .NET Core
11 6 (2.05%) CSS
12 5 (1.71%) Django
12 5 (1.71%) FastAPI
12 5 (1.71%) Flask
12 5 (1.71%) jQuery
12 5 (1.71%) Kafka
12 5 (1.71%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 63 (21.58%) Public Cloud
2 52 (17.81%) Data Centre
3 47 (16.10%) Enterprise Software
4 34 (11.64%) Clustering
5 14 (4.79%) Management Information System
6 13 (4.45%) Greenfield Project
6 13 (4.45%) PKI
7 12 (4.11%) Hybrid Cloud
8 10 (3.42%) Client/Server
9 9 (3.08%) Cloud Native
10 8 (2.74%) Product Ownership
10 8 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
11 7 (2.40%) IoT
11 7 (2.40%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 5 (1.71%) Private Cloud
13 4 (1.37%) Replication
14 3 (1.03%) Security Posture
15 2 (0.68%) Data Structures
15 2 (0.68%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 126 (43.15%) Linux
2 71 (24.32%) Windows
3 68 (23.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (12.67%) Windows Server
5 15 (5.14%) Unix
6 13 (4.45%) Windows 10
7 10 (3.42%) Windows 7
8 9 (3.08%) CentOS
8 9 (3.08%) Ubuntu
9 8 (2.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (2.05%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (1.71%) Debian
11 5 (1.71%) Solaris
12 4 (1.37%) Android
12 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
13 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.34%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (28.08%) Agile
2 78 (26.71%) Migration
3 70 (23.97%) Problem-Solving
4 63 (21.58%) Open Source
5 59 (20.21%) DevOps
6 52 (17.81%) Data Migration
7 51 (17.47%) Project Management
7 51 (17.47%) TOGAF
8 49 (16.78%) SDLC
9 48 (16.44%) Collaborative Working
9 48 (16.44%) Kanban
9 48 (16.44%) Scrum
10 47 (16.10%) Cloud Operations
10 47 (16.10%) High Availability
11 46 (15.75%) Actionable Insight
11 46 (15.75%) ArchiMate
11 46 (15.75%) Re-Platforming
11 46 (15.75%) Systems Engineering
12 42 (14.38%) CI/CD
12 42 (14.38%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 48 (16.44%) PowerShell
2 46 (15.75%) Python
3 42 (14.38%) SQL
4 24 (8.22%) Bash
5 17 (5.82%) PHP
6 15 (5.14%) T-SQL
7 14 (4.79%) C#
8 12 (4.11%) Java
8 12 (4.11%) JavaScript
9 11 (3.77%) C
10 10 (3.42%) Go
10 10 (3.42%) Perl
11 6 (2.05%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.03%) C++
13 2 (0.68%) ActionScript
13 2 (0.68%) Bicep
13 2 (0.68%) Lua
13 2 (0.68%) Ruby
13 2 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 94 (32.19%) Security Cleared
2 81 (27.74%) SC Cleared
3 58 (19.86%) AWS Certification
4 49 (16.78%) Azure Certification
5 48 (16.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 40 (13.70%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (9.59%) CCNA
7 28 (9.59%) CCNP
8 24 (8.22%) Degree
9 15 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (3.42%) DV Cleared
11 7 (2.40%) Master's Degree
12 5 (1.71%) RHCA
12 5 (1.71%) RHCE
12 5 (1.71%) RHCSA
12 5 (1.71%) TOGAF Certification
13 4 (1.37%) CCIE
14 3 (1.03%) CCDA
15 2 (0.68%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 2 (0.68%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.08%) QA
2 7 (2.40%) ISO 13485
2 7 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.40%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.71%) SLA
4 4 (1.37%) NIST
5 3 (1.03%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.03%) SOC 2
6 2 (0.68%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 50 (17.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (15.07%) Docker
3 41 (14.04%) Active Directory
4 30 (10.27%) VMware ESXi
5 25 (8.56%) vSphere
6 13 (4.45%) VMware NSX
7 9 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (2.40%) VMware Server
9 3 (1.03%) NFS
10 2 (0.68%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.68%) Shibboleth
11 1 (0.34%) Firmware
11 1 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.34%) PowerDNS
11 1 (0.34%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.34%) XenApp
11 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (16.78%) Terraform
2 35 (11.99%) Kubernetes
3 34 (11.64%) Ansible
4 25 (8.56%) Puppet
5 15 (5.14%) vCenter Server
6 14 (4.79%) Progress Chef
7 12 (4.11%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (3.77%) HAProxy
8 11 (3.77%) Nagios
9 9 (3.08%) Grafana
9 9 (3.08%) Graphite
10 7 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
11 6 (2.05%) NetCrunch
12 5 (1.71%) Failover Clustering
13 4 (1.37%) EMC NetWorker
13 4 (1.37%) FortiGate
13 4 (1.37%) Istio
13 4 (1.37%) Prometheus
14 3 (1.03%) Packer
14 3 (1.03%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 93 (31.85%) Microsoft
2 72 (24.66%) Cisco
3 64 (21.92%) VMware
4 55 (18.84%) Oracle
5 46 (15.75%) Sparx
6 44 (15.07%) F5
7 39 (13.36%) CheckPoint
8 30 (10.27%) Palo Alto
9 26 (8.90%) Juniper
10 22 (7.53%) Google
11 15 (5.14%) Meraki
12 13 (4.45%) Citrix
12 13 (4.45%) Fortinet
12 13 (4.45%) Red Hat
12 13 (4.45%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.45%) Splunk
13 10 (3.42%) Aruba
14 9 (3.08%) Arista
14 9 (3.08%) Riverbed
15 8 (2.74%) Tufin