load balancers jobs in 2026 — demand, top roles hiring, and related skills
As of 2026-11-06, load balancers appears in 412 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the past 90 days — Software Engineer has the most postings mentioning load balancers, with demand share down 7.0% vs the prior 4 weeks.
Last updated · 90d ending 2026-11-06
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Frequently asked questions about load balancers
+Is load balancers in demand in 2026?
Yes. load balancers appears in 412 job postings indexed by Skillenai over the 90 days ending 2026-11-06. Software Engineer accounts for the most postings mentioning load balancers (12.1% of all postings mentioning load balancers).
+What jobs require load balancers?
According to the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-06, among roles with at least 20 postings, the highest shares mentioning load balancers are Azure Cloud Engineer (38.6% of that role’s postings mention load balancers), Customer Reliability Engineer (30.0% of that role’s postings mention load balancers), Cloud Network Engineer (9.5% of that role’s postings mention load balancers).
+What skills are commonly paired with load balancers?
Across job postings indexed by Skillenai (90 days ending 2026-11-06), load balancers most often appears alongside Terraform, firewalls, AWS, Kubernetes, Python.
+Where is load balancers most in demand?
As of 2026-11-06, the metro areas posting the most jobs requiring load balancers are Washington, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, San Francisco, according to the Skillenai jobs index.
+How can I keep up with new load balancers content and jobs?
Skillenai indexes news, blog posts, and research papers mentioning load balancers alongside the jobs index. You can subscribe to a daily email digest of new load balancers content from your Skillenai account.
+Which skills come before and after load balancers?
The skill-flow chart shows skills documented in adjacent positions across observed employer changes. An outgoing skill is documented in the following position but not the preceding one. These are ideas to explore, not proven prerequisites, acquisition dates, or levels of mastery. Each ribbon counts employer moves with that skill pair; one move can contribute several pairs.
Weekly indexed postings requiring load balancers — last 90 days
Salary distribution
Box = 25th–75th percentile · tick = median · whisker = 10th–90th · USD, annualized
Career paths around load balancers
Skills documented before and after this skill across employer changes.
Historical career profiles · all locations
Skills before load balancers
Skills after load balancers
How to read this chart · view counts
Each side is an independent set of observed employer moves, not the same people followed through three stages. Ribbon widths compare move counts within that side. Internal moves are not included.
The following position documents a skill that the preceding position does not. Skills must be linked to both positions, with clear dates and no overlap. One move can connect several skill pairs. These patterns suggest skills to explore; they do not establish prerequisites, when a skill was learned, or a higher skill level.
Source: Skillenai talent graph, historical career profiles. Historical descriptions and coverage can change. Only the leading published connections are shown.
| Connection | Moves |
|---|---|
| Before: python | 7 |
| Before: EC2 | 5 |
| Before: Jenkins | 5 |
| Before: PowerShell | 4 |
| Before: docker | 4 |
| Before: security groups | 4 |
| Before: kubernetes | 4 |
| Before: S3 | 4 |
| After: terraform | 8 |
| After: Ansible | 8 |
| After: Jenkins | 7 |
| After: kubernetes | 6 |
| After: Azure | 6 |
| After: IAM | 5 |
| After: GitHub Actions | 5 |
| After: docker | 5 |
Roles most likely to require load balancers
Among roles with at least 20 postings in the same period.
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | % of role postings mentioning skill |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Cloud Engineer | 17 | 38.6% |
| Customer Reliability Engineer | 6 | 30.0% |
| Cloud Network Engineer | 2 | 9.5% |
| Customer Delivery Architect | 2 | 8.7% |
| Systems Development Engineer | 2 | 8.7% |
| Infrastructure Software Engineer | 2 | 8.3% |
| Cloud Software Engineer | 5 | 6.8% |
| IT Architect | 3 | 5.8% |
| Network Architect | 7 | 5.0% |
| Network Security Architect | 1 | 4.8% |
Roles with the most load balancers postings
| Role | Postings mentioning skill | Share of skill postings |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 50 | 12.1% |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 39 | 9.5% |
| DevOps Engineer | 27 | 6.6% |
| Cloud Engineer | 23 | 5.6% |
| Systems Engineer | 18 | 4.4% |
| Azure Cloud Engineer | 17 | 4.1% |
| Platform Engineer | 17 | 4.1% |
| Network Engineer | 11 | 2.7% |
| Infrastructure Engineer | 9 | 2.2% |
| Network Architect | 7 | 1.7% |
Top companies posting jobs requiring load balancers
Employers ranked by indexed job postings in the last 90 days.
| Company | Postings · 90 days |
|---|---|
| LightFeather | 23 |
| Mastercard | 9 |
| Workato | 9 |
| Tailscale | 6 |
| Cisco | 6 |
| Nebius | 5 |
| FICO | 5 |
| Nubank | 5 |
| CLERA | 5 |
| ClickHouse | 5 |
Job postings indexed over the past 90 days, grouped by resolved employer. Counts are postings, not hires. Companies without a published page appear without a link.
Top metros hiring for load balancers
| Name | Postings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Washington | 27 | 6.6% |
| Bengaluru | 14 | 3.4% |
| Hyderabad | 11 | 2.7% |
| Pune | 11 | 2.7% |
| San Francisco | 10 | 2.4% |
| New York City | 9 | 2.2% |
| Singapore | 8 | 1.9% |
| Dublin | 6 | 1.5% |
| Mumbai | 6 | 1.5% |
Skills commonly paired with load balancers
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How this was computed
Weekly job-count charts omit the incomplete current week (weeks start Monday, UTC). Totals include all postings in the stated window. Counts derive from the Skillenai jobs index over the 90 days ending 2026-11-06. Skills are resolved against the Skillenai canonical taxonomy, so the same entity is counted whether a posting writes 'Python', 'Python 3', or 'python'. Role prevalence divides postings mentioning load balancers by all postings for each role in the same window, ranking roles with at least 20 postings. Role distribution divides each role’s load balancers postings by all load balancers postings, including postings without a role. Shares need not sum to 100% for the displayed roles. Pages refresh weekly (or daily for the top-50 most-requested skills). Adjusted posting share: 0.2% to 0.2%. Demand share change is the relative percentage change between these adjusted shares. Each employer-and-ATS group has at least 10 postings in each 90-day window; its earlier posting count supplies the same weight in both windows. The panel includes 2,472 identified employers and covers 71% of earlier and 70% of latest indexed postings. Windows: 2026-07-07 to 2026-10-05 and 2026-08-04 to 2026-11-02 (UTC; end dates excluded). The windows overlap by 62 days. Dates reflect indexing, not the employer’s posting date. This measures posting mix, not total hiring or market-wide demand. Matching excludes entrants and exits; changes in crawl completeness within an employer or ATS can still affect the result.
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