F5 Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Cheshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within F5 Networks, Inc.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 48 62 58
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -4
Contract jobs citing F5 13 5 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.801% 0.619% 1.508%
As % of the Vendors category 3.581% 1.080% 3.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 12
Average daily rate £313 £359 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.89% -9.74%
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 363 463 489
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 50.28% 57.30% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 230 262
Average daily rate £373 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.92% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £285 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £493 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £15.75 £12.46
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+138.09% +26.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £14.00 £8.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
North West

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing F5 across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Cheshire F5 Jobs Demand Trend

F5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing F5 across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Macclesfield - 7 £289 -
Warrington - 3 £313 -
Knutsford -9 1 £313 -12.89%
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
F5
North West

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing F5 also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited F5.

1 15 (88.24%) Cisco
2 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) CCNP
2 9 (52.94%) CCDP
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (52.94%) Wireless
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (47.06%) ITIL
4 7 (41.18%) CCNA
4 7 (41.18%) Firewall
5 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
5 5 (29.41%) Juniper
6 3 (17.65%) NetScreen
6 3 (17.65%) Finance
6 3 (17.65%) Network Design
6 3 (17.65%) Network Security
7 2 (11.76%) BIG-IP
7 2 (11.76%) Internet
7 2 (11.76%) LAN
7 2 (11.76%) WAN
7 2 (11.76%) SSL
7 2 (11.76%) CCIE
8 1 (5.882%) CCSP
8 1 (5.882%) IBM
8 1 (5.882%) SOAP
8 1 (5.882%) DNS
8 1 (5.882%) SMTP
8 1 (5.882%) DHCP
8 1 (5.882%) HTTP
8 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing F5 also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited F5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) SOAP
1 1 (5.882%) Middleware
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) VPN
1 9 (52.94%) Wireless
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco Nexus
2 7 (41.18%) Firewall
3 3 (17.65%) Network Security
3 3 (17.65%) NetScreen
4 2 (11.76%) BIG-IP
4 2 (11.76%) LAN
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) SSL
4 2 (11.76%) Internet
5 1 (5.882%) OSPF
5 1 (5.882%) BGP
5 1 (5.882%) TACACS
5 1 (5.882%) SMTP
5 1 (5.882%) DHCP
5 1 (5.882%) HTTP
5 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.882%) VLAN
5 1 (5.882%) IPsec
General
1 5 (29.41%) Telecoms
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
3 1 (5.882%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Architect
2 7 (41.18%) Network Architect
3 5 (29.41%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 2 (11.76%) Designer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Technical Architect
6 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Designer
6 1 (5.882%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) Network Designer
6 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) UNIX
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 3 (17.65%) Network Design
3 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (5.882%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.882%) Network Architecture
3 1 (5.882%) Network Management
3 1 (5.882%) Capacity Management
3 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.882%) Service Management
3 1 (5.882%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) CCNP
1 9 (52.94%) CCDP
1 9 (52.94%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (41.18%) CCNA
3 2 (11.76%) CCIE
4 1 (5.882%) CCSP
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) CiscoWorks
1 1 (5.882%) HP NNM
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) Cisco
2 5 (29.41%) Juniper
3 1 (5.882%) CheckPoint
3 1 (5.882%) McAfee
3 1 (5.882%) FatWire
3 1 (5.882%) Blue Coat
3 1 (5.882%) Sourcefire
3 1 (5.882%) Fortinet
3 1 (5.882%) IBM
3 1 (5.882%) HP
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