City of London BIG-IP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for F5 Networks BIG-IP skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

F5 Networks BIG-IP
Location Berkshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Docklands, London England Lewisham London Macclesfield North West Reading Shropshire South East South Wales Telford UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	204	187
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	0.248 %	0.713 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£500	£500
Average daily rate	£500	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£470	£394
% change on same period last year	+19.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	806	841
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.135 %	0.850 %
Daily rates quoted	412	363
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£395
Average daily rate	£383	£409
% change on same period last year	-6.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£335
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	56
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.18	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£23.90	£23.47
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.61	£24.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.43	£28.95
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
BIG-IP London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BIG-IP 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 BIG-IP.

1 7 (100.00 %) CheckPoint 2 6 (85.71 %) OSPF 2 6 (85.71 %) BGP 2 6 (85.71 %) VPN 2 6 (85.71 %) Cisco 2 6 (85.71 %) Firewall 3 5 (71.43 %) Cisco PIX 4 4 (57.14 %) Banking 4 4 (57.14 %) CCIE 4 4 (57.14 %) Nokia 4 4 (57.14 %) SSL 4 4 (57.14 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (42.86 %) Juniper 5 3 (42.86 %) MPLS 5 3 (42.86 %) CCNP

5 3 (42.86 %) HP 5 3 (42.86 %) CiscoWorks 5 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 5 3 (42.86 %) Finance 5 3 (42.86 %) Network Design 5 3 (42.86 %) NNM 5 3 (42.86 %) Investment Banking 6 2 (28.57 %) Cisco ASA 6 2 (28.57 %) Nortel Alteon 6 2 (28.57 %) Network Security 6 2 (28.57 %) Derivative 6 2 (28.57 %) VLAN 6 2 (28.57 %) Nortel 6 2 (28.57 %) DNS 6 2 (28.57 %) RIP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing BIG-IP 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 BIG-IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (14.29 %) CSS	Communications & Networking 1 6 (85.71 %) VPN 1 6 (85.71 %) OSPF 1 6 (85.71 %) BGP 1 6 (85.71 %) Firewall 2 5 (71.43 %) Cisco PIX 3 4 (57.14 %) SSL 4 3 (42.86 %) MPLS 5 2 (28.57 %) RIP 5 2 (28.57 %) Network Security 5 2 (28.57 %) Cisco ASA 5 2 (28.57 %) Nortel Alteon 5 2 (28.57 %) VLAN 5 2 (28.57 %) DNS 6 1 (14.29 %) Internet 6 1 (14.29 %) LAN 6 1 (14.29 %) WAN 6 1 (14.29 %) Ethernet 6 1 (14.29 %) HTTP 6 1 (14.29 %) EIGRP
General 1 4 (57.14 %) Banking 2 3 (42.86 %) Investment Banking 2 3 (42.86 %) Finance 3 1 (14.29 %) Government	Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Engineer 2 2 (28.57 %) Network Specialist 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Cisco Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Cisco Network Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Principal Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Network Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Network Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Network Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Fixed Income 1 2 (28.57 %) Derivative 2 1 (14.29 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 1 1 (14.29 %) Windows 1 1 (14.29 %) HPUX 1 1 (14.29 %) Solaris 1 1 (14.29 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Design 1 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 2 1 (14.29 %) Risk Assessment 2 1 (14.29 %) Load Balancing 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (57.14 %) CCIE 1 4 (57.14 %) Cisco Certification 2 3 (42.86 %) CCNP	Systems Management 1 3 (42.86 %) CiscoWorks 1 3 (42.86 %) NNM
Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) CheckPoint 2 6 (85.71 %) Cisco 3 4 (57.14 %) Nokia 4 3 (42.86 %) Juniper 4 3 (42.86 %) HP 5 2 (28.57 %) Nortel