The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 22 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 City of London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 182 181 194
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +13
Contract jobs citing F5 23 34 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.358% 0.426% 0.486%
As % of the Vendors category 0.791% 1.011% 1.155%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 22
Average daily rate £475 £444 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.04% -6.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £154 £344 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £493 £523
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-7.33% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 - £40.63
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.70 - £40.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 - £41.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2906 3363 4071
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.20% 42.15% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2056 2300 2802
Average daily rate £433 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.76% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 101 129
Average hourly rate £23.75 £21.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.09% -2.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.50 £44.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
London

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing F5 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London F5 Daily Rate Histogram

F5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing F5 across the City of London region.

City of London F5 Hourly Rate Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 37 (72.55%) Cisco
2 31 (60.78%) Firewall
3 19 (37.25%) Juniper
4 17 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (29.41%) CheckPoint
5 15 (29.41%) Windows
5 15 (29.41%) Linux
5 15 (29.41%) WAN
6 14 (27.45%) VMware
6 14 (27.45%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (25.49%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (25.49%) HP
8 12 (23.53%) VPN
8 12 (23.53%) DNS
9 11 (21.57%) Finance
9 11 (21.57%) LAN
9 11 (21.57%) DHCP
9 11 (21.57%) Load Balancing
10 10 (19.61%) Sourcefire
10 10 (19.61%) Apache
10 10 (19.61%) SSL
10 10 (19.61%) Internet
10 10 (19.61%) OSPF
11 9 (17.65%) BGP
12 8 (15.69%) IPsec
12 8 (15.69%) CCSA
12 8 (15.69%) CCIE
12 8 (15.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (15.69%) Network Architecture
13 7 (13.73%) Cisco Nexus

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 (1.961%) Java EE
1 1 (1.961%) ADSI
1 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.961%) Web Services
1 1 (1.961%) .NET
1 1 (1.961%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (19.61%) Apache
2 4 (7.843%) IIS
3 3 (5.882%) CloudStack
3 3 (5.882%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.922%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (3.922%) Liferay
5 1 (1.961%) Alfresco
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle Application Server
5 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.961%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.961%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.961%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 31 (60.78%) Firewall
2 15 (29.41%) WAN
3 14 (27.45%) Cisco ASA
4 12 (23.53%) VPN
4 12 (23.53%) DNS
5 11 (21.57%) LAN
5 11 (21.57%) DHCP
6 10 (19.61%) SSL
6 10 (19.61%) Internet
6 10 (19.61%) OSPF
7 9 (17.65%) BGP
8 8 (15.69%) IPsec
9 7 (13.73%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (13.73%) BIG-IP
9 7 (13.73%) VLAN
9 7 (13.73%) Ethernet
9 7 (13.73%) Wireless
9 7 (13.73%) MPLS
10 6 (11.76%) SAN
10 6 (11.76%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) MySQL
2 3 (5.882%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.922%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (3.922%) ClearCase
1 2 (3.922%) Fiddler
1 2 (3.922%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (21.57%) Finance
2 6 (11.76%) Banking
3 5 (9.804%) Investment Banking
4 3 (5.882%) Financial Institution
4 3 (5.882%) Advertising
5 2 (3.922%) Legal
6 1 (1.961%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (23.53%) Network Engineer
2 8 (15.69%) Consultant
3 7 (13.73%) Firewall Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Architect
4 4 (7.843%) Security Consultant
4 4 (7.843%) Administrator
5 3 (5.882%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 3 (5.882%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.882%) IT Administrator
5 3 (5.882%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (3.922%) Security Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) UNIX Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) Network Architect
6 2 (3.922%) Network Support
6 2 (3.922%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (3.922%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (3.922%) Analyst
6 2 (3.922%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.922%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Clustering
2 5 (9.804%) CLARiiON
3 4 (7.843%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (5.882%) Open Source
5 2 (3.922%) DataPower
5 2 (3.922%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.961%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 15 (29.41%) Windows
1 15 (29.41%) Linux
2 8 (15.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (11.76%) UNIX
4 4 (7.843%) CentOS
5 3 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.882%) Gentoo
6 2 (3.922%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.922%) HPUX
6 2 (3.922%) Solaris
7 1 (1.961%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.961%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.961%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.961%) Windows NT
7 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Load Balancing
2 8 (15.69%) Network Architecture
3 5 (9.804%) Network Management
3 5 (9.804%) Network Design
3 5 (9.804%) Migration
4 4 (7.843%) Project Planning
5 3 (5.882%) Incident Management
5 3 (5.882%) Change Management
6 2 (3.922%) Risk Management
6 2 (3.922%) Security Management
6 2 (3.922%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (3.922%) Project Management
6 2 (3.922%) ITIL
6 2 (3.922%) Release Management
7 1 (1.961%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (1.961%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.961%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.961%) High Availability
7 1 (1.961%) Change Control
7 1 (1.961%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 6 (11.76%) PHP
2 3 (5.882%) Perl
2 3 (5.882%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.961%) Java
3 1 (1.961%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (15.69%) CCSA
2 8 (15.69%) CCIE
3 5 (9.804%) CISSP
3 5 (9.804%) CCNP
4 4 (7.843%) JNCIE
4 4 (7.843%) CCSE
4 4 (7.843%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.882%) Degree
5 3 (5.882%) CCNA
6 2 (3.922%) MCSE
6 2 (3.922%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.961%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.76%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.922%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (25.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.76%) ProxySG
2 6 (11.76%) vSphere
3 4 (7.843%) VMware ESX
4 3 (5.882%) vCloud
4 3 (5.882%) NFS
5 2 (3.922%) Active Directory
6 1 (1.961%) XenApp
6 1 (1.961%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.961%) OpenSSO
6 1 (1.961%) Forefront TMG
6 1 (1.961%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.961%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 7 (13.73%) FortiGate
2 3 (5.882%) Zenoss
2 3 (5.882%) Nagios
3 2 (3.922%) CiscoWorks
3 2 (3.922%) BladeLogic
4 1 (1.961%) SCOM
4 1 (1.961%) OpenView
4 1 (1.961%) Legato
4 1 (1.961%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.961%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 37 (72.55%) Cisco
2 19 (37.25%) Juniper
3 15 (29.41%) CheckPoint
4 14 (27.45%) VMware
5 13 (25.49%) HP
6 10 (19.61%) Sourcefire
7 7 (13.73%) Blue Coat
7 7 (13.73%) Fortinet
7 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
7 7 (13.73%) Red Hat
8 5 (9.804%) EMC
9 4 (7.843%) Polycom
9 4 (7.843%) Aruba
10 3 (5.882%) Twitter
10 3 (5.882%) NetApp
10 3 (5.882%) Veritas
11 2 (3.922%) McAfee
11 2 (3.922%) Citrix
11 2 (3.922%) Sun
11 2 (3.922%) Brocade