The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 23 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 Colchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 9 18 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing F5 9 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 17.31% 2.381% -
As % of the Vendors category 25.71% 6.250% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £413 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-7.33% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Colchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
35 16 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 67.31% 38.10% 64.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 16
Average daily rate £413 £450 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £9.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
F5
Essex

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 9 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 9 (100.00%) Network Security
2 8 (88.89%) CCSE
2 8 (88.89%) Project Management
3 7 (77.78%) Blue Coat
3 7 (77.78%) ProxySG
4 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (66.67%) CCIE
4 6 (66.67%) CCNP
5 5 (55.56%) HP
5 5 (55.56%) Citrix
5 5 (55.56%) Juniper
5 5 (55.56%) Thin Client
5 5 (55.56%) OSPF
5 5 (55.56%) C
5 5 (55.56%) VoIP
5 5 (55.56%) DHCP
5 5 (55.56%) DNS
5 5 (55.56%) NetScreen
5 5 (55.56%) Firewall
5 5 (55.56%) VMware
5 5 (55.56%) Linux
5 5 (55.56%) Fat Client
5 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (55.56%) Infoblox

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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.

Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 9 (100.00%) Network Security
2 5 (55.56%) OSPF
2 5 (55.56%) VoIP
2 5 (55.56%) DHCP
2 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) NetScreen
2 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (55.56%) DMVPN
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Specialist
1 5 (55.56%) Network Security Specialist
1 5 (55.56%) E-Commerce Specialist
1 5 (55.56%) Security Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Thin Client
1 5 (55.56%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) E-Commerce
2 8 (88.89%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) CCSE
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (66.67%) CCIE
2 6 (66.67%) CCNP
3 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) ProxySG
2 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco UCCX
1 5 (55.56%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
1 9 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 7 (77.78%) Blue Coat
3 5 (55.56%) HP
3 5 (55.56%) Citrix
3 5 (55.56%) Juniper
3 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 5 (55.56%) Infoblox
3 5 (55.56%) Imperva