BIG-IP Contracts in England

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 593 767
Rank change year-on-year +58 +174 -185
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 8 55 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.11% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.89% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 48 10
10th Percentile £366 £506 £311
25th Percentile £386 £513 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £584 £650 £525
90th Percentile £601 - £570
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £425
% change year-on-year - +29.41% +3.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

BIG-IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,026 6,162 7,886
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.50% 12.21% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,035 4,048 5,186
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 399 439 302
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.35 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +112.54% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.84
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.26
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in England.

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in England

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in England

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in England.

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +81 7 £400 -38.46% 4
South East +11 1 £550 -8.33% 4
BIG-IP
UK

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Akamai
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (50.00%) BGP
3 4 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (50.00%) OSPF
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) Broadband
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (37.50%) IPsec
4 3 (37.50%) L2TP
4 3 (37.50%) MPLS
4 3 (37.50%) Multicast
4 3 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 3 (37.50%) Unicast
4 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) DNS
5 2 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (37.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IP Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Security Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Applications Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Configuration Management
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
1 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Application Security
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Perl
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) Go
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) CCNP
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCNA
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) AlgoSec
3 3 (37.50%) CheckPoint
3 3 (37.50%) Infoblox
3 3 (37.50%) Nokia
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper