The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 62 67 55
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -12
Contract jobs citing F5 1 3 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% 0.307% 1.027%
As % of the Vendors category 0.336% 0.833% 1.935%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
Average daily rate - £250 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
298 360 465
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 46.78% 36.85% 53.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 134 179
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 69
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% -47.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £11.60 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
East of England

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire F5 Hourly Rate Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Office Management
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Crossbeam
2 3 (75.00%) SLA
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) NFS
4 1 (25.00%) VPN

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (50.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) WAAS
3 1 (25.00%) FWSM
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Office Management
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Change Control
1 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCSA
1 1 (25.00%) CCSE
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (25.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Crossbeam
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
4 1 (25.00%) Infoblox