The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 33 - 20
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing F5 3 0 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.045% - 7.285%
As % of the Vendors category 1.863% - 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 21
Average daily rate £319 - £340
90% offered a daily rate of more than £304 - £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £334 - £375
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
161 125 143
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 56.10% 47.35% 47.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 62 93
Average daily rate £300 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £135 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 4
Average hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% -31.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.94 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £67.50 £105.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
South East

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) CCSP
4 2 (40.00%) Nokia
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (40.00%) Juniper
5 1 (20.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Change Management
5 1 (20.00%) SAN
5 1 (20.00%) Avaya
5 1 (20.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) NetScreen
5 1 (20.00%) CCIP
5 1 (20.00%) CCNA
5 1 (20.00%) CCDP
5 1 (20.00%) HP
5 1 (20.00%) Intel

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (20.00%) NetScreen
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Junos
3 1 (20.00%) FWSM
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) WebLOAD
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Support Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Head of Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Head of IT
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) iSeries
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Project Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCSP
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CCIP
3 1 (20.00%) CCNA
3 1 (20.00%) CCDP
3 1 (20.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Nokia
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) Avaya
4 1 (20.00%) HP
4 1 (20.00%) Intel
4 1 (20.00%) IBM
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) TippingPoint
4 1 (20.00%) Blue Coat