The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 56 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing F5 20 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.685% 0.225% -
As % of the Vendors category 6.231% 0.458% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £308 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
321 437 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 43.09% 49.10% 34.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 247 108
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £191 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £448 £457
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 25 25
Average hourly rate £26.00 £15.00 £17.11
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -12.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £11.40 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
West Yorkshire

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 21 (75.00%) Cisco
2 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 19 (67.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (50.00%) WAN
4 13 (46.43%) LAN
4 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
4 13 (46.43%) MCSE
4 13 (46.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 12 (42.86%) SAN
5 12 (42.86%) Windows XP
5 12 (42.86%) MS Exchange
5 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
5 12 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2003
5 12 (42.86%) NAS
6 8 (28.57%) BIG-IP
6 8 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
7 7 (25.00%) Firewall
7 7 (25.00%) Linux
7 7 (25.00%) CentOS
7 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 6 (21.43%) Perforce
8 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
9 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
9 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
10 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (10.71%) CCNP
11 2 (7.143%) WebSphere

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (7.143%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.571%) .NET
2 1 (3.571%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 12 (42.86%) MS Exchange
1 12 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (7.143%) GlassFish
2 2 (7.143%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (3.571%) IIS
3 1 (3.571%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) WAN
2 13 (46.43%) LAN
3 12 (42.86%) SAN
3 12 (42.86%) NAS
4 8 (28.57%) BIG-IP
4 8 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (25.00%) Firewall
6 2 (7.143%) SSL
7 1 (3.571%) DMVPN
7 1 (3.571%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.571%) SSH
7 1 (3.571%) BGP
7 1 (3.571%) EIGRP
7 1 (3.571%) WLAN
7 1 (3.571%) SMTP
7 1 (3.571%) DHCP
7 1 (3.571%) FTP
7 1 (3.571%) HTTP
7 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
7 1 (3.571%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) Data Mining
General
1 2 (7.143%) Legal
2 1 (3.571%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Analyst
1 8 (28.57%) Messaging Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (17.86%) Support Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Messaging Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Network Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Messaging Specialist
5 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Specialist
6 2 (7.143%) Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Design Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Server Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Software Manager
7 1 (3.571%) Configuration Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Middleware Administrator
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Design Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Network Support
7 1 (3.571%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (3.571%) Messaging Architect
7 1 (3.571%) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.571%) Firmware
1 1 (3.571%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
1 19 (67.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (46.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (42.86%) Windows XP
4 7 (25.00%) Linux
4 7 (25.00%) CentOS
4 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (21.43%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (7.143%) Solaris
7 1 (3.571%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) Configuration Management
2 2 (7.143%) Performance Management
3 1 (3.571%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (3.571%) ITIL
3 1 (3.571%) CRM
3 1 (3.571%) Migration
3 1 (3.571%) Test Management
3 1 (3.571%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.143%) SQL
2 1 (3.571%) Lisp
2 1 (3.571%) C
2 1 (3.571%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) MCSE
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) CCNP
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.571%) CCIE
4 1 (3.571%) MCP
System Software
1 1 (3.571%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.571%) XenServer
1 1 (3.571%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) PureDisk
1 1 (3.571%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 21 (75.00%) Cisco
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
3 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (21.43%) Perforce
5 2 (7.143%) Sun
6 1 (3.571%) HP
6 1 (3.571%) Citrix
6 1 (3.571%) Juniper
6 1 (3.571%) BMC
6 1 (3.571%) Motorola
6 1 (3.571%) VMware
6 1 (3.571%) Brocade
6 1 (3.571%) TippingPoint
6 1 (3.571%) Syncsort
6 1 (3.571%) Riverbed
6 1 (3.571%) OPNET