BIG-IP Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BIG-IP 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the London 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.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 338 362 411
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +49
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 39 53 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.180% 0.197% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.385% 1.435% 0.917%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 27 16
Average daily rate £475 £475 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £375 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BIG-IP across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

London BIG-IP Jobs Demand Trend

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BIG-IP across the London region.

London BIG-IP Daily Rate Trend

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London BIG-IP Daily Rate Histogram

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London BIG-IP Hourly Rate Trend

BIG-IP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +4 4 - -
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing BIG-IP 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 BIG-IP.

1 65 (98.48%) F5
2 62 (93.94%) Linux
3 54 (81.82%) Windows
4 53 (80.30%) Firewall
5 52 (78.79%) IIS
5 52 (78.79%) Red Hat
6 51 (77.27%) Apache
7 50 (75.76%) UNIX
7 50 (75.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 49 (74.24%) Citrix
9 47 (71.21%) Microsoft
10 45 (68.18%) E-Commerce
10 45 (68.18%) WebSphere Application Server
10 45 (68.18%) Java
10 45 (68.18%) WebSphere
11 40 (60.61%) NetScaler
12 39 (59.09%) Java EE
12 39 (59.09%) Windows XP
12 39 (59.09%) JBoss
13 38 (57.58%) LDAP
13 38 (57.58%) SOAP
13 38 (57.58%) XML
13 38 (57.58%) XSLT
13 38 (57.58%) PKI
14 33 (50.00%) Perl
15 32 (48.48%) COM+
15 32 (48.48%) TCP/IP
16 28 (42.42%) Change Control
17 22 (33.33%) Time Management
17 22 (33.33%) MS Excel

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing BIG-IP 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 BIG-IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 45 (68.18%) WebSphere
2 39 (59.09%) Java EE
3 38 (57.58%) SOAP
3 38 (57.58%) XML
3 38 (57.58%) XSLT
4 32 (48.48%) COM+
5 17 (25.76%) Web Services
6 13 (19.70%) .NET
7 7 (10.61%) Middleware
7 7 (10.61%) ASP.NET
7 7 (10.61%) ADSI
Application Platforms
1 52 (78.79%) IIS
2 51 (77.27%) Apache
3 45 (68.18%) WebSphere Application Server
4 7 (10.61%) Oracle Application Server
5 6 (9.091%) IBM HTTP Server
5 6 (9.091%) WebSphere MQ
6 4 (6.061%) CloudStack
7 1 (1.515%) Tomcat
7 1 (1.515%) WebLogic
Applications
1 22 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 53 (80.30%) Firewall
2 40 (60.61%) NetScaler
3 38 (57.58%) LDAP
4 32 (48.48%) TCP/IP
5 14 (21.21%) SAN
6 9 (13.64%) VPN
6 9 (13.64%) NAS
7 8 (12.12%) Internet
8 7 (10.61%) FTP
9 6 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
10 5 (7.576%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (6.061%) FWSM
12 3 (4.545%) Network Security
13 2 (3.030%) EIGRP
13 2 (3.030%) NetScreen
13 2 (3.030%) Ethernet
13 2 (3.030%) VoIP
14 1 (1.515%) Cisco Nexus
14 1 (1.515%) HSRP
14 1 (1.515%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.061%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (9.091%) Introscope
General
1 3 (4.545%) Advertising
2 2 (3.030%) Finance
3 1 (1.515%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (34.85%) Support Engineer
2 22 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Security Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Web Engineer
3 10 (15.15%) Firewall Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Wintel Engineer
4 7 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.061%) Consultant
5 4 (6.061%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 2 (3.030%) UNIX Specialist
6 2 (3.030%) Network Operator
6 2 (3.030%) Senior Security Consultant
6 2 (3.030%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (3.030%) Security Consultant
7 1 (1.515%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.515%) Wintel Support Engineer
7 1 (1.515%) Windows Support Engineer
7 1 (1.515%) Administrator
7 1 (1.515%) Systems Administrator
7 1 (1.515%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 38 (57.58%) PKI
2 11 (16.67%) Clustering
3 4 (6.061%) Computer Science
3 4 (6.061%) CLARiiON
3 4 (6.061%) Open Source
4 2 (3.030%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 62 (93.94%) Linux
2 54 (81.82%) Windows
3 50 (75.76%) UNIX
3 50 (75.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 39 (59.09%) Windows XP
5 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (10.61%) Windows NT
5 7 (10.61%) Windows 2000
5 7 (10.61%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (3.030%) Debian
6 2 (3.030%) Solaris
7 1 (1.515%) AIX
7 1 (1.515%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (68.18%) E-Commerce
2 28 (42.42%) Change Control
3 22 (33.33%) Time Management
4 19 (28.79%) Load Balancing
5 7 (10.61%) ITIL
6 6 (9.091%) Capacity Management
6 6 (9.091%) Load Testing
6 6 (9.091%) Release Management
6 6 (9.091%) Problem Management
7 2 (3.030%) Risk Analysis
7 2 (3.030%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 2 (3.030%) Penetration Testing
7 2 (3.030%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (3.030%) Security Architecture
8 1 (1.515%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.515%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (68.18%) Java
2 33 (50.00%) Perl
3 7 (10.61%) SQL
4 5 (7.576%) Shell Script
5 4 (6.061%) VBScript
5 4 (6.061%) VB
5 4 (6.061%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) GWAPT
1 10 (15.15%) GPEN
1 10 (15.15%) GIAC
2 4 (6.061%) Degree
3 2 (3.030%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.030%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.030%) CCNP
3 2 (3.030%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.515%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.515%) CCNA
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) ProxySG
2 11 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (16.67%) vSphere
3 7 (10.61%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 7 (10.61%) VMware ESX
3 7 (10.61%) XenApp
4 4 (6.061%) vCloud
5 1 (1.515%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (10.61%) Legato
1 7 (10.61%) SCOM
1 7 (10.61%) NetBackup
1 7 (10.61%) Backup Exec
2 6 (9.091%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (6.061%) Zenoss
3 4 (6.061%) Nagios
4 3 (4.545%) SCCM
5 1 (1.515%) CA Wily
5 1 (1.515%) CA SiteMinder
5 1 (1.515%) Netcool
Vendors
1 65 (98.48%) F5
2 52 (78.79%) Red Hat
3 49 (74.24%) Citrix
4 47 (71.21%) Microsoft
5 39 (59.09%) JBoss
6 13 (19.70%) Oracle
6 13 (19.70%) Blue Coat
7 11 (16.67%) VMware
8 10 (15.15%) Imperva
8 10 (15.15%) HP
9 8 (12.12%) Cisco
9 8 (12.12%) IBM
9 8 (12.12%) Veritas
10 7 (10.61%) McAfee
10 7 (10.61%) Sophos
10 7 (10.61%) BMC
10 7 (10.61%) Dell
10 7 (10.61%) EMC
10 7 (10.61%) PlateSpin
10 7 (10.61%) Leostream
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