The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Milton Keynes 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 56 53 42
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -11
Contract jobs citing F5 1 10 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.166% 1.493% 2.528%
As % of the Vendors category 0.350% 3.215% 5.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 16
Average daily rate - £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £348 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-7.33% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.96 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 -
% change year-on-year
+6.06% -
All Vendors
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
286 311 315
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 47.59% 46.42% 49.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 115 118
Average daily rate £350 £315 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £446 £411
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 27 58
Average hourly rate £13.00 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.50 £12.80 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £25.00 £16.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
F5
Buckinghamshire

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) OpenView
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) ADSL
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Avaya
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Genesys
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) IVR
2 1 (50.00%) e-Health
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) ADSL
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
1 1 (50.00%) e-Health
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Avaya
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) Genesys
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade