The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 22 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 Nottingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.350% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.887% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
53 24 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 18.53% 10.62% 20.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 11 13
Average daily rate £345 £238 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.26% -5.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £423 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
BIG-IP
Nottinghamshire

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham BIG-IP Daily Rate Trend

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) SMTP
2 4 (80.00%) HTTP
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (40.00%) FWSM
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) CCNP
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Juniper
4 2 (40.00%) PBX
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) IBM
5 1 (20.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (20.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) Linux
5 1 (20.00%) Apache
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (20.00%) Citrix

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) DNS
1 4 (80.00%) SMTP
1 4 (80.00%) HTTP
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco PIX
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) FWSM
3 2 (40.00%) OSPF
3 2 (40.00%) PBX
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) NetScreen
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CCNP
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) MetaFrame
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) VMware