The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 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.

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 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing F5 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 1.399% - -
As % of the Vendors category 3.030% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
132 82 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 46.15% 36.77% 50.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 49 35
Average daily rate £325 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £205 £94
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 1 15
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £30.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
Nottinghamshire

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing F5 across the Nottingham region.

Nottingham F5 Hourly Rate Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) BIG-IP
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (50.00%) BGP
3 4 (50.00%) Internet
3 4 (50.00%) SMTP
3 4 (50.00%) HTTP
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) CCNP
4 3 (37.50%) IIS
4 3 (37.50%) Web Services
4 3 (37.50%) UNIX
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Apache
4 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
4 3 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (37.50%) Juniper
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 3 (37.50%) MetaFrame
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (37.50%) FWSM
4 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 3 (37.50%) VMware

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 3 (37.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) IIS
1 3 (37.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) BIG-IP
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (50.00%) BGP
2 4 (50.00%) Internet
2 4 (50.00%) SMTP
2 4 (50.00%) HTTP
2 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) FWSM
3 3 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (25.00%) Network Security
4 2 (25.00%) OSPF
4 2 (25.00%) PBX
5 1 (12.50%) WAN
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) NetScreen
5 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) UNIX
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) CCIE
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) MetaFrame
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli
1 3 (37.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Juniper
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (12.50%) Dell
4 1 (12.50%) Nortel
4 1 (12.50%) Websense
4 1 (12.50%) McAfee
4 1 (12.50%) Avaya
4 1 (12.50%) Sourcefire
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds