The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
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 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
44 45 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 16.73% 17.24% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 26 26
Average daily rate £360 £360 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +30.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £251 £220 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 9
Average hourly rate £15.00 £28.50 £48.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.36% -40.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.00 £33.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.10 £35.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
BIG-IP
Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire BIG-IP Jobs Demand Trend

BIG-IP
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCDA
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Nortel
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 1 (100.00%) Nortel Alteon
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Nortel Alteon
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) CCDA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Intel
1 1 (100.00%) Nortel
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Blue Coat
1 1 (100.00%) F5