F5 BIG-IP LTM Contracts in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 418 487
Rank change year-on-year +42 +69 -68
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 20 29 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.12% 0.082%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.60% 0.83% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 17
10th Percentile - £455 £328
25th Percentile £455 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +35.00%
75th Percentile £584 £550 £550
90th Percentile £749 £584 £669
UK median daily rate £544 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +3.57% -2.78% +26.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP LTM is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,328 3,498 4,072
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.25% 14.91% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,904 2,201 2,615
10th Percentile £201 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £545
90th Percentile £675 £690 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.49% +3.65% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 321 234
10th Percentile £13.43 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.01
Median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +5.22%

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP LTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +15 11 £550 +10.00%
Scotland - 5 £780 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +27 1 - -
Yorkshire +18 1 - -
F5 BIG-IP LTM
UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Apache
1 1 (5.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (5.00%) IIS
1 1 (5.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (5.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) AWS
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) GCP
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 8 (40.00%) Firewall
2 8 (40.00%) NetScaler
3 5 (25.00%) BIG-IP
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.00%) BGP
5 3 (15.00%) HTTP
5 3 (15.00%) SSL
5 3 (15.00%) VPN
6 2 (10.00%) DNS
6 2 (10.00%) OSPF
7 1 (5.00%) Internet
7 1 (5.00%) LAN
7 1 (5.00%) MPLS
7 1 (5.00%) TACACS
7 1 (5.00%) VPLS
7 1 (5.00%) WAN
7 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (15.00%) Law
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Unix Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Java Applications Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Network Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Network Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) JSON
2 3 (15.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) NETCONF
3 1 (5.00%) Twisted
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Migration
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.00%) Fintech
4 3 (15.00%) High Availability
4 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (10.00%) Time Management
5 2 (10.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
6 1 (5.00%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity
6 1 (5.00%) Change Management
6 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.00%) Service Management
6 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) ActionScript
1 5 (25.00%) Java
1 5 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Bash
2 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (20.00%) ProxySG
3 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco
3 4 (20.00%) Blue Coat
3 4 (20.00%) CA
3 4 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) Juniper
4 1 (5.00%) Nokia
4 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.00%) QinetiQ
4 1 (5.00%) VMware