F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 587 659 829
Rank change year-on-year +72 +170 -189
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 11 60 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.10% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.20% 0.81% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 52 11
10th Percentile £369 £506 £313
25th Percentile £391 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +29.41% +3.03%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £544
90th Percentile £619 - £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £544 £425
% change year-on-year +5.75% +27.94% +8.83%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

BIG-IP 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP.

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP.

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +80 7 £475 -13.64% 8
London +74 6 £400 -38.46% 4
UK excluding London +46 5 £575 +5.75% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Work from Home +93 1 £600 - 6
Scotland +33 1 £600 +14.29%
South East +19 1 £550 -8.33% 4

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) EPiServer
1 1 (9.09%) IIS
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (63.64%) Firewall
3 6 (54.55%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (54.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (36.36%) BGP
4 4 (36.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (36.36%) OSPF
4 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) VPN
5 3 (27.27%) Broadband
5 3 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (27.27%) DNS
5 3 (27.27%) IPsec
5 3 (27.27%) L2TP
5 3 (27.27%) MPLS
5 3 (27.27%) Multicast
5 3 (27.27%) Unicast
5 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (27.27%) Wireless
6 2 (18.18%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) Git
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (27.27%) Law
3 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IP Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Network Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
1 3 (27.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
2 3 (27.27%) Fintech
2 3 (27.27%) High Availability
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
2 3 (27.27%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Mentoring
2 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (18.18%) Problem Management
3 2 (18.18%) Process Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Task Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
4 1 (9.09%) Change Management
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Perl
2 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) Bash
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Go
3 2 (18.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) CCNP
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) CCNA
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco
3 4 (36.36%) CA
4 3 (27.27%) AlgoSec
4 3 (27.27%) CheckPoint
4 3 (27.27%) Infoblox
4 3 (27.27%) Nokia
5 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper