F5 BIG-IP GTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP GTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP GTM 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 565 645 796
Rank change year-on-year +80 +151 -168
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 33 74 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.076% 0.12% 0.060%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.59% 1.00% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 65 35
10th Percentile £413 £450 £423
25th Percentile £475 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% +26.32%
75th Percentile £579 £619 £580
90th Percentile £589 £770 £587
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +14.50% -7.41% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM 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%

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP GTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM.

Daily rate trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM.

Hourly rate trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 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 +113 26 £544 -1.14% 4
London +98 20 £520 -13.33% 3
Work from Home +100 16 £550 +4.76% 24
UK excluding London +56 11 £573 +14.50% 1
South East +21 5 £573 +14.50%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +34 2 £600 -
North of England +29 1 - -
Yorkshire +19 1 - -

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) EPiServer
1 1 (3.03%) IIS
1 1 (3.03%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.03%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.06%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 17 (51.52%) Firewall
3 16 (48.48%) BGP
4 13 (39.39%) MPLS
5 9 (27.27%) 5G
6 8 (24.24%) Network Security
7 7 (21.21%) OSPF
8 6 (18.18%) LAN
8 6 (18.18%) WAN
9 5 (15.15%) NX-OS
9 5 (15.15%) RSVP
9 5 (15.15%) SD-WAN
10 4 (12.12%) BIG-IP
10 4 (12.12%) Ethernet VPN
10 4 (12.12%) NetScaler
11 3 (9.09%) DNS
11 3 (9.09%) VPN
12 2 (6.06%) VPLS
13 1 (3.03%) SAN
13 1 (3.03%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
General
1 13 (39.39%) Finance
2 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.09%) Law
3 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Design Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 2 (6.06%) Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.06%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Design Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) JSON
2 9 (27.27%) NETCONF
2 9 (27.27%) XML
2 9 (27.27%) YANG
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 5 (15.15%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Migration
2 7 (21.21%) Network Design
3 5 (15.15%) Business Strategy
3 5 (15.15%) Change Management
3 5 (15.15%) DevOps
3 5 (15.15%) Load Balancing
3 5 (15.15%) Roadmaps
3 5 (15.15%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
5 3 (9.09%) Fintech
5 3 (9.09%) High Availability
5 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.06%) Service Migration
6 2 (6.06%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (3.03%) IT Strategy
7 1 (3.03%) Knowledge Transfer
7 1 (3.03%) Network Monitoring
7 1 (3.03%) Technology Strategy
7 1 (3.03%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) ActionScript
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) CCIE
1 5 (15.15%) CCNP
1 5 (15.15%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (12.12%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (21.21%) FortiGate
2 6 (18.18%) Ansible
3 3 (9.09%) Terraform
4 2 (6.06%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (100.00%) F5
2 11 (33.33%) Cisco
3 9 (27.27%) Nokia
3 9 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 8 (24.24%) Fortinet
5 5 (15.15%) Juniper
6 4 (12.12%) CA
6 4 (12.12%) VMware
7 2 (6.06%) Huawei
8 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
8 1 (3.03%) Infoblox