F5 BIG-IP LTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 611 789
Rank change year-on-year +75 +178 -157
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 50 87 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 1.21% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 72 41
10th Percentile £413 £450 £363
25th Percentile £455 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -2.78% +26.32%
75th Percentile £582 £619 £550
90th Percentile £622 £762 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £52.85
25th Percentile - - £54.13
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.74% -7.26%
75th Percentile - - £59.88
90th Percentile - - £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £55.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.08%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,474 7,207 9,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.73% 12.39% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,273 4,657 6,246
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £517 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +3.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 418 472 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.03
25th Percentile £16.44 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.85% -14.12% -10.42%

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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 LTM within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +96 39 £538 +5.39% 2
London +94 25 £538 -17.31% 2
UK excluding London +55 20 £550 +10.00%
Work from Home +76 19 £550 +4.76% 3
South East +9 11 £550 +10.00%
Scotland +47 5 £780 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +22 1 - -
Yorkshire +20 1 - -

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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 (2.00%) Apache
1 1 (2.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (2.00%) IIS
1 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (4.00%) AWS
2 2 (4.00%) GitHub
3 1 (2.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (64.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 29 (58.00%) Firewall
3 25 (50.00%) BGP
4 18 (36.00%) MPLS
5 16 (32.00%) OSPF
6 10 (20.00%) VPN
6 10 (20.00%) WAN
7 9 (18.00%) NetScaler
8 8 (16.00%) 5G
8 8 (16.00%) BIG-IP
8 8 (16.00%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (16.00%) LAN
8 8 (16.00%) SD-WAN
9 7 (14.00%) Network Security
9 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
10 6 (12.00%) NX-OS
11 5 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (10.00%) DNS
11 5 (10.00%) Wireless
12 4 (8.00%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) Git
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Finance
3 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.00%) Law
5 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (66.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (12.00%) Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 3 (6.00%) IP Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (6.00%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Linux Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Architect
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) JSON
2 8 (16.00%) NETCONF
2 8 (16.00%) XML
2 8 (16.00%) YANG
3 3 (6.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) .NET
4 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.00%) Twisted
4 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.00%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.00%) PKI
4 1 (2.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Linux
1 6 (12.00%) Unix
1 6 (12.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.00%) Migration
2 8 (16.00%) Roadmaps
3 7 (14.00%) Change Management
4 6 (12.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (12.00%) Network Design
5 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (8.00%) Business Strategy
6 4 (8.00%) Configuration Management
6 4 (8.00%) DevOps
6 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (6.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (6.00%) Fintech
7 3 (6.00%) High Availability
7 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (4.00%) Low Latency
8 2 (4.00%) Time Management
8 2 (4.00%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.00%) Python
2 9 (18.00%) ActionScript
3 6 (12.00%) Java
3 6 (12.00%) Perl
4 3 (6.00%) Bash
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (14.00%) CCNP
3 6 (12.00%) CCIE
3 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (2.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) VMware NSX
2 5 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (8.00%) ProxySG
4 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Ansible
1 8 (16.00%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
2 2 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) F5
2 23 (46.00%) Cisco
3 12 (24.00%) Palo Alto
4 11 (22.00%) Nokia
5 9 (18.00%) Fortinet
5 9 (18.00%) Juniper
6 6 (12.00%) VMware
7 5 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.00%) Blue Coat
8 4 (8.00%) CA
9 2 (4.00%) Huawei
10 1 (2.00%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.00%) Meraki
10 1 (2.00%) QinetiQ