F5 Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within F5 Networks, Inc.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 342 376 394
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +18
Contract jobs citing F5 205 206 200
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.442% 0.353% 0.326%
As % of the Vendors category 0.941% 0.760% 0.702%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 98 119
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £302 £319 £279
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £458 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 1
Average hourly rate £37.50 - £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing F5 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

F5 Jobs Demand Trend

F5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing F5 within the UK.

F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

F5 Daily Rate Histogram

F5
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing F5 within the UK.

F5 Hourly Rate Trend

F5
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

F5 Hourly Rate Histogram

F5
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +40 198 £413 +10.00%
London +1 105 £475 +20.63%
Yorkshire +29 32 £308 -12.14%
South East +11 27 £339 -12.01%
City of London 0 25 £475 +7.04%
West Yorkshire +22 21 £308 -12.14%
Leeds +10 20 £308 -12.14%
North West +17 14 £313 -12.89%
Cheshire +14 13 £313 -12.89%
West Sussex +25 11 £338 +3.44%
East of England +18 9 £413 +65.00%
North Yorkshire - 9 £363 -
Crawley - 8 £363 -
Berkshire +11 7 £319 -29.16%
Colchester +6 7 £413 -
Essex +2 7 £413 -
York - 7 £388 -
Macclesfield - 7 £289 -
West Midlands +6 4 £560 +49.33%
East Midlands +5 4 £350 -6.66%
Nottinghamshire - 4 £350 -
Nottingham - 4 £350 -
Reading +8 3 £344 -
Shropshire +8 3 £560 -
Telford - 3 £560 -
Warrington - 3 £313 -
Kent - 3 £319 -
Gatwick - 3 - -
Midlands +9 2 - -
Worthing -2 2 £335 +2.68%

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing F5 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 F5.

1 237 (62.53%) Cisco
2 226 (59.63%) Firewall
3 135 (35.62%) Windows
4 132 (34.83%) Linux
5 122 (32.19%) Cisco Certification
6 120 (31.66%) CheckPoint
7 116 (30.61%) BIG-IP
8 109 (28.76%) Juniper
9 94 (24.80%) UNIX
10 87 (22.96%) Cisco ASA
11 86 (22.69%) Microsoft
11 86 (22.69%) Red Hat
12 84 (22.16%) VMware
13 83 (21.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 82 (21.64%) Load Balancing
15 81 (21.37%) HP
16 76 (20.05%) VPN
17 74 (19.53%) WAN
18 72 (19.00%) TCP/IP
19 71 (18.73%) LAN
20 70 (18.47%) Citrix
21 69 (18.21%) Apache
21 69 (18.21%) CCNP
22 68 (17.94%) IIS
23 67 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
24 64 (16.89%) DNS
24 64 (16.89%) SAN
24 64 (16.89%) Network Security
25 59 (15.57%) WebSphere
26 56 (14.78%) E-Commerce

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing F5 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 F5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 59 (15.57%) WebSphere
2 38 (10.03%) Java EE
2 38 (10.03%) XML
2 38 (10.03%) SOAP
3 37 (9.763%) XSLT
4 31 (8.179%) COM+
5 20 (5.277%) Web Services
6 19 (5.013%) .NET
7 13 (3.430%) Middleware
8 11 (2.902%) ASP.NET
9 9 (2.375%) CSS
10 7 (1.847%) ADSI
11 4 (1.055%) JSP
12 1 (0.264%) Servlets
12 1 (0.264%) JDBC
12 1 (0.264%) J2EE
12 1 (0.264%) Spring
12 1 (0.264%) Spring Security
12 1 (0.264%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 69 (18.21%) Apache
2 68 (17.94%) IIS
3 47 (12.40%) WebSphere Application Server
4 28 (7.388%) MS Exchange
5 15 (3.958%) Exchange Server 2003
6 14 (3.694%) Exchange Server 2010
7 7 (1.847%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (1.583%) IBM HTTP Server
8 6 (1.583%) WebSphere MQ
8 6 (1.583%) Tomcat
9 4 (1.055%) WebLogic
9 4 (1.055%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.792%) Liferay
11 2 (0.528%) Lync
11 2 (0.528%) GlassFish
11 2 (0.528%) WebLogic Portal
12 1 (0.264%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.264%) Alfresco
12 1 (0.264%) WorkSite
12 1 (0.264%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 29 (7.652%) MS Excel
2 6 (1.583%) MS Office
3 2 (0.528%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.264%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 226 (59.63%) Firewall
2 116 (30.61%) BIG-IP
3 87 (22.96%) Cisco ASA
4 76 (20.05%) VPN
5 74 (19.53%) WAN
6 72 (19.00%) TCP/IP
7 71 (18.73%) LAN
8 64 (16.89%) DNS
8 64 (16.89%) SAN
8 64 (16.89%) Network Security
9 53 (13.98%) BGP
10 52 (13.72%) OSPF
11 48 (12.66%) Cisco Nexus
12 46 (12.14%) DHCP
13 41 (10.82%) Internet
14 40 (10.55%) LDAP
14 40 (10.55%) NetScaler
15 39 (10.29%) NAS
16 37 (9.763%) Wireless
17 31 (8.179%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (6.596%) SQL Server
2 7 (1.847%) MySQL
3 2 (0.528%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.264%) DB2
4 1 (0.264%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (1.583%) Introscope
2 2 (0.528%) ClearCase
2 2 (0.528%) ClearQuest
2 2 (0.528%) Fiddler
2 2 (0.528%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.264%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.264%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.264%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.264%) IntelliJ
3 1 (0.264%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.264%) AppScan
3 1 (0.264%) Maven
3 1 (0.264%) WebLOAD
General
1 47 (12.40%) Finance
2 34 (8.971%) Telecoms
3 11 (2.902%) Banking
4 7 (1.847%) Investment Banking
5 5 (1.319%) Legal
6 4 (1.055%) Advertising
7 3 (0.792%) Military
7 3 (0.792%) Law
7 3 (0.792%) Financial Institution
7 3 (0.792%) German Language
8 2 (0.528%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.528%) Games
8 2 (0.528%) Dutch Language
9 1 (0.264%) French Language
9 1 (0.264%) Retail
9 1 (0.264%) Publishing
9 1 (0.264%) Back Office
9 1 (0.264%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 82 (21.64%) Network Engineer
2 41 (10.82%) Architect
3 37 (9.763%) Consultant
4 36 (9.499%) Security Engineer
5 33 (8.707%) Support Engineer
6 31 (8.179%) Analyst
6 31 (8.179%) Firewall Engineer
7 23 (6.069%) Senior Support Engineer
8 17 (4.485%) Network Architect
8 17 (4.485%) Cisco Engineer
8 17 (4.485%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (4.485%) Network Specialist
9 15 (3.958%) UNIX Engineer
10 13 (3.430%) Security Consultant
10 13 (3.430%) Administrator
10 13 (3.430%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 12 (3.166%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 12 (3.166%) Network Security Engineer
12 11 (2.902%) Network Consultant
12 11 (2.902%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.29%) Clustering
2 38 (10.03%) PKI
3 18 (4.749%) Computer Science
3 18 (4.749%) CLARiiON
4 8 (2.111%) Blackberry
5 6 (1.583%) Management Information System
5 6 (1.583%) Thin Client
5 6 (1.583%) Fat Client
5 6 (1.583%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (1.583%) EqualLogic
6 4 (1.055%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.055%) Open Source
7 3 (0.792%) DataPower
7 3 (0.792%) Statistics
7 3 (0.792%) Handset
8 2 (0.528%) Celerra
9 1 (0.264%) iSeries
9 1 (0.264%) Reference Data
9 1 (0.264%) IVR
9 1 (0.264%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 135 (35.62%) Windows
2 132 (34.83%) Linux
3 94 (24.80%) UNIX
4 83 (21.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (13.46%) Windows XP
6 44 (11.61%) Windows Server 2008
7 25 (6.596%) Solaris
8 22 (5.805%) Windows Server 2003
9 20 (5.277%) CentOS
10 15 (3.958%) HPUX
11 11 (2.902%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (1.847%) Windows 2000
12 7 (1.847%) Windows NT
12 7 (1.847%) Debian
13 5 (1.319%) Apple iOS
14 4 (1.055%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.792%) Gentoo
16 2 (0.528%) AIX
17 1 (0.264%) VMS
17 1 (0.264%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (21.64%) Load Balancing
2 56 (14.78%) E-Commerce
3 55 (14.51%) ITIL
4 32 (8.443%) Change Control
5 30 (7.916%) Network Management
6 23 (6.069%) Time Management
7 22 (5.805%) Network Architecture
7 22 (5.805%) Migration
7 22 (5.805%) Network Design
8 21 (5.541%) Project Management
9 17 (4.485%) Service Delivery
10 12 (3.166%) Network Load Balancing
11 11 (2.902%) Release Management
11 11 (2.902%) Change Management
11 11 (2.902%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (2.639%) Configuration Management
12 10 (2.639%) PRINCE2
13 9 (2.375%) High Availability
14 8 (2.111%) Capacity Management
14 8 (2.111%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 52 (13.72%) Java
2 50 (13.19%) Perl
3 14 (3.694%) SQL
4 10 (2.639%) C
4 10 (2.639%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.375%) PHP
6 5 (1.319%) Shell Script
7 4 (1.055%) VBScript
7 4 (1.055%) VB
8 1 (0.264%) Lisp
8 1 (0.264%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 122 (32.19%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (18.21%) CCNP
3 44 (11.61%) CCNA
4 38 (10.03%) Security Cleared
5 34 (8.971%) CCIE
6 30 (7.916%) Microsoft Certification
7 29 (7.652%) MCSE
8 26 (6.860%) Degree
9 23 (6.069%) SC Cleared
10 19 (5.013%) CCSA
11 18 (4.749%) CCSE
12 12 (3.166%) CISSP
13 11 (2.902%) CCDP
14 10 (2.639%) GIAC
14 10 (2.639%) GWAPT
14 10 (2.639%) GPEN
15 7 (1.847%) DV Cleared
15 7 (1.847%) JNCIE
15 7 (1.847%) CCSP
16 6 (1.583%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.430%) PCI DSS
2 12 (3.166%) SLA
3 3 (0.792%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (0.792%) JSP 440
4 2 (0.528%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.264%) QA
5 1 (0.264%) GCP
System Software
1 67 (17.68%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (9.763%) ProxySG
3 26 (6.860%) VMware ESX
4 23 (6.069%) vSphere
5 21 (5.541%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.111%) NLBS
7 7 (1.847%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 7 (1.847%) XenApp
8 6 (1.583%) Hyper-V
9 4 (1.055%) Terminal Services
9 4 (1.055%) NFS
9 4 (1.055%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (1.055%) vCloud
10 3 (0.792%) MetaFrame
11 2 (0.528%) OpenSSO
12 1 (0.264%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.264%) XenServer
12 1 (0.264%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.264%) Snort
Systems Management
1 15 (3.958%) Backup Exec
2 13 (3.430%) Cisco CUCM
3 12 (3.166%) Nagios
4 11 (2.902%) OpenView
5 10 (2.639%) FortiGate
6 9 (2.375%) CiscoWorks
6 9 (2.375%) NetBackup
7 8 (2.111%) WSUS
7 8 (2.111%) SCOM
7 8 (2.111%) Puppet
8 7 (1.847%) HP SIM
8 7 (1.847%) Legato
9 6 (1.583%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.583%) HP SiteScope
10 5 (1.319%) Cisco UCCX
11 4 (1.055%) Cacti
11 4 (1.055%) Zenoss
11 4 (1.055%) Netcool
12 3 (0.792%) Netcool/OMNIbus
12 3 (0.792%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 237 (62.53%) Cisco
2 120 (31.66%) CheckPoint
3 109 (28.76%) Juniper
4 86 (22.69%) Microsoft
4 86 (22.69%) Red Hat
5 84 (22.16%) VMware
6 81 (21.37%) HP
7 70 (18.47%) Citrix
8 55 (14.51%) Blue Coat
9 39 (10.29%) JBoss
10 25 (6.596%) EMC
10 25 (6.596%) Fortinet
11 22 (5.805%) NetApp
12 21 (5.541%) Veritas
13 20 (5.277%) Sourcefire
14 18 (4.749%) IBM
15 17 (4.485%) Oracle
15 17 (4.485%) Nokia
15 17 (4.485%) McAfee
16 16 (4.222%) Sun
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