The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the West Yorkshire region.

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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 80 90 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.637% 0.064% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.463% 0.510% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £265 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £375 £398
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.00 - -
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
231 196 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 18.41% 12.52% 8.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 100 33
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £188 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £420 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 18
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.00 £23.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -35.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £12.00 £11.53
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £34.00 £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
BIG-IP
Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing BIG-IP across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Yorkshire BIG-IP Jobs Demand Trend

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing BIG-IP across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire BIG-IP Daily Rate Trend

BIG-IP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leeds 0 8 £265 -24.28%
BIG-IP
Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing BIG-IP 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 BIG-IP.

1 9 (100.00%) F5
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) CentOS
2 8 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
3 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2012
3 7 (77.78%) Perforce
4 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
5 2 (22.22%) SQL
6 1 (11.11%) SSH
6 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (11.11%) Brocade
6 1 (11.11%) Test Management
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
6 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 1 (11.11%) Debian
6 1 (11.11%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) Syncsort
6 1 (11.11%) XenServer
6 1 (11.11%) vSphere
6 1 (11.11%) PureDisk
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) IIS

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing BIG-IP 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 BIG-IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco ASA
1 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SSH
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) SMTP
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) FTP
2 1 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Software Manager
1 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Network Support
2 1 (11.11%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Environment Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Software Configuration Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Deployment Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Support
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Security Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Reference Data
1 1 (11.11%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (88.89%) CentOS
1 8 (88.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) Debian
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) Test Management
2 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Migration
2 1 (11.11%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) MCP
1 1 (11.11%) CCNP
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (11.11%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) XenServer
1 1 (11.11%) vSphere
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) F5
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 8 (88.89%) Red Hat
3 7 (77.78%) Perforce
4 1 (11.11%) Brocade
4 1 (11.11%) VMware
4 1 (11.11%) Syncsort
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper