The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited F5 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 Vendors for the Wiltshire 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.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 51 50 44
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -6
Contract jobs citing F5 1 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.219% 0.489% 1.270%
As % of the Vendors category 0.467% 0.952% 3.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £500 £410 £386
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +6.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
214 315 221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 46.83% 51.39% 40.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 175 112
Average daily rate £416 £405 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £290 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 28 29
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.73% +18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £14.65 £14.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.20 £42.20 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
South West

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon 0 1 £500 +21.95%
F5
South West

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region 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 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (40.00%) Netcool
2 2 (40.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 2 (40.00%) SNMP
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Compuware
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) OPNET
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) CISSP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire region 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 1 (20.00%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) SNMP
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Statistics
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CCIE
1 1 (20.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (40.00%) Netcool
1 2 (40.00%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 1 (20.00%) OpenView
2 1 (20.00%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) IBM
2 2 (40.00%) Compuware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) OPNET
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee