The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. 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 for the 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.

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 81 110 -
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -
Contract jobs citing F5 32 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.686% 0.087% -
As % of the Vendors category 3.670% 0.192% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 0
Average daily rate £308 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.14% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £34.75 - -
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
872 1044 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 45.94% 45.55% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 517 303
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £193
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 68 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.60% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.30 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
F5
England

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire F5 Daily Rate Trend

F5
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Yorkshire F5 Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire +22 21 £308 -12.14%
North Yorkshire - 9 £363 -
East Yorkshire - 2 - -
F5
England

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 32 (78.05%) Cisco
2 24 (58.54%) Windows
2 24 (58.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (41.46%) BIG-IP
4 16 (39.02%) WAN
4 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
4 16 (39.02%) NAS
5 15 (36.59%) Cisco ASA
5 15 (36.59%) SAN
5 15 (36.59%) MS Exchange
5 15 (36.59%) Exchange Server 2003
5 15 (36.59%) Firewall
6 14 (34.15%) LAN
6 14 (34.15%) MCSE
6 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (34.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 13 (31.71%) Linux
7 13 (31.71%) Windows XP
7 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
8 12 (29.27%) Red Hat
9 11 (26.83%) CentOS
10 10 (24.39%) CheckPoint
11 8 (19.51%) VMware
11 8 (19.51%) IIS
12 7 (17.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (14.63%) Juniper
13 6 (14.63%) HP
13 6 (14.63%) CCNP
13 6 (14.63%) Apache

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 2 (4.878%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.439%) .NET
2 1 (2.439%) J2EE
2 1 (2.439%) XML
2 1 (2.439%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 15 (36.59%) MS Exchange
1 15 (36.59%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (19.51%) IIS
3 6 (14.63%) Apache
4 4 (9.756%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.878%) GlassFish
5 2 (4.878%) Lync
5 2 (4.878%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (4.878%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.439%) WorkSite
Applications
1 1 (2.439%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.439%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (41.46%) BIG-IP
2 16 (39.02%) NAS
2 16 (39.02%) WAN
3 15 (36.59%) SAN
3 15 (36.59%) Firewall
3 15 (36.59%) Cisco ASA
4 14 (34.15%) LAN
5 5 (12.20%) SSL
5 5 (12.20%) iSCSI
6 4 (9.756%) Network Security
6 4 (9.756%) DHCP
6 4 (9.756%) DNS
7 3 (7.317%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (7.317%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (4.878%) FWSM
8 2 (4.878%) DMVPN
8 2 (4.878%) IPsec
8 2 (4.878%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.878%) VPN
8 2 (4.878%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (31.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.439%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (2.439%) CruiseControl
1 1 (2.439%) Maven
General
1 2 (4.878%) Finance
1 2 (4.878%) Legal
2 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.439%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Analyst
2 8 (19.51%) Messaging Analyst
3 6 (14.63%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (12.20%) Architect
4 5 (12.20%) Support Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) Messaging Engineer
5 4 (9.756%) Build Engineer
5 4 (9.756%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.317%) Network Engineer
6 3 (7.317%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (7.317%) Messaging Specialist
6 3 (7.317%) Microsoft Specialist
7 2 (4.878%) Exchange Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Network Architect
7 2 (4.878%) Network Specialist
7 2 (4.878%) Network Security Specialist
7 2 (4.878%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (4.878%) Software Manager
7 2 (4.878%) Design Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.756%) Clustering
2 1 (2.439%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.439%) Reference Data
2 1 (2.439%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.439%) Firmware
2 1 (2.439%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (58.54%) Windows
1 24 (58.54%) Windows Server 2008
2 14 (34.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (31.71%) Linux
3 13 (31.71%) Windows XP
4 11 (26.83%) CentOS
5 7 (17.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (14.63%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (12.20%) Debian
8 4 (9.756%) Ubuntu
9 3 (7.317%) Solaris
10 2 (4.878%) UNIX
11 1 (2.439%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (14.63%) Configuration Management
2 3 (7.317%) Project Management
2 3 (7.317%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (7.317%) ITIL
2 3 (7.317%) E-Commerce
3 2 (4.878%) PRINCE2
3 2 (4.878%) Migration
3 2 (4.878%) Load Balancing
3 2 (4.878%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (4.878%) Resource Management
3 2 (4.878%) Load Testing
3 2 (4.878%) Performance Management
3 2 (4.878%) Data Protection
4 1 (2.439%) Network Architecture
4 1 (2.439%) WAN Optimisation
4 1 (2.439%) Test Management
4 1 (2.439%) Test Scripting
4 1 (2.439%) Document Management
4 1 (2.439%) Incident Management
4 1 (2.439%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.878%) C
1 2 (4.878%) PHP
1 2 (4.878%) SQL
2 1 (2.439%) Lisp
2 1 (2.439%) Java
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) MCSE
1 14 (34.15%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (17.07%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (14.63%) CCNP
4 4 (9.756%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.756%) Security Cleared
5 3 (7.317%) CCIE
5 3 (7.317%) CCSE
6 2 (4.878%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (4.878%) CCNA
7 1 (2.439%) CCDA
7 1 (2.439%) CCSP
7 1 (2.439%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.439%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (12.20%) vSphere
2 4 (9.756%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.317%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.317%) ProxySG
3 3 (7.317%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.439%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (9.756%) Nagios
1 4 (9.756%) Puppet
2 3 (7.317%) Cacti
3 2 (4.878%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.439%) OpenView
4 1 (2.439%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (2.439%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (2.439%) CA Wily
4 1 (2.439%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 32 (78.05%) Cisco
2 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
3 12 (29.27%) Red Hat
4 10 (24.39%) CheckPoint
5 8 (19.51%) VMware
6 6 (14.63%) Perforce
6 6 (14.63%) Juniper
6 6 (14.63%) HP
7 3 (7.317%) EMC
7 3 (7.317%) Oracle
7 3 (7.317%) Citrix
7 3 (7.317%) Blue Coat
8 2 (4.878%) Sun
8 2 (4.878%) NetApp
9 1 (2.439%) Nokia
9 1 (2.439%) BMC
9 1 (2.439%) Motorola
9 1 (2.439%) OPNET
9 1 (2.439%) Tangosol
9 1 (2.439%) Intel
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