The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 23 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank - 67 59
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 0 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke - 0.164% 0.186%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.694% 0.763%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
256 144 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 37.16% 23.61% 24.30%
Number of salaries quoted 178 107 76
Average salary £36,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,250 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BIG-IP
Hampshire

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke BIG-IP Jobs Demand Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BIG-IP.

1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) ERP
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Avaya
2 3 (60.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) Websense
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 3 (60.00%) VLAN
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (60.00%) FirePass
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (40.00%) Office 365
3 2 (40.00%) NetScaler
3 2 (40.00%) IaaS
3 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2013

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited BIG-IP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2013
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 2 (40.00%) Lync
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (40.00%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Office 365
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) MPLS
1 3 (60.00%) OSPF
1 3 (60.00%) BGP
1 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (60.00%) VLAN
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (60.00%) FirePass
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (40.00%) NetScaler
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
General
1 3 (60.00%) Telecoms
1 3 (60.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
2 2 (40.00%) IaaS
2 2 (40.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ERP
1 3 (60.00%) Change Management
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (40.00%) IAG
1 2 (40.00%) UAG
1 2 (40.00%) ISA Server
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Avaya
2 3 (60.00%) Websense
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (40.00%) Juniper
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft