The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Basingstoke region.

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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 67 67 59
Rank change year-on-year
0 -8
Permanent jobs citing F5 10 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.451% 0.163% 0.188%
As % of the Vendors category 2.315% 0.292% 0.360%
Number of salaries quoted 10 1 1
Average salary £60,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £40,750
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +17.17%
All Vendors
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
432 342 278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 62.70% 55.70% 52.26%
Number of salaries quoted 337 275 180
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
Hampshire

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke F5 Jobs Demand Trend

F5
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing F5 across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Basingstoke F5 Salary Histogram

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F5.

1 26 (100.00%) Cisco
1 26 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 21 (80.77%) Juniper
2 21 (80.77%) Blue Coat
3 14 (53.85%) BGP
3 14 (53.85%) MPLS
3 14 (53.85%) OSPF
4 13 (50.00%) Websense
4 13 (50.00%) TCP/IP
5 11 (42.31%) Gigabit Ethernet
5 11 (42.31%) VPN
5 11 (42.31%) SSL
5 11 (42.31%) LAN
5 11 (42.31%) WAN
5 11 (42.31%) Ethernet
5 11 (42.31%) EIGRP
5 11 (42.31%) Infoblox
5 11 (42.31%) Imperva
5 11 (42.31%) Network Management
5 11 (42.31%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (38.46%) ArcSight
6 10 (38.46%) SIEM
6 10 (38.46%) Network Security
6 10 (38.46%) Information Security
6 10 (38.46%) CISSP
6 10 (38.46%) Sourcefire
6 10 (38.46%) CISA
6 10 (38.46%) CISM
7 9 (34.62%) Firewall
8 8 (30.77%) Load Balancing

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited F5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 14 (53.85%) BGP
1 14 (53.85%) MPLS
1 14 (53.85%) OSPF
2 13 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 11 (42.31%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 11 (42.31%) VPN
3 11 (42.31%) SSL
3 11 (42.31%) LAN
3 11 (42.31%) WAN
3 11 (42.31%) Ethernet
3 11 (42.31%) EIGRP
3 11 (42.31%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (38.46%) Network Security
5 9 (34.62%) Firewall
6 8 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
7 7 (26.92%) DNS
8 6 (23.08%) IPsec
8 6 (23.08%) PPP
9 5 (19.23%) Extranet
9 5 (19.23%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (30.77%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (11.54%) Telecoms
1 3 (11.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 13 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 13 (50.00%) Network Support
2 13 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) Consultant
3 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (7.692%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Sales Consultant
4 1 (3.846%) Sales Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Pre Sales Engineer
4 1 (3.846%) Technical Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 2 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Network Management
2 10 (38.46%) SIEM
2 10 (38.46%) Information Security
3 8 (30.77%) Load Balancing
3 8 (30.77%) Time Management
4 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
5 5 (19.23%) Network Design
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Change Management
6 3 (11.54%) ERP
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) CISSP
1 10 (38.46%) CISA
1 10 (38.46%) CISM
2 6 (23.08%) CCNP
2 6 (23.08%) CCNA
2 6 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.846%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Cisco
1 26 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 21 (80.77%) Juniper
2 21 (80.77%) Blue Coat
3 13 (50.00%) Websense
4 11 (42.31%) Infoblox
4 11 (42.31%) Imperva
5 10 (38.46%) ArcSight
5 10 (38.46%) Sourcefire
6 8 (30.77%) TippingPoint
7 5 (19.23%) McAfee
7 5 (19.23%) BT
8 3 (11.54%) Riverbed
8 3 (11.54%) Avaya
9 2 (7.692%) VMware