The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 194 212 194
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -18
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 22 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.426% 0.114% 0.208%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.349% 0.415% 1.096%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 11
Average salary £55,000 £70,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% +55.55%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1631 1687 1004
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 31.57% 27.49% 19.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1245 1362 788
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £30,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Berkshire BIG-IP Salary Histogram

BIG-IP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +11 14 £70,000 -
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 22 (100.00%) F5
2 20 (90.91%) Firewall
3 19 (86.36%) Cisco
3 19 (86.36%) CheckPoint
4 17 (77.27%) SMTP
4 17 (77.27%) DHCP
4 17 (77.27%) SNMP
4 17 (77.27%) TCP/IP
4 17 (77.27%) DNS
4 17 (77.27%) 3G
4 17 (77.27%) Blue Coat
4 17 (77.27%) ProxySG
4 17 (77.27%) Cisco PIX
4 17 (77.27%) Cisco ASA
4 17 (77.27%) FWSM
4 17 (77.27%) Radio Access Network
5 14 (63.64%) Back Office
6 11 (50.00%) Network Security
6 11 (50.00%) Retail
6 11 (50.00%) Billing
6 11 (50.00%) CRM
6 11 (50.00%) Broadband
7 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
8 9 (40.91%) Degree
9 8 (36.36%) CCSA
10 7 (31.82%) CCSE
10 7 (31.82%) CCNP
10 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (22.73%) LAN

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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 Development
1 2 (9.091%) .NET
1 2 (9.091%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (90.91%) Firewall
2 17 (77.27%) SMTP
2 17 (77.27%) DHCP
2 17 (77.27%) SNMP
2 17 (77.27%) TCP/IP
2 17 (77.27%) DNS
2 17 (77.27%) 3G
2 17 (77.27%) Cisco PIX
2 17 (77.27%) Cisco ASA
2 17 (77.27%) FWSM
2 17 (77.27%) Radio Access Network
3 11 (50.00%) Network Security
3 11 (50.00%) Broadband
4 5 (22.73%) LAN
4 5 (22.73%) WAN
5 3 (13.64%) MPLS
6 2 (9.091%) SAN
6 2 (9.091%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 14 (63.64%) Back Office
2 11 (50.00%) Retail
2 11 (50.00%) Billing
3 10 (45.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Security Engineer
2 15 (68.18%) IP Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Implementation Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Operations Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Junior
4 2 (9.091%) Security Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Senior IP Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
1 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (9.091%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (13.64%) Incident Management
3 2 (9.091%) Project Management
3 2 (9.091%) ITIL
3 2 (9.091%) Change Management
3 2 (9.091%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) Degree
2 8 (36.36%) CCSA
3 7 (31.82%) CCSE
3 7 (31.82%) CCNP
3 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (9.091%) MCSE
4 2 (9.091%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.091%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.091%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) ProxySG
2 2 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) F5
2 19 (86.36%) Cisco
2 19 (86.36%) CheckPoint
3 17 (77.27%) Blue Coat
4 5 (22.73%) VMware
5 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.091%) NetApp
5 2 (9.091%) HP
5 2 (9.091%) Symantec