The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 93 90 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs citing F5 23 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.372% 0.138% -
As % of the Vendors category 2.349% 0.289% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 2 0
Average salary £45,000 £48,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £49,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +22.50%
All Vendors
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
979 692 715
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 58.41% 47.63% 53.76%
Number of salaries quoted 806 589 600
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,750 £25,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
West Midlands

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham F5 Salary Histogram

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 40 (81.63%) Cisco
1 40 (81.63%) Juniper
2 37 (75.51%) Cisco Certification
3 36 (73.47%) Network Security
4 34 (69.39%) CCNP
5 33 (67.35%) Blue Coat
6 32 (65.31%) CheckPoint
7 28 (57.14%) Finance
8 25 (51.02%) Firewall
9 24 (48.98%) CCSE
9 24 (48.98%) Telecoms
9 24 (48.98%) Cisco PIX
9 24 (48.98%) JNCIS
9 24 (48.98%) Websense
9 24 (48.98%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (20.41%) HP
11 9 (18.37%) Windows
12 7 (14.29%) CCIE
12 7 (14.29%) VMware
13 6 (12.24%) JNCIP
13 6 (12.24%) Network Design
13 6 (12.24%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
13 6 (12.24%) CCDA
13 6 (12.24%) CCDP
13 6 (12.24%) Junos
13 6 (12.24%) LogLogic
13 6 (12.24%) SIEM
13 6 (12.24%) Q1 Labs
13 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.122%) Apache
1 3 (6.122%) Tomcat
1 3 (6.122%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 36 (73.47%) Network Security
2 25 (51.02%) Firewall
3 24 (48.98%) Cisco ASA
3 24 (48.98%) Cisco PIX
4 6 (12.24%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (12.24%) Junos
5 4 (8.163%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (6.122%) BIG-IP
6 3 (6.122%) OSPF
6 3 (6.122%) BGP
6 3 (6.122%) EIGRP
6 3 (6.122%) VoIP
7 2 (4.082%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.041%) LAN
8 1 (2.041%) WLAN
8 1 (2.041%) WAN
8 1 (2.041%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.122%) MySQL
General
1 28 (57.14%) Finance
2 24 (48.98%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (75.51%) Network Engineer
2 30 (61.22%) Network Security Engineer
2 30 (61.22%) Security Engineer
3 24 (48.98%) Firewall Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (8.163%) Team Leader
5 4 (8.163%) Consultant
6 3 (6.122%) Infrastructure Team Leader
7 2 (4.082%) Principle Consultant
7 2 (4.082%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (4.082%) Principal Consultant
7 2 (4.082%) Project Manager
8 1 (2.041%) Network Consultant
8 1 (2.041%) Network Manager
8 1 (2.041%) Network Project Manager
8 1 (2.041%) Network Team Leader
8 1 (2.041%) Cisco Consultant
8 1 (2.041%) Data Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.122%) Blackberry
1 3 (6.122%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Windows
2 3 (6.122%) Solaris
2 3 (6.122%) Linux
2 3 (6.122%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (6.122%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (12.24%) Network Design
1 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
1 6 (12.24%) SIEM
2 3 (6.122%) Problem Management
2 3 (6.122%) ITIL V3
2 3 (6.122%) Incident Management
2 3 (6.122%) ITIL
2 3 (6.122%) Change Management
3 2 (4.082%) Project Management
3 2 (4.082%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (4.082%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.163%) SQL
2 3 (6.122%) Perl
2 3 (6.122%) PHP
3 2 (4.082%) Java
Qualifications
1 37 (75.51%) Cisco Certification
2 34 (69.39%) CCNP
3 24 (48.98%) CCSE
3 24 (48.98%) JNCIS
4 7 (14.29%) CCIE
5 6 (12.24%) CCDA
5 6 (12.24%) CCDP
5 6 (12.24%) JNCIP
6 3 (6.122%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (6.122%) MCSE
6 3 (6.122%) CCNA
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 40 (81.63%) Juniper
1 40 (81.63%) Cisco
2 33 (67.35%) Blue Coat
3 32 (65.31%) CheckPoint
4 24 (48.98%) Websense
5 10 (20.41%) HP
6 7 (14.29%) VMware
7 6 (12.24%) LogLogic
7 6 (12.24%) Q1 Labs
8 1 (2.041%) Twitter
8 1 (2.041%) Computacenter