The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited F5 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 Vendors for the Cambridge 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 104 - 125
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing F5 18 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.997% - 0.092%
As % of the Vendors category 2.436% - 0.333%
Number of salaries quoted 10 0 2
Average salary £50,000 - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.06% +21.25%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
739 730 600
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 40.94% 36.14% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 621 659 539
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £27,250
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £45,600 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
Cambridgeshire

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge F5 Salary Histogram

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 21 (80.77%) CheckPoint
2 19 (73.08%) Cisco
3 17 (65.38%) Juniper
4 15 (57.69%) Windows
5 12 (46.15%) Firewall
6 10 (38.46%) Linux
7 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
7 9 (34.62%) Symantec
7 9 (34.62%) Sourcefire
7 9 (34.62%) SIEM
8 8 (30.77%) Load Balancing
8 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (30.77%) CCNP
8 8 (30.77%) ITIL
9 7 (26.92%) Perl
9 7 (26.92%) Oracle
9 7 (26.92%) Apache
9 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
9 7 (26.92%) Python
9 7 (26.92%) SAN
9 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
9 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
9 7 (26.92%) Debian
9 7 (26.92%) VMware
9 7 (26.92%) Fortinet
9 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
9 7 (26.92%) vSphere
10 6 (23.08%) Blue Coat
11 5 (19.23%) UNIX
11 5 (19.23%) Cisco ASA

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 7 (26.92%) Apache
1 7 (26.92%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (46.15%) Firewall
2 9 (34.62%) TCP/IP
3 7 (26.92%) SAN
4 5 (19.23%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (15.38%) Cisco PIX
5 4 (15.38%) Network Security
6 1 (3.846%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.846%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (3.846%) BIG-IP
6 1 (3.846%) Wireless
6 1 (3.846%) BGP
6 1 (3.846%) EIGRP
6 1 (3.846%) MPLS
6 1 (3.846%) OSPF
6 1 (3.846%) LAN
6 1 (3.846%) WAN
General
1 4 (15.38%) German Language
1 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
1 4 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (61.54%) Analyst
2 9 (34.62%) Security Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) Senior Analyst
3 8 (30.77%) Senior Security Analyst
4 7 (26.92%) Support Analyst
4 7 (26.92%) Linux Support
5 4 (15.38%) Security Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Network Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Team Leader
5 4 (15.38%) Network Support
5 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Support Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Network Engineer
5 4 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (7.692%) NOC Engineer
7 1 (3.846%) Project Consultant
7 1 (3.846%) Project Support Consultant
7 1 (3.846%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.846%) Consultant
7 1 (3.846%) Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.692%) Management Information System
1 2 (7.692%) Kindle
Operating Systems
1 15 (57.69%) Windows
2 10 (38.46%) Linux
3 7 (26.92%) Debian
4 5 (19.23%) UNIX
5 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.846%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) SIEM
2 8 (30.77%) Load Balancing
2 8 (30.77%) ITIL
3 7 (26.92%) Service Delivery
4 4 (15.38%) Information Security
5 2 (7.692%) Cyber Security
6 1 (3.846%) Operations Management
6 1 (3.846%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.846%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (3.846%) ITSM
6 1 (3.846%) Service Management
6 1 (3.846%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Perl
1 7 (26.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (30.77%) CCNP
2 4 (15.38%) JNCIS
2 4 (15.38%) CCSE
3 2 (7.692%) CCNA
3 2 (7.692%) CISSP
3 2 (7.692%) GCIA
3 2 (7.692%) GCIH
3 2 (7.692%) CEH
4 1 (3.846%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) PCI DSS
2 3 (11.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (11.54%) SLA
3 2 (7.692%) ISO 9001
3 2 (7.692%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (26.92%) vSphere
Vendors
1 21 (80.77%) CheckPoint
2 19 (73.08%) Cisco
3 17 (65.38%) Juniper
4 9 (34.62%) Symantec
4 9 (34.62%) Sourcefire
5 7 (26.92%) Oracle
5 7 (26.92%) Red Hat
5 7 (26.92%) VMware
5 7 (26.92%) Fortinet
6 6 (23.08%) Blue Coat
7 5 (19.23%) Qualys
8 4 (15.38%) Websense
9 2 (7.692%) McAfee
9 2 (7.692%) Twitter
9 2 (7.692%) ArcSight
9 2 (7.692%) LogLogic
9 2 (7.692%) Crossbeam
10 1 (3.846%) ProCurve
10 1 (3.846%) Microsoft
10 1 (3.846%) HP