The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Cheshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 119 130 81
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -49
Permanent jobs citing F5 5 3 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.269% 0.141% 2.015%
As % of the Vendors category 0.585% 0.299% 4.667%
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 33
Average salary £65,000 £45,000 £62,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+44.44% -28.00%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £48,250 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-1.55% +13.52%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
855 1003 750
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 46.07% 47.05% 43.18%
Number of salaries quoted 682 889 652
Average salary £37,000 £37,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £25,000 £25,450
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
North West

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Cheshire F5 Salary Histogram

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 3 (42.86%) Network Management
4 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
4 2 (28.57%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) CCNP
4 2 (28.57%) CCNA
5 1 (14.29%) CCDA
5 1 (14.29%) CCDP
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) ITIL
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) Wireless
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco PIX
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) Unified Communications
4 2 (28.57%) VPN
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) NetScreen
5 1 (14.29%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Communications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Communications Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) Network Management
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) CCNA
2 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCDA
3 1 (14.29%) CCDP
3 1 (14.29%) CNA
3 1 (14.29%) Novell Certification
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Juniper
3 2 (28.57%) HP
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) NetApp
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
4 1 (14.29%) Tandberg
4 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
Cheshire, North West
Network Engineer Permanent Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire up to £48,500 Key skills: CNA / CCNP / routers / switches / LAN / juniper / cisco / network engineer / load balancers / firewalls / F5 / Checkpoint At Capita...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £40000.00 - £48500.00 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 30 May 2013
Cheshire
Methodologies: Agile (preferable) Waterfall. V-model... Java. Delphi... ISTQB. ISEB... You will be comfortable writing test scripts for automation and have a complete understanding of the software development...
F5 IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £22,000 to £28,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013