Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 9 September 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

 F5 Networks BIG-IP
Location
3 months to
9 Sep 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank321249337
Rank change year-on-year
Down-72Up+88
Matching permanent IT job ads926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London0.059 %0.024 %0.032 %
As % of the Communications & Networking category0.492 %0.151 %0.217 %
Salaries quoted913
Average salary£47,500£55,000£50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.63 %+10.00 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£45,100£55,000£38,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£55,000£56,000
UK excluding London average salary£31,250£48,750£40,000
% change year-on-year
-35.89 %+21.87 %
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryAll Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
182813222764
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London11.92 %15.74 %14.70 %
Salaries quoted156710852404
Average salary£49,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.150 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£31,500£32,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£36,000£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.850 %-
BIG-IP LondonBIG-IP
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BIG-IP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London BIG-IP Demand Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region.

City of London BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 9 September 2010.

City of London BIG-IP Salary Histogram

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

111 (100.00 %)Cisco
29 (81.82 %)Load Balancing
36 (54.55 %)Microsoft
36 (54.55 %)Perl
36 (54.55 %)PHP
36 (54.55 %)MySQL
36 (54.55 %)Linux
36 (54.55 %)Apache
36 (54.55 %)MS Excel
45 (45.45 %)Firewall
53 (27.27 %)Wireless
53 (27.27 %)Nokia
53 (27.27 %)CheckPoint
53 (27.27 %)LAN
53 (27.27 %)WAN
53 (27.27 %)Avaya
53 (27.27 %)Blue Coat
62 (18.18 %)Cisco PIX
62 (18.18 %)Cisco ASA
62 (18.18 %)SolarWinds
62 (18.18 %)SolarWinds Orion
62 (18.18 %)Network Design
62 (18.18 %)Juniper
62 (18.18 %)TCP/IP
62 (18.18 %)DNS
62 (18.18 %)CCNP
62 (18.18 %)CCIP
62 (18.18 %)VoIP
62 (18.18 %)MPLS
62 (18.18 %)OSPF

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 September 2010, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
16 (54.55 %)Apache
City of London IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (54.55 %)MS Excel
City of London IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (45.45 %)Firewall
23 (27.27 %)Wireless
23 (27.27 %)LAN
23 (27.27 %)WAN
32 (18.18 %)Cisco PIX
32 (18.18 %)Cisco ASA
32 (18.18 %)TCP/IP
32 (18.18 %)DNS
32 (18.18 %)VoIP
32 (18.18 %)MPLS
32 (18.18 %)OSPF
32 (18.18 %)BGP
32 (18.18 %)EIGRP
32 (18.18 %)TACACS
32 (18.18 %)NetScreen
41 (9.091 %)WLAN
41 (9.091 %)Network Security
City of London IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (54.55 %)MySQL
City of London IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (18.18 %)Advertising
21 (9.091 %)Back Office
21 (9.091 %)Telecoms
21 (9.091 %)Law
City of London IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
16 (54.55 %)Senior Linux Administrator
16 (54.55 %)Senior Linux Systems Administrator
16 (54.55 %)Linux Systems Administrator
16 (54.55 %)Linux Administrator
22 (18.18 %)Network Engineer
22 (18.18 %)Network Manager
31 (9.091 %)Consultant
City of London IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (9.091 %)e-Health
City of London IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (54.55 %)Linux
City of London IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
19 (81.82 %)Load Balancing
22 (18.18 %)Network Design
22 (18.18 %)Configuration Management
City of London IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16 (54.55 %)Perl
16 (54.55 %)PHP
City of London IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (18.18 %)CCNP
12 (18.18 %)CCIP
12 (18.18 %)Cisco Certification
City of London IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (18.18 %)SolarWinds Orion
21 (9.091 %)CiscoWorks
City of London IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
111 (100.00 %)Cisco
26 (54.55 %)Microsoft
33 (27.27 %)Nokia
33 (27.27 %)CheckPoint
33 (27.27 %)Avaya
33 (27.27 %)Blue Coat
42 (18.18 %)SolarWinds
42 (18.18 %)Juniper
51 (9.091 %)BT
51 (9.091 %)Concord