The first 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 22 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 309 323 314
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -9
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 4 10 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.034% 0.075% 0.086%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.188% 0.460% 0.704%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 13
Average salary £51,250 £68,750 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.45% +14.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £55,250 £46,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,250 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
2128 2176 1847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 18.13% 16.40% 12.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1894 1957 1688
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
90% offered a salary of more than £32,521 £33,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BIG-IP
London

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total 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 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 City of London region.

City of London BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London BIG-IP Salary Histogram

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

1 13 (92.86%) F5
2 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) VPN
3 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (42.86%) Firewall
3 6 (42.86%) VMware
3 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (35.71%) SolarWinds
4 5 (35.71%) Citrix
4 5 (35.71%) Internet
4 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
4 5 (35.71%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) IIS
5 4 (28.57%) .NET
5 4 (28.57%) WAN
5 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
5 4 (28.57%) CCNA
5 4 (28.57%) MPLS
5 4 (28.57%) Games
5 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (28.57%) XenDesktop
5 4 (28.57%) Release Management
5 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
5 4 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
6 3 (21.43%) DNS

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) .NET
1 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.143%) Java EE
2 1 (7.143%) WebSphere
2 1 (7.143%) JMX
2 1 (7.143%) Middleware
2 1 (7.143%) J2EE
2 1 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (7.143%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) IIS
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) VPN
1 6 (42.86%) Firewall
2 5 (35.71%) Internet
3 4 (28.57%) WAN
3 4 (28.57%) MPLS
3 4 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
4 3 (21.43%) DNS
4 3 (21.43%) LAN
5 2 (14.29%) VoIP
5 2 (14.29%) ADSL
5 2 (14.29%) DHCP
5 2 (14.29%) SNMP
5 2 (14.29%) OSPF
5 2 (14.29%) BGP
5 2 (14.29%) VLAN
5 2 (14.29%) Wireless
5 2 (14.29%) VPLS
5 2 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (14.29%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) MySQL
1 1 (7.143%) DB2
General
1 4 (28.57%) Games
2 2 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Network Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Designer
5 1 (7.143%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Lead Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Pre Sales Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Network Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Sales Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Network Designer
5 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
1 2 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
2 1 (7.143%) PKI
2 1 (7.143%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) ITIL
2 5 (35.71%) E-Commerce
3 4 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 4 (28.57%) Release Management
3 4 (28.57%) Capacity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 2 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (14.29%) Network Load Balancing
4 2 (14.29%) Network Management
4 2 (14.29%) Change Control
5 1 (7.143%) SIEM
5 1 (7.143%) Data Protection
5 1 (7.143%) Information Security
5 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) Perl
2 1 (7.143%) sed
2 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
2 1 (7.143%) AWK
2 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (28.57%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) CCIE
3 2 (14.29%) MCSE
3 2 (14.29%) CCNP
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (14.29%) CCSE
3 2 (14.29%) MCITP
4 1 (7.143%) CCSA
4 1 (7.143%) RHCE
4 1 (7.143%) CCDP
4 1 (7.143%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (28.57%) XenDesktop
3 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (14.29%) ISA Server
3 2 (14.29%) VMware ESX
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (7.143%) Samba
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) CiscoWorks
1 2 (14.29%) Backup Exec
1 2 (14.29%) WSUS
2 1 (7.143%) Cacti
2 1 (7.143%) Puppet
2 1 (7.143%) Nagios
2 1 (7.143%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) F5
2 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) VMware
4 5 (35.71%) SolarWinds
4 5 (35.71%) Citrix
4 5 (35.71%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) CheckPoint
6 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 2 (14.29%) JBoss
6 2 (14.29%) Juniper
6 2 (14.29%) Symantec
6 2 (14.29%) Aruba
6 2 (14.29%) IronPort
7 1 (7.143%) Infoblox
7 1 (7.143%) Blue Coat
7 1 (7.143%) Nokia
City, London
Skills o Excellent written and oral communications skills o Strong facilitation and negotiation skills o Ability to moderate and build consensus o Ability to articulate and sell a...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £59000 - £61000 per annum + Car Allowance + Bonus + Overtime
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Working knowledge of the following LAN/WAN Protocols & Technologies: (TCP/IP, Multicast, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, Spanning Tree, QoS)... *Working knowledge of firewall products including Checkpoint, Fortinet and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Package and Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
Working knowledge of the following LAN/WAN Protocols & Technologies: (TCP/IP, Multicast, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, Spanning Tree, QoS)... *Working knowledge of firewall products including Checkpoint, Fortinet and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + Package and Bonus
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