The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services 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 F5 over the 3 months to 24 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 City of London 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 242 251 291
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +40
Permanent jobs citing F5 79 72 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.677% 0.551% 0.259%
As % of the Vendors category 1.476% 1.186% 0.601%
Number of salaries quoted 62 62 39
Average salary £58,750 £57,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.17% -
90% offered a salary of more than £49,100 £40,000 £44,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £47,750 £40,750
% change year-on-year
-0.52% +17.17%
All Vendors
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
5351 6073 6657
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 45.87% 46.48% 43.15%
Number of salaries quoted 4587 5538 5995
Average salary £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
London

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London F5 Salary Histogram

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 155 (85.64%) Cisco
2 130 (71.82%) Juniper
3 114 (62.98%) Firewall
4 104 (57.46%) Cisco Certification
5 96 (53.04%) Cisco Nexus
6 76 (41.99%) Cisco ASA
7 72 (39.78%) Wireless
7 72 (39.78%) VMware
8 70 (38.67%) CCIE
9 67 (37.02%) OSPF
10 66 (36.46%) BGP
10 66 (36.46%) VPN
11 65 (35.91%) MPLS
12 64 (35.36%) CheckPoint
12 64 (35.36%) WAN
13 55 (30.39%) CCNP
14 54 (29.83%) HP
14 54 (29.83%) VMware Infrastructure
15 52 (28.73%) Network Security
16 51 (28.18%) Finance
16 51 (28.18%) Blue Coat
17 44 (24.31%) LAN
18 43 (23.76%) Windows
19 42 (23.20%) Load Balancing
20 40 (22.10%) DHCP
21 37 (20.44%) EIGRP
22 35 (19.34%) Cisco PIX
23 34 (18.78%) Aruba
23 34 (18.78%) Linux
23 34 (18.78%) VLAN

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 5 (2.762%) .NET
2 4 (2.210%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.657%) CSS
3 3 (1.657%) Middleware
4 2 (1.105%) XML
5 1 (0.552%) JMS
5 1 (0.552%) J2EE
5 1 (0.552%) DCOM
5 1 (0.552%) JMX
5 1 (0.552%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.552%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (4.972%) IIS
2 8 (4.420%) MS Exchange
3 7 (3.867%) Apache
4 5 (2.762%) Lync
5 4 (2.210%) Oracle Coherence
5 4 (2.210%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (1.657%) SharePoint
7 2 (1.105%) Exchange Server 2007
7 2 (1.105%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.552%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (3.315%) MS Excel
1 6 (3.315%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.552%) Office 365
2 1 (0.552%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.210%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 114 (62.98%) Firewall
2 96 (53.04%) Cisco Nexus
3 76 (41.99%) Cisco ASA
4 72 (39.78%) Wireless
5 67 (37.02%) OSPF
6 66 (36.46%) BGP
6 66 (36.46%) VPN
7 65 (35.91%) MPLS
8 64 (35.36%) WAN
9 52 (28.73%) Network Security
10 44 (24.31%) LAN
11 40 (22.10%) DHCP
12 37 (20.44%) EIGRP
13 35 (19.34%) Cisco PIX
14 34 (18.78%) VLAN
15 29 (16.02%) DNS
16 27 (14.92%) SSL
17 26 (14.36%) SNMP
18 25 (13.81%) FWSM
19 24 (13.26%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.762%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.210%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.657%) MySQL
4 1 (0.552%) DB2
General
1 51 (28.18%) Finance
2 15 (8.287%) Banking
3 9 (4.972%) Retail
3 9 (4.972%) Law
4 7 (3.867%) Financial Institution
4 7 (3.867%) Games
5 5 (2.762%) Multimedia
6 3 (1.657%) Legal
7 2 (1.105%) Marketing
7 2 (1.105%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.105%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.552%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 58 (32.04%) Network Engineer
2 54 (29.83%) Consultant
3 20 (11.05%) Firewall Engineer
4 18 (9.945%) Senior Network Engineer
5 16 (8.840%) Architect
6 15 (8.287%) Cisco Consultant
7 14 (7.735%) Principal Consultant
8 13 (7.182%) Analyst
9 12 (6.630%) Data Consultant
9 12 (6.630%) Network Specialist
10 11 (6.077%) Security Specialist
10 11 (6.077%) Network Security Specialist
11 10 (5.525%) Support Engineer
12 9 (4.972%) Senior Firewall Engineer
12 9 (4.972%) Network Consultant
13 8 (4.420%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.420%) Cisco Engineer
13 8 (4.420%) Network Architect
14 7 (3.867%) Security Engineer
14 7 (3.867%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 20 (11.05%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (4.420%) Computer Science
3 5 (2.762%) Digital Media
4 4 (2.210%) Blackberry
5 3 (1.657%) SaaS
5 3 (1.657%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.657%) Derivative
6 2 (1.105%) PKI
6 2 (1.105%) Replication
6 2 (1.105%) Clustering
6 2 (1.105%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.552%) Open Source
7 1 (0.552%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.552%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.552%) IPTV
7 1 (0.552%) Web 2.0
7 1 (0.552%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 43 (23.76%) Windows
2 34 (18.78%) Linux
3 16 (8.840%) Windows Server 2008
4 15 (8.287%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (8.287%) UNIX
5 10 (5.525%) Solaris
5 10 (5.525%) Windows 2000
5 10 (5.525%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (2.210%) HPUX
6 4 (2.210%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.552%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.552%) CentOS
7 1 (0.552%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.552%) Windows NT
7 1 (0.552%) AIX
7 1 (0.552%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (23.20%) Load Balancing
2 31 (17.13%) Network Design
3 29 (16.02%) Network Management
4 28 (15.47%) Change Control
5 19 (10.50%) ITIL
6 18 (9.945%) Technical Architecture
7 16 (8.840%) Migration
8 12 (6.630%) Project Management
8 12 (6.630%) E-Commerce
9 9 (4.972%) DNA
9 9 (4.972%) Change Management
10 8 (4.420%) Capacity Management
11 7 (3.867%) Incident Management
12 5 (2.762%) Systems Analysis
12 5 (2.762%) Problem Management
12 5 (2.762%) Network Load Balancing
12 5 (2.762%) Release Management
13 4 (2.210%) Project Planning
13 4 (2.210%) Business Analysis
13 4 (2.210%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (3.867%) C
2 6 (3.315%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.762%) Scala
3 5 (2.762%) Perl
4 4 (2.210%) SQL
5 3 (1.657%) Java
6 2 (1.105%) PHP
6 2 (1.105%) VBScript
6 2 (1.105%) Python
7 1 (0.552%) Bash shell
7 1 (0.552%) sed
7 1 (0.552%) AWK
Qualifications
1 104 (57.46%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (38.67%) CCIE
3 55 (30.39%) CCNP
4 27 (14.92%) CCSP
5 24 (13.26%) JNCIE
6 23 (12.71%) CCDP
7 21 (11.60%) CCSE
8 20 (11.05%) CCSA
8 20 (11.05%) CCIP
9 18 (9.945%) CCVP
10 14 (7.735%) JNCIA
11 13 (7.182%) Degree
11 13 (7.182%) JNCIS
12 10 (5.525%) CCNA
13 7 (3.867%) MCITP
14 5 (2.762%) CISSP
14 5 (2.762%) MCTS
15 3 (1.657%) JNCIP
16 2 (1.105%) Microsoft Certification
16 2 (1.105%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.81%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.105%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.552%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 54 (29.83%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.630%) XenApp
3 10 (5.525%) Active Directory
4 8 (4.420%) XenDesktop
5 6 (3.315%) vSphere
6 4 (2.210%) ISA Server
6 4 (2.210%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.105%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (1.105%) VMware ESX
7 2 (1.105%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (1.105%) UAG
7 2 (1.105%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.552%) NFS
8 1 (0.552%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.552%) Samba
Systems Management
1 23 (12.71%) FortiGate
2 9 (4.972%) SCCM
2 9 (4.972%) CiscoWorks
3 4 (2.210%) SCOM
4 2 (1.105%) WSUS
4 2 (1.105%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.105%) Tivoli
4 2 (1.105%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.552%) Cacti
5 1 (0.552%) Puppet
5 1 (0.552%) Nagios
Vendors
1 155 (85.64%) Cisco
2 130 (71.82%) Juniper
3 72 (39.78%) VMware
4 64 (35.36%) CheckPoint
5 54 (29.83%) HP
6 51 (28.18%) Blue Coat
7 34 (18.78%) Aruba
8 29 (16.02%) Fortinet
9 25 (13.81%) Citrix
9 25 (13.81%) Polycom
10 21 (11.60%) Microsoft
11 20 (11.05%) Sourcefire
12 15 (8.287%) Brocade
13 14 (7.735%) Riverbed
14 13 (7.182%) Infoblox
15 12 (6.630%) EMC
15 12 (6.630%) Twitter
16 11 (6.077%) Computacenter
17 10 (5.525%) SolarWinds
18 9 (4.972%) Tufin
City, London
Cisco & Juniper Network Security Manager | Consultancy | CCNP... Senior technical support skill for Security products: Juniper JunOS, Netscreen Blue Coat Juniper SA, SRX, EX, MAG with SAM CISCO ASA...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits + OOH
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Senior technical support skill for Security products: Juniper JunOS, Netscreen Blue Coat Juniper SA, SRX, EX, MAG with SAM CISCO ASA CheckPoint F5 Leadership to complete project release...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits + OOH
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Cisco & Juniper Network Security Manager | Consultancy | CCNP... Senior technical support skill for Security products: Juniper JunOS, Netscreen Blue Coat Juniper SA, SRX, EX, MAG with SAM CISCO ASA...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits + OOH
Posted: 24 May 2013
City of London
Key vendor technologies are Cisco R+S, with Fortigate, Checkpoint and Juniper firewalls and F5 load balancers. Ideal skill set: CCIE standard network engineer LAN/WAN protocols and...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £1 per annum + Banking Salary + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
CCIE qualification Core Competencies and essential skills: LAN and WAN Network Implementation and Support Connectivity to Major Exchanges and Clients Cisco - 3750, 3800, 7200, 6500, Nexus * EIGRP, BGP,...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum + excellent benefits
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
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 of London
Account Manager - Cisco, Networking, MicrosoftOur consultancy client is looking for an experienced Account Manager to join their busy Sales team.
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £27000 - £55000 per annum + Incl OTE + Car allowance
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Desirable) Knowledge of other related products: Cisco Nexus, Cisco UCS, HP BladeCentre, VMware, Fortinet Fortigate, SourceFire IDS, F5 load-balancers... Professional accreditation in relevant technical disciplines - (eg, Cisco...
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 25 May 2013
City, London
Principal Consultant - Unified Communications & Collaboration... *Cisco and Microsoft pre-sales, design and delivery experience *Excellent communication skills; both written and oral... *Experience of working within a number of...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £65000 - £70000 per annum + Car Allowance + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Opensource Virtualization, MySQLn and scripting such as Bash, Perl, Python etc.... Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
Configuration Management Systems. Scripting or Programming a real plus in Bash, Python, Perl or PHP... Experience running Databases on Linux, MySQL or Postgres. Opensource Monitoring Systems... Windows experience...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
City, London
5 to 7+ years’ experience of advanced knowledge in Windows Server, Blackberry and ActiveSync, preferred Exchange 2010/2007 experience, knowledge of CCR/SCR/DAG... - Microsoft ISA server / Microsoft...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum + up to £20k bonus & Excellent Benef
Posted: 24 May 2013