The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 255 263 266
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +3
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 9 4 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.109% 0.046% 0.126%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.514% 0.250% 0.649%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 12
Average salary £70,000 £42,250 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+65.68% -23.18%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £46,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+8.69% +2.22%
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1752 1601 1849
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 21.20% 18.40% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1404 1286 1483
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £27,616 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England BIG-IP Salary Histogram

BIG-IP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedfordshire - 4 £70,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £30,000 -
Essex +15 2 - -
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 9 (81.82%) CheckPoint
1 9 (81.82%) F5
2 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
2 8 (72.73%) LAN
2 8 (72.73%) WAN
3 7 (63.64%) MPLS
3 7 (63.64%) Firewall
4 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (54.55%) SLA
4 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) MCSE
4 6 (54.55%) SQL
4 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
4 6 (54.55%) ITIL
5 5 (45.45%) UNIX
5 5 (45.45%) Linux
6 3 (27.27%) Cisco
6 3 (27.27%) CCNP
6 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (18.18%) CCIE
7 2 (18.18%) DNS
7 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
7 2 (18.18%) Middleware
7 2 (18.18%) OSPF
7 2 (18.18%) JBoss
7 2 (18.18%) Apache
7 2 (18.18%) Tomcat

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
1 2 (18.18%) Tomcat
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) TCP/IP
1 8 (72.73%) LAN
1 8 (72.73%) WAN
2 7 (63.64%) MPLS
2 7 (63.64%) Firewall
3 2 (18.18%) DNS
3 2 (18.18%) OSPF
3 2 (18.18%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (18.18%) Network Security
3 2 (18.18%) NAS
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (9.091%) EIGRP
4 1 (9.091%) NetScreen
4 1 (9.091%) Wireless
4 1 (9.091%) DMVPN
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (9.091%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 5 (45.45%) Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Architect
3 4 (36.36%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (18.18%) Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) IT Consultant
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Security Engineer
5 1 (9.091%) Network Architect
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 5 (45.45%) UNIX
2 5 (45.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) E-Commerce
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (54.55%) MCSE
2 3 (27.27%) CCNP
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CCIE
4 1 (9.091%) CCSE
4 1 (9.091%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Puppet
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (9.091%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) CheckPoint
1 9 (81.82%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 2 (18.18%) JBoss
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) Akamai
4 1 (9.091%) Blue Coat
4 1 (9.091%) Imperva
4 1 (9.091%) ProCurve
4 1 (9.091%) Juniper
4 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.091%) HP