The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 349 423 487
Rank change year-on-year
+74 +64
Permanent jobs citing F5 272 226 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.625% 0.420% 0.231%
As % of the Vendors category 1.342% 0.894% 0.517%
Number of salaries quoted 227 193 115
Average salary £51,000 £55,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.27% -
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £35,500 £41,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £69,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +25.00%
All Vendors
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20262 25275 25350
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 46.58% 46.96% 44.73%
Number of salaries quoted 16725 21666 21075
Average salary £50,500 £52,500 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.80% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
England

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London F5 Salary Histogram

F5
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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
City of London +6 74 £57,500 -
Orpington - 54 £42,500 -
Canary Wharf 0 5 - -
Croydon +7 4 £35,750 +19.16%
Docklands, London +11 3 £65,000 +48.57%
Hackney - 3 £62,500 -
Bromley - 2 £75,000 -
Hayes - 1 - -
F5
England

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 493 (78.88%) Cisco
2 350 (56.00%) CheckPoint
3 340 (54.40%) Firewall
4 330 (52.80%) Juniper
5 323 (51.68%) Cisco Certification
6 235 (37.60%) CCNP
7 219 (35.04%) WAN
8 183 (29.28%) VPN
9 182 (29.12%) CCIE
9 182 (29.12%) Cisco ASA
10 174 (27.84%) Network Security
10 174 (27.84%) Cisco Nexus
11 167 (26.72%) Load Balancing
12 157 (25.12%) Blue Coat
13 143 (22.88%) MPLS
13 143 (22.88%) Wireless
14 135 (21.60%) VMware
15 132 (21.12%) BGP
16 130 (20.80%) OSPF
17 125 (20.00%) LAN
18 123 (19.68%) Linux
19 120 (19.20%) Finance
20 119 (19.04%) Windows
21 108 (17.28%) CCNA
22 89 (14.24%) VMware Infrastructure
23 86 (13.76%) CCDP
24 85 (13.60%) BIG-IP
25 81 (12.96%) EIGRP
26 79 (12.64%) Cisco PIX
27 78 (12.48%) TCP/IP

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 61 (9.760%) CSS
2 25 (4.000%) Web Services
3 20 (3.200%) XML
4 16 (2.560%) Middleware
5 12 (1.920%) .NET
6 11 (1.760%) Ruby on Rails
7 8 (1.280%) WebSphere
7 8 (1.280%) J2EE
8 7 (1.120%) SOAP
8 7 (1.120%) .NET Framework
9 6 (0.960%) Java EE
10 4 (0.640%) JMX
10 4 (0.640%) JMS
10 4 (0.640%) ASP.NET
11 3 (0.480%) REST
12 2 (0.320%) HTML
12 2 (0.320%) DCOM
12 2 (0.320%) Ajax
12 2 (0.320%) jQuery
12 2 (0.320%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 30 (4.800%) Apache
2 27 (4.320%) IIS
3 24 (3.840%) MS Exchange
4 16 (2.560%) Amazon EC2
4 16 (2.560%) Amazon AWS
4 16 (2.560%) Rackspace Cloud
5 15 (2.400%) Exchange Server 2010
6 12 (1.920%) Tomcat
7 7 (1.120%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (0.800%) SharePoint
9 4 (0.640%) MQSeries
9 4 (0.640%) Oracle Coherence
10 3 (0.480%) Lync
11 2 (0.320%) Office Communications Server
11 2 (0.320%) Confluence
11 2 (0.320%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.320%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.160%) WebSphere MQ
12 1 (0.160%) GlassFish
12 1 (0.160%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (3.040%) MS Excel
2 10 (1.600%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.640%) MS Office
4 1 (0.160%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (1.280%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 340 (54.40%) Firewall
2 219 (35.04%) WAN
3 183 (29.28%) VPN
4 182 (29.12%) Cisco ASA
5 174 (27.84%) Network Security
5 174 (27.84%) Cisco Nexus
6 143 (22.88%) Wireless
6 143 (22.88%) MPLS
7 132 (21.12%) BGP
8 130 (20.80%) OSPF
9 125 (20.00%) LAN
10 85 (13.60%) BIG-IP
11 81 (12.96%) EIGRP
12 79 (12.64%) Cisco PIX
13 78 (12.48%) TCP/IP
14 76 (12.16%) SSL
15 74 (11.84%) DHCP
16 72 (11.52%) DNS
17 70 (11.20%) VLAN
18 61 (9.760%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (4.800%) MySQL
2 16 (2.560%) MongoDB
2 16 (2.560%) NoSQL
2 16 (2.560%) Redis
3 13 (2.080%) SQL Server
4 8 (1.280%) DB2
5 7 (1.120%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (0.480%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (0.480%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (0.480%) Informix
6 3 (0.480%) Oracle 11g
7 2 (0.320%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (0.320%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.160%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.160%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 12 (1.920%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (0.320%) Subversion
2 2 (0.320%) JIRA
2 2 (0.320%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (0.320%) Mercurial
2 2 (0.320%) JUnit
3 1 (0.160%) Hudson
General
1 120 (19.20%) Finance
2 37 (5.920%) Banking
3 32 (5.120%) Law
4 19 (3.040%) Back Office
5 15 (2.400%) Telecoms
6 14 (2.240%) Retail
7 13 (2.080%) Advertising
8 12 (1.920%) Investment Banking
9 11 (1.760%) Multimedia
9 11 (1.760%) Financial Institution
9 11 (1.760%) Games
10 8 (1.280%) Publishing
10 8 (1.280%) Legal
11 5 (0.800%) Marketing
12 2 (0.320%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.160%) Interactive Media
13 1 (0.160%) German Language
Job Titles
1 247 (39.52%) Network Engineer
2 93 (14.88%) Security Engineer
3 87 (13.92%) Consultant
4 58 (9.280%) Senior Network Engineer
5 55 (8.800%) Analyst
6 54 (8.640%) Network Security Engineer
7 51 (8.160%) Architect
8 38 (6.080%) Network Analyst
9 37 (5.920%) Support Engineer
10 35 (5.600%) Network Support
11 30 (4.800%) Administrator
11 30 (4.800%) Systems Administrator
12 29 (4.640%) Network Architect
13 26 (4.160%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 25 (4.000%) Network Support Engineer
14 25 (4.000%) Senior Security Engineer
15 24 (3.840%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 23 (3.680%) Security Architect
16 23 (3.680%) Firewall Engineer
17 22 (3.520%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.000%) Replication
1 25 (4.000%) Clustering
2 21 (3.360%) PKI
3 20 (3.200%) Video Conferencing
4 15 (2.400%) SaaS
5 11 (1.760%) Computer Science
6 10 (1.600%) Blackberry
7 9 (1.440%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.120%) Open Source
8 7 (1.120%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (0.640%) Grid Computing
9 4 (0.640%) Learning Management System
9 4 (0.640%) EqualLogic
10 3 (0.480%) Digital Media
10 3 (0.480%) Symmetrix DMX
10 3 (0.480%) Derivative
10 3 (0.480%) Fixed Income
11 2 (0.320%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.320%) E-Learning
11 2 (0.320%) SecurID
Operating Systems
1 123 (19.68%) Linux
2 119 (19.04%) Windows
3 71 (11.36%) UNIX
4 42 (6.720%) Windows Server 2008
5 30 (4.800%) Windows Server 2003
6 25 (4.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (3.840%) Solaris
8 20 (3.200%) CentOS
9 17 (2.720%) Windows 2000
10 16 (2.560%) Debian
10 16 (2.560%) Ubuntu
11 7 (1.120%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (0.960%) HPUX
13 5 (0.800%) Windows 7
14 4 (0.640%) Windows 8
15 3 (0.480%) Gentoo
16 2 (0.320%) Windows NT
17 1 (0.160%) OS/2
17 1 (0.160%) AIX
17 1 (0.160%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (26.72%) Load Balancing
2 62 (9.920%) Network Design
3 55 (8.800%) ITIL
4 53 (8.480%) Change Control
5 48 (7.680%) Network Management
6 47 (7.520%) E-Commerce
7 44 (7.040%) Project Management
8 29 (4.640%) Information Security
9 27 (4.320%) Capacity Planning
10 26 (4.160%) Migration
11 22 (3.520%) Incident Management
12 19 (3.040%) Network Load Balancing
13 18 (2.880%) Technical Architecture
14 15 (2.400%) Change Management
15 14 (2.240%) PRINCE2
15 14 (2.240%) Continuous Improvement
16 13 (2.080%) Performance Management
17 11 (1.760%) DNA
17 11 (1.760%) Configuration Management
18 10 (1.600%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (4.640%) Perl
2 20 (3.200%) Ruby
3 17 (2.720%) Java
4 15 (2.400%) PowerShell
5 13 (2.080%) SQL
6 12 (1.920%) PHP
6 12 (1.920%) Python
7 7 (1.120%) Bash shell
8 6 (0.960%) Shell Script
9 4 (0.640%) AWK
9 4 (0.640%) C
9 4 (0.640%) sed
10 2 (0.320%) C#
10 2 (0.320%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.320%) VBScript
10 2 (0.320%) Tcl
10 2 (0.320%) Scala
10 2 (0.320%) Korn
11 1 (0.160%) Bourne shell
11 1 (0.160%) VB
Qualifications
1 323 (51.68%) Cisco Certification
2 235 (37.60%) CCNP
3 182 (29.12%) CCIE
4 108 (17.28%) CCNA
5 86 (13.76%) CCDP
6 51 (8.160%) CCSA
6 51 (8.160%) CCSE
7 49 (7.840%) CCSP
8 38 (6.080%) CCIP
9 33 (5.280%) Security Cleared
10 30 (4.800%) JNCIE
11 29 (4.640%) CCVP
12 28 (4.480%) Degree
13 24 (3.840%) CISSP
14 23 (3.680%) JNCIA
15 21 (3.360%) JNCIS
16 10 (1.600%) Microsoft Certification
17 8 (1.280%) MCSE
17 8 (1.280%) MCITP
18 7 (1.120%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.280%) PCI DSS
2 24 (3.840%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.120%) SLA
4 5 (0.800%) COBIT
5 2 (0.320%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 89 (14.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (5.760%) Active Directory
3 29 (4.640%) XenApp
4 27 (4.320%) vSphere
5 19 (3.040%) Xen
6 18 (2.880%) VMware ESX
7 12 (1.920%) ProxySG
7 12 (1.920%) UAG
8 11 (1.760%) XenDesktop
9 10 (1.600%) Forefront TMG
10 7 (1.120%) Hyper-V
10 7 (1.120%) ISA Server
11 6 (0.960%) Oracle RAC
11 6 (0.960%) NFS
12 5 (0.800%) Samba
13 2 (0.320%) Citrix Presentation Server
13 2 (0.320%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.320%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.320%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.160%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 49 (7.840%) FortiGate
2 39 (6.240%) CiscoWorks
3 23 (3.680%) Puppet
4 17 (2.720%) SCCM
5 12 (1.920%) Nagios
5 12 (1.920%) SolarWinds Orion
6 10 (1.600%) HP Operations Orchestration
7 9 (1.440%) SCOM
8 7 (1.120%) Backup Exec
8 7 (1.120%) WSUS
8 7 (1.120%) Tivoli
9 5 (0.800%) Cacti
10 3 (0.480%) Norton AntiVirus
11 2 (0.320%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 493 (78.88%) Cisco
2 350 (56.00%) CheckPoint
3 330 (52.80%) Juniper
4 157 (25.12%) Blue Coat
5 135 (21.60%) VMware
6 78 (12.48%) HP
7 58 (9.280%) Microsoft
8 56 (8.960%) Citrix
9 50 (8.000%) SolarWinds
10 49 (7.840%) Riverbed
11 46 (7.360%) Fortinet
12 43 (6.880%) Aruba
13 41 (6.560%) Red Hat
14 38 (6.080%) Websense
15 35 (5.600%) Foundry
16 34 (5.440%) Brocade
16 34 (5.440%) Oracle
17 30 (4.800%) EMC
18 27 (4.320%) NetApp
19 24 (3.840%) Sourcefire
Orpington, Kent
My client already have a strong team in place with twelve engineers ranging from CCNA through to CCIE Architect level and the role that is open will sit...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Orpington, Kent
My client already have a strong team in place with twelve engineers ranging from CCNA through to CCIE Architect level and the role that is open will sit...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
The Senior Network Engineer will join a highly skilled team which will require you to have a strong network design engineering capability, as you will be working within...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The successful Senior Network Engineer will be joining a highly skilled team, and so you should be a strongly skilled Network Design Engineer that is capable and comfortable...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will be expected to have in depth knowledge and experience of the following: - - Experience of working within large, mutiple-site, multi-protocol LAN & WAN - CCIE...
McGregor Boyall
Salary: Excellent Package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Central London / West End
Core solutions include the portfolio of including Cisco, Nortel, HP, F5, Juniper, Bluecoat and Checkpoint... Extensive knowledge of Networking and Networking solutions covering Cisco, Nortel, HP, F5, Juniper,...
EXCELerate
Salary: From £50,000 to £100,000 per annum Car, Health, Pension, Great Career
Posted: 14 May 2013
East London
You will be part of a team responsible for researching, architecting and building cutting edge low latency LAN/WAN network infrastructures for our trading system globally Requirements Excellent...
Aston Carter
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + annual bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London, England
Solid switching and routing skills and experience supporting both Layer 2 networks, and a Layer 3 LAN that closely integrates with the MAN and WAN network using BGP...
Queen Mary University of London
Salary: £42,601 - £47,559
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
They have now signed off on a Network Architect (Cisco CCIE) to join there expanding Global Network Team and supply services directly to the end client... The ideal...
Austin Fraser
Salary: £70000 - £80000 per annum + + Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: *Excellent hands on routing and switching, must be CCIE level... *Experience with Cisco Nexus 7k and 5k. *Experience with F5 load balancers... Education...
Roc Search
Salary: £90000 - £100000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 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: 20 May 2013
City, London
Background: A leading Network Vendor is looking for a Pre-sales System Engineer to join the ever expanding team... This will be a chance to work with some...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Principal Consultant, Technical Architect, Network Architect, Data CentreEurope's leading Independent provider of IT Infrastructure services are looking for a strong Data centre Technical Architect.We are looking...
Fulcrum Telecom
Salary: £60000 - £80000.00 per annum + Car, Pension
Posted: 27 April 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: 16 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
East London
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... SNS focuses on delivering the highest-quality broadband and telephony...
Sky
Salary: competitive
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Think Sky, a FTSE TOP 30 and the UK's favourite triple play provider- TV, broadband and telephony... 1 choice in entertainment and communications.SNS focuses on delivering...
British Sky Broadcasting
Salary: competitive
Posted: 20 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: 16 May 2013
Bromley, South East
Brokering agreement across multiple MSPs where shared infrastructure components are used by different programmesProvide a consultation service to the Enterprise Technology Services organisation to pre-empt issues in...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £70000.00 - £80000.00 per annum + Bonus, Full Benefits
Posted: 1 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 £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + up to £20k bonus & Excellent Benef
Posted: 15 May 2013