The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 23 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 118 - 103
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 1 0 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.054% - 0.182%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.326% - 1.351%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
Average salary £42,500 - £45,150
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
307 238 222
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 16.71% 16.46% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 283 208 190
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire BIG-IP Salary Trend

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Abingdon - 1 £42,500 -
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
2 4 (57.14%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
2 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco IOS
2 4 (57.14%) CCNP
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) LAN
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
3 3 (42.86%) DHCP
3 3 (42.86%) DNS
3 3 (42.86%) VoIP
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
3 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
3 3 (42.86%) CCNA
3 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) Dell
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) NetApp
3 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) Firewall
3 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) IIS

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
1 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
1 3 (42.86%) IIS
2 2 (28.57%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (57.14%) OSPF
1 4 (57.14%) BGP
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (57.14%) LAN
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) DHCP
2 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 3 (42.86%) VoIP
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Project Management
1 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (57.14%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) CCNA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) SCCM
1 2 (28.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 3 (42.86%) HP
2 3 (42.86%) Dell
2 3 (42.86%) NetApp
2 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft