The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited F5 over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5
Rank 118 - 90
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing F5 4 0 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.218% - 0.988%
As % of the Vendors category 0.436% - 2.520%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 14
Average salary £35,000 - £52,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £49,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +22.50%
All Vendors
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
918 623 635
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 50.08% 42.32% 39.20%
Number of salaries quoted 819 560 540
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -1.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
South East

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire F5 Salary Trend

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 - 2 £41,250 -
F5
South East

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 14 (82.35%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (70.59%) OSPF
3 12 (70.59%) BGP
3 12 (70.59%) LAN
3 12 (70.59%) WAN
4 11 (64.71%) ITIL
4 11 (64.71%) CCNP
4 11 (64.71%) Firewall
4 11 (64.71%) Cisco Nexus
5 10 (58.82%) VoIP
6 7 (41.18%) WLAN
6 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
6 7 (41.18%) HP
6 7 (41.18%) Juniper
6 7 (41.18%) EIGRP
6 7 (41.18%) BIG-IP
7 6 (35.29%) Problem Management
7 6 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (35.29%) Windows
8 5 (29.41%) CCIE
8 5 (29.41%) CCNA
8 5 (29.41%) MPLS
9 4 (23.53%) Project Management
9 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
9 4 (23.53%) DHCP
9 4 (23.53%) Lync
10 3 (17.65%) Network Management

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) Lync
2 3 (17.65%) IIS
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
3 2 (11.76%) Office Communications Server
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) LAN
1 12 (70.59%) WAN
1 12 (70.59%) OSPF
1 12 (70.59%) BGP
2 11 (64.71%) Firewall
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (58.82%) VoIP
4 7 (41.18%) WLAN
4 7 (41.18%) EIGRP
4 7 (41.18%) BIG-IP
5 6 (35.29%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (29.41%) MPLS
7 4 (23.53%) DHCP
7 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
8 3 (17.65%) DMVPN
8 3 (17.65%) VLAN
8 3 (17.65%) Wireless
8 3 (17.65%) SAN
8 3 (17.65%) DNS
8 3 (17.65%) SSL
General
1 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
1 2 (11.76%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 13 (76.47%) Network Engineer
2 7 (41.18%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Lead Network Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Engineering Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
1 6 (35.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Problem Management
3 4 (23.53%) Project Management
4 3 (17.65%) Network Design
4 3 (17.65%) Network Management
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 2 (11.76%) B2B
6 1 (5.882%) Validation
6 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.882%) Risk Assessment
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (64.71%) CCNP
3 5 (29.41%) CCNA
3 5 (29.41%) CCIE
4 3 (17.65%) CCDA
4 3 (17.65%) CCDP
5 1 (5.882%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
1 2 (11.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) HP
2 7 (41.18%) Juniper
3 4 (23.53%) CheckPoint
4 3 (17.65%) VMware
4 3 (17.65%) Dell
4 3 (17.65%) NetApp
5 2 (11.76%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (5.882%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.882%) Blue Coat
6 1 (5.882%) Fortinet