The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Slough 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 Slough 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 71 69 55
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -14
Permanent jobs citing F5 1 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.146% 0.150% 0.419%
As % of the Vendors category 0.256% 0.263% 0.702%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £49,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +22.50%
All Vendors
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
391 380 285
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 57.16% 57.06% 59.75%
Number of salaries quoted 305 297 216
Average salary £47,000 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.58% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
F5
Berkshire

F5
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough F5 Salary Trend

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) VRRP
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (25.00%) Network Design
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) CCDA

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 1 (25.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) VRRP
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPLS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) HSRP
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Sales Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Pre Sales Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Sales Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCDA
2 1 (25.00%) CCDP
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
1 2 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (25.00%) HP