The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West 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 South West region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 208 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.038% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.223% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
All Communications & Networking
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
897 941 1075
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 17.10% 16.94% 17.58%
Number of salaries quoted 766 773 886
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £21,250
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) HP
3 2 (33.33%) EMC
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Sun
3 2 (33.33%) CCIE
3 2 (33.33%) MS Office
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) AIX
3 2 (33.33%) HPUX
3 2 (33.33%) Solaris
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) Veritas
3 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 2 (33.33%) MPLS

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) IP Telephony
2 2 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) DSL
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (33.33%) NAS
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) FWSM
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Design Authority
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Designer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) AIX
1 2 (33.33%) HPUX
1 2 (33.33%) Solaris
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITSM
1 2 (33.33%) Service Management
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) BCP
1 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) SIEM
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (16.67%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Xen
1 2 (33.33%) NLBS
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (16.67%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Sun
2 2 (33.33%) Veritas
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Blue Coat