The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 182 200 192
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -8
Permanent jobs citing F5 28 15 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.534% 0.272% 0.222%
As % of the Vendors category 1.265% 0.590% 0.531%
Number of salaries quoted 21 10 13
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% +37.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £40,000 £27,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,600 £32,200
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £49,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.06% +22.50%
All Vendors
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2213 2541 2447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 42.18% 46.07% 41.74%
Number of salaries quoted 1891 2196 2083
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West F5 Salary Trend

F5
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing F5 across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 South West 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
Bristol +10 17 £46,500 -17.69%
Gloucestershire +9 5 £47,500 +15.15%
Somerset - 5 £50,000 -
Wiltshire +8 1 £30,000 -42.85%
F5
England

F5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 42 (79.25%) Cisco
2 36 (67.92%) CCNP
2 36 (67.92%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (67.92%) Firewall
3 32 (60.38%) Juniper
4 28 (52.83%) CheckPoint
5 24 (45.28%) Cisco ASA
6 23 (43.40%) Cisco PIX
7 22 (41.51%) Network Security
7 22 (41.51%) Telecoms
8 21 (39.62%) Finance
8 21 (39.62%) Blue Coat
9 20 (37.74%) CCSE
9 20 (37.74%) JNCIS
9 20 (37.74%) Websense
10 16 (30.19%) ITIL
11 14 (26.42%) HTML
12 12 (22.64%) BGP
13 11 (20.75%) Red Hat
13 11 (20.75%) Linux
13 11 (20.75%) Network Management
14 10 (18.87%) Windows
14 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
15 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
15 9 (16.98%) Load Balancing
15 9 (16.98%) VMware
15 9 (16.98%) SQL
15 9 (16.98%) Java
15 9 (16.98%) VoIP
15 9 (16.98%) CCNA

F5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 14 (26.42%) HTML
2 6 (11.32%) .NET
2 6 (11.32%) CSS
2 6 (11.32%) XML
2 6 (11.32%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.32%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.434%) Apache
3 4 (7.547%) Office Communications Server
3 4 (7.547%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 36 (67.92%) Firewall
2 24 (45.28%) Cisco ASA
3 23 (43.40%) Cisco PIX
4 22 (41.51%) Network Security
5 12 (22.64%) BGP
6 9 (16.98%) VoIP
7 7 (13.21%) WAN
8 6 (11.32%) SSL
8 6 (11.32%) Wireless
9 5 (9.434%) EIGRP
9 5 (9.434%) DNS
9 5 (9.434%) Internet
9 5 (9.434%) SMTP
9 5 (9.434%) HTTP
9 5 (9.434%) TCP/IP
10 4 (7.547%) PBX
10 4 (7.547%) Wireshark
11 3 (5.660%) VPN
12 2 (3.774%) OSPF
12 2 (3.774%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.32%) MySQL
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server
1 6 (11.32%) Oracle 8/8i
1 6 (11.32%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio
1 6 (11.32%) Subversion
General
1 22 (41.51%) Telecoms
2 21 (39.62%) Finance
3 5 (9.434%) Retail
3 5 (9.434%) Marketing
4 4 (7.547%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (60.38%) Network Engineer
2 20 (37.74%) Network Security Engineer
2 20 (37.74%) Security Engineer
2 20 (37.74%) Firewall Engineer
3 12 (22.64%) Analyst
4 6 (11.32%) Administrator
4 6 (11.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.547%) Senior Network Administrator
5 4 (7.547%) Network Administrator
5 4 (7.547%) Network Analyst
5 4 (7.547%) Consultant
6 3 (5.660%) Management Consultant
6 3 (5.660%) Applications Consultant
6 3 (5.660%) Performance Analyst
6 3 (5.660%) Application Performance Analyst
6 3 (5.660%) Performance Management Consultant
7 2 (3.774%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 2 (3.774%) UNIX Administrator
7 2 (3.774%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.547%) Open Source
2 3 (5.660%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (5.660%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.774%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.774%) CESG
4 1 (1.887%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
2 10 (18.87%) Windows
3 6 (11.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (9.434%) AIX
4 5 (9.434%) HPUX
4 5 (9.434%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) ITIL
2 11 (20.75%) Network Management
3 9 (16.98%) Load Balancing
4 8 (15.09%) Time Management
5 7 (13.21%) E-Commerce
5 7 (13.21%) B2B
5 7 (13.21%) Capacity Management
6 6 (11.32%) Network Design
6 6 (11.32%) SIEM
7 5 (9.434%) Change Management
8 3 (5.660%) Business Development
8 3 (5.660%) Performance Management
8 3 (5.660%) Service Delivery
9 2 (3.774%) Network Planning
9 2 (3.774%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
9 2 (3.774%) Project Planning
9 2 (3.774%) Network Architecture
9 2 (3.774%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) SQL
1 9 (16.98%) Java
2 6 (11.32%) JavaScript
2 6 (11.32%) C#
2 6 (11.32%) Bash shell
3 3 (5.660%) Perl
3 3 (5.660%) VB
3 3 (5.660%) Python
3 3 (5.660%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (67.92%) CCNP
1 36 (67.92%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (37.74%) CCSE
2 20 (37.74%) JNCIS
3 10 (18.87%) Security Cleared
4 9 (16.98%) CCNA
5 7 (13.21%) SC Cleared
6 5 (9.434%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (9.434%) CCSP
7 3 (5.660%) Degree
8 2 (3.774%) CCIE
8 2 (3.774%) CCDP
9 1 (1.887%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.887%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.434%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (9.434%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 5 (9.434%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 5 (9.434%) Xen
3 4 (7.547%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.887%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 6 (11.32%) Tivoli
1 6 (11.32%) Puppet
2 5 (9.434%) HP Data Protector
3 4 (7.547%) OpenView
4 3 (5.660%) SolarWinds Orion
4 3 (5.660%) Nagios
5 2 (3.774%) CiscoWorks
6 1 (1.887%) Netcool
6 1 (1.887%) Netcool/OMNIbus
Vendors
1 42 (79.25%) Cisco
2 32 (60.38%) Juniper
3 28 (52.83%) CheckPoint
4 21 (39.62%) Blue Coat
5 20 (37.74%) Websense
6 11 (20.75%) Red Hat
7 9 (16.98%) VMware
7 9 (16.98%) HP
8 6 (11.32%) IBM
8 6 (11.32%) Oracle
8 6 (11.32%) ArcSight
9 5 (9.434%) Veritas
9 5 (9.434%) OPNET
9 5 (9.434%) ATG
9 5 (9.434%) Intel
10 4 (7.547%) Citrix
10 4 (7.547%) Microsoft
10 4 (7.547%) Compuware
10 4 (7.547%) SolarWinds
10 4 (7.547%) Infoblox
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