F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 858 938 1176
Rank change year-on-year +80 +238 -340
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 30 57 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.056% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 25 41 36
10th Percentile £39,950 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +26.83% +8.47%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,250 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +47.06% -13.27% +3.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

BIG-IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP.

Salary trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +55 30 £62,500 -3.85% 7
UK excluding London -12 24 £62,500 +47.06% 5
Work from Home +80 22 £62,500 +25.00% 6
West Midlands +15 17 £62,500 -
Midlands +7 17 £62,500 -
London +100 6 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Yorkshire - 5 - - 1
North of England - 5 - - 1
South West -25 2 £45,000 -5.26%

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (46.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (93.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) AWS
3 5 (16.67%) GCP
4 2 (6.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (36.67%) Firewall
3 8 (26.67%) BGP
3 8 (26.67%) OSPF
4 7 (23.33%) MPLS
4 7 (23.33%) SD-WAN
4 7 (23.33%) WAN
4 7 (23.33%) Wireless
5 6 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
6 5 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (10.00%) SAN
8 2 (6.67%) IPsec
8 2 (6.67%) VPN
8 2 (6.67%) VXLAN
9 1 (3.33%) DNS
9 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
1 3 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (46.67%) Law
1 14 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (30.00%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.67%) Military
6 1 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Administrator
1 11 (36.67%) SharePoint Administrator
2 10 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (30.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) IT Manager
4 5 (16.67%) IT Operations Manager
4 5 (16.67%) Operations Manager
5 2 (6.67%) Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (3.33%) DBA
6 1 (3.33%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 11 (36.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (10.00%) Agile
4 3 (10.00%) Coaching
4 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.00%) ITIL
4 3 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (10.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (6.67%) IT Strategy
6 1 (3.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.33%) ETL
6 1 (3.33%) High Availability
6 1 (3.33%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (46.67%) SQL
1 14 (46.67%) T-SQL
2 4 (13.33%) Bash
2 4 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) CCNP
1 9 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (16.67%) CCIE
3 3 (10.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) SCOM
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) F5
2 16 (53.33%) Cisco
3 10 (33.33%) CheckPoint
4 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (30.00%) Palo Alto
4 9 (30.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (16.67%) AppDynamics
5 5 (16.67%) Dynatrace
5 5 (16.67%) Google
6 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
7 2 (6.67%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.67%) Meraki