F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 877 924 1155
Rank change year-on-year +47 +231 -330
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 25 48 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.047% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 49
10th Percentile £45,327 £45,580 £44,550
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,350 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £82,548 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,545 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% -4.55% +16.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
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%

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP LTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM.

Salary trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM within the UK over the 6 months to 9 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 +75 24 £52,500 - 2
London +98 15 £61,250 +14.87% 2
Work from Home +52 13 £52,500 +2.97% 7
UK excluding London -13 9 £47,545 -9.44%
East of England +21 5 £50,000 -
West Midlands +14 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Midlands -8 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Yorkshire +85 1 - -
North of England +48 1 - -

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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:

Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) AWS
2 11 (44.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (16.00%) IaaS
5 2 (8.00%) PaaS
5 2 (8.00%) SaaS
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 21 (84.00%) Firewall
2 15 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 14 (56.00%) VPN
4 12 (48.00%) BGP
4 12 (48.00%) OSPF
5 11 (44.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 10 (40.00%) Wireless
7 9 (36.00%) Network Security
7 9 (36.00%) Unified Communications
7 9 (36.00%) WAN
8 7 (28.00%) LAN
8 7 (28.00%) MPLS
9 6 (24.00%) BIG-IP
9 6 (24.00%) VXLAN
10 5 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (20.00%) Internet
10 5 (20.00%) SSL
10 5 (20.00%) VoIP
11 4 (16.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (36.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.00%) Financial Institution
3 4 (16.00%) Law
4 3 (12.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (36.00%) Senior
2 9 (36.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Core Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Lead
4 4 (16.00%) Lead Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Data Centre
1 10 (40.00%) Public Cloud
2 9 (36.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 8 (32.00%) Line Management
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (24.00%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (24.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.00%) Information Security
4 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 4 (16.00%) Application Security
5 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.00%) DDoS Mitigation
5 4 (16.00%) ITIL
5 4 (16.00%) Network Design
6 3 (12.00%) Migration
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (4.00%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (64.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (60.00%) CCNP
3 5 (20.00%) CCIE
4 3 (12.00%) DBS Check
4 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (36.00%) SLA
2 5 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.00%) vSphere
2 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) F5
2 19 (76.00%) Cisco
3 18 (72.00%) CheckPoint
4 12 (48.00%) Palo Alto
5 6 (24.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (20.00%) Aruba
6 5 (20.00%) Forcepoint
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (12.00%) VMware
8 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 2 (8.00%) Juniper
8 2 (8.00%) Meraki