The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP 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 of the Communications & Networking category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 197 188 168
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -20
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 10 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.201% 0.022% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.157% 0.142% 0.267%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
Average salary £45,000 - £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
864 703 749
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 17.40% 15.61% 18.04%
Number of salaries quoted 716 569 590
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands BIG-IP Salary Histogram

BIG-IP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the West Midlands 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
Shropshire +3 7 £55,000 -
Birmingham - 3 £45,000 -
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 10 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (70.00%) Network Design
2 7 (70.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) CiscoWorks
2 7 (70.00%) Nokia
2 7 (70.00%) CheckPoint
2 7 (70.00%) OSPF
2 7 (70.00%) BGP
2 7 (70.00%) Change Management
2 7 (70.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) MySQL
3 3 (30.00%) UNIX
3 3 (30.00%) Solaris
3 3 (30.00%) Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Apache
3 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
3 3 (30.00%) Advertising
3 3 (30.00%) Perl
3 3 (30.00%) PHP
3 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (20.00%) Java
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) SQL

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 3 (30.00%) Apache
1 3 (30.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) OSPF
1 7 (70.00%) BGP
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
1 7 (70.00%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
General
1 3 (30.00%) Advertising
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Network Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 7 (70.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) UNIX
1 3 (30.00%) Solaris
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Change Management
1 7 (70.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Perl
1 3 (30.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 7 (70.00%) CiscoWorks
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Nokia
2 7 (70.00%) CheckPoint
Telford, Shropshire
Duties and responsibilities:- * Review completed network design definitions, turn those into detailed implementation plans, and to implement those plans * You will need to comply with a stringent change...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013