The first table below looks at the demand for BIG-IP skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited BIG-IP over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
F5 Networks BIG-IP
Rank 165 157 135
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -22
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 10 11 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.271% 0.340% 0.340%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.414% 2.041% 1.733%
Number of salaries quoted 9 2 10
Average salary £42,500 £52,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.04% +5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £48,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Communications & Networking
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
707 539 577
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 19.15% 16.68% 19.64%
Number of salaries quoted 572 433 479
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
BIG-IP
Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire BIG-IP Salary Trend

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing BIG-IP across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Leeds -6 10 £42,500 -
BIG-IP
Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 17 (85.00%) F5
3 16 (80.00%) Firewall
4 15 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
5 14 (70.00%) CheckPoint
6 10 (50.00%) ITIL
6 10 (50.00%) SolarWinds
6 10 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
7 8 (40.00%) DMZ
7 8 (40.00%) BGP
8 7 (35.00%) Finance
8 7 (35.00%) VPN
8 7 (35.00%) Load Balancing
9 6 (30.00%) SSL
9 6 (30.00%) OSPF
9 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (25.00%) Avaya
10 5 (25.00%) DNS
10 5 (25.00%) VoIP
10 5 (25.00%) CCNP
11 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
11 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
11 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
11 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
11 4 (20.00%) LAN
11 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP

BIG-IP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Development
1 3 (15.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
2 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.000%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 16 (80.00%) Firewall
2 15 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (40.00%) DMZ
3 8 (40.00%) BGP
4 7 (35.00%) VPN
5 6 (30.00%) SSL
5 6 (30.00%) OSPF
6 5 (25.00%) DNS
6 5 (25.00%) VoIP
7 4 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (20.00%) LAN
7 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 4 (20.00%) WAN
7 4 (20.00%) Internet
7 4 (20.00%) EIGRP
7 4 (20.00%) Wireless
7 4 (20.00%) MPLS
8 3 (15.00%) IPsec
8 3 (15.00%) SMTP
8 3 (15.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) Data Mining
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Team Leader
2 6 (30.00%) Network Team Leader
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Support Specialist
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Network Support
5 1 (5.000%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Network Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) SecurID
1 2 (10.00%) Statistics
2 1 (5.000%) IVR
2 1 (5.000%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (5.000%) Debian
4 1 (5.000%) CentOS
4 1 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) ITIL
2 7 (35.00%) Load Balancing
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
3 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Problem Management
5 2 (10.00%) High Availability
5 2 (10.00%) B2B
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.000%) Product Management
6 1 (5.000%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (25.00%) CCNP
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (15.00%) MCSE
4 3 (15.00%) MCP
5 2 (10.00%) MCITP
5 2 (10.00%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) CCDP
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (5.000%) CCSA
6 1 (5.000%) CCNA
6 1 (5.000%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 4 (20.00%) SLA
2 2 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.00%) XenServer
1 3 (15.00%) vSphere
2 1 (5.000%) ISA Server
2 1 (5.000%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (5.000%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Cisco
2 17 (85.00%) F5
3 14 (70.00%) CheckPoint
4 10 (50.00%) SolarWinds
5 5 (25.00%) Avaya
6 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 3 (15.00%) VMware
7 3 (15.00%) Juniper
7 3 (15.00%) Citrix
7 3 (15.00%) Brocade
8 2 (10.00%) Blue Coat
8 2 (10.00%) ProCurve
8 2 (10.00%) Infoblox
8 2 (10.00%) HP
8 2 (10.00%) NetApp
8 2 (10.00%) Nokia
9 1 (5.000%) Sophos
9 1 (5.000%) Red Hat
9 1 (5.000%) Nortel
9 1 (5.000%) ArcSight