BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

F5 Networks BIG-IP
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 85 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 22 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.20% 0.17% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 7.61% 0.89% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £138 - -
25th Percentile £278 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 - -
75th Percentile £556 - -
90th Percentile £571 - -
South East median daily rate £555 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% +9.09% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - -
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
South East median hourly rate £57.02 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Berkshire

BIG-IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 289 225 538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 15.77% 19.63% 26.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 104 237
10th Percentile £300 £250 £205
25th Percentile £375 £379 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £484 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +13.82% -15.00%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £569
90th Percentile £638 £650 £615
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 22
10th Percentile £16.01 £19.73 £29.00
25th Percentile £17.63 £21.58 £71.01
Median hourly rate £42.25 £24.66 £83.77
Median % change year-on-year +71.33% -70.56% +168.05%
75th Percentile £56.00 £58.58 £87.51
90th Percentile £76.80 £78.93 £87.53
South East median hourly rate £42.71 £54.88 £57.35
% change year-on-year -22.18% -4.32% +27.44%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BIG-IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in Berkshire

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BIG-IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in Berkshire

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BIG-IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing BIG-IP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for BIG-IP in Berkshire

BIG-IP
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 March 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading - 11 £520 - 2
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.55%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (100.00%) BGP
1 22 (100.00%) LAN
1 22 (100.00%) OSPF
1 22 (100.00%) WAN
2 21 (95.45%) DHCP
2 21 (95.45%) DNS
2 21 (95.45%) Ethernet VPN
2 21 (95.45%) Firewall
2 21 (95.45%) Junos
2 21 (95.45%) VXLAN
3 17 (77.27%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.55%) EIGRP
4 1 (4.55%) Wireless
4 1 (4.55%) WLAN
General
1 4 (18.18%) Military
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Billing
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Firewall Specialist
1 11 (50.00%) Network Specialist
2 8 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 8 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco Project Manager
4 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.55%) Network Support
4 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (95.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 21 (95.45%) Clustering
2 20 (90.91%) Data Centre
2 20 (90.91%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) iSeries
3 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (95.45%) High Availability
1 21 (95.45%) Identity Access Management
1 21 (95.45%) Load Balancing
2 20 (90.91%) Observability
3 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (40.91%) Availability Management
5 8 (36.36%) ITIL
5 8 (36.36%) Service Management
6 7 (31.82%) ITSM
7 1 (4.55%) Agile
7 1 (4.55%) Change Control
7 1 (4.55%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2
7 1 (4.55%) Project Delivery
7 1 (4.55%) Project Governance
7 1 (4.55%) Project Management
7 1 (4.55%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) Cisco Certification
3 12 (54.55%) DV Cleared
4 7 (31.82%) JNCIA
4 7 (31.82%) JNCIP
4 7 (31.82%) JNCIS
5 1 (4.55%) Degree
5 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 21 (95.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco
1 22 (100.00%) F5
2 21 (95.45%) Juniper
2 21 (95.45%) SolarWinds
2 21 (95.45%) Splunk
3 19 (86.36%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (4.55%) Meraki