BIG-IP Contracts in the City of London

F5 Networks BIG-IP
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring BIG-IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BIG-IP over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - 172
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% - 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.19% - 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £469 - £408
25th Percentile £478 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.00%
75th Percentile £584 - £603
90th Percentile £586 - £721
Central London median daily rate £538 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 209 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.57% 9.53% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 139 252
10th Percentile £258 £202 £250
25th Percentile £466 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £675
90th Percentile £741 £755 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the City of London

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the City of London

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in the City of London

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Electronic Trading
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) OPNET
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto