BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in East Sussex

F5 Networks BIG-IP
South East > East Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East Sussex requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in East Sussex 1.23% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 16.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £763 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £775 - -
75th Percentile £788 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £738 £500 £613
% change year-on-year +47.50% -18.37% +11.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Sussex

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 East Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6 5 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East Sussex 7.41% 5.62% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
10th Percentile £208 £244 £400
25th Percentile £243 £375 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -0.94% -28.86%
75th Percentile £563 £538 £553
90th Percentile £698 £598 £556
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £56.00 £57.75 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.03% -6.85% +37.78%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in East Sussex

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in East Sussex

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in East Sussex

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

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

BIG-IP
Contract Job Locations in East Sussex

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 East Sussex region over the 6 months to 19 January 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
Brighton - 1 £775 -
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware