BIG-IP Contracts in England

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 531 600 768
Rank change year-on-year +69 +168 -177
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 7 55 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.11% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.89% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 48 10
10th Percentile £366 £506 £311
25th Percentile £386 £513 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -
75th Percentile £584 £650 £525
90th Percentile £601 - £570
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £425
% change year-on-year - +29.41% +3.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

BIG-IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,997 6,165 7,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.52% 12.21% 11.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,017 4,051 5,204
10th Percentile £206 £231 £220
25th Percentile £350 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.68%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 439 303
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £39.25 £18.82 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +108.55% -21.29% -4.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £48.20
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.48
UK median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.41
% change year-on-year +100.00% -33.12% +1.46%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in England.

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in England.

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London +80 6 £400 -38.46% 4
South East +13 1 £550 -8.33% 4
BIG-IP
UK

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (57.14%) BGP
3 4 (57.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (57.14%) OSPF
3 4 (57.14%) VPN
4 3 (42.86%) Broadband
4 3 (42.86%) Cisco Firepower
4 3 (42.86%) IPsec
4 3 (42.86%) L2TP
4 3 (42.86%) MPLS
4 3 (42.86%) Multicast
4 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (42.86%) Unicast
4 3 (42.86%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (42.86%) Wireless
5 2 (28.57%) DHCP
5 2 (28.57%) DNS
5 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (42.86%) Git
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IP Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Configuration Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
1 3 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Time Management
3 1 (14.29%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) Perl
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Java
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 3 (42.86%) AlgoSec
2 3 (42.86%) CheckPoint
2 3 (42.86%) Infoblox
2 3 (42.86%) Nokia
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper