BIG-IP Contracts in England

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 533 598
Rank change year-on-year +63 +65 +168
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 15 9 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.024% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.47% 0.18% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 48
10th Percentile £360 £366 £506
25th Percentile £425 £386 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £650
90th Percentile £625 £601 -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,178 5,012 6,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.05% 13.48% 12.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,963 3,022 4,045
10th Percentile £220 £206 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 399 439
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.22 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%
75th Percentile £63.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +38 8 £488 +21.88% 5
South West - 3 £500 - 1
South East +47 2 - - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 10 (66.67%) Firewall
2 8 (53.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (46.67%) DNS
4 6 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 4 (26.67%) Wireshark
6 3 (20.00%) BGP
6 3 (20.00%) Multicast
6 3 (20.00%) OSPF
6 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (20.00%) SSL
6 3 (20.00%) VXLAN
6 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (20.00%) Wireless
7 2 (13.33%) DHCP
7 2 (13.33%) EIGRP
7 2 (13.33%) IPsec
7 2 (13.33%) NGFW
7 2 (13.33%) SNMP
7 2 (13.33%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Couchbase
1 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) PKI
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
1 3 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Debian
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 5 (33.33%) Network Design
2 5 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 4 (26.67%) High Availability
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Low Latency
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Management
5 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) Creative Thinking
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) High-Frequency Trading
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) ITSM
5 2 (13.33%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Network Management
5 2 (13.33%) Process Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (13.33%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) Go
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNP
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (53.33%) Ansible
2 4 (26.67%) Terraform
3 2 (13.33%) OPNET
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
4 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) F5
2 8 (53.33%) Cisco
3 7 (46.67%) Palo Alto
4 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
5 4 (26.67%) Arista
6 3 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (13.33%) Aruba
7 2 (13.33%) BMC
7 2 (13.33%) Infoblox
7 2 (13.33%) Meraki
7 2 (13.33%) NetScout
7 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (6.67%) CyberArk
8 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
8 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 1 (6.67%) Splunk
8 1 (6.67%) VMware