BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

F5 Networks BIG-IP
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.22% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.60% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £480 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 77 75 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 8.57% 16.06% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 45 54
10th Percentile £313 £221 £286
25th Percentile £342 £235 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% -3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £590 £646
West Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £485 £470
% change year-on-year -12.37% +3.19% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £16.68 - -
25th Percentile £17.68 - -
Median hourly rate £19.34 - £13.87
75th Percentile £21.82 - £16.07
90th Percentile £23.30 - £17.39
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 - £13.87
% change year-on-year - - -57.32%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in Leeds

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto