BIG-IP Contracts in London

F5 Networks BIG-IP
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 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 345 383 460
Rank change year-on-year +38 +77 +129
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 8 8 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.064% 0.045% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 0.47% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 30
10th Percentile £363 £363 £513
25th Percentile £425 £381 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -38.46% +26.83%
75th Percentile £584 £588 -
90th Percentile £656 £604 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 2 £538 - 1
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (62.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) BGP
4 3 (37.50%) Multicast
4 3 (37.50%) OSPF
4 3 (37.50%) SD-WAN
4 3 (37.50%) Wireless
5 2 (25.00%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
5 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (25.00%) HSRP
5 2 (25.00%) IGMP
5 2 (25.00%) IPsec
5 2 (25.00%) LAN
5 2 (25.00%) SNMP
5 2 (25.00%) VRRP
5 2 (25.00%) Wireshark
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Couchbase
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Debian
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Design
2 3 (37.50%) Low Latency
2 3 (37.50%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 2 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) High-Frequency Trading
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
3 2 (25.00%) Network Management
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
4 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
3 2 (25.00%) Perl
4 1 (12.50%) Go
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CCNP
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) OPNET
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Grafana
3 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (12.50%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) CheckPoint
4 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (25.00%) Arista
5 2 (25.00%) Infoblox
5 2 (25.00%) Meraki
5 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 1 (12.50%) Splunk