BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

F5 Networks BIG-IP
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.07% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 40 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.55% 12.27% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 20
10th Percentile £241 £201 £238
25th Percentile £380 £316 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.57% +17.06% +42.26%
75th Percentile £545 £625 £563
90th Percentile £625 £684 £644
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £413 £475 £415
% change year-on-year -13.16% +14.46% +46.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £26.37 - £29.98
25th Percentile £26.56 - £40.44
Median hourly rate £27.08 - £47.50
75th Percentile £34.06 - £48.75
90th Percentile £43.63 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £26.66 - £47.50

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing BIG-IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) OCI
2 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) OSPF
1 5 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 4 (80.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (60.00%) WLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) NGFW
4 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (80.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (60.00%) High Availability
3 3 (60.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Incident Management
4 2 (40.00%) Network Design
4 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
5 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
5 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
1 4 (80.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) F5
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (80.00%) Arista
3 3 (60.00%) Aruba
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint