BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in the North of England

F5 Networks BIG-IP
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 192 168 189
Rank change year-on-year -24 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 16 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.35% 0.051% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.93% 0.37% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £582 -
25th Percentile £675 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £590 £325
Median % change year-on-year +18.64% +81.54% -40.91%
75th Percentile £725 £595 £488
90th Percentile - £598 £585
England median daily rate £380 £525 £588
% change year-on-year -27.62% -10.64% +6.82%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 547 546 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.94% 13.95% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 295 537
10th Percentile £170 £179 £221
25th Percentile £325 £311 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -3.65% +9.56%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £593
90th Percentile £675 £681 £669
England median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 23
10th Percentile - £12.88 £15.73
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £41.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -48.17% +131.38% -12.84%
75th Percentile £67.98 £51.00 £35.64
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.91 £47.64
England median hourly rate £34.00 £49.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -30.61% -13.26% +25.53%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in the North of England

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BIG-IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BIG-IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 November 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
North West -11 14 - - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (12.50%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) DNS
2 14 (87.50%) TCP/IP
3 13 (81.25%) HTTP
3 13 (81.25%) SSL
3 13 (81.25%) Wireshark
4 12 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 12 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (37.50%) DMZ
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (6.25%) DHCP
6 1 (6.25%) Network Security
6 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) Fiddler
General
1 12 (75.00%) Banking
2 11 (68.75%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Network Engineer
2 10 (62.50%) Web Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 7 (43.75%) IP Network Engineer
4 5 (31.25%) Junior
4 5 (31.25%) Junior Network Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) Architect
6 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Management Information System
2 6 (37.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) RSA SecurID
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Load Balancing
2 10 (62.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 9 (56.25%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 8 (50.00%) Migration
5 5 (31.25%) Network Segmentation
6 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
7 1 (6.25%) Analytics
7 1 (6.25%) Architectural Design
7 1 (6.25%) Business Strategy
7 1 (6.25%) CI/CD
7 1 (6.25%) Data Protection
7 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Architecture
7 1 (6.25%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
7 1 (6.25%) Security Architecture
7 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (6.25%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (43.75%) Firmware
3 3 (18.75%) VMware NSX
4 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (56.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) F5
2 14 (87.50%) Blue Coat
2 14 (87.50%) McAfee
3 11 (68.75%) NetApp
3 11 (68.75%) VMware
4 2 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 2 (12.50%) NetScout
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (12.50%) SevOne
5 1 (6.25%) Cisco