BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

F5 Networks BIG-IP
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sheffield requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 0.25% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £700 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 114 63 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 14.41% 26.92% 10.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 38 37
10th Percentile £366 £209 £234
25th Percentile £439 £220 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £430
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +16.28% -18.10%
75th Percentile £682 £625 £593
90th Percentile £699 £696 £638
South Yorkshire median daily rate £519 £500 £430
% change year-on-year +3.70% +16.28% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.50 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £13.50 -

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in Sheffield

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (100.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) RSA SecurID
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 2 (100.00%) NetScout
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) SevOne
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco