BIG-IP Contracts in the Thames Valley

F5 Networks BIG-IP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 100 - 145
Rank change year-on-year - - +20
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.13% - 0.20%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.79% - 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £565
25th Percentile - - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +84.62%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate - £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +84.62%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the Thames Valley

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the Thames Valley

BIG-IP
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire - 2 - -
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat