BIG-IP Contracts in the UK excluding London

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 331 394 438
Rank change year-on-year +63 +44 +67
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 5 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.024% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.25% 0.14% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 20
10th Percentile £400 £530 £473
25th Percentile £438 £538 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £544
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +5.75% +27.94%
75th Percentile £550 £613 £569
90th Percentile £580 £620 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK excluding London

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK excluding London

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in the UK excluding London

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK excluding London

BIG-IP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West - 3 £500 - 1
South East +47 2 - - 5
BIG-IP
UK

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) SSL
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) High Availability
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Security Management
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) F5
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (20.00%) VMware