BIG-IP Contracts in the UK excluding London

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 439 499
Rank change year-on-year +58 +60 -69
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 8 15 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.064% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.43% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £540 £441 £400
25th Percentile £563 £506 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.67% +10.26% +21.88%
75th Percentile £628 £569 £583
90th Percentile £634 £572 £653
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% +20.00% +21.21%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

BIG-IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,292 3,506 4,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.19% 15.06% 13.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,873 2,208 2,651
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £335 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £490 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 318 243
10th Percentile £13.40 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.69
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -10.42%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +1.85%

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
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 14 May 2024. 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 of England +26 3 £624 +18.76%
Yorkshire +23 3 £624 +24.70%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +37 1 £600 +14.29%
South East +16 1 £550 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) EPiServer
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) GitHub
1 3 (37.50%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (62.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 4 (50.00%) DNS
3 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (50.00%) VPN
4 3 (37.50%) HTTP
4 3 (37.50%) Reverse Proxy
4 3 (37.50%) SSL
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (12.50%) Internet
5 1 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) SAN
5 1 (12.50%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (37.50%) CircleCI
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
1 3 (37.50%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (37.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Network Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) XML
1 3 (37.50%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) OLE
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) API Integration
3 3 (37.50%) Application Security
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Deployment
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) DevSecOps
3 3 (37.50%) Fintech
3 3 (37.50%) High Availability
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Secure Coding
3 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Use Case
3 3 (37.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (37.50%) ActionScript
2 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 3 (37.50%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (37.50%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Kibana
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) logstash
2 3 (37.50%) Progress Chef
2 3 (37.50%) Prometheus
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) CA
3 3 (37.50%) Splunk
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper