F5 BIG-IP GTM Contracts in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring F5 BIG-IP GTM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 378 434
Rank change year-on-year +50 +56 +49
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 9 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.071% 0.049% 0.067%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.46% 0.30% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 13
10th Percentile £401 £546 £430
25th Percentile £441 £550 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £573 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.42% +14.50% -7.41%
75th Percentile £614 £584 £525
90th Percentile £670 £609 £550
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -3.41% -7.37% +9.95%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP GTM 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 1,972 3,385 3,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.55% 16.46% 14.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,203 1,940 2,259
10th Percentile £196 £203 £210
25th Percentile £306 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% - +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £520
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.81% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 358 322
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.43 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.40 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.81% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.06 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £30.70 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -23.25% +112.54% -31.56%

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP GTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK excluding London

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 F5 BIG-IP GTM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Midlands - 6 £585 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £618 -
South West - 2 £438 - 1
North of England +23 1 £425 - 4
West Midlands - 1 £450 - 1
North West - 1 £425 - 1
F5 BIG-IP GTM
UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 9 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
3 6 (66.67%) Firewall
4 5 (55.56%) IPsec
5 4 (44.44%) HSRP
5 4 (44.44%) OSPF
5 4 (44.44%) VLAN
6 2 (22.22%) BIG-IP
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (22.22%) Cisco Firepower
6 2 (22.22%) HTTP
6 2 (22.22%) Network Security
6 2 (22.22%) NX-OS
7 1 (11.11%) SSL
7 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 1 (11.11%) Law
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Network Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 1 (11.11%) Biometrics
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Security Management
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) CCNP
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) F5
2 8 (88.89%) Cisco
3 6 (66.67%) Juniper
4 5 (55.56%) SolarWinds
5 2 (22.22%) Arista
5 2 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
6 1 (11.11%) Blue Coat
6 1 (11.11%) Symantec
6 1 (11.11%) Zscaler