BIG-IP Contracts

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 554 644
Rank change year-on-year +30 +90 +189
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 24 31 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.072% 0.069%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.61% 0.57% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 29
10th Percentile £381 £222 £443
25th Percentile £395 £250 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -38.46% +30.00%
75th Percentile £541 £564 -
90th Percentile £598 £619 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £475 £538
% change year-on-year +9.47% -11.63% +2.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,941 5,420 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.37% 12.52% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,193 4,688
10th Percentile £231 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 427 409
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 -
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -33.59% +79.25% +17.78%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP.

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
England +50 21 £450 +16.13% 28
London +31 11 £438 +75.00% 17
UK excluding London +47 8 £520 +9.47% 12
Work from Home +35 7 £450 -27.65% 9
Midlands - 4 £400 - 1
West Midlands - 4 £400 - 1
South West - 2 £600 -
East of England - 2 £520 -

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) Firewall
2 11 (45.83%) DNS
3 9 (37.50%) Cisco ASA
3 9 (37.50%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (29.17%) Network Security
5 6 (25.00%) DHCP
5 6 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 6 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 6 (25.00%) Wireless
6 5 (20.83%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (16.67%) IPsec
7 4 (16.67%) LAN
7 4 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (12.50%) Multicast
8 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (8.33%) HSRP
9 2 (8.33%) IOS XR
9 2 (8.33%) NGFW
9 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
1 5 (20.83%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Network Designer
4 2 (8.33%) Network Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Network Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Network Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
2 1 (4.17%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Load Balancing
1 9 (37.50%) Migration
2 8 (33.33%) ITIL
3 6 (25.00%) Network Design
3 6 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
5 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Process Improvement
6 3 (12.50%) Low Latency
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (8.33%) High-Frequency Trading
7 2 (8.33%) Network Architecture
7 2 (8.33%) Network Management
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (29.17%) CCNP
3 5 (20.83%) Degree
4 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) CCNA
5 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
5 2 (8.33%) PMP
6 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) OPNET
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) F5
2 17 (70.83%) Cisco
3 13 (54.17%) CheckPoint
4 7 (29.17%) Palo Alto
5 6 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
7 4 (16.67%) Infoblox
7 4 (16.67%) Meraki
8 3 (12.50%) AlgoSec
8 3 (12.50%) Arista
9 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
10 1 (4.17%) Aruba
10 1 (4.17%) BMC
10 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
10 1 (4.17%) NetScout
10 1 (4.17%) Riverbed
10 1 (4.17%) VMware
10 1 (4.17%) Zscaler