F5 BIG-IP GTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP GTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 626 793
Rank change year-on-year +72 +167 -146
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 32 67 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.074% 0.12% 0.064%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% 0.93% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 58 35
10th Percentile £413 £450 £423
25th Percentile £466 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +9.95% +27.06%
75th Percentile £576 £619 £580
90th Percentile £585 £770 £624
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +14.50% -7.41% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM 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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,481 7,173 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.35% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,282 4,651 6,275
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 474 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +149.38% -13.95% -9.71%

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP GTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +80 24 £544 +1.16% 3
London +100 19 £506 -28.19% 2
Work from Home +92 16 £550 +4.76% 8
UK excluding London +65 10 £573 +14.50% 1
South East +5 4 £566 +13.25%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland - 2 £600 -
North of England +27 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +26 1 - - 1

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Apache
1 1 (3.13%) EPiServer
1 1 (3.13%) IIS
1 1 (3.13%) Tomcat
1 1 (3.13%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 32 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 16 (50.00%) BGP
3 15 (46.88%) Firewall
4 12 (37.50%) MPLS
5 8 (25.00%) 5G
5 8 (25.00%) OSPF
6 7 (21.88%) LAN
6 7 (21.88%) Network Security
6 7 (21.88%) WAN
7 6 (18.75%) NX-OS
7 6 (18.75%) SD-WAN
8 4 (12.50%) BIG-IP
8 4 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (12.50%) NetScaler
8 4 (12.50%) RSVP
9 3 (9.38%) DNS
9 3 (9.38%) VPN
10 2 (6.25%) VPLS
11 1 (3.13%) NetScreen
11 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 12 (37.50%) Finance
2 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.38%) Law
4 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Design Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Developer
5 2 (6.25%) Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Design Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Network Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (43.75%) JSON
2 8 (25.00%) NETCONF
2 8 (25.00%) XML
2 8 (25.00%) YANG
3 1 (3.13%) .NET
3 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) Migration
2 6 (18.75%) Change Management
2 6 (18.75%) Network Design
3 4 (12.50%) Business Strategy
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.50%) DevOps
3 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 4 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 3 (9.38%) Fintech
4 3 (9.38%) High Availability
4 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
4 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (6.25%) Service Migration
5 2 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (3.13%) IT Strategy
6 1 (3.13%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (3.13%) Project Delivery
6 1 (3.13%) Technology Strategy
6 1 (3.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) ActionScript
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) CCNP
1 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (15.63%) CCIE
3 4 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) FortiGate
2 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) F5
2 11 (34.38%) Cisco
3 8 (25.00%) Nokia
3 8 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 7 (21.88%) Fortinet
5 5 (15.63%) Juniper
6 4 (12.50%) CA
6 4 (12.50%) VMware
7 2 (6.25%) Huawei
8 1 (3.13%) Infoblox