F5 BIG-IP LTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 535 607 774
Rank change year-on-year +72 +167 -133
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 51 86 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% 1.20% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 72 44
10th Percentile £413 £450 £363
25th Percentile £455 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +25.58%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £550
90th Percentile £630 £762 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £555 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +11.00% -7.24% +34.75%
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 LTM 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 LTM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Daily Rate Histogram

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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 LTM 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 +77 39 £538 +5.39% 2
London +101 25 £538 -14.00% 2
UK excluding London +63 21 £555 +11.00%
Work from Home +83 19 £550 +4.76% 8
South East 0 11 £550 +10.00%
Scotland - 6 £701 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +27 1 - -
Yorkshire +26 1 - -

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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 (1.96%) Apache
1 1 (1.96%) EPiServer
1 1 (1.96%) IIS
1 1 (1.96%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.96%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.84%) Azure
2 3 (5.88%) AWS
3 2 (3.92%) GitHub
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (62.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 29 (56.86%) Firewall
3 25 (49.02%) BGP
4 18 (35.29%) MPLS
5 16 (31.37%) OSPF
6 10 (19.61%) NetScaler
6 10 (19.61%) VPN
6 10 (19.61%) WAN
7 8 (15.69%) 5G
7 8 (15.69%) BIG-IP
7 8 (15.69%) Cisco ASA
7 8 (15.69%) LAN
7 8 (15.69%) SD-WAN
7 8 (15.69%) TCP/IP
8 7 (13.73%) Network Security
9 6 (11.76%) NX-OS
10 5 (9.80%) Cisco Nexus
10 5 (9.80%) DNS
10 5 (9.80%) Wireless
11 4 (7.84%) SSL
Development Applications
1 15 (29.41%) Git
2 4 (7.84%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
General
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Finance
3 5 (9.80%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (5.88%) Law
4 3 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Banking
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (64.71%) Network Engineer
2 7 (13.73%) Developer
3 5 (9.80%) Design Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Network Design Engineer
3 5 (9.80%) Senior
4 3 (5.88%) IP Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (5.88%) Java Developer
4 3 (5.88%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Linux Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Network Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Python Developer
5 2 (3.92%) Security Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Architect
5 2 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (3.92%) Unix Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (27.45%) JSON
2 8 (15.69%) NETCONF
2 8 (15.69%) XML
2 8 (15.69%) YANG
3 4 (7.84%) REST
4 2 (3.92%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.92%) Twisted
5 1 (1.96%) .NET
5 1 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.80%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.84%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (1.96%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.96%) PKI
4 1 (1.96%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.96%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Linux
1 7 (13.73%) Unix
2 6 (11.76%) Windows
3 4 (7.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.53%) Migration
2 8 (15.69%) Roadmaps
3 7 (13.73%) Change Management
4 6 (11.76%) Load Balancing
4 6 (11.76%) Network Design
5 5 (9.80%) Computer Science
6 4 (7.84%) Business Strategy
6 4 (7.84%) CI/CD
6 4 (7.84%) Configuration Management
6 4 (7.84%) DevOps
6 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (7.84%) Mentoring
6 4 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (7.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (5.88%) Fintech
7 3 (5.88%) High Availability
7 3 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (5.88%) Low Latency
7 3 (5.88%) Ultra-Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) Python
2 9 (17.65%) ActionScript
3 7 (13.73%) Java
3 7 (13.73%) Perl
4 4 (7.84%) Bash
4 4 (7.84%) JavaScript
5 3 (5.88%) SQL
6 1 (1.96%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (13.73%) CCNP
3 6 (11.76%) CCIE
3 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) Degree
4 5 (9.80%) DV Cleared
4 5 (9.80%) SC Cleared
5 4 (7.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.96%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (1.96%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (11.76%) VMware NSX
2 5 (9.80%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (7.84%) ProxySG
4 2 (3.92%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Ansible
1 8 (15.69%) FortiGate
2 2 (3.92%) Terraform
2 2 (3.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 51 (100.00%) F5
2 23 (45.10%) Cisco
3 12 (23.53%) Palo Alto
4 11 (21.57%) Nokia
5 9 (17.65%) Fortinet
5 9 (17.65%) Juniper
6 6 (11.76%) VMware
7 5 (9.80%) CheckPoint
8 4 (7.84%) Blue Coat
8 4 (7.84%) CA
9 2 (3.92%) Huawei
10 1 (1.96%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.96%) Meraki
10 1 (1.96%) QinetiQ