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 30 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 604 750
Rank change year-on-year +80 +146 -94
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 48 83 90
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 1.17% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 68 46
10th Percentile £409 £450 £376
25th Percentile £455 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £518 £540
Median % change year-on-year -8.21% -4.17% +27.06%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £550
90th Percentile £590 £770 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +35.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.63% -12.90%
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £59.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.90%

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 5,430 7,113 9,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.66% 12.68% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,247 4,591 6,372
10th Percentile £206 £240 £238
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.42% +5.56% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 413 449 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.80 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -2.27%

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 30 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 30 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 +88 37 £475 -5.00% 5
London +84 21 £475 -26.92% 4
Work from Home +87 18 £550 +10.00% 2
UK excluding London +24 17 £550 +10.00% 1
South East +8 12 £550 +10.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +22 1 - -
Yorkshire +13 1 - -
South West -2 1 £725 +52.63% 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (8.33%) AWS
3 3 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (68.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 27 (56.25%) Firewall
3 22 (45.83%) BGP
4 16 (33.33%) OSPF
5 15 (31.25%) MPLS
6 13 (27.08%) WAN
7 12 (25.00%) SD-WAN
8 9 (18.75%) BIG-IP
8 9 (18.75%) LAN
8 9 (18.75%) VPN
9 8 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
9 8 (16.67%) NX-OS
10 6 (12.50%) NetScaler
10 6 (12.50%) Network Security
11 5 (10.42%) 5G
11 5 (10.42%) DNS
11 5 (10.42%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (10.42%) Wireless
12 4 (8.33%) IPsec
12 4 (8.33%) RSVP
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.25%) Law
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (60.42%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Design Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (6.25%) Architect
4 3 (6.25%) Consultant
4 3 (6.25%) Developer
4 3 (6.25%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (6.25%) Network Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.17%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Security Consultant
5 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.17%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.08%) IP Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Design Engineer
6 1 (2.08%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (22.92%) JSON
2 5 (10.42%) NETCONF
2 5 (10.42%) XML
2 5 (10.42%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (35.42%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
1 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Migration
2 11 (22.92%) Change Management
3 7 (14.58%) Load Balancing
4 6 (12.50%) Network Design
5 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
6 4 (8.33%) Business Strategy
6 4 (8.33%) DevOps
6 4 (8.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 3 (6.25%) Computer Science
7 3 (6.25%) Data Centre Operations
7 3 (6.25%) Fintech
7 3 (6.25%) High Availability
7 3 (6.25%) Incident Management
7 3 (6.25%) ITIL
7 3 (6.25%) Mentoring
7 3 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (6.25%) Project Management
8 2 (4.17%) Identity Access Management
8 2 (4.17%) Project Delivery
8 2 (4.17%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.75%) ActionScript
1 9 (18.75%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) Java
2 2 (4.17%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) Perl
3 1 (2.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.75%) CCNP
3 6 (12.50%) CCIE
3 6 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.25%) CCNA
5 3 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.25%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) CCIE Routing and Switching
System Software
1 6 (12.50%) VMware NSX
2 5 (10.42%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (8.33%) ProxySG
4 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 5 (10.42%) Ansible
3 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) F5
2 22 (45.83%) Cisco
3 13 (27.08%) Palo Alto
4 12 (25.00%) Juniper
5 9 (18.75%) Fortinet
6 8 (16.67%) CheckPoint
7 6 (12.50%) Blue Coat
7 6 (12.50%) Nokia
7 6 (12.50%) VMware
8 3 (6.25%) CA
9 2 (4.17%) Aruba
9 2 (4.17%) Infoblox
9 2 (4.17%) McAfee
9 2 (4.17%) Meraki
9 2 (4.17%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.08%) Microsoft