The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 11 August 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
BIG-IP 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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills
261
602
685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands
16.86%
13.68%
13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted
136
333
398
Median daily rate
£425
£400
£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25%
-
+3.23%
10th Percentile
£223
£200
£205
90th Percentile
£638
£598
£550
England median daily rate
£438
£425
£425
% change year-on-year
+2.94%
-
+2.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted
16
20
53
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£16.00
£17.34
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+118.75%
-7.70%
+8.34%
10th Percentile
£15.24
£12.00
£11.64
90th Percentile
£47.20
£47.50
£30.81
Median hourly rate
£35.00
£23.75
£20.00
% change year-on-year
+47.37%
+18.75%
+10.50%
BIG-IP Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands
Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.
BIG-IP Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in the West Midlands.
BIG-IP Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands
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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 August 2020. 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
BIG-IP Top 9 Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands
For the 6 months to 11 August 2020, IT contractor jobs citing BIG-IP also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region with a requirement for BIG-IP.
BIG-IP Co-occurring IT Skills in the West Midlands by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
