BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

F5 Networks BIG-IP
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 34 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.07% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £510 - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £563
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.11% -6.25%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 318 151 371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.03% 11.02% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 90 218
10th Percentile £204 £145 £200
25th Percentile £308 £263 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £537 £598 £575
90th Percentile £604 £700 £708
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 21
10th Percentile £18.01 £12.50 £10.50
25th Percentile £19.34 £15.13 £13.50
Median hourly rate £58.00 £16.26 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +256.70% -18.50% +19.10%
75th Percentile £64.75 £24.22 £23.75
90th Percentile £70.23 £34.80 £28.75
England median hourly rate £41.94 £29.66 £40.00
% change year-on-year +41.40% -25.85% +116.22%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BIG-IP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BIG-IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in the West Midlands

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BIG-IP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing BIG-IP

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 May 2026. 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
Birmingham - 21 £500 -
Coventry - 8 £275 -
Warwickshire - 3 £340 -
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 7 (20.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.94%) AWS
1 1 (2.94%) Azure
1 1 (2.94%) OCI
1 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (82.35%) DNS
1 28 (82.35%) HTTP
2 27 (79.41%) SSL
2 27 (79.41%) Wireshark
3 20 (58.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 20 (58.82%) TCP/IP
4 19 (55.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 10 (29.41%) Firewall
5 10 (29.41%) WAN
6 9 (26.47%) Cisco ASA
6 9 (26.47%) Cisco Nexus
6 9 (26.47%) HTTPS
6 9 (26.47%) IPsec
6 9 (26.47%) LAN
7 8 (23.53%) VPN
7 8 (23.53%) Wireless
8 7 (20.59%) Ethereal
9 2 (5.88%) SD-WAN
10 1 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
10 1 (2.94%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 19 (55.88%) Fiddler
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) GitLab
General
1 20 (58.82%) Banking
2 19 (55.88%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (91.18%) Network Engineer
2 19 (55.88%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 19 (55.88%) IP Network Engineer
2 19 (55.88%) Web Engineer
3 2 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Senior
4 1 (2.94%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Technical Architect
4 1 (2.94%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) LDAP
1 9 (26.47%) SAML
2 1 (2.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.94%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.94%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (2.94%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) Load Balancing
2 19 (55.88%) Data Loss Prevention
2 19 (55.88%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 4 (11.76%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (11.76%) Deadline-Driven
5 4 (11.76%) ITIL
5 4 (11.76%) Migration
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (8.82%) High Availability
6 3 (8.82%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (2.94%) Business Case
7 1 (2.94%) Network Architecture
7 1 (2.94%) Network Design
7 1 (2.94%) Project Management
7 1 (2.94%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (2.94%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) CCNP
1 4 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 26 (76.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (55.88%) Firmware
3 9 (26.47%) Active Directory
3 9 (26.47%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) F5
2 28 (82.35%) VMware
3 19 (55.88%) Blue Coat
3 19 (55.88%) McAfee
3 19 (55.88%) NetApp
4 14 (41.18%) Palo Alto
5 13 (38.24%) Cisco
6 9 (26.47%) CheckPoint
7 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
8 5 (14.71%) SolarWinds
9 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow
10 1 (2.94%) Arista
10 1 (2.94%) Aruba
10 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
10 1 (2.94%) Infoblox