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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 - 119
Rank change year-on-year - - +61
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 8 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.44% - 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.83% - 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.56%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £400 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +9.09%

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 283 249 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.41% 13.04% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 149 225
10th Percentile £242 £200 £216
25th Percentile £325 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% -3.85%
75th Percentile £556 £635 £575
90th Percentile £640 £730 £731
England median daily rate £488 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -3.94% +1.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 3 18
10th Percentile £16.81 £24.00 £18.10
25th Percentile £22.63 £28.13 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +46.67%
75th Percentile £35.63 £47.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £43.63 £55.00 £67.88
England median hourly rate £41.72 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.25% +1.52% +34.02%

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.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP 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
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 18 September 2025. 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 - 4 - - 1
Coventry - 4 £400 -
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (50.00%) DMZ
1 4 (50.00%) DNS
1 4 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 4 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) HTTP
1 4 (50.00%) SSL
1 4 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (50.00%) Wireshark
2 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Fiddler
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (50.00%) Banking
1 4 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Python Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Junior
3 3 (37.50%) Junior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Load Balancing
1 7 (87.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (50.00%) Blue Coat
2 4 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) McAfee
2 4 (50.00%) NetApp
2 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (50.00%) SolarWinds