BIG-IP Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

F5 Networks BIG-IP
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.18% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.04% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £460 - £624
% change year-on-year - - +24.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 98 86 95
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 8.63% 15.41% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 49 68
10th Percentile £313 £222 £272
25th Percentile £318 £243 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £485 £470
Median % change year-on-year -12.37% +3.19% -6.00%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £605 £641
Yorkshire median daily rate £456 £458 £470
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.61% -1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £18.34 - -
25th Percentile £20.83 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.81 - £13.87
Median % change year-on-year - - -57.32%
75th Percentile £25.77 - £14.25
90th Percentile £26.44 - £16.66
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 - £18.27
% change year-on-year - - +71.87%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

BIG-IP
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

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

BIG-IP
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 15 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
Leeds - 2 £480 - 1
BIG-IP
Yorkshire

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto