BIG-IP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring BIG-IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BIG-IP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 344 438
Rank change year-on-year +45 +94 +189
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 5 1 39
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.007% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.48% 0.062% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 36
10th Percentile £385 - £506
25th Percentile £400 £575 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +26.32%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £650
90th Percentile £575 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - +29.41%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

BIG-IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BIG-IP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BIG-IP.

BIG-IP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

BIG-IP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
3 2 (40.00%) NGFW
3 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Multicast
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Operations Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Creative Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (40.00%) Arista
3 2 (40.00%) Aruba
3 2 (40.00%) BMC
3 2 (40.00%) NetScout
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (20.00%) VMware