Hybrid/Remote BIG-IP Contract Job Trends

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 308 362
Rank change year-on-year -21 +54 +94
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 10 6 5
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.087% 0.056% 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 0.51% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £351 £380 £451
25th Percentile £355 £388 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £413 £538
Median % change year-on-year +69.70% -23.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £788 £450 £597
90th Percentile £795 £465 £614
UK median daily rate £408 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -22.24% -12.50% +9.09%

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 1,140 1,184 1,915
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.90% 11.08% 11.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 725 742 1,205
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £612 £600
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% -8.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 29 88
10th Percentile £12.74 £17.64 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £36.00 £17.52
Median hourly rate £36.00 £42.50 £24.13
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +76.17% -59.79%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.31
90th Percentile £68.40 £74.00 £77.38
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.00% -12.50% +110.53%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing BIG-IP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

BIG-IP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BIG-IP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 7 March 2026.

BIG-IP daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 6 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 6 (60.00%) Firewall
3 4 (40.00%) DHCP
3 4 (40.00%) HTTP
3 4 (40.00%) SSL
4 3 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (20.00%) Network Security
5 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (20.00%) WAN
6 1 (10.00%) BGP
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (10.00%) Ethereal
6 1 (10.00%) IPsec
6 1 (10.00%) OSPF
6 1 (10.00%) Wireless
6 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 3 (30.00%) Migration Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Network Migration Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
5 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) LDAP
1 1 (10.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
2 1 (10.00%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (30.00%) BCP
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (30.00%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Change Management
3 3 (30.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (30.00%) Server Virtualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCIE
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) CCSE
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) JNCIE
1 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) FortiGate
1 4 (40.00%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
3 2 (20.00%) Ansible
3 2 (20.00%) Terraform
4 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) F5
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) NetScout
5 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) Remedy
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) SevOne
5 1 (10.00%) Zscaler