BIG-IP Job Trends in the North West

F5 Networks BIG-IP
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.014% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.051% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £69,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,000 - -
75th Percentile £74,500 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £65,000 £83,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.16% +51.82% -15.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

BIG-IP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,957 540 792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 27.21% 11.59% 12.03%
Number of salaries quoted 388 335 676
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,600 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,121 £33,250 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,750 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.44% - -
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,575 £77,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £40,792 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -25.83% +10.00% -3.85%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in the North West

BIG-IP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BIG-IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the North West region over the 6 months to 11 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 1 £72,000 - 2
BIG-IP
England

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) VMware