BIG-IP Job Trends in the Thames Valley

F5 Networks BIG-IP
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.025% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 - -
South East median annual salary £57,000 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 355 470 482
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.86% 13.80% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 189 219 420
10th Percentile £27,000 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £36,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £56,533 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £68,150 £90,000 £77,500
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

BIG-IP
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BIG-IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £57,000 - 1
BIG-IP
South East

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) ICMP
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Availability Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) F5
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) VMware