BIG-IP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 574 508
Rank change year-on-year +58 -66 +223
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 1 5 26
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.002% 0.013% 0.092%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.013% 0.098% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 26
10th Percentile - - £50,000
25th Percentile - - £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,000 £40,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% -27.27% +15.81%
75th Percentile - - £62,500
90th Percentile - - £63,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £83,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -22.16% +51.82% +4.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,763 5,125 4,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.52% 13.32% 17.60%
Number of salaries quoted 3,025 2,604 4,059
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,500 £35,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £59,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,433
UK median annual salary £38,000 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.63% +8.00% -4.76%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

BIG-IP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BIG-IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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
South East - 1 £57,000 - 1
BIG-IP
UK

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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