F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring BIG-IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BIG-IP over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 821 832 1204
Rank change year-on-year +11 +372 -248
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 21 55 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.068% 0.041%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.19% 0.42% 0.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15 54 32
10th Percentile £58,000 £38,625 £41,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £47,500 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.82% -1.83% +15.34%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile - £67,500 £89,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £50,740
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.46% +7.39%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 11,133 12,974 22,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.32% 16.08% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 7,152 7,381 12,357
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £36,250 £38,367
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £51,573 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -1.77% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,083 £70,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £86,250 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +5.56%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP.

Salary trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 8 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. 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
England -3 15 £62,500 +13.64%
Work from Home +35 14 £67,500 +35.00% 1
UK excluding London -48 9 £62,500 +25.00%
London +59 6 £62,500 -3.85%
Yorkshire - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
Midlands - 4 £62,500 -
West Midlands - 4 £62,500 -

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Mattermost
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (95.24%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (23.81%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) BGP
1 11 (52.38%) Cisco Nexus
1 11 (52.38%) OSPF
2 7 (33.33%) IPsec
2 7 (33.33%) VPN
3 6 (28.57%) 802.11
3 6 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (28.57%) Firewall
3 6 (28.57%) HSRP
4 5 (23.81%) Cisco Firepower
4 5 (23.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 5 (23.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (9.52%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (9.52%) MPLS
6 2 (9.52%) WAN
6 2 (9.52%) Wireless
7 1 (4.76%) SAN
7 1 (4.76%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Financial Institution
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Law
3 3 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Network Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) IT Manager
2 5 (23.81%) IT Operations Manager
2 5 (23.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Operations Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Network Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Administrator
4 3 (14.29%) SharePoint Administrator
5 2 (9.52%) Senior
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Site Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (28.57%) Analytics
1 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Load Balancing
2 4 (19.05%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (4.76%) Agile
3 1 (4.76%) Coaching
3 1 (4.76%) Data Security
3 1 (4.76%) Incident Management
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL
3 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
3 1 (4.76%) Network Architecture
3 1 (4.76%) Roadmaps
3 1 (4.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (4.76%) SIEM
3 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Bash
1 4 (19.05%) Python
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 3 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) CCNP
1 12 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (52.38%) CCIE
3 6 (28.57%) CISSP
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) SCOM
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Cisco
2 15 (71.43%) F5
3 13 (61.90%) Palo Alto
4 8 (38.10%) Microsoft
5 7 (33.33%) SolarWinds
6 6 (28.57%) Aruba
6 6 (28.57%) CheckPoint
6 6 (28.57%) HP
7 5 (23.81%) AppDynamics
7 5 (23.81%) Dynatrace
7 5 (23.81%) Google
8 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (4.76%) Dell
8 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.76%) Splunk
8 1 (4.76%) VMware