F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 864 909 1177
Rank change year-on-year +45 +268 -350
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 32 61 55
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.058% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.24% 0.38% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 27 40 36
10th Percentile £40,800 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £42,188 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +27.45% +7.94%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £69,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £40,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +56.25% -18.37% +3.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

BIG-IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 9 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 27 April 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 +88 32 £62,500 -3.85% 8
UK excluding London +8 25 £62,500 +56.25% 4
Work from Home +103 23 £62,500 -27.54% 6
West Midlands +26 18 £62,500 -
Midlands +8 18 £62,500 -
London +109 7 £62,500 -3.85% 4
Yorkshire - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
South West 0 2 £45,000 -

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 15 (46.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (90.63%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Cisco Nexus
2 12 (37.50%) Firewall
3 9 (28.13%) BGP
3 9 (28.13%) OSPF
4 8 (25.00%) WAN
4 8 (25.00%) Wireless
5 7 (21.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (21.88%) MPLS
5 7 (21.88%) SD-WAN
6 6 (18.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (15.63%) Cisco Wireless
8 3 (9.38%) SAN
9 2 (6.25%) IPsec
9 2 (6.25%) Network Security
9 2 (6.25%) VPN
9 2 (6.25%) VXLAN
10 1 (3.13%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (46.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) JIRA
1 3 (9.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (50.00%) Law
2 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
3 14 (43.75%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (28.13%) Finance
5 4 (12.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.25%) Military
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Administrator
1 12 (37.50%) SharePoint Administrator
2 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) IT Manager
3 5 (15.63%) IT Operations Manager
3 5 (15.63%) Operations Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (3.13%) DBA
5 1 (3.13%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.13%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Load Balancing
2 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (9.38%) Agile
4 3 (9.38%) Coaching
4 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
4 3 (9.38%) ITIL
4 3 (9.38%) Mentoring
4 3 (9.38%) Network Architecture
4 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
4 3 (9.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (6.25%) IT Strategy
6 1 (3.13%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.13%) ETL
6 1 (3.13%) High Availability
6 1 (3.13%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) SQL
1 15 (46.88%) T-SQL
2 4 (12.50%) Bash
2 4 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) CCNP
1 10 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.75%) CCIE
3 3 (9.38%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (15.63%) SCOM
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
2 3 (9.38%) Terraform
3 2 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 27 (84.38%) F5
2 17 (53.13%) Cisco
3 10 (31.25%) CheckPoint
3 10 (31.25%) Palo Alto
3 10 (31.25%) SolarWinds
4 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
5 5 (15.63%) AppDynamics
5 5 (15.63%) Dynatrace
5 5 (15.63%) Google
6 3 (9.38%) Fortinet
6 3 (9.38%) ServiceNow
7 2 (6.25%) Meraki
8 1 (3.13%) Aruba
8 1 (3.13%) Riverbed