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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 873 915 1171
Rank change year-on-year +42 +256 -333
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 29 57 58
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.056% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.36% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 24 41 36
10th Percentile £39,525 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +26.83% +8.47%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,250 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +47.06% -13.27% +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 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 +74 29 £62,500 -3.85% 8
UK excluding London 0 23 £62,500 +47.06% 5
Work from Home +81 21 £62,500 +25.00% 6
West Midlands +14 16 £62,500 -
Midlands -8 16 £62,500 -
London +81 6 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
South West -21 2 £45,000 -5.26% 1

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 13 (44.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 27 (93.10%) Azure
2 8 (27.59%) AWS
3 5 (17.24%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (48.28%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (37.93%) Firewall
3 8 (27.59%) BGP
3 8 (27.59%) OSPF
4 7 (24.14%) MPLS
4 7 (24.14%) SD-WAN
4 7 (24.14%) WAN
4 7 (24.14%) Wireless
5 6 (20.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (17.24%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (17.24%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (17.24%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (17.24%) Cisco Wireless
6 5 (17.24%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (10.34%) SAN
8 2 (6.90%) IPsec
8 2 (6.90%) VPN
8 2 (6.90%) VXLAN
9 1 (3.45%) DNS
9 1 (3.45%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (44.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) JIRA
1 3 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (44.83%) Law
1 13 (44.83%) Social Skills
2 12 (41.38%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (31.03%) Finance
4 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.90%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Administrator
1 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (34.48%) SharePoint Administrator
2 9 (31.03%) Network Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) IT Manager
3 5 (17.24%) IT Operations Manager
3 5 (17.24%) Operations Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Developer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (3.45%) DBA
5 1 (3.45%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.45%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (27.59%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) Load Balancing
2 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (10.34%) Agile
4 3 (10.34%) Coaching
4 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.34%) ITIL
4 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.34%) Network Architecture
4 3 (10.34%) Roadmaps
4 3 (10.34%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (6.90%) IT Strategy
6 1 (3.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.45%) ETL
6 1 (3.45%) High Availability
6 1 (3.45%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (44.83%) SQL
1 13 (44.83%) T-SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Bash
2 4 (13.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (31.03%) CCNP
1 9 (31.03%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.24%) CCIE
3 3 (10.34%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) SCOM
2 3 (10.34%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Terraform
3 2 (6.90%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 24 (82.76%) F5
2 16 (55.17%) Cisco
3 10 (34.48%) CheckPoint
4 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
4 9 (31.03%) Palo Alto
4 9 (31.03%) SolarWinds
5 5 (17.24%) AppDynamics
5 5 (17.24%) Dynatrace
5 5 (17.24%) Google
6 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
7 2 (6.90%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.90%) Meraki