BIG-IP Job Trends

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 685 699
Rank change year-on-year +38 +14 +231
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 4 27 38
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.007% 0.051% 0.068%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.042% 0.38% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4 24 38
10th Percentile £58,650 £54,000 -
25th Percentile £61,125 £77,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £83,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.17% +51.82% -7.95%
75th Percentile £81,875 £95,000 £63,438
90th Percentile £85,250 - £63,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,000 £40,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +42.50% -27.27% +6.84%

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 9,557 7,100 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 13.31% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 3,674 6,397
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,918 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

BIG-IP job vacancy trend in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Trend

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

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

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 5 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 13 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
England +50 4 £72,500 -13.17% 8
Work from Home +62 3 £65,000 -21.21% 4
London +38 3 £80,000 -4.19% 6
UK excluding London +62 1 £57,000 +42.50% 3
South East - 1 £57,000 - 1

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (50.00%) WLAN
4 1 (25.00%) DHCP
4 1 (25.00%) DNS
4 1 (25.00%) NGFW
4 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Infoblox Consultant
3 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Availability Management
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
3 2 (50.00%) Aruba
3 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (25.00%) AlgoSec
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (25.00%) VMware