F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 872 930 1164
Rank change year-on-year +58 +234 -316
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 24 45 73
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.045% 0.046%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.29% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 15 28 48
10th Percentile £45,327 £45,195 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,350 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £56,825
Median % change year-on-year - -7.61% -5.29%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,250 £63,125
90th Percentile £66,250 £82,548 £70,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,545 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.44% -4.55% +16.40%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 13,486 15,697 21,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.64% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,959 11,810
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 £43,500 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP LTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM.

Salary trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +59 23 £52,500 - 2
London +122 15 £61,250 +16.67% 2
Work from Home +57 12 £52,500 +2.97% 1
UK excluding London -30 8 £47,545 -9.44%
East of England +4 4 £50,000 -
West Midlands +8 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Midlands +7 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Yorkshire +83 1 - -
North of England +28 1 - -

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (16.67%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 20 (83.33%) Firewall
2 15 (62.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 13 (54.17%) VPN
4 12 (50.00%) BGP
4 12 (50.00%) OSPF
5 11 (45.83%) Cisco Nexus
6 10 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 9 (37.50%) Network Security
7 9 (37.50%) Unified Communications
7 9 (37.50%) WAN
7 9 (37.50%) Wireless
8 7 (29.17%) LAN
8 7 (29.17%) MPLS
9 6 (25.00%) BIG-IP
9 6 (25.00%) VXLAN
10 5 (20.83%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (20.83%) Internet
10 5 (20.83%) SSL
10 5 (20.83%) VoIP
11 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 4 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Network Engineer
2 8 (33.33%) Senior
2 8 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Lead Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 9 (37.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (37.50%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Load Balancing
2 7 (29.17%) Line Management
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
4 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Application Security
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.67%) DDoS Mitigation
5 4 (16.67%) ITIL
5 4 (16.67%) Network Design
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) DevOps
8 1 (4.17%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (4.17%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (58.33%) CCNP
3 5 (20.83%) CCIE
4 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 2 (8.33%) CCNA
5 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) SLA
2 5 (20.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) F5
2 18 (75.00%) Cisco
3 17 (70.83%) CheckPoint
4 12 (50.00%) Palo Alto
5 6 (25.00%) SolarWinds
6 5 (20.83%) Forcepoint
7 4 (16.67%) Aruba
8 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
9 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (8.33%) Juniper
9 2 (8.33%) Meraki
9 2 (8.33%) VMware