F5 BIG-IP LTM Jobs

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 688 879 923
Rank change year-on-year +191 +44 +264
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 14 28 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.027% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.14% 0.21% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9 21 29
10th Percentile £56,250 £47,500 -
25th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £54,139
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% -3.03% -3.58%
75th Percentile £85,250 £66,250 £82,548
90th Percentile - £118,750 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -2.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 10,094 13,581 15,458
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.08% 13.10% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,436 9,413 7,713
10th Percentile £23,504 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £26,625 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%

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 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Top 6 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 31 May 2025. 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 +155 11 £65,000 +23.81% 10
London +98 10 £70,000 +12.00% 5
UK excluding London +177 4 £52,500 +5.00% 5
Work from Home +111 4 £60,000 +14.29% 1
Scotland - 3 - -
South West +110 1 £52,500 +5.00%

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (100.00%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 5 (35.71%) GCP
4 4 (28.57%) OpenShift
5 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) Network Security
2 10 (71.43%) DNS
2 10 (71.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 10 (71.43%) Firewall
3 8 (57.14%) BIG-IP
4 6 (42.86%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (42.86%) VPN
4 6 (42.86%) WAN
4 6 (42.86%) Wireless
5 5 (35.71%) BGP
5 5 (35.71%) LAN
5 5 (35.71%) MPLS
5 5 (35.71%) OSPF
6 4 (28.57%) EIGRP
6 4 (28.57%) IPsec
6 4 (28.57%) SD-WAN
7 3 (21.43%) 802.11
7 3 (21.43%) NGFW
7 3 (21.43%) PBX
7 3 (21.43%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
1 6 (42.86%) Network Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Network Security Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Network Technical Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Security Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Security Technical Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Design Architect
4 3 (21.43%) Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Network Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Network Operations Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Architect
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Network Design Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) 802.1X
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (35.71%) Public Cloud
3 4 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (28.57%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Coaching
1 4 (28.57%) Community of Practice
1 4 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
1 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps
1 4 (28.57%) High Availability
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
1 4 (28.57%) Mentoring
1 4 (28.57%) Network Monitoring
1 4 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (28.57%) Observability
1 4 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
1 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
1 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
1 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
1 4 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
2 3 (21.43%) Change Management
2 3 (21.43%) Project Delivery
2 3 (21.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (78.57%) CCNP
3 7 (50.00%) CCNA
4 1 (7.14%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
4 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 4 (28.57%) FortiGate
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) F5
2 9 (64.29%) Cisco
3 6 (42.86%) Palo Alto
4 5 (35.71%) Fortinet
5 4 (28.57%) Meraki
5 4 (28.57%) Riverbed
5 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 4 (28.57%) Zscaler
6 3 (21.43%) Avaya
6 3 (21.43%) SevOne
7 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
7 2 (14.29%) ForeScout
8 1 (7.14%) Aruba
8 1 (7.14%) Google
8 1 (7.14%) Juniper
8 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
8 1 (7.14%) VMware