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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 862 947 1161
Rank change year-on-year +85 +214 -338
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 26 48 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.047% 0.047%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.19% 0.30% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 15 29 49
10th Percentile £45,327 £45,580 £44,550
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,350 £48,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £82,548 £70,000
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 13,535 15,801 20,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.65% 15.56% 13.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,435 8,018 11,727
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%

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 8 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 8 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 +56 25 £52,500 - 2
London +117 15 £61,250 +14.87% 2
Work from Home +51 14 £52,500 +2.97% 8
UK excluding London -25 10 £47,545 -9.44%
East of England +14 6 £50,000 -
West Midlands +14 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Midlands +6 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Yorkshire +75 1 - -
North of England +35 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 14 (53.85%) AWS
2 12 (46.15%) Azure
3 5 (19.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (15.38%) IaaS
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) SaaS
6 1 (3.85%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) Firewall
2 15 (57.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 15 (57.69%) VPN
3 12 (46.15%) BGP
3 12 (46.15%) OSPF
4 11 (42.31%) Cisco Nexus
4 11 (42.31%) Wireless
5 10 (38.46%) Cisco Firepower
6 9 (34.62%) Network Security
6 9 (34.62%) Unified Communications
6 9 (34.62%) WAN
7 7 (26.92%) LAN
7 7 (26.92%) MPLS
8 6 (23.08%) BIG-IP
8 6 (23.08%) VXLAN
9 5 (19.23%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (19.23%) Internet
9 5 (19.23%) SSL
9 5 (19.23%) VoIP
10 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Telecoms
3 4 (15.38%) Financial Institution
3 4 (15.38%) Law
4 3 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Network Engineer
2 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 10 (38.46%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Core Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Lead
4 4 (15.38%) Lead Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (42.31%) Public Cloud
2 10 (38.46%) Data Centre
3 9 (34.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Load Balancing
2 9 (34.62%) Line Management
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (19.23%) Configuration Management
4 5 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (19.23%) Information Security
4 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) Service Delivery
5 4 (15.38%) Application Security
5 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (15.38%) DDoS Mitigation
5 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 4 (15.38%) Network Design
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
7 2 (7.69%) DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Collaborative Culture
8 1 (3.85%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
2 4 (15.38%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (61.54%) CCNP
3 5 (19.23%) CCIE
4 4 (15.38%) DBS Check
5 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
6 2 (7.69%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (34.62%) SLA
2 5 (19.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (15.38%) vSphere
2 1 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
2 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) F5
2 20 (76.92%) Cisco
3 19 (73.08%) CheckPoint
4 12 (46.15%) Palo Alto
5 6 (23.08%) Aruba
5 6 (23.08%) SolarWinds
6 5 (19.23%) Forcepoint
7 4 (15.38%) VMware
8 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
9 2 (7.69%) Fortinet
9 2 (7.69%) Juniper
9 2 (7.69%) Meraki