F5 BIG-IP LTM Job Trends

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 648 674 684
Rank change year-on-year +26 +10 +270
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 5 25 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.047% 0.066%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.052% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 4 17 18
10th Percentile £53,850 £50,500 £50,000
25th Percentile £55,875 £57,500 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £83,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.95% +28.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £72,500 £85,250 £106,289
90th Percentile £81,500 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £50,000 £96,627
% change year-on-year +12.00% -48.25% +61.04%

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 9,596 7,151 7,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.00% 13.36% 14.12%
Number of salaries quoted 3,882 3,712 6,352
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £39,625 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +10.00% -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% -

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing F5 BIG-IP LTM relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

F5 BIG-IP LTM job vacancy trend in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing F5 BIG-IP LTM.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing F5 BIG-IP LTM

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 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 +43 5 £61,000 -26.95% 5
Work from Home +66 3 £65,000 +8.33% 5
London +39 3 £75,000 -10.18% 3
UK excluding London +52 2 £56,000 +12.00% 1
South East +33 1 £57,000 -
South West - 1 £55,000 -

F5 BIG-IP LTM
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) BIG-IP
2 3 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Wireshark
3 2 (40.00%) WLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (20.00%) ICMP
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCSE
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
1 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (40.00%) Aruba
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (20.00%) Dell
5 1 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft