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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 865 948 1138
Rank change year-on-year +83 +190 -337
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 29 45 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.043% 0.048%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.28% 0.36%
Number of salaries quoted 17 24 51
10th Percentile £46,468 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,350 £47,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,320 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -3.06% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,500 £63,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,545 £48,750 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.47% -11.36% +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 13,628 16,029 20,652
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.88% 15.30% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 9,526 8,241 11,792
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +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 £45,000
% change year-on-year -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 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Top 10 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 26 April 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 +102 28 £55,000 +3.15% 5
London +138 17 £61,250 +13.13% 3
Work from Home +73 16 £52,500 +2.97% 29
UK excluding London -16 11 £47,545 -2.47% 3
East of England +27 6 £50,000 -
West Midlands +29 3 £46,090 -38.55% 2
Midlands +9 3 £46,090 -38.55% 2
North of England +44 2 - -
Yorkshire +96 1 - -
North West - 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 (48.28%) AWS
2 13 (44.83%) Azure
3 5 (17.24%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (13.79%) IaaS
5 2 (6.90%) PaaS
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
6 1 (3.45%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 24 (82.76%) Firewall
2 18 (62.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 15 (51.72%) VPN
4 13 (44.83%) BGP
4 13 (44.83%) OSPF
5 12 (41.38%) Cisco Nexus
5 12 (41.38%) WAN
5 12 (41.38%) Wireless
6 11 (37.93%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (34.48%) LAN
7 10 (34.48%) Network Security
8 9 (31.03%) Unified Communications
9 7 (24.14%) BIG-IP
9 7 (24.14%) MPLS
10 6 (20.69%) Cisco ISE
10 6 (20.69%) VXLAN
11 5 (17.24%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (17.24%) Internet
11 5 (17.24%) SSL
11 5 (17.24%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Law
2 6 (20.69%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.79%) Financial Institution
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (89.66%) Network Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Senior
2 10 (34.48%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Core Network Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Network Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Network Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Network Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.90%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 12 (41.38%) Public Cloud
2 11 (37.93%) Data Centre
3 9 (31.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Load Balancing
2 9 (31.03%) Line Management
3 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 6 (20.69%) Network Monitoring
3 6 (20.69%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (20.69%) Root Cause Analysis
4 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
4 5 (17.24%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (17.24%) Information Security
4 5 (17.24%) Mentoring
4 5 (17.24%) Service Delivery
5 4 (13.79%) Application Security
5 4 (13.79%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (13.79%) DDoS Mitigation
5 4 (13.79%) ITIL
5 4 (13.79%) Network Design
6 3 (10.34%) Migration
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Due Diligence
8 1 (3.45%) People Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) Python
2 4 (13.79%) Bash
3 1 (3.45%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.45%) Java
3 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (65.52%) Cisco Certification
2 18 (62.07%) CCNP
3 6 (20.69%) CCIE
4 4 (13.79%) DBS Check
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) Security Cleared
5 2 (6.90%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) SLA
2 5 (17.24%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (13.79%) vSphere
3 1 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Ansible
2 2 (6.90%) Terraform
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds Orion
3 1 (3.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) F5
2 23 (79.31%) Cisco
3 20 (68.97%) CheckPoint
4 13 (44.83%) Palo Alto
5 8 (27.59%) SolarWinds
6 7 (24.14%) Aruba
7 5 (17.24%) Forcepoint
7 5 (17.24%) VMware
8 4 (13.79%) Fortinet
9 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
10 2 (6.90%) Juniper
10 2 (6.90%) Meraki
11 1 (3.45%) Blue Coat
11 1 (3.45%) CA
11 1 (3.45%) Google
11 1 (3.45%) Riverbed