BIG-IP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work requiring BIG-IP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited BIG-IP over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 408 561 665
Rank change year-on-year +153 +104 +158
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 7 22 11
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.065% 0.026%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.28% 0.42% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 2
10th Percentile £57,500 £51,500 £50,125
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £63,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £62,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year +44.00% -27.54% +76.02%
75th Percentile £97,500 £63,750 £108,438
90th Percentile £104,000 - £121,375
UK median annual salary £83,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +33.60% -3.85% +27.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

BIG-IP 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,522 5,284 4,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.46% 15.62% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 3,423 3,541
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £75,294
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%

BIG-IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BIG-IP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BIG-IP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing BIG-IP.

BIG-IP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

BIG-IP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
1 7 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 7 (100.00%) WAN
1 7 (100.00%) Wireless
2 6 (85.71%) LAN
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco ISE
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (57.14%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (57.14%) TACACS
4 4 (57.14%) WLAN
5 3 (42.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (42.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (42.86%) IPsec
5 3 (42.86%) MPLS
5 3 (42.86%) VPN
6 2 (28.57%) DNS
6 2 (28.57%) Network Security
6 2 (28.57%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Network Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Network Operations Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) Senior
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
2 2 (28.57%) BCP
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Change Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Converged Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CCNP
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (57.14%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Ansible
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
1 7 (100.00%) F5
1 7 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (42.86%) LogicMonitor
2 3 (42.86%) SolarWinds
3 2 (28.57%) Avaya
3 2 (28.57%) ForeScout
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) SevOne
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint