Hybrid/Remote BIG-IP Job Trends

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring BIG-IP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 433 449
Rank change year-on-year +62 +16 +237
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 3 7 37
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.043% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.22% 0.32% 1.26%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 37
10th Percentile £58,100 £57,500 -
25th Percentile £59,750 £61,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £82,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.21% +50.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,500 £97,000 -
UK median annual salary £72,500 £83,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.17% +51.82% -7.95%

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 1,381 2,171 2,940
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.19% 13.27% 13.54%
Number of salaries quoted 872 1,216 2,494
10th Percentile £27,900 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,500 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,625 £86,250 £84,056
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -4.76%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing BIG-IP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

BIG-IP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

BIG-IP
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BIG-IP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BIG-IP

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

BIG-IP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

BIG-IP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) WLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) ICMP
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
1 2 (66.67%) Network Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Availability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Coaching
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (66.67%) Aruba
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) VMware