BIG-IP Contracts in England

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 609 764
Rank change year-on-year +85 +155 -153
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 13 38 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.079% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.27% 0.64% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 33 11
10th Percentile £372 £506 £325
25th Percentile £395 £513 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £650 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% +36.84% +10.14%
75th Percentile £617 - £550
90th Percentile £627 - £594
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -6.25% +26.32% +15.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

BIG-IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,790 5,906 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.14% 12.27% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,863 5,177
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £394 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.05%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 423 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +13.64%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in England.

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in England

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in England

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing BIG-IP in England.

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +66 9 £400 -38.46% 3
North of England +29 3 £624 +24.70%
Yorkshire +15 3 £624 +24.70%
South East +12 1 £550 - 4
BIG-IP
UK

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 3 (23.08%) GitHub
2 3 (23.08%) Kong
3 2 (15.38%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 13 (100.00%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) VPN
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
4 5 (38.46%) DNS
5 4 (30.77%) BGP
5 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 4 (30.77%) OSPF
6 3 (23.08%) Broadband
6 3 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (23.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (23.08%) HTTP
6 3 (23.08%) HTTPS
6 3 (23.08%) L2TP
6 3 (23.08%) MPLS
6 3 (23.08%) Multicast
6 3 (23.08%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (23.08%) SSL
6 3 (23.08%) Unicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Git
2 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (23.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (23.08%) CircleCI
3 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) Travis CI
General
1 6 (46.15%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IP Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Web Applications Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Web Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
1 3 (23.08%) XML
1 3 (23.08%) YAML
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
3 1 (7.69%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
1 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Application Security
1 6 (46.15%) DevSecOps
2 5 (38.46%) Task Automation
3 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (23.08%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Use Case
4 3 (23.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Bash
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 3 (23.08%) ActionScript
3 3 (23.08%) Perl
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Go
4 2 (15.38%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) CCNP
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) CCNA
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Kibana
2 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) logstash
2 3 (23.08%) Progress Chef
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
2 3 (23.08%) Puppet
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 3 (23.08%) AlgoSec
3 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
3 3 (23.08%) Infoblox
3 3 (23.08%) Nokia
3 3 (23.08%) Splunk
4 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 1 (7.69%) Juniper