F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 645 826
Rank change year-on-year +75 +181 -173
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 13 60 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.10% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.23% 0.82% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 52 12
10th Percentile £369 £506 £314
25th Percentile £391 £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £601 £650 £561
90th Percentile £619 - £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £544 £425
% change year-on-year +5.75% +27.94% +11.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,566 7,337 9,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.36% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,329 4,767 6,321
10th Percentile £205 £241 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 424 479 357
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% -3.51%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 7 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +72 9 £475 -13.64% 9
London +82 8 £400 -38.46% 5
UK excluding London +38 5 £575 +5.75% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Work from Home +89 1 £600 - 7
Scotland +38 1 £600 +14.29%
South East +18 1 £550 -8.33% 4

BIG-IP
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Apache
1 1 (7.69%) EPiServer
1 1 (7.69%) IIS
1 1 (7.69%) Tomcat
1 1 (7.69%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
2 1 (7.69%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 8 (61.54%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (46.15%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (30.77%) BGP
4 4 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 4 (30.77%) OSPF
4 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 4 (30.77%) VPN
5 3 (23.08%) Broadband
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco Firepower
5 3 (23.08%) DNS
5 3 (23.08%) IPsec
5 3 (23.08%) L2TP
5 3 (23.08%) MPLS
5 3 (23.08%) Multicast
5 3 (23.08%) Unicast
5 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (23.08%) Wireless
6 2 (15.38%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (23.08%) Git
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (23.08%) Law
3 3 (23.08%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (76.92%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IP Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
2 3 (23.08%) Fintech
2 3 (23.08%) High Availability
2 3 (23.08%) ITIL
2 3 (23.08%) Load Balancing
2 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
2 3 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
2 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (15.38%) Application Security
3 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
3 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (15.38%) Problem Management
3 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
3 2 (15.38%) Service Management
3 2 (15.38%) Task Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Perl
2 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Go
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
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
Systems Management
1 6 (46.15%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (53.85%) Cisco
3 4 (30.77%) CA
4 3 (23.08%) AlgoSec
4 3 (23.08%) CheckPoint
4 3 (23.08%) Infoblox
4 3 (23.08%) Nokia
5 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
5 1 (7.69%) Juniper