F5 BIG-IP LTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 528 614 770
Rank change year-on-year +86 +156 -134
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 55 91 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.99% 1.24% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 76 44
10th Percentile £423 £450 £363
25th Percentile £456 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -0.46% +22.94%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £550
90th Percentile £660 £729 £641
UK excluding London median daily rate £560 £500 £539
% change year-on-year +12.00% -7.24% +34.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 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%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM.

Daily rate trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM.

Hourly rate trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 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 +101 41 £538 +3.86% 3
London +107 27 £538 -10.42% 2
UK excluding London +49 24 £560 +12.00% 2
Work from Home +87 18 £550 +4.76% 16
South East +12 11 £550 +7.84%
Scotland - 9 £780 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +30 1 - -
Yorkshire +19 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) Apache
1 1 (1.82%) EPiServer
1 1 (1.82%) IIS
1 1 (1.82%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.82%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.27%) Azure
2 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 2 (3.64%) GitHub
4 1 (1.82%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 33 (60.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 31 (56.36%) Firewall
3 26 (47.27%) BGP
4 20 (36.36%) MPLS
5 15 (27.27%) OSPF
6 13 (23.64%) NetScaler
7 11 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 10 (18.18%) 5G
8 10 (18.18%) VPN
9 9 (16.36%) Network Security
9 9 (16.36%) WAN
10 8 (14.55%) BIG-IP
10 8 (14.55%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (12.73%) HTTP
11 7 (12.73%) LAN
11 7 (12.73%) SD-WAN
11 7 (12.73%) SSL
12 6 (10.91%) RSVP
13 5 (9.09%) DNS
13 5 (9.09%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 20 (36.36%) Git
2 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
3 3 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.45%) Finance
3 8 (14.55%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.45%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.45%) Law
5 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.18%) Developer
3 7 (12.73%) Design Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Network Design Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 5 (9.09%) Senior
5 4 (7.27%) Python Developer
6 3 (5.45%) IP Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Juniper Engineer
6 3 (5.45%) Linux Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Unix Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Java Applications Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Network Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Network Architect
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (29.09%) JSON
2 10 (18.18%) NETCONF
2 10 (18.18%) XML
2 10 (18.18%) YANG
3 7 (12.73%) REST
4 4 (7.27%) AngularJS
4 4 (7.27%) Twisted
5 1 (1.82%) .NET
5 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.91%) Distributed Architecture
3 5 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Linux
1 10 (18.18%) Unix
2 6 (10.91%) Windows
3 4 (7.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) Migration
2 10 (18.18%) Roadmaps
3 8 (14.55%) Load Balancing
3 8 (14.55%) Network Design
4 7 (12.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure Automation
5 6 (10.91%) Business Strategy
5 6 (10.91%) Change Management
5 6 (10.91%) DevOps
5 6 (10.91%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 5 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (9.09%) Low Latency
6 5 (9.09%) Ultra-Low Latency
7 4 (7.27%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.27%) Mentoring
7 4 (7.27%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (5.45%) Fintech
8 3 (5.45%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 23 (41.82%) Python
2 10 (18.18%) Java
2 10 (18.18%) Perl
3 9 (16.36%) ActionScript
4 7 (12.73%) Bash
5 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.45%) SQL
7 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (14.55%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (10.91%) CCIE
2 6 (10.91%) CCNP
2 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) Degree
3 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
3 5 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.82%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (1.82%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (10.91%) VMware NSX
2 5 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (7.27%) ProxySG
4 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) FortiGate
2 8 (14.55%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) Terraform
3 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (100.00%) F5
2 22 (40.00%) Cisco
3 14 (25.45%) Palo Alto
4 13 (23.64%) Nokia
5 11 (20.00%) Fortinet
6 9 (16.36%) Juniper
7 6 (10.91%) VMware
8 5 (9.09%) CheckPoint
9 4 (7.27%) Blue Coat
9 4 (7.27%) CA
10 2 (3.64%) Huawei
11 1 (1.82%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.82%) Meraki
11 1 (1.82%) QinetiQ