BIG-IP Contracts with Work from Home Options

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 341 435 623
Rank change year-on-year +94 +188 -158
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 31 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.13% 0.014%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 1.09% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 29 4
10th Percentile £580 £495 £349
25th Percentile £587 £513 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £611 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £624 - £541
90th Percentile £625 - £546
UK median daily rate £563 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -6.25% +26.32% +15.15%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,533 2,848 4,326
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.37% 11.57% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 1,885 2,931
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £617 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £676
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 95 104
10th Percentile £12.75 £21.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £26.44
Median hourly rate £24.38 £57.50 £48.04
Median % change year-on-year -57.61% +19.69% +17.17%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.56
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +13.64%

BIG-IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BIG-IP trend for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BIG-IP.

BIG-IP daily rate 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) EPiServer
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Information Security
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) logstash
2 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) CA
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk