F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 868 920 1175
Rank change year-on-year +52 +255 -315
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 28 55 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.055% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 0.35% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 23 41 36
10th Percentile £39,100 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £47,500 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £65,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +26.83% +8.47%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,250 - £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +47.06% -13.27% +3.70%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,486 15,697 21,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.62% 15.64% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,397 7,959 11,810
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +3.33%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +57 28 £62,500 -3.85% 7
UK excluding London -16 22 £62,500 +47.06% 4
Work from Home +84 20 £62,500 +25.00% 7
West Midlands +9 15 £62,500 -
Midlands +8 15 £62,500 -
London +103 6 £62,500 -3.85% 3
Yorkshire - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
South West -24 2 £45,000 -5.26%

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 12 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 26 (92.86%) Azure
2 8 (28.57%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 11 (39.29%) Firewall
3 8 (28.57%) BGP
3 8 (28.57%) OSPF
4 7 (25.00%) MPLS
4 7 (25.00%) SD-WAN
4 7 (25.00%) WAN
4 7 (25.00%) Wireless
5 6 (21.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 5 (17.86%) Cisco ASA
6 5 (17.86%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (17.86%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (17.86%) Cisco Wireless
6 5 (17.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (10.71%) SAN
8 2 (7.14%) IPsec
8 2 (7.14%) VPN
8 2 (7.14%) VXLAN
9 1 (3.57%) DNS
9 1 (3.57%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
1 3 (10.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (42.86%) Law
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (32.14%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.14%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Administrator
1 10 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (35.71%) SharePoint Administrator
2 9 (32.14%) Network Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) IT Manager
3 5 (17.86%) IT Operations Manager
3 5 (17.86%) Operations Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) DBA
5 1 (3.57%) Developer
5 1 (3.57%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (3.57%) SQL DBA
5 1 (3.57%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (64.29%) Load Balancing
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Coaching
4 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
4 3 (10.71%) ITIL
4 3 (10.71%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
4 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
4 3 (10.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (7.14%) IT Strategy
6 1 (3.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.57%) ETL
6 1 (3.57%) High Availability
6 1 (3.57%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
1 12 (42.86%) T-SQL
2 4 (14.29%) Bash
2 4 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (32.14%) CCNP
1 9 (32.14%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (17.86%) CCIE
3 3 (10.71%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) SCOM
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 3 (10.71%) Terraform
3 2 (7.14%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 23 (82.14%) F5
2 16 (57.14%) Cisco
3 10 (35.71%) CheckPoint
4 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
4 9 (32.14%) Palo Alto
4 9 (32.14%) SolarWinds
5 5 (17.86%) AppDynamics
5 5 (17.86%) Dynatrace
5 5 (17.86%) Google
6 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
7 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
7 2 (7.14%) Meraki