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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 553 645 827
Rank change year-on-year +92 +182 -151
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 18 42 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.074% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 0.59% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 12
10th Percentile £378 £506 £330
25th Percentile £400 £513 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +20.00% +21.21%
75th Percentile £620 £650 £556
90th Percentile £626 - £592
UK excluding London median daily rate £611 £538 £425
% change year-on-year +13.67% +26.47% +6.25%

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 5,394 7,081 9,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.67% 12.44% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,577 6,274
10th Percentile £205 £235 £231
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.85% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £694 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 458 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -34.70% +13.32%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.21 £50.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.65 £65.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -7.37%

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 18 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 9 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 18 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 +84 13 £563 -13.46% 9
London +80 9 £400 -38.46% 5
UK excluding London +54 8 £611 +13.67% 7
North of England +35 3 £624 +24.70%
Yorkshire +17 3 £624 +24.70%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Work from Home +80 2 £611 -6.00% 6
Scotland +40 1 £600 +14.29%
South East +29 1 £550 - 7

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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (5.56%) Apache
2 1 (5.56%) EPiServer
2 1 (5.56%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.56%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
1 6 (33.33%) GCP
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
2 3 (16.67%) Kong
3 2 (11.11%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (38.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 7 (38.89%) TCP/IP
3 7 (38.89%) VPN
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (33.33%) DNS
5 4 (22.22%) BGP
5 4 (22.22%) OSPF
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (16.67%) HTTP
6 3 (16.67%) IPsec
6 3 (16.67%) L2TP
6 3 (16.67%) MPLS
6 3 (16.67%) Multicast
6 3 (16.67%) Reverse Proxy
6 3 (16.67%) Unicast
6 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (16.67%) CircleCI
3 3 (16.67%) GitLab
3 3 (16.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (16.67%) Travis CI
General
1 9 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (27.78%) Finance
4 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) IP Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) IP Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Web Applications Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Network Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (16.67%) JSON
1 3 (16.67%) XML
1 3 (16.67%) YAML
2 1 (5.56%) OLE
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Application Security
1 6 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (27.78%) Task Automation
3 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
3 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 3 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (16.67%) High Availability
4 3 (16.67%) ITIL
4 3 (16.67%) Load Balancing
4 3 (16.67%) Scrum
4 3 (16.67%) Service Management
4 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (16.67%) Use Case
4 3 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (55.56%) Python
2 6 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (27.78%) Bash
4 3 (16.67%) ActionScript
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) Perl
4 3 (16.67%) SQL
5 2 (11.11%) C#
5 2 (11.11%) Go
5 2 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Degree
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CCNP
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (16.67%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (16.67%) Kibana
2 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (16.67%) logstash
2 3 (16.67%) Progress Chef
2 3 (16.67%) Prometheus
2 3 (16.67%) Puppet
2 3 (16.67%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) F5
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) CA
4 3 (16.67%) AlgoSec
4 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 3 (16.67%) Infoblox
4 3 (16.67%) Nokia
4 3 (16.67%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper