F5 BIG-IP GTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP GTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 633 796
Rank change year-on-year +95 +163 -151
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 35 67 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.12% 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.65% 0.95% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 57 33
10th Percentile £413 £450 £423
25th Percentile £475 £500 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +8.80% +27.06%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £582
90th Percentile £622 £770 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £500 £545
% change year-on-year +14.50% -8.26% +36.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.63% -12.90%
75th Percentile - - £58.06
90th Percentile - - £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.00
% change year-on-year - - -12.90%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM 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 7,082 9,559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.68% 12.40% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 4,571 6,235
10th Percentile £205 £235 £232
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% +3.90% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
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 417 464 368
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% +6.91%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -8.99%

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP GTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 GTM within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +90 27 £550 +4.76% 2
London +102 19 £506 -33.39% 2
Work from Home +99 17 £550 +4.76% 1
UK excluding London +47 13 £573 +14.50%
North of England +22 4 £624 +6.13%
Yorkshire +22 4 £624 +24.70%
South East +16 4 £566 +13.25%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +48 2 £600 -

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 (8.57%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) EPiServer
2 1 (2.86%) IIS
2 1 (2.86%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.86%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) GitHub
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) GCP
2 3 (8.57%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 32 (91.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 18 (51.43%) Firewall
3 16 (45.71%) BGP
4 12 (34.29%) MPLS
5 8 (22.86%) 5G
5 8 (22.86%) OSPF
6 7 (20.00%) BIG-IP
6 7 (20.00%) LAN
6 7 (20.00%) Network Security
6 7 (20.00%) WAN
7 6 (17.14%) DNS
7 6 (17.14%) NX-OS
7 6 (17.14%) SD-WAN
7 6 (17.14%) VPN
8 4 (11.43%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (11.43%) NetScaler
8 4 (11.43%) RSVP
8 4 (11.43%) TCP/IP
9 3 (8.57%) HTTP
9 3 (8.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Git
2 5 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (8.57%) CircleCI
3 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.57%) Law
3 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Design Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Design Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (48.57%) JSON
2 11 (31.43%) XML
3 8 (22.86%) NETCONF
3 8 (22.86%) YANG
4 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.57%) YAML
5 1 (2.86%) .NET
5 1 (2.86%) OLE
5 1 (2.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Migration
2 7 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (17.14%) Change Management
3 6 (17.14%) Network Design
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
4 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
4 4 (11.43%) Load Balancing
4 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
4 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (8.57%) Agile
5 3 (8.57%) API Integration
5 3 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (8.57%) Fintech
5 3 (8.57%) High Availability
5 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
5 3 (8.57%) Scrum
5 3 (8.57%) Secure Coding
5 3 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (8.57%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 14 (40.00%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) ActionScript
3 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
4 3 (8.57%) Java
5 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (17.14%) CCNP
1 6 (17.14%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (14.29%) CCIE
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (11.43%) VMware NSX
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (22.86%) Ansible
2 6 (17.14%) FortiGate
3 5 (14.29%) Terraform
4 3 (8.57%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (8.57%) Grafana
4 3 (8.57%) Kibana
4 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.57%) logstash
4 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.57%) Puppet
5 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) F5
2 11 (31.43%) Cisco
3 8 (22.86%) Nokia
3 8 (22.86%) Palo Alto
4 7 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 5 (14.29%) Juniper
6 4 (11.43%) CA
6 4 (11.43%) VMware
7 3 (8.57%) Splunk
8 2 (5.71%) Huawei
9 1 (2.86%) Infoblox