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 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 525 601 759
Rank change year-on-year +76 +158 -103
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 46 86 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 1.21% 0.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 71 45
10th Percentile £413 £450 £364
25th Percentile £455 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% +26.32%
75th Percentile £578 £619 £550
90th Percentile £610 £770 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +10.00% -7.41% +35.00%
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 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 5,394 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%

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 18 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 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 +95 37 £506 +0.25% 5
London +98 24 £506 -22.12% 2
Work from Home +71 18 £550 +10.00% 8
UK excluding London +47 16 £550 +10.00% 2
South East +24 10 £550 +10.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +42 2 £690 -
North of England +31 1 - -
Yorkshire +14 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 (2.17%) Apache
1 1 (2.17%) EPiServer
1 1 (2.17%) IIS
1 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.52%) Azure
2 2 (4.35%) GitHub
3 1 (2.17%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (65.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 26 (56.52%) Firewall
3 22 (47.83%) BGP
4 16 (34.78%) MPLS
5 15 (32.61%) OSPF
6 9 (19.57%) BIG-IP
6 9 (19.57%) WAN
7 8 (17.39%) SD-WAN
7 8 (17.39%) VPN
8 7 (15.22%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (15.22%) LAN
8 7 (15.22%) NetScaler
9 6 (13.04%) 5G
9 6 (13.04%) Network Security
9 6 (13.04%) NX-OS
10 5 (10.87%) DNS
10 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
11 4 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (8.70%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (8.70%) RSVP
Development Applications
1 10 (21.74%) Git
2 3 (6.52%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.35%) JIRA
4 1 (2.17%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (28.26%) Finance
2 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.52%) Law
4 3 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.17%) Banking
6 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (65.22%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Design Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Developer
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) IP Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Analyst
6 1 (2.17%) Consultant
6 1 (2.17%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.17%) Network Consultant
6 1 (2.17%) Security Analyst
6 1 (2.17%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.09%) JSON
2 6 (13.04%) NETCONF
2 6 (13.04%) XML
2 6 (13.04%) YANG
3 1 (2.17%) .NET
3 1 (2.17%) REST
3 1 (2.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (30.43%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.87%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Unix
2 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.57%) Migration
2 8 (17.39%) Change Management
3 7 (15.22%) Roadmaps
4 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
4 6 (13.04%) Network Design
5 4 (8.70%) Business Strategy
5 4 (8.70%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.70%) Configuration Management
5 4 (8.70%) DevOps
5 4 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (6.52%) Fintech
6 3 (6.52%) High Availability
6 3 (6.52%) Mentoring
6 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.52%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (4.35%) Service Migration
7 2 (4.35%) Time Management
8 1 (2.17%) Network Management
8 1 (2.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (2.17%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 9 (19.57%) ActionScript
3 4 (8.70%) Java
3 4 (8.70%) Perl
4 3 (6.52%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (13.04%) CCIE
2 6 (13.04%) CCNP
3 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.70%) Degree
4 4 (8.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (10.87%) VMware NSX
2 4 (8.70%) ProxySG
3 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.39%) Ansible
2 7 (15.22%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) F5
2 20 (43.48%) Cisco
3 11 (23.91%) Palo Alto
4 9 (19.57%) Juniper
4 9 (19.57%) Nokia
5 8 (17.39%) Fortinet
6 5 (10.87%) CheckPoint
6 5 (10.87%) VMware
7 4 (8.70%) Blue Coat
7 4 (8.70%) CA
8 1 (2.17%) Huawei
8 1 (2.17%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.17%) Meraki