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 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 524 614 776
Rank change year-on-year +90 +162 -136
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 49 86 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.91% 1.21% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 71 43
10th Percentile £413 £450 £363
25th Percentile £455 £475 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -2.78% +26.32%
75th Percentile £577 £619 £550
90th Percentile £607 £770 £650
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 7,082 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 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 15 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 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 +84 39 £538 +6.44% 2
London +103 25 £538 -17.31% 2
Work from Home +89 19 £550 +7.32% 1
UK excluding London +39 18 £550 +10.00%
South East +11 11 £550 +10.00%
Scotland +49 3 £690 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Yorkshire +19 1 - -
North of England +19 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 (2.04%) Apache
1 1 (2.04%) EPiServer
1 1 (2.04%) IIS
1 1 (2.04%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.04%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.16%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) AWS
2 2 (4.08%) GitHub
3 1 (2.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 32 (65.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 29 (59.18%) Firewall
3 25 (51.02%) BGP
4 18 (36.73%) MPLS
5 16 (32.65%) OSPF
6 10 (20.41%) VPN
6 10 (20.41%) WAN
7 9 (18.37%) BIG-IP
8 8 (16.33%) 5G
8 8 (16.33%) Cisco ASA
8 8 (16.33%) LAN
8 8 (16.33%) SD-WAN
9 7 (14.29%) NetScaler
9 7 (14.29%) Network Security
10 6 (12.24%) NX-OS
11 5 (10.20%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (10.20%) DNS
11 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
11 5 (10.20%) Wireless
12 4 (8.16%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Git
2 3 (6.12%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.08%) JIRA
4 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (26.53%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.12%) Law
4 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (67.35%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Design Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Network Design Engineer
2 5 (10.20%) Senior
3 4 (8.16%) Developer
4 3 (6.12%) IP Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (6.12%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Senior Network Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.04%) Analyst
6 1 (2.04%) Network Consultant
6 1 (2.04%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) JSON
2 8 (16.33%) NETCONF
2 8 (16.33%) XML
2 8 (16.33%) YANG
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.20%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.16%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.04%) PKI
4 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Unix
2 4 (8.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Migration
2 8 (16.33%) Change Management
2 8 (16.33%) Roadmaps
3 6 (12.24%) Load Balancing
3 6 (12.24%) Network Design
4 5 (10.20%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.16%) Business Strategy
5 4 (8.16%) Configuration Management
5 4 (8.16%) DevOps
5 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (8.16%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (6.12%) Fintech
6 3 (6.12%) High Availability
7 2 (4.08%) ITIL
7 2 (4.08%) Service Management
7 2 (4.08%) Service Migration
7 2 (4.08%) Time Management
7 2 (4.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (30.61%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) ActionScript
3 4 (8.16%) Java
3 4 (8.16%) Perl
4 3 (6.12%) SQL
5 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.04%) Bash
6 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (14.29%) CCNP
3 6 (12.24%) CCIE
3 6 (12.24%) Security Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) Degree
4 5 (10.20%) DV Cleared
4 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (2.04%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) VMware NSX
2 5 (10.20%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (8.16%) ProxySG
4 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) Ansible
1 8 (16.33%) FortiGate
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) F5
2 23 (46.94%) Cisco
3 12 (24.49%) Palo Alto
4 11 (22.45%) Nokia
5 9 (18.37%) Fortinet
5 9 (18.37%) Juniper
6 6 (12.24%) VMware
7 5 (10.20%) CheckPoint
8 4 (8.16%) Blue Coat
8 4 (8.16%) CA
9 2 (4.08%) Huawei
10 1 (2.04%) Infoblox
10 1 (2.04%) Meraki
10 1 (2.04%) QinetiQ