BIG-IP Contracts with Work from Home Options

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 424 609
Rank change year-on-year +87 +185 -125
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 2 27 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.014% 0.11% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.13% 0.97% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 25 10
10th Percentile £620 £473 £446
25th Percentile £621 £513 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.92% +30.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £651 - £547
90th Percentile £656 - £553
UK median daily rate £475 £650 £500
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,528 2,787 4,451
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.41% 11.68% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 1,856 3,047
10th Percentile £300 £338 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +10.80%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £688
UK median daily rate £498 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 98 103
10th Percentile £12.75 £19.20 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.00 £42.50 £26.13
Median hourly rate £30.00 £55.16 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.61% +16.13% +26.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.19 £63.13
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +6.12%

BIG-IP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BIG-IP trend for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BIG-IP.

BIG-IP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BIG-IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Travis CI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Security
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) API Integration
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) CSIRT
1 1 (50.00%) Docker Swarm
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) logstash
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk