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 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 557 616 762
Rank change year-on-year +59 +146 -96
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 45 79 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 1.12% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 65 50
10th Percentile £407 £450 £389
25th Percentile £436 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -5.56% +27.06%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £550
90th Percentile £584 £680 £648
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 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +29.63% -12.90%
75th Percentile - - £56.69
90th Percentile - - £59.43
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 5,412 7,077 9,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.49% 12.74% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,208 4,557 6,456
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.11% +5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 446 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.72 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.73% -28.02% +6.12%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.95 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.76% -13.95% -2.27%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +81 35 £475 -5.00% 7
London +81 20 £475 -19.15% 5
Work from Home +79 17 £550 +10.00% 10
UK excluding London +31 16 £550 +10.00% 1
South East +6 11 £550 +10.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +23 1 - -
Yorkshire +11 1 - -
South West +10 1 £725 +52.63% 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (8.89%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) GCP
4 2 (4.44%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 32 (71.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 24 (53.33%) Firewall
3 19 (42.22%) BGP
4 14 (31.11%) MPLS
5 13 (28.89%) OSPF
6 12 (26.67%) SD-WAN
6 12 (26.67%) WAN
7 8 (17.78%) LAN
7 8 (17.78%) NX-OS
8 7 (15.56%) BIG-IP
8 7 (15.56%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (15.56%) VPN
9 6 (13.33%) NetScaler
9 6 (13.33%) Network Security
10 5 (11.11%) 5G
10 5 (11.11%) DNS
10 5 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (8.89%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (8.89%) RSVP
11 4 (8.89%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Git
2 4 (8.89%) JIRA
General
1 15 (33.33%) Finance
2 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.67%) Law
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (57.78%) Network Engineer
2 4 (8.89%) Design Engineer
2 4 (8.89%) Network Design Engineer
3 3 (6.67%) Architect
3 3 (6.67%) Consultant
3 3 (6.67%) Developer
3 3 (6.67%) Network Consultant
3 3 (6.67%) Senior
4 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (4.44%) Network Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Security Consultant
4 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
4 2 (4.44%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.22%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) JSON
2 5 (11.11%) NETCONF
2 5 (11.11%) XML
2 5 (11.11%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
1 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Migration
2 10 (22.22%) Change Management
3 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
4 5 (11.11%) Network Design
5 4 (8.89%) Business Strategy
5 4 (8.89%) DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) Roadmaps
5 4 (8.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.67%) Data Centre Operations
6 3 (6.67%) Fintech
6 3 (6.67%) High Availability
6 3 (6.67%) Incident Management
6 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
6 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (6.67%) Project Management
7 2 (4.44%) Agile
7 2 (4.44%) ITIL
7 2 (4.44%) Scrum
7 2 (4.44%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) ActionScript
2 7 (15.56%) Python
3 2 (4.44%) Java
3 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (20.00%) CCNP
3 6 (13.33%) CCIE
4 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.67%) Degree
7 2 (4.44%) CCNA
8 1 (2.22%) CCIE Routing and Switching
System Software
1 6 (13.33%) VMware NSX
2 5 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (8.89%) ProxySG
4 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) F5
2 19 (42.22%) Cisco
3 13 (28.89%) Palo Alto
4 10 (22.22%) Juniper
5 8 (17.78%) CheckPoint
6 7 (15.56%) Fortinet
7 6 (13.33%) Blue Coat
7 6 (13.33%) VMware
8 5 (11.11%) Nokia
9 3 (6.67%) CA
10 2 (4.44%) Aruba
10 2 (4.44%) McAfee
10 2 (4.44%) Meraki
10 2 (4.44%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.22%) Microsoft