BIG-IP Contracts

F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 642 816
Rank change year-on-year +84 +174 -132
Contract jobs citing BIG-IP 17 40 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.071% 0.025%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.56% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 16
10th Percentile £378 £506 £350
25th Percentile £400 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £513
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +26.83% +28.13%
75th Percentile £568 - £550
90th Percentile £624 - £584
UK excluding London median daily rate £622 £531 £488
% change year-on-year +17.08% +8.97% +21.88%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +60 10 £438 -32.69% 8
UK excluding London +33 7 £622 +17.08% 5
London +73 6 £388 -40.38% 2
North of England +25 3 £624 +24.70%
Yorkshire +20 3 £624 +24.70%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Work from Home +87 1 £622 -4.31% 5
South East +8 1 £475 -15.56% 5

BIG-IP
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 (17.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) AWS
1 7 (41.18%) Azure
1 7 (41.18%) GCP
2 3 (17.65%) GitHub
2 3 (17.65%) Kong
3 2 (11.76%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Firewall
2 7 (41.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 7 (41.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 5 (29.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (29.41%) DNS
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 4 (23.53%) VPN
4 4 (23.53%) Wireless
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (17.65%) HTTP
5 3 (17.65%) HTTPS
5 3 (17.65%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (17.65%) SSL
5 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
5 3 (17.65%) VLAN
6 2 (11.76%) DHCP
6 2 (11.76%) LAN
6 2 (11.76%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (11.76%) WAN
7 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 3 (17.65%) CircleCI
1 3 (17.65%) Git
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
1 3 (17.65%) Travis CI
2 2 (11.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (70.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (17.65%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Web Applications Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Web Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Network Technician
3 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (17.65%) JSON
1 3 (17.65%) XML
1 3 (17.65%) YAML
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Data Structures
2 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Application Security
1 6 (35.29%) DevSecOps
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (35.29%) Project Management
2 5 (29.41%) Task Automation
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
3 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) API Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Deployment
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (17.65%) Data Centre Operations
4 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
4 3 (17.65%) Load Balancing
4 3 (17.65%) Scrum
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Use Case
4 3 (17.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Bash
2 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (17.65%) ActionScript
4 2 (11.76%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) Go
4 2 (11.76%) Java
4 2 (11.76%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) CCNP
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) QA
System Software
1 3 (17.65%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Ansible
2 3 (17.65%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (17.65%) Grafana
2 3 (17.65%) Kibana
2 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
2 3 (17.65%) logstash
2 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
2 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
2 3 (17.65%) Puppet
2 3 (17.65%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) F5
2 5 (29.41%) Cisco
3 3 (17.65%) AlgoSec
3 3 (17.65%) CA
3 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
3 3 (17.65%) Infoblox
3 3 (17.65%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Juniper
4 1 (5.88%) McAfee
4 1 (5.88%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) Riverbed
4 1 (5.88%) VMware