F5 BIG-IP GTM Contracts

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP GTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 BIG-IP GTM 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 539 623 771
Rank change year-on-year +84 +148 -100
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 36 59 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.83% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 52 36
10th Percentile £413 £450 £409
25th Percentile £470 £473 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +27.06%
75th Percentile £585 £619 £581
90th Percentile £624 £762 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £573 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +14.50% -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 GTM 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%

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 BIG-IP GTM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM.

Daily rate trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM.

Hourly rate trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 GTM 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 +86 28 £550 +10.00% 7
London +95 17 £475 -26.92% 6
Work from Home +90 16 £550 +10.00% 17
UK excluding London +38 14 £573 +14.50% 1
South East +11 6 £566 +13.25%
North of England +24 4 £624 +6.13%
Yorkshire +20 4 £624 +24.70%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West +4 1 £725 +52.63% 1

F5 BIG-IP GTM
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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
1 6 (16.67%) GCP
2 5 (13.89%) GitHub
3 3 (8.33%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 33 (91.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 19 (52.78%) Firewall
3 16 (44.44%) BGP
4 11 (30.56%) MPLS
4 11 (30.56%) OSPF
4 11 (30.56%) WAN
5 10 (27.78%) SD-WAN
6 9 (25.00%) LAN
7 8 (22.22%) NX-OS
7 8 (22.22%) VPN
8 7 (19.44%) BIG-IP
9 6 (16.67%) DNS
9 6 (16.67%) Network Security
10 5 (13.89%) 5G
10 5 (13.89%) Ethernet VPN
10 5 (13.89%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (11.11%) NetScaler
11 4 (11.11%) RSVP
12 3 (8.33%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) Git
2 7 (19.44%) JIRA
3 3 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (8.33%) CircleCI
3 3 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.33%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (36.11%) Finance
2 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (8.33%) Law
4 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (52.78%) Network Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Design Engineer
2 5 (13.89%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Architect
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Network Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Design Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (38.89%) JSON
2 8 (22.22%) XML
3 5 (13.89%) NETCONF
3 5 (13.89%) YANG
4 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.33%) YAML
5 1 (2.78%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Windows
1 4 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (27.78%) Migration
2 7 (19.44%) Change Management
2 7 (19.44%) DevOps
3 6 (16.67%) Network Design
3 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.89%) Agile
4 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
4 5 (13.89%) Scrum
5 4 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 4 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (8.33%) Application Security
6 3 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (8.33%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.33%) DevSecOps
6 3 (8.33%) Fintech
6 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) ActionScript
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) CCNP
1 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.89%) CCIE
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (8.33%) Docker
4 2 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Ansible
2 6 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 5 (13.89%) Terraform
4 3 (8.33%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (8.33%) Grafana
4 3 (8.33%) Kibana
4 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) logstash
4 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.33%) Puppet
5 2 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) F5
2 13 (36.11%) Cisco
3 10 (27.78%) Palo Alto
4 8 (22.22%) Juniper
5 7 (19.44%) Fortinet
6 5 (13.89%) Nokia
6 5 (13.89%) VMware
7 3 (8.33%) CA
7 3 (8.33%) CheckPoint
7 3 (8.33%) Splunk
8 2 (5.56%) Aruba
8 2 (5.56%) Blue Coat
8 2 (5.56%) Infoblox
8 2 (5.56%) McAfee
8 2 (5.56%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.78%) Meraki
9 1 (2.78%) Microsoft