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 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 529 602 744
Rank change year-on-year +73 +142 -79
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 46 80 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 1.12% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 66 50
10th Percentile £408 £450 £386
25th Percentile £443 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £510 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% -5.56% +27.06%
75th Percentile £563 £619 £550
90th Percentile £588 £669 £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 5,426 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 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 1 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 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 +73 35 £475 -5.00% 7
London +91 20 £475 -19.15% 6
Work from Home +80 18 £550 +10.00% 17
UK excluding London +27 16 £550 +10.00% 1
South East +3 11 £550 +10.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
North of England +21 1 - -
Yorkshire +17 1 - -
South West +4 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 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) AWS
3 3 (6.52%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (71.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 25 (54.35%) Firewall
3 20 (43.48%) BGP
4 14 (30.43%) MPLS
4 14 (30.43%) OSPF
5 13 (28.26%) WAN
6 12 (26.09%) SD-WAN
7 9 (19.57%) LAN
8 8 (17.39%) NX-OS
9 7 (15.22%) BIG-IP
9 7 (15.22%) Cisco ASA
9 7 (15.22%) VPN
10 6 (13.04%) NetScaler
10 6 (13.04%) Network Security
11 5 (10.87%) 5G
11 5 (10.87%) DNS
11 5 (10.87%) Ethernet VPN
11 5 (10.87%) Wireless
12 4 (8.70%) Cisco Firepower
12 4 (8.70%) RSVP
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Git
2 4 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 16 (34.78%) Finance
2 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.52%) Law
5 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (58.70%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Design Engineer
2 5 (10.87%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
4 3 (6.52%) Architect
4 3 (6.52%) Consultant
4 3 (6.52%) Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Juniper Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Network Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Security Consultant
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) JSON
2 5 (10.87%) NETCONF
2 5 (10.87%) XML
2 5 (10.87%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.70%) Windows
1 4 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (30.43%) Migration
2 10 (21.74%) Change Management
3 6 (13.04%) Load Balancing
3 6 (13.04%) Network Design
4 4 (8.70%) Business Strategy
4 4 (8.70%) DevOps
4 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
4 4 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (6.52%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.52%) Data Centre Operations
5 3 (6.52%) Fintech
5 3 (6.52%) High Availability
5 3 (6.52%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.52%) Mentoring
5 3 (6.52%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.52%) Project Management
6 2 (4.35%) Agile
6 2 (4.35%) Project Delivery
6 2 (4.35%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (4.35%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) ActionScript
2 8 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) Java
3 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (19.57%) CCNP
3 6 (13.04%) CCIE
4 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
5 4 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 3 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (6.52%) Degree
7 2 (4.35%) CCNA
8 1 (2.17%) CCIE Routing and Switching
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) VMware NSX
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (8.70%) ProxySG
4 2 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) FortiGate
2 4 (8.70%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) F5
2 20 (43.48%) Cisco
3 13 (28.26%) Palo Alto
4 11 (23.91%) Juniper
5 8 (17.39%) CheckPoint
5 8 (17.39%) Fortinet
6 6 (13.04%) Blue Coat
6 6 (13.04%) VMware
7 5 (10.87%) Nokia
8 3 (6.52%) CA
9 2 (4.35%) Aruba
9 2 (4.35%) Infoblox
9 2 (4.35%) McAfee
9 2 (4.35%) Meraki
9 2 (4.35%) Zscaler
10 1 (2.17%) Microsoft