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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 631 778
Rank change year-on-year +76 +147 -114
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 35 57 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.10% 0.077%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.65% 0.80% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 50 36
10th Percentile £413 £448 £409
25th Percentile £466 £470 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +27.06%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £581
90th Percentile £625 £770 £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 7,086 9,881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.48% 12.71% 11.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,222 4,566 6,488
10th Percentile £206 £241 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £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 421 446 369
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -28.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.66 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £18.47 £21.50
% change year-on-year +157.24% -14.12% -2.27%

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 7 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 7 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 +88 28 £550 +10.00% 6
London +86 17 £475 -26.92% 5
Work from Home +102 15 £550 +10.00% 3
UK excluding London +54 14 £573 +14.50% 1
South East +12 6 £566 +13.25%
North of England +20 4 £624 +6.13%
Yorkshire +17 4 £624 +24.70%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West +12 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 (8.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) AWS
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
1 6 (17.14%) GCP
2 5 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (8.57%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 32 (91.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 18 (51.43%) Firewall
3 15 (42.86%) BGP
4 11 (31.43%) MPLS
5 10 (28.57%) OSPF
5 10 (28.57%) SD-WAN
5 10 (28.57%) WAN
6 8 (22.86%) LAN
6 8 (22.86%) NX-OS
6 8 (22.86%) VPN
7 7 (20.00%) BIG-IP
8 6 (17.14%) DNS
8 6 (17.14%) Network Security
9 5 (14.29%) 5G
9 5 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
10 4 (11.43%) Cisco Firepower
10 4 (11.43%) NetScaler
10 4 (11.43%) RSVP
11 3 (8.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Git
2 7 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (8.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (8.57%) CircleCI
3 3 (8.57%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.57%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.57%) Law
3 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Design Engineer
2 4 (11.43%) Network Design Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) Architect
3 3 (8.57%) Developer
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Network Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Network Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (40.00%) JSON
2 8 (22.86%) XML
3 5 (14.29%) NETCONF
3 5 (14.29%) YANG
4 3 (8.57%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.57%) YAML
5 1 (2.86%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (25.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.43%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (11.43%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.57%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
1 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (28.57%) Migration
2 7 (20.00%) Change Management
2 7 (20.00%) DevOps
3 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.29%) Agile
4 5 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 5 (14.29%) Network Design
4 5 (14.29%) Scrum
5 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
5 4 (11.43%) Roadmaps
5 4 (11.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (8.57%) Application Security
6 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (8.57%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (8.57%) DevSecOps
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.57%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (34.29%) ActionScript
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 3 (8.57%) Bash
3 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.71%) Java
4 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) CCNP
1 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (14.29%) CCIE
2 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.57%) Degree
5 2 (5.71%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) VMware NSX
2 4 (11.43%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (8.57%) Docker
4 2 (5.71%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (17.14%) Ansible
1 6 (17.14%) FortiGate
2 5 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (8.57%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (8.57%) Grafana
3 3 (8.57%) Kibana
3 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.57%) logstash
3 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
3 3 (8.57%) Prometheus
3 3 (8.57%) Puppet
4 2 (5.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) F5
2 12 (34.29%) Cisco
3 10 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 7 (20.00%) Juniper
5 6 (17.14%) Fortinet
6 5 (14.29%) Nokia
6 5 (14.29%) VMware
7 3 (8.57%) CA
7 3 (8.57%) CheckPoint
7 3 (8.57%) Splunk
8 2 (5.71%) Aruba
8 2 (5.71%) Blue Coat
8 2 (5.71%) McAfee
8 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.86%) Meraki
9 1 (2.86%) Microsoft