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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 608 776
Rank change year-on-year +74 +168 -132
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 45 86 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.83% 1.21% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 71 45
10th Percentile £408 £450 £364
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -2.78% +27.06%
75th Percentile £576 £619 £550
90th Percentile £588 £770 £649
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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +100 36 £475 -5.94% 8
London +99 23 £475 -26.92% 5
Work from Home +76 18 £550 +10.00% 2
UK excluding London +39 15 £550 +10.00% 3
South East +12 10 £550 +10.00% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +41 1 £600 -
North of England +28 1 - -
Yorkshire +18 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) EPiServer
1 1 (2.22%) IIS
1 1 (2.22%) Tomcat
1 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.67%) Azure
2 2 (4.44%) GitHub
3 1 (2.22%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 29 (64.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 25 (55.56%) Firewall
3 21 (46.67%) BGP
4 15 (33.33%) MPLS
4 15 (33.33%) OSPF
5 10 (22.22%) BIG-IP
6 9 (20.00%) WAN
7 8 (17.78%) SD-WAN
7 8 (17.78%) VPN
8 7 (15.56%) Cisco ASA
8 7 (15.56%) LAN
9 6 (13.33%) NetScaler
9 6 (13.33%) NX-OS
10 5 (11.11%) 5G
10 5 (11.11%) DNS
10 5 (11.11%) Network Security
11 4 (8.89%) IPsec
11 4 (8.89%) RSVP
11 4 (8.89%) TCP/IP
11 4 (8.89%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) Git
2 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.67%) Law
4 3 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (64.44%) Network Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Design Engineer
2 5 (11.11%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (8.89%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Developer
4 3 (6.67%) IP Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) IP Network Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Juniper Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Design Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) JSON
2 5 (11.11%) NETCONF
2 5 (11.11%) XML
2 5 (11.11%) YANG
3 1 (2.22%) .NET
3 1 (2.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 15 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 4 (8.89%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.89%) Windows
1 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
2 3 (6.67%) Linux
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (20.00%) Change Management
1 9 (20.00%) Migration
2 7 (15.56%) Roadmaps
3 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
3 6 (13.33%) Network Design
4 4 (8.89%) Business Strategy
4 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
4 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
4 4 (8.89%) DevOps
4 4 (8.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (6.67%) Fintech
5 3 (6.67%) High Availability
5 3 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (4.44%) Data Centre Operations
6 2 (4.44%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.44%) Project Management
6 2 (4.44%) Service Migration
6 2 (4.44%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 3 (6.67%) Java
3 3 (6.67%) Perl
3 3 (6.67%) SQL
4 2 (4.44%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (13.33%) CCIE
2 6 (13.33%) CCNP
3 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (8.89%) Degree
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 1 (2.22%) CCNA
System Software
1 5 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 4 (8.89%) ProxySG
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Ansible
2 7 (15.56%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 2 (4.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) F5
2 19 (42.22%) Cisco
3 11 (24.44%) Palo Alto
4 9 (20.00%) Juniper
5 8 (17.78%) Nokia
6 7 (15.56%) Fortinet
7 5 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 5 (11.11%) VMware
8 4 (8.89%) Blue Coat
8 4 (8.89%) CA
9 1 (2.22%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.22%) Meraki