F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for F5 BIG-IP LTM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 860 930 1168
Rank change year-on-year +70 +238 -318
Permanent jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM 24 45 74
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.045% 0.045%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.29% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 16 30 49
10th Percentile £45,273 - £45,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £46,350 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,320 £56,150
Median % change year-on-year -1.54% -5.04% -6.42%
75th Percentile £64,375 £81,286 £62,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £82,548 £70,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.91% - +16.40%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,475 15,695 21,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.49% 15.78% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 9,380 7,937 11,850
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.26% +5.56%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM.

Salary trend for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 BIG-IP LTM over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for F5 BIG-IP LTM in the UK

F5 BIG-IP LTM
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 23 £52,500 -1.54% 7
London +103 15 £61,250 +16.67% 5
Work from Home +66 12 £52,500 -0.12% 2
UK excluding London -24 8 £49,000 -10.91% 2
West Midlands +15 3 £46,090 -38.55%
East of England +5 3 £50,000 -
Midlands -5 3 £46,090 -38.55%
Yorkshire +75 1 - -
North of England +28 1 - -
South West -29 1 £50,000 +11.11%

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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (41.67%) Azure
3 5 (20.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (16.67%) IaaS
5 2 (8.33%) PaaS
5 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 19 (79.17%) Firewall
2 16 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 12 (50.00%) BGP
3 12 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (50.00%) OSPF
3 12 (50.00%) VPN
4 10 (41.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 9 (37.50%) Network Security
5 9 (37.50%) Unified Communications
5 9 (37.50%) WAN
6 8 (33.33%) Wireless
7 7 (29.17%) LAN
7 7 (29.17%) MPLS
8 6 (25.00%) BIG-IP
8 6 (25.00%) VXLAN
9 5 (20.83%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (20.83%) Internet
9 5 (20.83%) SSL
9 5 (20.83%) VoIP
10 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 4 (16.67%) Law
4 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Network Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
2 7 (29.17%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Core Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Lead
4 4 (16.67%) Lead Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Core Network Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 9 (37.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 8 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Load Balancing
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (25.00%) Line Management
2 6 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 6 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
3 5 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (20.83%) Information Security
3 5 (20.83%) ITIL
3 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
3 5 (20.83%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (20.83%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Application Security
4 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (16.67%) DDoS Mitigation
4 4 (16.67%) Network Design
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Service Migration
7 1 (4.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 4 (16.67%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.17%) Java
3 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (54.17%) CCNP
3 5 (20.83%) CCIE
4 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
6 2 (8.33%) CCNA
7 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (37.50%) SLA
2 5 (20.83%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) vSphere
2 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) F5
2 18 (75.00%) Cisco
3 16 (66.67%) CheckPoint
4 12 (50.00%) Palo Alto
5 7 (29.17%) SolarWinds
6 5 (20.83%) Forcepoint
7 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 3 (12.50%) Aruba
9 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (8.33%) Juniper
9 2 (8.33%) Meraki
9 2 (8.33%) VMware
10 1 (4.17%) Dell