F5 BIG-IP GTM Contract Job Trends in the North of England

F5 BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring F5 BIG-IP GTM skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 165 199
Rank change year-on-year -1 +34 +42
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 15 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.38% 0.073% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.07% 0.61% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £613 -
25th Percentile - £615 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £624 £415
Median % change year-on-year - +50.24% -24.55%
75th Percentile - £634 £433
90th Percentile - £636 -
England median daily rate £334 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -36.43% - -4.55%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

F5 BIG-IP GTM falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 489 492 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.39% 12.01% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 284 486
10th Percentile £160 £213 £231
25th Percentile £325 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £474
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +8.18% +5.28%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £587
90th Percentile £638 £780 £650
England median daily rate £490 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 18
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.87 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.33 £15.75
Median hourly rate £20.00 £39.00 £19.82
Median % change year-on-year -48.72% +96.77% -7.81%
75th Percentile £59.88 £51.23 £40.07
90th Percentile £67.25 £52.20 £47.16
England median hourly rate £41.48 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.68% +1.52% +34.50%

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 BIG-IP GTM in the North of England

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing F5 BIG-IP GTM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing F5 BIG-IP GTM

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing F5 BIG-IP GTM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing F5 BIG-IP GTM

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2025. 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
North West - 15 - - 1
Yorkshire -11 6 - -
F5 BIG-IP GTM
England

F5 BIG-IP GTM
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 15 (100.00%) DMZ
1 15 (100.00%) DNS
1 15 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 13 (86.67%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) BIG-IP
3 2 (13.33%) HTTP
3 2 (13.33%) SSL
3 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (13.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Fiddler
General
1 8 (53.33%) Banking
1 8 (53.33%) Investment Banking
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Junior
4 2 (13.33%) Junior Network Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 11 (73.33%) Business Strategy
3 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 4 (26.67%) Change Management
5 3 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Python
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) F5
2 13 (86.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Blue Coat
3 2 (13.33%) Computacenter
3 2 (13.33%) McAfee
3 2 (13.33%) NetApp