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

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 623 788
Rank change year-on-year +81 +165 -125
Contract jobs citing F5 BIG-IP GTM 34 65 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.080% 0.12% 0.077%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 0.92% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 56 35
10th Percentile £413 £450 £433
25th Percentile £466 £494 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +4.17% +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 5,399 7,076 9,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.66% 12.54% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,232 4,571 6,322
10th Percentile £206 £240 £234
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 450 371
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £51.11
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -3.20%

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 25 May 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 25 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 +89 28 £550 +4.76% 11
London +86 17 £475 -37.50% 9
Work from Home +90 15 £550 +10.00% 18
UK excluding London +56 14 £573 +14.50% 6
South East +13 6 £566 +13.25% 4
North of England +34 4 £624 +6.13%
Yorkshire +13 4 £624 +24.70%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
South West +11 1 £725 +52.63% 2

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 (8.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
1 5 (14.71%) GCP
1 5 (14.71%) GitHub
2 3 (8.82%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 31 (91.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 18 (52.94%) Firewall
3 15 (44.12%) BGP
4 11 (32.35%) MPLS
5 10 (29.41%) OSPF
6 9 (26.47%) WAN
7 8 (23.53%) SD-WAN
8 7 (20.59%) LAN
8 7 (20.59%) NX-OS
8 7 (20.59%) VPN
9 6 (17.65%) BIG-IP
9 6 (17.65%) DNS
9 6 (17.65%) Network Security
10 5 (14.71%) 5G
10 5 (14.71%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (11.76%) Ethernet VPN
11 4 (11.76%) NetScaler
11 4 (11.76%) RSVP
12 3 (8.82%) HTTP
12 3 (8.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 8 (23.53%) Git
2 7 (20.59%) JIRA
3 3 (8.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 3 (8.82%) CircleCI
3 3 (8.82%) GitLab
3 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (35.29%) Finance
1 12 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.82%) Law
3 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (52.94%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Design Engineer
2 5 (14.71%) Network Design Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Senior
4 3 (8.82%) Developer
5 2 (5.88%) Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Network Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Network Security Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Network Architect
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Design Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (41.18%) JSON
2 8 (23.53%) XML
3 5 (14.71%) NETCONF
3 5 (14.71%) YANG
4 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (8.82%) YAML
5 1 (2.94%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Distributed Architecture
2 4 (11.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.82%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.76%) Windows
1 4 (11.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Migration
2 7 (20.59%) DevOps
3 6 (17.65%) Change Management
3 6 (17.65%) Network Design
3 6 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (14.71%) Agile
4 5 (14.71%) Scrum
5 4 (11.76%) Business Strategy
5 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
5 4 (11.76%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 3 (8.82%) Application Security
6 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (8.82%) Computer Science
6 3 (8.82%) Containerisation
6 3 (8.82%) Continuous Deployment
6 3 (8.82%) DevSecOps
6 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.82%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) ActionScript
2 11 (32.35%) Python
3 3 (8.82%) Bash
3 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.88%) Java
4 2 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) CCNP
1 8 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (14.71%) CCIE
3 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (8.82%) Degree
5 2 (5.88%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) QA
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (11.76%) VMware NSX
2 3 (8.82%) Docker
3 2 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Ansible
2 6 (17.65%) FortiGate
3 5 (14.71%) Terraform
4 3 (8.82%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (8.82%) Grafana
4 3 (8.82%) Kibana
4 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.82%) logstash
4 3 (8.82%) Progress Chef
4 3 (8.82%) Prometheus
4 3 (8.82%) Puppet
5 2 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) F5
2 11 (32.35%) Cisco
3 10 (29.41%) Palo Alto
4 7 (20.59%) Fortinet
4 7 (20.59%) Juniper
5 5 (14.71%) Nokia
6 4 (11.76%) VMware
7 3 (8.82%) CA
7 3 (8.82%) CheckPoint
7 3 (8.82%) Splunk
8 2 (5.88%) Aruba
8 2 (5.88%) Blue Coat
8 2 (5.88%) Infoblox
8 2 (5.88%) McAfee
8 2 (5.88%) Zscaler