F5 Networks BIG-IP
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for BIG-IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited BIG-IP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 880 896 1208
Rank change year-on-year +16 +312 -329
Permanent jobs citing BIG-IP 25 50 56
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.053% 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.32% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 20 44 30
10th Percentile £38,115 £37,500 £42,600
25th Percentile £53,750 £43,438 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +5.77% +10.05%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £83,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £43,250 £49,000
% change year-on-year +44.51% -11.73% +3.70%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

BIG-IP 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 13,603 15,428 22,577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.92% 16.28% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,416 7,727 11,819
10th Percentile £26,250 £28,000 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,419 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.22% -5.26% +5.56%

BIG-IP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing BIG-IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing BIG-IP over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for BIG-IP in the UK

BIG-IP
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing BIG-IP within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +44 25 £62,500 +13.64% 8
UK excluding London -40 20 £62,500 +44.51% 5
Work from Home +52 17 £62,500 +25.00% 5
West Midlands -1 13 £62,500 -
Midlands -2 13 £62,500 -
London +86 5 £62,500 -3.85% 2
Yorkshire - 5 - -
North of England - 5 - -
South West -33 2 £45,000 -10.00%

BIG-IP
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 10 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (92.00%) Azure
2 8 (32.00%) AWS
3 5 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (52.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 10 (40.00%) Firewall
3 7 (28.00%) BGP
3 7 (28.00%) OSPF
4 6 (24.00%) MPLS
4 6 (24.00%) SD-WAN
4 6 (24.00%) WAN
4 6 (24.00%) Wireless
5 5 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (16.00%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (16.00%) Cisco Wireless
7 3 (12.00%) SAN
8 1 (4.00%) IPsec
8 1 (4.00%) VPN
8 1 (4.00%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) JIRA
1 3 (12.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (40.00%) Law
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Finance
4 4 (16.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.00%) Military
6 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Administrator
1 9 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (36.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (36.00%) SharePoint Administrator
2 8 (32.00%) Network Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) IT Manager
3 5 (20.00%) IT Operations Manager
3 5 (20.00%) Operations Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) DBA
5 1 (4.00%) SQL DBA
5 1 (4.00%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 10 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (16.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (12.00%) Agile
4 3 (12.00%) Coaching
4 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
4 3 (12.00%) ITIL
4 3 (12.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (12.00%) Network Architecture
4 3 (12.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (12.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (8.00%) IT Strategy
6 1 (4.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.00%) ETL
6 1 (4.00%) High Availability
6 1 (4.00%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) SQL
1 10 (40.00%) T-SQL
2 4 (16.00%) Bash
2 4 (16.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) CCNP
1 8 (32.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (20.00%) CCIE
3 3 (12.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) SCOM
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 20 (80.00%) F5
2 15 (60.00%) Cisco
3 10 (40.00%) CheckPoint
4 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (36.00%) SolarWinds
5 8 (32.00%) Palo Alto
6 5 (20.00%) AppDynamics
6 5 (20.00%) Dynatrace
6 5 (20.00%) Google
7 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
8 2 (8.00%) Fortinet
8 2 (8.00%) Meraki