F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within F5 Networks, Inc.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 685 667 739
Rank change year-on-year -18 +72 -157
Permanent jobs citing F5 233 295 560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.30% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 0.72% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 214 206 402
10th Percentile £36,620 £39,375 £39,300
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,350 £47,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,548 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £51,743 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.43% +3.49% -9.09%

All Vendors
UK

F5 is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,727 40,716 64,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.79% 41.82% 38.88%
Number of salaries quoted 24,890 23,574 33,282
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +46 229 £60,000 +9.09% 69
UK excluding London -57 145 £53,000 +2.43% 41
London +132 84 £75,000 +23.46% 26
Work from Home +6 78 £70,000 +23.89% 41
South East +7 48 £53,000 -2.75% 17
North of England +45 47 £45,000 -14.29% 11
North West +32 32 £60,000 -13.60% 4
Midlands -6 29 £60,000 +38.73% 6
West Midlands +7 25 £61,250 +38.81% 4
Yorkshire +62 15 £40,000 -39.85% 7
East of England -2 14 £60,000 +9.09% 1
South West -37 6 £47,500 -23.66% 6
East Midlands -13 4 £37,500 +1.06% 2
Wales -5 1 - -

F5
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 11 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.15%) nginx
4 3 (1.29%) Apache
4 3 (1.29%) SAS
5 2 (0.86%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.29%) SPSS
3 1 (0.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.43%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 47 (20.17%) Azure
2 30 (12.88%) AWS
3 17 (7.30%) GCP
4 12 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.58%) dbt
5 6 (2.58%) Fivetran
5 6 (2.58%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.72%) IaaS
6 4 (1.72%) SaaS
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.29%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.29%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.86%) Cloudflare
8 2 (0.86%) GitHub
8 2 (0.86%) Kong
8 2 (0.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 66 (28.33%) Firewall
2 58 (24.89%) Cisco Firepower
3 48 (20.60%) VPN
3 48 (20.60%) WAN
4 36 (15.45%) BGP
5 35 (15.02%) Network Security
6 33 (14.16%) DNS
7 30 (12.88%) Cisco Nexus
7 30 (12.88%) LAN
7 30 (12.88%) OSPF
8 26 (11.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 26 (11.16%) SSL
8 26 (11.16%) Wireless
9 25 (10.73%) Cisco ASA
10 24 (10.30%) MPLS
11 22 (9.44%) BIG-IP
11 22 (9.44%) TCP/IP
12 21 (9.01%) SD-WAN
13 19 (8.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 18 (7.73%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (16.31%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.15%) BigQuery
2 12 (5.15%) Data Hub
2 12 (5.15%) DB2
2 12 (5.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.15%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.29%) Tableau
4 9 (3.86%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.72%) MySQL
8 3 (1.29%) Power BI
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (5.15%) JIRA
2 11 (4.72%) Git
3 6 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
5 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 89 (38.20%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.46%) Finance
3 24 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.44%) Banking
5 20 (8.58%) Health Technology
6 17 (7.30%) Financial Institution
6 17 (7.30%) Law
7 10 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.86%) Games
9 7 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.15%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.29%) Retail
12 2 (0.86%) Electronics
12 2 (0.86%) Military
12 2 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Legal
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (30.04%) Network Engineer
2 49 (21.03%) Senior
3 37 (15.88%) Developer
4 23 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (8.58%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.87%) Analyst
7 15 (6.44%) Linux Engineer
7 15 (6.44%) Security Engineer
8 14 (6.01%) Network Security Engineer
8 14 (6.01%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.58%) Senior Network Engineer
10 12 (5.15%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.72%) Administrator
11 11 (4.72%) Architect
11 11 (4.72%) Consultant
11 11 (4.72%) Network Architect
12 10 (4.29%) Applications Developer
12 10 (4.29%) Cisco Engineer
12 10 (4.29%) Junior
12 10 (4.29%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.87%) CSS
1 16 (6.87%) HTML
2 13 (5.58%) .NET
3 12 (5.15%) 802.1X
4 8 (3.43%) REST
5 7 (3.00%) LDAP
5 7 (3.00%) Web Services
6 6 (2.58%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.58%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.58%) Vue
7 5 (2.15%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.72%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.72%) React
9 1 (0.43%) Ajax
9 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.43%) JSON
9 1 (0.43%) Laravel
9 1 (0.43%) Next.js
9 1 (0.43%) Spring
9 1 (0.43%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 42 (18.03%) Data Centre
2 25 (10.73%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.15%) Cyberattack
3 12 (5.15%) Data Fabric
4 10 (4.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (4.29%) Replication
5 8 (3.43%) FPGA
6 6 (2.58%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.72%) Life Science
8 3 (1.29%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.29%) IoT
8 3 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.86%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.86%) Driving Licence
9 2 (0.86%) FlexPod
9 2 (0.86%) Hedge funds
9 2 (0.86%) PropTech
10 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (24.89%) Linux
2 33 (14.16%) Windows
3 16 (6.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.15%) zOS
5 10 (4.29%) CentOS
6 9 (3.86%) Windows Server
7 7 (3.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (3.00%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.58%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (2.58%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.58%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.72%) Unix
10 1 (0.43%) AIX
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (19.74%) Agile
3 41 (17.60%) Load Balancing
4 29 (12.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (11.16%) ITIL
6 23 (9.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (8.58%) Computer Science
7 20 (8.58%) Migration
8 19 (8.15%) Analytics
8 19 (8.15%) Software Engineering
9 17 (7.30%) Decision-Making
10 16 (6.87%) Project Delivery
11 15 (6.44%) Project Management
12 13 (5.58%) Business Intelligence
12 13 (5.58%) ETL
12 13 (5.58%) Mentoring
13 12 (5.15%) Data Management
13 12 (5.15%) Database Optimisation
13 12 (5.15%) Incident Response
13 12 (5.15%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 78 (33.48%) SQL
2 45 (19.31%) Python
3 33 (14.16%) C#
4 26 (11.16%) Java
5 22 (9.44%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.72%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.29%) R
8 8 (3.43%) Bash
8 8 (3.43%) Perl
9 6 (2.58%) Scala
10 5 (2.15%) PHP
11 4 (1.72%) Delphi
12 3 (1.29%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.29%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.86%) C
13 2 (0.86%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (21.03%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (19.74%) CCNP
3 44 (18.88%) Security Cleared
4 37 (15.88%) SC Cleared
5 29 (12.45%) Degree
6 23 (9.87%) CCNA
7 16 (6.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.29%) DV Cleared
9 9 (3.86%) CCIE
10 6 (2.58%) JNCIS
11 5 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (1.72%) MCSA
12 4 (1.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.29%) CCDA
13 3 (1.29%) Numerate Degree
14 2 (0.86%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.86%) CISSP
15 1 (0.43%) CCDP
15 1 (0.43%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.43%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.15%) SLA
2 6 (2.58%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.29%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 18 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.00%) vSphere
4 3 (1.29%) Firmware
4 3 (1.29%) NFS
4 3 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (1.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.43%) Docker
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (10.30%) Ansible
2 14 (6.01%) Terraform
3 10 (4.29%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.58%) Endace
4 6 (2.58%) Nagios
5 4 (1.72%) Nessus
5 4 (1.72%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.72%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 3 (1.29%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.29%) SCCM
6 3 (1.29%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.29%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.29%) VxRail
6 3 (1.29%) WSUS
7 2 (0.86%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.86%) Packer
7 2 (0.86%) SCOM
7 2 (0.86%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 99 (42.49%) Cisco
2 37 (15.88%) Juniper
3 30 (12.88%) CheckPoint
4 28 (12.02%) Palo Alto
5 27 (11.59%) VMware
6 26 (11.16%) Microsoft
7 24 (10.30%) Oracle
8 21 (9.01%) Red Hat
9 19 (8.15%) Fortinet
10 15 (6.44%) SolarWinds
11 12 (5.15%) Databricks
12 11 (4.72%) Meraki
13 7 (3.00%) Avaya
13 7 (3.00%) Salesforce
14 6 (2.58%) Aruba
14 6 (2.58%) Dataiku
14 6 (2.58%) Dell
14 6 (2.58%) IBM
15 5 (2.15%) Infoblox
15 5 (2.15%) ServiceNow