F5 Contracts in Scotland

F5
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 156 153
Rank change year-on-year +42 -3 -6
Contract jobs citing F5 17 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.77% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the Vendors category 1.90% 0.70% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 7
10th Percentile £611 £438 £408
25th Percentile £625 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £780 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +56.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £789 £528 £514
90th Percentile £830 £581 £594
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.54
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £49.54
% change year-on-year -66.00% +41.30% +106.42%

All Vendors
Scotland

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 893 1,146 1,152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.46% 40.15% 32.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 544 827 777
10th Percentile £184 £175 £175
25th Percentile £350 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% +5.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £538
90th Percentile £688 £629 £600
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 16 31
10th Percentile £13.28 £21.26 £12.05
25th Percentile £16.00 £43.86 £16.99
Median hourly rate £17.50 £59.03 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.35% +47.56% +24.03%
75th Percentile £55.63 £65.39 £48.38
90th Percentile £60.00 £69.38 £53.75
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in Scotland

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for F5 in Scotland

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in Scotland

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in Scotland

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Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Glasgow +9 10 £706 +34.48%
Edinburgh +44 6 £806 +61.15%
West Lothian - 1 - -
F5
UK

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (29.41%) IIS
2 1 (5.88%) Apache
2 1 (5.88%) EPiServer
2 1 (5.88%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.88%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Cognito
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (11.76%) AWS Step Functions
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 8 (47.06%) TCP/IP
3 7 (41.18%) HTTP
3 7 (41.18%) NetScaler
3 7 (41.18%) SSL
4 5 (29.41%) Firewall
4 5 (29.41%) WAN
5 4 (23.53%) LAN
5 4 (23.53%) SAN
6 2 (11.76%) BGP
6 2 (11.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (11.76%) Network Security
7 1 (5.88%) 5G
7 1 (5.88%) BIG-IP
7 1 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (5.88%) Internet
7 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
7 1 (5.88%) VPLS
7 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
7 1 (5.88%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Git
2 7 (41.18%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (41.18%) Documentation Skills
1 7 (41.18%) Public Sector
1 7 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Architect
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
1 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Architect
2 5 (29.41%) Java Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Lead
3 4 (23.53%) Lead Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (23.53%) Python Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (17.65%) Linux Developer
4 3 (17.65%) Unix Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Applications Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Java Applications Developer
5 2 (11.76%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Network Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Network Security Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) AngularJS
2 4 (23.53%) Twisted
3 1 (5.88%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) NETCONF
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
3 1 (5.88%) XML
3 1 (5.88%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (58.82%) Linux
1 10 (58.82%) Unix
2 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (41.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (29.41%) Low Latency
4 5 (29.41%) Migration
4 5 (29.41%) Ultra-Low Latency
5 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
5 4 (23.53%) Roadmaps
5 4 (23.53%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (17.65%) Application Security
6 3 (17.65%) Cloud Security
6 3 (17.65%) Design Patterns
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) High Availability
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) Organisational Awareness
6 3 (17.65%) OWASP
6 3 (17.65%) Privileged Access Management
6 3 (17.65%) Security Monitoring
7 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Python
2 10 (58.82%) Bash
3 8 (47.06%) Java
4 7 (41.18%) Perl
5 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CCNP
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (23.53%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) VMware
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Arista
4 1 (5.88%) Blue Coat
4 1 (5.88%) CA
4 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.88%) McAfee
4 1 (5.88%) Nokia
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds