F5 Contracts in the Thames Valley

F5
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 125 137
Rank change year-on-year -2 +12 -21
Contract jobs citing F5 15 24 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.55% 0.81% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 1.13% 1.68% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 19 23
10th Percentile - £393 £365
25th Percentile £213 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +24.83%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £637
90th Percentile £584 £600 £706
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +14.46%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,323 1,428 1,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 48.66% 48.23% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 817 983 1,057
10th Percentile £205 £300 £190
25th Percentile £363 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 47 56
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.08 £10.76
25th Percentile £20.75 £22.25 £10.77
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +245.71% +3.90%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £28.38
90th Percentile £63.05 £80.25 £62.44
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 23 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
Berkshire -5 9 £550 +37.50% 6
Buckinghamshire +16 6 £363 -28.92% 1
F5
South East

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 5 (33.33%) NetScaler
3 4 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (26.67%) MPLS
4 2 (13.33%) BGP
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) SSL
4 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 1 (6.67%) Firewall
General
1 6 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Network Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (6.67%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (33.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
1 3 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (13.33%) Change Control
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
3 2 (13.33%) Network Design
3 2 (13.33%) Network Management
3 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) CCNA
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) AirWatch
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (13.33%) Endace
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Cisco
2 3 (20.00%) Apple
2 3 (20.00%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) Planview
2 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (13.33%) Juniper
3 2 (13.33%) Nokia
4 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.67%) Dell