F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 May 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 282 377 471
Rank change year-on-year +95 +94 -49
Contract jobs citing F5 319 341 423
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.75% 0.60% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 1.76% 1.39% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 248 267
10th Percentile £387 £375 £363
25th Percentile £432 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £619 £580
90th Percentile £669 £650 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.25% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +68.75%
75th Percentile - - £58.06
90th Percentile - - £59.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.00
% change year-on-year - - +81.51%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,101 24,501 35,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.03% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,253 16,404 23,407
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £638
90th Percentile £738 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 662 881
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.02 £12.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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 +135 292 £500 -4.76% 81
UK excluding London +127 179 £506 +1.25% 57
London +60 108 £494 -10.23% 24
South East +83 88 £550 +10.00% 28
Work from Home +5 88 £550 +4.76% 36
North of England +70 52 £478 +0.53% 14
Yorkshire +39 30 £515 +14.44% 9
North West +34 22 £433 -13.50% 5
Midlands +23 15 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands +29 10 £475 +35.71% 2
East of England +9 9 £450 -18.18% 5
South West -4 9 £488 +1.30% 6
East Midlands +11 5 £600 +84.62% 2
Scotland +35 3 £775 +55.00%
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

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 15 (4.70%) IIS
2 8 (2.51%) Apache
2 8 (2.51%) Tomcat
3 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.57%) Confluence
5 4 (1.25%) JBoss
6 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
7 1 (0.31%) EPiServer
7 1 (0.31%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (21.00%) Azure
2 57 (17.87%) AWS
3 28 (8.78%) Cloudflare
4 24 (7.52%) Akamai
5 21 (6.58%) GCP
6 13 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.51%) GitHub
8 6 (1.88%) Entra ID
8 6 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.57%) OCI
10 3 (0.94%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.94%) BigCommerce
10 3 (0.94%) Kong
11 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.63%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.63%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.63%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.31%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 159 (49.84%) Firewall
2 85 (26.65%) BGP
3 82 (25.71%) WAN
4 65 (20.38%) MPLS
5 57 (17.87%) Cisco Nexus
6 54 (16.93%) DNS
7 51 (15.99%) VPN
8 48 (15.05%) LAN
8 48 (15.05%) OSPF
9 46 (14.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 44 (13.79%) Cisco Firepower
11 40 (12.54%) SD-WAN
12 38 (11.91%) Wireless
13 36 (11.29%) Network Security
14 34 (10.66%) Cisco ASA
15 33 (10.34%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 31 (9.72%) SSL
17 21 (6.58%) DMZ
17 21 (6.58%) IPsec
17 21 (6.58%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.19%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.88%) DB2
3 3 (0.94%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.63%) Data Hub
4 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (4.70%) Git
2 14 (4.39%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (2.82%) Jenkins
3 9 (2.82%) JIRA
4 5 (1.57%) Fiddler
5 4 (1.25%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.94%) Burp Suite
6 3 (0.94%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.94%) GitLab
6 3 (0.94%) Travis CI
General
1 113 (35.42%) Finance
2 72 (22.57%) Social Skills
3 27 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (7.21%) Banking
5 19 (5.96%) Retail
6 13 (4.08%) Public Sector
7 9 (2.82%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.51%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.57%) Law
12 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.94%) Marketing
12 3 (0.94%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Advertising
13 1 (0.31%) Automotive
13 1 (0.31%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.31%) Legal
13 1 (0.31%) Local Government
13 1 (0.31%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 161 (50.47%) Network Engineer
2 64 (20.06%) Architect
3 46 (14.42%) Network Architect
4 31 (9.72%) Senior
5 18 (5.64%) Cisco Engineer
5 18 (5.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 18 (5.64%) Security Engineer
6 15 (4.70%) Senior Architect
6 15 (4.70%) Senior Network Architect
7 12 (3.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 11 (3.45%) Web Engineer
9 10 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (2.82%) Administrator
10 9 (2.82%) Network Security Engineer
11 8 (2.51%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (2.19%) Enterprise Security Architect
12 7 (2.19%) Lead
13 6 (1.88%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (1.88%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.02%) JSON
2 10 (3.13%) .NET
3 9 (2.82%) 802.1X
3 9 (2.82%) XML
4 6 (1.88%) LDAP
4 6 (1.88%) NETCONF
4 6 (1.88%) YANG
5 5 (1.57%) .NET Framework
5 5 (1.57%) Kafka
5 5 (1.57%) Middleware
5 5 (1.57%) SAML
6 3 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.94%) gRPC
6 3 (0.94%) VML
6 3 (0.94%) WebSockets
6 3 (0.94%) YAML
7 2 (0.63%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.31%) OLE
8 1 (0.31%) REST
8 1 (0.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 52 (16.30%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (2.82%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.25%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.25%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.25%) PKI
6 3 (0.94%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 3 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (0.94%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.94%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.63%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.63%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.63%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.63%) Replication
7 2 (0.63%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (10.97%) Linux
2 29 (9.09%) Windows
3 19 (5.96%) Unix
4 7 (2.19%) zOS
5 6 (1.88%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.25%) AIX
6 4 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.25%) Solaris
6 4 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (16.93%) Load Balancing
2 45 (14.11%) Network Design
3 35 (10.97%) Migration
4 34 (10.66%) DevOps
5 33 (10.34%) Network Management
6 27 (8.46%) Network Architecture
7 26 (8.15%) Customer Requirements
7 26 (8.15%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (8.15%) Technical Leadership
8 19 (5.96%) ITSM
9 16 (5.02%) Project Delivery
10 15 (4.70%) Agile
10 15 (4.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 15 (4.70%) ITIL
10 15 (4.70%) Roadmaps
11 13 (4.08%) CI/CD
11 13 (4.08%) Computer Science
11 13 (4.08%) RAD
11 13 (4.08%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (3.76%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.73%) Python
2 20 (6.27%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.76%) ActionScript
4 11 (3.45%) SQL
5 8 (2.51%) Bash
6 6 (1.88%) Java
7 4 (1.25%) Go
7 4 (1.25%) Perl
8 3 (0.94%) PHP
9 2 (0.63%) C#
9 2 (0.63%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.63%) Ruby
9 2 (0.63%) Scala
10 1 (0.31%) C
Qualifications
1 74 (23.20%) Security Cleared
2 68 (21.32%) Cisco Certification
3 54 (16.93%) CCNP
4 38 (11.91%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.84%) CCNA
6 24 (7.52%) CCIE
7 23 (7.21%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.08%) Degree
9 11 (3.45%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.88%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.63%) JNCIS
13 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.31%) CCIE Routing and Switching
14 1 (0.31%) JNCIP
14 1 (0.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.76%) SLA
2 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (0.94%) NIST
2 3 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 15 (4.70%) VMware NSX
2 13 (4.08%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.88%) Firmware
5 5 (1.57%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.25%) Docker
6 4 (1.25%) ProxySG
6 4 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.63%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.63%) PowerDNS
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.63%) vSphere
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (9.72%) Endace
2 30 (9.40%) Ansible
3 22 (6.90%) Terraform
4 16 (5.02%) FortiGate
5 13 (4.08%) Puppet
6 9 (2.82%) SCOM
7 7 (2.19%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.88%) SolarWinds Orion
9 5 (1.57%) SCCM
9 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.25%) AirWatch
10 4 (1.25%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.94%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.94%) Grafana
11 3 (0.94%) Kibana
11 3 (0.94%) logstash
11 3 (0.94%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.94%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.63%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 177 (55.49%) Cisco
2 65 (20.38%) Juniper
3 63 (19.75%) Palo Alto
4 51 (15.99%) CheckPoint
5 45 (14.11%) Fortinet
6 39 (12.23%) SolarWinds
7 26 (8.15%) Microsoft
8 20 (6.27%) VMware
9 16 (5.02%) Infoblox
10 15 (4.70%) Nokia
11 12 (3.76%) Dell
12 11 (3.45%) Meraki
13 10 (3.13%) Splunk
14 9 (2.82%) Aruba
14 9 (2.82%) Google
15 8 (2.51%) Citrix
16 7 (2.19%) HP
16 7 (2.19%) ServiceNow
16 7 (2.19%) Zscaler
17 6 (1.88%) Riverbed