F5 Contracts in the West Midlands

F5
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 98 143 168
Rank change year-on-year +45 +25 -66
Contract jobs citing F5 12 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.62% 0.16% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 1.41% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £325 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -30.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £375 £591
90th Percentile £575 - £596
England median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% +11.11%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 850 1,200 1,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.16% 49.40% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 759 1,072
10th Percentile £250 £209 £198
25th Percentile £350 £370 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% +13.41%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.69% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 31 39
10th Percentile £11.07 £13.31 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.17 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £28.75 £51.63 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £66.00 £23.85
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -42.31% +85.71% -4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 7 £475 - 1
Coventry - 5 £500 - 1
F5
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) WAN
3 5 (41.67%) LAN
3 5 (41.67%) Network Security
3 5 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) SAN
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
6 2 (16.67%) DMZ
7 1 (8.33%) BGP
7 1 (8.33%) CATAPAN
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (8.33%) HSRP
7 1 (8.33%) IPsec
7 1 (8.33%) OSPF
7 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (8.33%) Banking
1 1 (8.33%) Finance
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
1 1 (8.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Load Balancing
2 4 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (25.00%) Zero Trust
4 2 (16.67%) Cloud Security
4 2 (16.67%) Hardware Maintenance
4 2 (16.67%) High Availability
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (8.33%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Key Management
5 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
5 1 (8.33%) Security Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) SIEM
5 1 (8.33%) Static Application Security Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (25.00%) CCNA
2 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (8.33%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Ansible
1 5 (41.67%) FortiGate
1 5 (41.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Aruba
3 3 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) Juniper
5 1 (8.33%) Qualys
5 1 (8.33%) Splunk