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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 677 687 765
Rank change year-on-year +10 +78 -205
Permanent jobs citing F5 220 293 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 0.67% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 195 178 375
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,200
25th Percentile £48,125 £45,750 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £74,000 £69,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £89,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 36,515 43,852 60,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.25% 41.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,094 24,954 33,291
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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 27 April 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 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +70 214 £60,000 +9.09% 63
UK excluding London -18 140 £55,000 +10.00% 37
London +103 76 £70,000 +7.69% 26
Work from Home +37 76 £62,500 +13.64% 51
North of England +60 49 £45,000 -5.26% 4
South East +27 37 £55,000 +0.92% 14
North West +43 34 £60,000 -13.60% 2
Midlands +7 31 £60,000 +33.33% 4
West Midlands +24 27 £60,000 +33.33% 3
East of England +19 17 £60,000 +9.09% 10
Yorkshire +84 15 £40,000 -31.03% 2
East Midlands -13 4 £37,500 +1.06% 1
Wales +8 3 - - 1
South West -20 3 £45,000 - 4

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 (6.82%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.82%) nginx
4 3 (1.36%) SAS
5 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 2 (0.91%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) SPSS
3 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.45%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 48 (21.82%) Azure
2 30 (13.64%) AWS
3 16 (7.27%) GCP
4 12 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.73%) dbt
5 6 (2.73%) Fivetran
5 6 (2.73%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.82%) IaaS
7 4 (1.82%) SaaS
8 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.36%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.36%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.91%) GitHub
9 2 (0.91%) Kong
9 2 (0.91%) PaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.45%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 68 (30.91%) Firewall
2 50 (22.73%) VPN
3 48 (21.82%) WAN
4 45 (20.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 34 (15.45%) BGP
6 32 (14.55%) LAN
7 31 (14.09%) Wireless
8 29 (13.18%) Cisco Nexus
8 29 (13.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 28 (12.73%) OSPF
10 27 (12.27%) BIG-IP
11 26 (11.82%) DNS
11 26 (11.82%) Network Security
12 21 (9.55%) Cisco ISE
12 21 (9.55%) MPLS
13 20 (9.09%) SD-WAN
14 19 (8.64%) Cisco ASA
14 19 (8.64%) SSL
15 18 (8.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 17 (7.73%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.45%) BigQuery
2 12 (5.45%) Data Hub
2 12 (5.45%) DB2
2 12 (5.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.45%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.55%) Tableau
4 9 (4.09%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.82%) MySQL
8 3 (1.36%) Power BI
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.45%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (4.55%) Git
1 10 (4.55%) JIRA
2 6 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 90 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.18%) Finance
3 26 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.45%) Law
5 20 (9.09%) Health Technology
6 19 (8.64%) Banking
7 18 (8.18%) Financial Institution
8 14 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (5.00%) Games
10 7 (3.18%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.27%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.36%) Retail
13 2 (0.91%) Military
13 2 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.45%) Electronics
14 1 (0.45%) Legal
14 1 (0.45%) Marketing
14 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (27.27%) Network Engineer
2 46 (20.91%) Senior
3 39 (17.73%) Developer
4 20 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.64%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (8.18%) Analyst
7 15 (6.82%) Senior Network Engineer
8 14 (6.36%) Senior Developer
9 13 (5.91%) Administrator
10 12 (5.45%) Architect
10 12 (5.45%) Network Architect
10 12 (5.45%) SharePoint Administrator
10 12 (5.45%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.55%) Applications Developer
11 10 (4.55%) Junior
12 9 (4.09%) Cisco Engineer
12 9 (4.09%) Junior Developer
12 9 (4.09%) Lead
12 9 (4.09%) Network Support
12 9 (4.09%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.27%) CSS
1 16 (7.27%) HTML
2 13 (5.91%) .NET
2 13 (5.91%) 802.1X
3 8 (3.64%) REST
4 7 (3.18%) Web Services
5 6 (2.73%) PyTorch
5 6 (2.73%) TensorFlow
5 6 (2.73%) Vue
6 5 (2.27%) AngularJS
6 5 (2.27%) LDAP
7 4 (1.82%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.82%) React
8 2 (0.91%) JSON
9 1 (0.45%) Ajax
9 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.45%) Laravel
9 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.45%) Spring
9 1 (0.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 34 (15.45%) Data Centre
2 31 (14.09%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.45%) Cyberattack
3 12 (5.45%) Data Fabric
4 10 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (4.55%) Replication
5 6 (2.73%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.82%) Life Science
7 3 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) IoT
7 3 (1.36%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.36%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.91%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.91%) FlexPod
8 2 (0.91%) FPGA
8 2 (0.91%) PKI
8 2 (0.91%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 48 (21.82%) Linux
2 31 (14.09%) Windows
3 12 (5.45%) zOS
4 9 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (2.27%) CentOS
6 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.36%) Unix
9 2 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.45%) AIX
10 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.36%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (21.36%) Load Balancing
3 42 (19.09%) Agile
4 30 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (9.55%) ITIL
6 20 (9.09%) Computer Science
6 20 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 19 (8.64%) Analytics
7 19 (8.64%) Software Engineering
8 18 (8.18%) Migration
9 17 (7.73%) Decision-Making
10 15 (6.82%) Project Management
11 13 (5.91%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (5.91%) ETL
11 13 (5.91%) Mentoring
11 13 (5.91%) Project Delivery
12 12 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (5.45%) Data Management
12 12 (5.45%) Database Optimisation
12 12 (5.45%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 82 (37.27%) SQL
2 38 (17.27%) Python
3 33 (15.00%) C#
4 22 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 18 (8.18%) Java
6 15 (6.82%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.55%) R
8 9 (4.09%) Bash
9 6 (2.73%) Scala
10 4 (1.82%) Delphi
10 4 (1.82%) PHP
11 3 (1.36%) Perl
11 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.91%) C
12 2 (0.91%) C++
12 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.45%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (24.09%) Cisco Certification
2 48 (21.82%) CCNP
3 33 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 30 (13.64%) Degree
5 29 (13.18%) SC Cleared
6 23 (10.45%) CCNA
7 17 (7.73%) Computer Science Degree
8 6 (2.73%) CCIE
8 6 (2.73%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.82%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.82%) MCSA
9 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (1.36%) CCDA
10 3 (1.36%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.45%) Check Point Certification
12 1 (0.45%) CISA
12 1 (0.45%) CISSP
12 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.45%) SLA
2 7 (3.18%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.91%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (7.27%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.73%) vSphere
4 4 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.36%) Firmware
6 1 (0.45%) NFS
6 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 16 (7.27%) Ansible
2 14 (6.36%) Terraform
3 11 (5.00%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.73%) Endace
5 4 (1.82%) Nessus
6 3 (1.36%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.36%) Nagios
6 3 (1.36%) SCCM
6 3 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.36%) WSUS
7 2 (0.91%) Packer
7 2 (0.91%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (0.91%) SCOM
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 91 (41.36%) Cisco
2 38 (17.27%) Juniper
3 37 (16.82%) CheckPoint
4 29 (13.18%) Palo Alto
5 26 (11.82%) VMware
6 21 (9.55%) Microsoft
7 19 (8.64%) Oracle
8 16 (7.27%) Fortinet
9 15 (6.82%) SolarWinds
10 12 (5.45%) Databricks
10 12 (5.45%) Red Hat
11 9 (4.09%) Aruba
12 8 (3.64%) IBM
12 8 (3.64%) Meraki
13 7 (3.18%) Avaya
13 7 (3.18%) Salesforce
14 6 (2.73%) Dataiku
15 5 (2.27%) Forcepoint
15 5 (2.27%) Infoblox
15 5 (2.27%) Riverbed