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 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 692 715 749
Rank change year-on-year +23 +34 -192
Permanent jobs citing F5 222 292 517
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.67% 0.85%
Number of salaries quoted 198 190 385
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £77,313 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £86,250
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 36,604 43,332 60,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.16% 41.84% 38.95%
Number of salaries quoted 25,085 24,733 33,283
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,000 £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 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +3.26%

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 4 May 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 4 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +61 216 £60,000 +9.09% 67
UK excluding London -37 142 £55,000 +10.00% 44
Work from Home +23 77 £62,500 +11.61% 37
London +92 76 £75,000 +20.00% 21
North of England +42 49 £45,000 -10.88% 9
South East +16 38 £55,000 +0.92% 18
North West +42 34 £60,000 -13.60% 4
Midlands +17 31 £60,000 +33.33% 3
West Midlands +14 27 £60,000 +33.33% 2
East of England +28 18 £60,000 +9.09% 7
Yorkshire +79 15 £40,000 -38.46% 5
East Midlands -10 4 £37,500 +1.06% 1
Wales +8 3 - - 1
South West -35 3 £45,000 - 6

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 14 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 10 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.80%) nginx
4 3 (1.35%) SAS
5 2 (0.90%) Apache
5 2 (0.90%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) SPSS
3 1 (0.45%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.45%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 48 (21.62%) Azure
2 29 (13.06%) AWS
3 16 (7.21%) GCP
4 12 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.70%) dbt
5 6 (2.70%) Fivetran
5 6 (2.70%) Snowflake
6 5 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.80%) IaaS
7 4 (1.80%) SaaS
8 3 (1.35%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.35%) Nutanix
8 3 (1.35%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.90%) GitHub
9 2 (0.90%) Kong
9 2 (0.90%) PaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 69 (31.08%) Firewall
2 51 (22.97%) VPN
3 49 (22.07%) Cisco Firepower
3 49 (22.07%) WAN
4 33 (14.86%) BGP
5 31 (13.96%) LAN
5 31 (13.96%) Wireless
6 28 (12.61%) Cisco Nexus
6 28 (12.61%) DNS
7 27 (12.16%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 27 (12.16%) Network Security
7 27 (12.16%) OSPF
8 25 (11.26%) BIG-IP
9 22 (9.91%) SD-WAN
10 21 (9.46%) MPLS
11 20 (9.01%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (9.01%) SSL
12 19 (8.56%) Cisco ISE
12 19 (8.56%) TCP/IP
13 16 (7.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (18.02%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.41%) BigQuery
2 12 (5.41%) Data Hub
2 12 (5.41%) DB2
2 12 (5.41%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.41%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.50%) Tableau
4 9 (4.05%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.25%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.80%) MySQL
8 3 (1.35%) 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 11 (4.95%) Git
2 10 (4.50%) JIRA
3 6 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.90%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 89 (40.09%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.42%) Finance
3 26 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (9.01%) Health Technology
4 20 (9.01%) Law
5 19 (8.56%) Banking
6 18 (8.11%) Financial Institution
7 13 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.95%) Games
9 7 (3.15%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.25%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.35%) Retail
12 2 (0.90%) Military
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.45%) Electronics
13 1 (0.45%) Legal
13 1 (0.45%) Marketing
13 1 (0.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (26.13%) Network Engineer
2 49 (22.07%) Senior
3 39 (17.57%) Developer
4 21 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (8.11%) Analyst
7 15 (6.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 14 (6.31%) Senior Developer
9 12 (5.41%) Administrator
9 12 (5.41%) Architect
9 12 (5.41%) Network Architect
9 12 (5.41%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.95%) SharePoint Administrator
11 10 (4.50%) Applications Developer
11 10 (4.50%) Consultant
11 10 (4.50%) Junior
12 9 (4.05%) Junior Developer
12 9 (4.05%) Linux Engineer
12 9 (4.05%) Network Support
12 9 (4.05%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.21%) CSS
1 16 (7.21%) HTML
2 13 (5.86%) .NET
3 12 (5.41%) 802.1X
4 8 (3.60%) REST
5 7 (3.15%) Web Services
6 6 (2.70%) LDAP
6 6 (2.70%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.70%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.70%) Vue
7 5 (2.25%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.80%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.80%) React
9 2 (0.90%) JSON
10 1 (0.45%) Ajax
10 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
10 1 (0.45%) Laravel
10 1 (0.45%) Next.js
10 1 (0.45%) Spring
10 1 (0.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 31 (13.96%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.41%) Cyberattack
3 12 (5.41%) Data Fabric
4 10 (4.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 10 (4.50%) Replication
5 6 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.80%) Life Science
7 3 (1.35%) Embedded Systems
7 3 (1.35%) FPGA
7 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) IoT
7 3 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.35%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.90%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.90%) FlexPod
8 2 (0.90%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.97%) Linux
2 32 (14.41%) Windows
3 12 (5.41%) zOS
4 10 (4.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.05%) Windows Server
6 6 (2.70%) CentOS
6 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (2.25%) Windows 10
7 5 (2.25%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.35%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (1.35%) Unix
9 1 (0.45%) AIX
9 1 (0.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (21.17%) Load Balancing
3 42 (18.92%) Agile
4 30 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (9.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (9.46%) ITIL
6 19 (8.56%) Analytics
6 19 (8.56%) Computer Science
6 19 (8.56%) Migration
6 19 (8.56%) Software Engineering
7 17 (7.66%) Decision-Making
8 15 (6.76%) Project Delivery
8 15 (6.76%) Project Management
9 13 (5.86%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (5.86%) ETL
9 13 (5.86%) Mentoring
10 12 (5.41%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (5.41%) Data Management
10 12 (5.41%) Database Optimisation
10 12 (5.41%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.49%) SQL
2 38 (17.12%) Python
3 33 (14.86%) C#
4 22 (9.91%) JavaScript
5 20 (9.01%) Java
6 14 (6.31%) T-SQL
7 10 (4.50%) R
8 8 (3.60%) Bash
9 6 (2.70%) Scala
10 5 (2.25%) PHP
11 4 (1.80%) Delphi
12 3 (1.35%) Perl
12 3 (1.35%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.90%) C
13 2 (0.90%) C++
13 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.45%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (23.42%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (21.17%) CCNP
3 36 (16.22%) Security Cleared
4 32 (14.41%) SC Cleared
5 29 (13.06%) Degree
6 23 (10.36%) CCNA
7 16 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (3.15%) CCIE
9 6 (2.70%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.80%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.80%) MCSA
10 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.35%) CCDA
11 3 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
12 2 (0.90%) AWS Certification
13 1 (0.45%) Check Point Certification
13 1 (0.45%) CISSP
13 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
13 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.41%) SLA
2 7 (3.15%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (7.66%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.15%) vSphere
4 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.35%) Firmware
6 2 (0.90%) NFS
6 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.45%) Docker
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (7.66%) Ansible
2 15 (6.76%) Terraform
3 13 (5.86%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.70%) Endace
5 4 (1.80%) Nessus
6 3 (1.35%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.35%) Nagios
6 3 (1.35%) SCCM
6 3 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.35%) WSUS
7 2 (0.90%) Packer
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 2 (0.90%) SCOM
7 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.45%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.45%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.45%) Puppet
8 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 92 (41.44%) Cisco
2 39 (17.57%) CheckPoint
3 38 (17.12%) Juniper
4 29 (13.06%) Palo Alto
5 27 (12.16%) VMware
6 22 (9.91%) Microsoft
7 20 (9.01%) Oracle
8 16 (7.21%) Fortinet
9 14 (6.31%) Red Hat
10 13 (5.86%) SolarWinds
11 12 (5.41%) Databricks
12 10 (4.50%) Meraki
13 9 (4.05%) Aruba
14 8 (3.60%) IBM
15 7 (3.15%) Avaya
15 7 (3.15%) Salesforce
16 6 (2.70%) Dataiku
17 5 (2.25%) Forcepoint
17 5 (2.25%) Infoblox
18 4 (1.80%) McAfee