F5 Contract Job Trends in Basingstoke

F5
Hampshire > Basingstoke

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Basingstoke requiring knowledge or experience of F5 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited F5 over the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 26 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +11
Contract jobs citing F5 5 5 21
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.61% 3.18% 6.38%
As % of the Vendors category 3.76% 5.05% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £496 £186 -
25th Percentile - £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
75th Percentile - £492 -
90th Percentile £575 £534 -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%

All Vendors
Basingstoke

F5 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Basingstoke.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 133 99 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 42.90% 63.06% 57.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 77 48
10th Percentile £463 £410 £232
25th Percentile £500 £473 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +4.65% -2.32%
75th Percentile £725 £625 £731
90th Percentile - £688 £825
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £13.64
25th Percentile - - £15.71
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.43%
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £33.25
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 £61.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -67.48% +9.04% +133.42%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Basingstoke

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing F5 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke.

F5 job vacancy trend in Basingstoke

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Basingstoke

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing F5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Basingstoke citing F5

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in Basingstoke

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in Basingstoke over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in Basingstoke

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Basingstoke by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) IPv4
1 4 (80.00%) IPv6
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
1 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (80.00%) VLAN
1 4 (80.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Designer
2 3 (60.00%) Network Designer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Designer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Network Designer
3 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Design Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) CCNA
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) JNCIS
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) JNCIA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) KVM
1 1 (20.00%) RHEV
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Nagios
2 1 (20.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Juniper
2 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint