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 8 November 2025, 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 44 32
Rank change year-on-year +9 -12 +6
Contract jobs citing F5 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.83% 0.39% 3.31%
As % of the Vendors category 3.45% 0.63% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £70 -
Median % change year-on-year +703.57% - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% +7.50%

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 116 159 150
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 53.21% 61.63% 61.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 118 26
10th Percentile £463 £438 £155
25th Percentile £500 £481 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +17.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £686 £630
90th Percentile £650 £725 £663
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 11
10th Percentile - - £15.21
25th Percentile - £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - +9.38% -34.32%
75th Percentile - £27.38 £26.25
90th Percentile - £32.55 £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.50 £66.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -66.04% +26.19% +79.06%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Firepower
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 4 (100.00%) Junos
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Ansible
1 4 (100.00%) FortiGate
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper