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 28 December 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
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 32 30
Rank change year-on-year -7 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing F5 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in Basingstoke 1.27% 2.09% 4.38%
As % of the Vendors category 2.82% 3.45% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £495 £186 -
25th Percentile £498 £360 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
75th Percentile £519 £492 -
90th Percentile £553 £534 -
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £588 £538
% change year-on-year -14.89% +9.30% +4.88%

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 142 116 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Basingstoke 45.22% 60.73% 58.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 95 25
10th Percentile £463 £409 £154
25th Percentile £500 £475 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £722 £645
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 10
10th Percentile - - £15.18
25th Percentile - £34.00 £15.55
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year - +47.37% -
75th Percentile - £36.00 £33.44
90th Percentile - - £45.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -64.80% +13.64% +131.41%

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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) IPv4
1 3 (75.00%) IPv6
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VLAN
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Designer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Design
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Network Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) CCNA
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) JNCIS
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
4 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) KVM
1 1 (25.00%) RHEV
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) Proxmox
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Juniper
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) VMware