F5 Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

F5
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 18 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
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 85 122
Rank change year-on-year -17 +37 -1
Contract jobs citing F5 11 18 5
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.75% 1.18% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 1.19% 2.40% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.04% +22.74%
75th Percentile - £525 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £498 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -5.24% -2.33% -2.27%

All Vendors
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 921 750 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.61% 49.37% 53.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 472 567
10th Percentile £301 £330 £205
25th Percentile £420 £450 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.87% +15.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £623
90th Percentile £663 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.34% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 13 38
10th Percentile £14.50 £18.88 £24.80
25th Percentile £16.60 £26.25 £55.27
Median hourly rate £24.75 £56.75 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -56.38% -8.16% +113.07%
75th Percentile £80.25 £62.56 £67.42
90th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £75.51
South East median hourly rate £21.40 £37.08 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.30% -32.58% +129.17%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Berkshire

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing F5

F5
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing F5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing F5

F5
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading +13 10 - -
F5
South East

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (54.55%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) WAN
2 8 (72.73%) BGP
2 8 (72.73%) MPLS
2 8 (72.73%) SNMP
2 8 (72.73%) TACACS
3 7 (63.64%) Wireless
4 6 (54.55%) LAN
4 6 (54.55%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) DWDM
5 2 (18.18%) SDH
5 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
6 1 (9.09%) DNS
6 1 (9.09%) Firewall
6 1 (9.09%) IPsec
6 1 (9.09%) Network Security
6 1 (9.09%) SSL
6 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Designer
1 6 (54.55%) IP Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) IP Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) NETCONF
1 2 (18.18%) OpenConfig
1 2 (18.18%) RESTCONF
1 2 (18.18%) YANG
2 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (72.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Incident Response
1 6 (54.55%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 2 (18.18%) ArchiMate
2 2 (18.18%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (18.18%) Boundary Protection
2 2 (18.18%) BPMN
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.09%) Change Management
3 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) CCIE
1 8 (72.73%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (72.73%) JNCIE
2 6 (54.55%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (54.55%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Ansible
2 6 (54.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
1 11 (100.00%) Juniper
2 8 (72.73%) Fortinet
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
4 2 (18.18%) IBM
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
4 2 (18.18%) Nokia
4 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
5 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
5 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint