F5 Contracts 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 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 96 106
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing F5 3 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.25% 0.97% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.43% 1.89% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 8
10th Percentile - £368 £348
25th Percentile £408 £509 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £550 £423
Median % change year-on-year -24.55% +30.18% -24.72%
75th Percentile £423 £581 £454
90th Percentile - £584 £474
South East median daily rate £523 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -7.41%

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 696 898 939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.47% 51.17% 52.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 488 577
10th Percentile £350 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £688 £738 £717
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 41 34
10th Percentile £14.57 £14.50 £17.34
25th Percentile £14.75 £18.75 £24.63
Median hourly rate £20.75 £58.49 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -64.52% +5.33% +30.66%
75th Percentile £38.42 £61.60 £66.38
90th Percentile £56.50 £68.75 £74.37
South East median hourly rate £19.46 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -66.08% +27.44% +127.85%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in Berkshire

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for F5 in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in Berkshire

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 2 August 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 +23 2 - - 1
Wokingham - 1 £415 -
F5
South East

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 1 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IPT
2 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TACACS
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) IP Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Inventory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) JNCIE
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) VMware