F5 Contracts in Birmingham

F5
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 60 73
Rank change year-on-year +13 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing F5 3 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.91% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 1.22% 2.11% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £525 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% - -
75th Percentile £610 £488 -
90th Percentile £616 £619 -
West Midlands median daily rate £551 £475 £350
% change year-on-year +16.00% +35.71% -30.00%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 245 332 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 46.93% 42.95% 44.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 219 236
10th Percentile £160 £262 £229
25th Percentile £353 £330 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.59% -10.53% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £608
90th Percentile £691 £692 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £479 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 18
10th Percentile £20.15 £11.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £25.13 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +32.64% -1.99%
75th Percentile £30.68 £39.63 £51.88
90th Percentile £42.66 £55.00 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in Birmingham

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in Birmingham

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Akamai
1 2 (66.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Applications Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Web Applications Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
1 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps
2 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CEH
1 2 (66.67%) CISSP
1 2 (66.67%) GIAC
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Imperva
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet