F5 Contract Job Trends 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 2 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
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 65 63
Rank change year-on-year +34 -2 +31
Contract jobs citing F5 39 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.96% 0.43% 0.65%
As % of the Vendors category 10.63% 0.80% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 4
10th Percentile £420 £466 -
25th Percentile £425 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +11.11% +16.13%
75th Percentile £491 £534 £500
90th Percentile £658 £544 £590
West Midlands median daily rate £445 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -11.00% +11.11% -5.26%

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 367 377 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 56.12% 53.55% 52.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 268 260
10th Percentile £261 £194 £225
25th Percentile £381 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% +4.44%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £647 £750 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £464
% change year-on-year +1.40% +7.82% -6.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £16.98 £12.95 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.22 £18.69
Median hourly rate £18.00 £24.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -35.57% +96.05%
75th Percentile £20.75 £26.69 £58.44
90th Percentile £26.47 £46.68 £64.63
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
% change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +39.39%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Birmingham

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing F5

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in Birmingham

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 14 (35.90%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Akamai
2 10 (25.64%) GCP
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (10.26%) Amazon S3
3 4 (10.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (5.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 25 (64.10%) DNS
2 22 (56.41%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 22 (56.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 17 (43.59%) DMZ
3 17 (43.59%) Wireshark
4 16 (41.03%) Network Security
5 13 (33.33%) Firewall
5 13 (33.33%) SSL
5 13 (33.33%) TCP/IP
6 10 (25.64%) HTTP
7 9 (23.08%) BIG-IP
8 4 (10.26%) VPN
9 1 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (2.56%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (2.56%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Fiddler
2 4 (10.26%) Git
2 4 (10.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (53.85%) Banking
1 21 (53.85%) Investment Banking
2 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Military
3 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Operations Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Network Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) IP Network Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Python Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Web Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps
4 4 (10.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Junior
5 3 (7.69%) Junior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Analyst
6 1 (2.56%) Architect
6 1 (2.56%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (2.56%) Network Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Network Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Network Operations Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (53.85%) Management Information System
2 8 (20.51%) Security Posture
3 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.56%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Load Balancing
2 12 (30.77%) Business Strategy
2 12 (30.77%) Design Patterns
3 11 (28.21%) DevSecOps
4 8 (20.51%) Application Security
4 8 (20.51%) Ethical Hacking
4 8 (20.51%) OWASP
4 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
5 7 (17.95%) CI/CD
5 7 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.38%) Security Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (12.82%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 5 (12.82%) Migration
7 5 (12.82%) Network Segmentation
8 4 (10.26%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (10.26%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (10.26%) DevOps
8 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
8 4 (10.26%) Reverse Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) Python
2 4 (10.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) CCNP
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 17 (43.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (12.82%) Firmware
3 4 (10.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Ansible
2 8 (20.51%) CSIRT
3 4 (10.26%) Terraform
4 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) VMware
2 9 (23.08%) Blue Coat
2 9 (23.08%) McAfee
2 9 (23.08%) NetApp
2 9 (23.08%) Splunk
3 5 (12.82%) Palo Alto
4 4 (10.26%) CheckPoint
5 3 (7.69%) Cisco
6 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
7 1 (2.56%) Arista
7 1 (2.56%) EMC
7 1 (2.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.56%) Juniper
7 1 (2.56%) NetScout