F5 Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

F5
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 26 September 2026, 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing F5 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.54% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.37% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £529 - -
25th Percentile £534 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 - -
75th Percentile £574 - -
90th Percentile £582 - -
East of England median daily rate £530 £520 £553
% change year-on-year +1.92% -5.88% +10.50%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 146 176 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 39.78% 49.30% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 63 25
10th Percentile £249 £260 £330
25th Percentile £413 £419 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £587 £623 £638
90th Percentile £671 £700 £703
East of England median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 33 111
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £14.66 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £36.00 £31.00 £16.85
90th Percentile £49.80 £43.75 £21.37
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £22.60 £16.23
% change year-on-year +77.03% +39.22% -63.53%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing F5

F5
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 26 September 2026. 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
Cambridge - 1 £530 - 1
Peterborough - 1 £575 -
F5
East of England

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco