F5 Contracts in the City of London

F5
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 4 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
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 123 156
Rank change year-on-year +7 +33 +9
Contract jobs citing F5 6 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 0.092% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 0.77% 0.21% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £488 - £414
25th Percentile £525 £715 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £730 £513
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +42.44% +57.69%
75th Percentile £588 £745 £584
90th Percentile £700 - £781
Central London median daily rate £550 £730 £513
% change year-on-year -24.66% +42.44% +36.67%

All Vendors
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 780 942 1,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.42% 43.17% 39.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 488 694 934
10th Percentile £313 £314 £263
25th Percentile £453 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £763 £783 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £25.77 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £30.10 £13.56 £20.42
Median hourly rate £38.58 £19.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.32% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £72.81 £23.75 £44.86
90th Percentile £126.25 £25.38 £53.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the City of London over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
4 2 (33.33%) Network Security
5 1 (16.67%) DHCP
5 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 1 (16.67%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Storage Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) CentOS
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Electronic Trading
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
1 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Low Latency
2 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) CCNP
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) VCAP
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) OPNET
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Atempo
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (33.33%) Mellanox
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Arista
3 1 (16.67%) Hitachi
3 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
3 1 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (16.67%) Meraki
3 1 (16.67%) NetScout
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat