F5 Contracts in the East of England

F5
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 79 103 118
Rank change year-on-year +24 +15 +21
Contract jobs citing F5 3 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.32% 0.47% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 1.26% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £353 £363 £510
25th Percentile £394 £378 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -18.18% +46.67%
75th Percentile £534 £531 £575
90th Percentile £574 £550 £658
England median daily rate £547 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +9.45% -5.21% +3.18%

All Vendors
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the East of England

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the East of England

F5
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Essex +8 1 £330 -34.00%
Bedfordshire -1 1 £600 +60.00%
Hertfordshire - 1 - - 2
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Akamai
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DMVPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) GLBP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
2 1 (33.33%) IGRP
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Multicast
2 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Field Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Field Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 1 (33.33%) Coaching
1 1 (33.33%) Due Diligence
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) The Twelve-Factor App
1 1 (33.33%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCDP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) Riverbed
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk
2 1 (33.33%) Zscaler