F5 Contract Job Trends in England

F5
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 20 December 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 262 362
Rank change year-on-year -36 +100 +45
Contract jobs citing F5 260 266 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.83% 0.92% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.74% 2.01% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 163 131
10th Percentile £335 £350 £340
25th Percentile £405 £443 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £588 £613
90th Percentile £716 £644 £700
UK median daily rate £498 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -0.50% -9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £46.95 - £64.65
25th Percentile £50.08 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £57.61 - £72.50
75th Percentile £63.58 - £76.88
90th Percentile £65.78 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £57.61 £22.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +156.04% -68.97% +271.79%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,956 13,257 16,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.50% 45.90% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,693 8,069 10,846
10th Percentile £293 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £726
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 733 387 607
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.57 £14.54
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.78 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.84% -32.91% +77.76%
75th Percentile £47.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £78.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.71% +76.74%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

F5 job vacancy trend in England

F5
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing F5

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in England

F5
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing F5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing F5

F5
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for F5 in England

F5
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
North of England -2 99 £563 +14.80% 9
London -7 77 £500 +5.26% 3
Midlands +5 69 £415 -38.54% 6
North West +1 69 £549 +11.99% 4
West Midlands +35 68 £415 -31.97% 4
Yorkshire -20 43 £575 +15.00% 2
South East -69 25 £498 -5.24% 11
South West -21 10 £550 +14.29% 5
East of England -30 2 - - 8
North East -10 1 £550 - 3
East Midlands -39 1 - - 2
F5
UK

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.31%) Confluence
2 6 (2.31%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.54%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.77%) CICS
4 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 11 (4.23%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 90 (34.62%) AWS
2 49 (18.85%) Azure
3 44 (16.92%) GCP
4 28 (10.77%) Akamai
4 28 (10.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (9.23%) Amazon ELB
7 23 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (8.85%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.46%) OpenShift
9 6 (2.31%) PaaS
9 6 (2.31%) SaaS
10 5 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (1.92%) IaaS
11 4 (1.54%) Cloudflare
12 3 (1.15%) GitHub
12 3 (1.15%) Mimecast
13 2 (0.77%) AWS CloudTrail
13 2 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
13 2 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 145 (55.77%) Firewall
2 109 (41.92%) DNS
3 89 (34.23%) Network Security
4 75 (28.85%) SSL
5 67 (25.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 65 (25.00%) VPN
7 63 (24.23%) TCP/IP
8 58 (22.31%) WAN
9 52 (20.00%) BGP
10 51 (19.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 42 (16.15%) Wireshark
12 41 (15.77%) Wireless
13 40 (15.38%) OSPF
14 37 (14.23%) LAN
15 35 (13.46%) HTTP
16 34 (13.08%) BIG-IP
16 34 (13.08%) DMZ
17 26 (10.00%) MPLS
18 22 (8.46%) Cisco Nexus
19 20 (7.69%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (12.31%) Git
2 31 (11.92%) Jenkins
3 22 (8.46%) GitLab
4 18 (6.92%) Fiddler
5 7 (2.69%) JIRA
6 6 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.54%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
General
1 76 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 40 (15.38%) Banking
3 38 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.77%) Investment Banking
4 28 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 26 (10.00%) Finance
6 21 (8.08%) Telecoms
7 15 (5.77%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.08%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.69%) Military
10 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.31%) Retail
11 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.77%) Legal
13 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 94 (36.15%) Network Engineer
2 35 (13.46%) Architect
3 34 (13.08%) Senior
4 27 (10.38%) Security Engineer
5 23 (8.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 18 (6.92%) Network Architect
6 18 (6.92%) Web Engineer
7 16 (6.15%) Operations Engineer
8 15 (5.77%) Network Security Engineer
9 14 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
11 12 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
11 12 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 10 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Designer
13 9 (3.46%) IP Network Engineer
13 9 (3.46%) Python Engineer
14 8 (3.08%) Junior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.62%) 802.1X
2 9 (3.46%) Middleware
3 6 (2.31%) JSON
3 6 (2.31%) LDAP
4 5 (1.92%) XML
5 4 (1.54%) NETCONF
5 4 (1.54%) VML
5 4 (1.54%) YANG
6 3 (1.15%) OpenConfig
6 3 (1.15%) REST
6 3 (1.15%) SAML
7 2 (0.77%) Regular Expression
7 2 (0.77%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.38%) Data Centre
2 33 (12.69%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.92%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (4.62%) Private Cloud
6 9 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (3.08%) Cloud Native
8 6 (2.31%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
10 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.77%) PKI
11 2 (0.77%) Replication
11 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.23%) Linux
2 21 (8.08%) Windows
3 13 (5.00%) Unix
4 11 (4.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) CatOS
5 2 (0.77%) Solaris
5 2 (0.77%) VMS
5 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.77%) zOS
6 1 (0.38%) MVS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (35.38%) Load Balancing
2 47 (18.08%) DevOps
3 41 (15.77%) Incident Response
4 37 (14.23%) DevSecOps
4 37 (14.23%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (13.85%) CI/CD
6 35 (13.46%) High Availability
7 31 (11.92%) Business Strategy
8 30 (11.54%) Change Management
9 29 (11.15%) Infrastructure Automation
9 29 (11.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 26 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (10.00%) Migration
11 23 (8.85%) Application Security
12 22 (8.46%) Mentoring
13 21 (8.08%) Network Design
13 21 (8.08%) Test Automation
14 20 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
14 20 (7.69%) OWASP
15 19 (7.31%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 82 (31.54%) Python
2 30 (11.54%) Bash
3 11 (4.23%) Perl
4 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.46%) SQL
5 4 (1.54%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.77%) Java
7 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 65 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 51 (19.62%) SC Cleared
3 40 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 31 (11.92%) CCNP
5 24 (9.23%) CCIE
6 14 (5.38%) JNCIE
7 10 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.69%) Degree
9 6 (2.31%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.31%) JNCIP
10 5 (1.92%) CCSA
10 5 (1.92%) CISSP
11 4 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.54%) CCDP
11 4 (1.54%) CCIE Security
11 4 (1.54%) CCNA
11 4 (1.54%) CCSE
11 4 (1.54%) CCSP
12 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.69%) NIST
1 7 (2.69%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.92%) GDPR
4 4 (1.54%) SLA
5 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.77%) COBIT
5 2 (0.77%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
6 1 (0.38%) RMADS
System Software
1 64 (24.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (11.92%) Docker
3 27 (10.38%) VMware NSX
4 15 (5.77%) Active Directory
5 14 (5.38%) Firmware
6 11 (4.23%) vSphere
7 3 (1.15%) KVM
7 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.77%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.77%) Snort
8 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.77%) Xen
9 1 (0.38%) NFS
9 1 (0.38%) RHEV
9 1 (0.38%) SRDF
9 1 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) XenApp
9 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (29.62%) Ansible
2 63 (24.23%) Terraform
3 18 (6.92%) CSIRT
4 14 (5.38%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.85%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.54%) CA Spectrum
6 4 (1.54%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.15%) vRealize
8 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.77%) Nagios
8 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.77%) SCCM
9 1 (0.38%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.38%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) SCOM
9 1 (0.38%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 101 (38.85%) Cisco
2 84 (32.31%) VMware
3 68 (26.15%) Palo Alto
4 65 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 55 (21.15%) Juniper
6 40 (15.38%) Blue Coat
7 36 (13.85%) Fortinet
8 29 (11.15%) McAfee
9 22 (8.46%) SolarWinds
10 21 (8.08%) Splunk
11 19 (7.31%) Meraki
12 18 (6.92%) NetApp
13 17 (6.54%) Zscaler
14 14 (5.38%) Microsoft
15 9 (3.46%) Aruba
15 9 (3.46%) Oracle
16 8 (3.08%) Nokia
17 7 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
17 7 (2.69%) IBM
18 6 (2.31%) Citrix