F5 Contracts in England

F5
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 295 402 492
Rank change year-on-year +107 +90 -109
Contract jobs citing F5 261 278 300
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.55% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 1.67% 1.31% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 205 190
10th Percentile £378 £363 £363
25th Percentile £432 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £663 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% - -
75th Percentile £45.65 £74.35 -
90th Percentile £58.76 £76.96 -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £49.54
% change year-on-year -66.00% +41.30% +106.42%

All Vendors
England

F5 is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for F5 in England

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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 27 April 2024. 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
London +40 99 £488 -11.36% 26
South East +59 73 £538 +7.50% 14
North of England +46 41 £475 -9.52% 4
North West +20 21 £433 -19.53% 2
Yorkshire +29 20 £515 +5.64% 2
Midlands +25 17 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands +38 12 £475 +35.71% 3
South West +13 11 £500 +2.56% 4
East of England +21 9 £450 -18.18% 10
East Midlands +15 5 £600 +84.62% 1
F5
UK

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 12 (4.60%) IIS
2 7 (2.68%) Apache
2 7 (2.68%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.77%) Confluence
4 2 (0.77%) JBoss
4 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (6.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.29%) Azure
2 52 (19.92%) AWS
3 26 (9.96%) Cloudflare
4 21 (8.05%) Akamai
5 15 (5.75%) GCP
6 14 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.30%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.92%) OCI
9 4 (1.53%) BigCommerce
9 4 (1.53%) GitHub
10 3 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.77%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.77%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.77%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.77%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 148 (56.70%) Firewall
2 82 (31.42%) BGP
3 72 (27.59%) WAN
4 65 (24.90%) MPLS
5 57 (21.84%) Cisco Nexus
6 49 (18.77%) VPN
7 48 (18.39%) DNS
8 47 (18.01%) LAN
8 47 (18.01%) OSPF
9 41 (15.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 39 (14.94%) Wireless
11 38 (14.56%) Cisco Firepower
12 36 (13.79%) Cisco ASA
13 35 (13.41%) SD-WAN
14 34 (13.03%) Network Security
15 26 (9.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 26 (9.96%) SSL
16 24 (9.20%) DMZ
17 22 (8.43%) IPsec
17 22 (8.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.53%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.15%) DB2
3 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.38%) Data Hub
3 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.38%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.98%) Git
2 11 (4.21%) Sonatype Nexus
3 5 (1.92%) JIRA
4 4 (1.53%) Fiddler
5 3 (1.15%) Burp Suite
5 3 (1.15%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.77%) Vagrant
General
1 91 (34.87%) Finance
2 46 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 20 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.51%) Retail
5 15 (5.75%) Banking
6 10 (3.83%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 5 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.15%) Marketing
9 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Advertising
11 1 (0.38%) Automotive
11 1 (0.38%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Law
11 1 (0.38%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Local Government
11 1 (0.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 148 (56.70%) Network Engineer
2 47 (18.01%) Architect
3 37 (14.18%) Network Architect
4 26 (9.96%) Senior
5 15 (5.75%) Cisco Engineer
5 15 (5.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 15 (5.75%) Security Engineer
6 12 (4.60%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (4.21%) Web Engineer
8 9 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 9 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
8 9 (3.45%) Senior Architect
8 9 (3.45%) Senior Network Architect
9 8 (3.07%) Administrator
9 8 (3.07%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (2.68%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.30%) Design Engineer
11 6 (2.30%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (2.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.30%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.36%) JSON
2 10 (3.83%) .NET
3 9 (3.45%) 802.1X
4 8 (3.07%) NETCONF
4 8 (3.07%) XML
4 8 (3.07%) YANG
5 6 (2.30%) LDAP
6 4 (1.53%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.53%) SAML
7 3 (1.15%) gRPC
7 3 (1.15%) Kafka
7 3 (1.15%) Middleware
7 3 (1.15%) VML
7 3 (1.15%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.77%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 53 (20.31%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (3.45%) PKI
4 8 (3.07%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.07%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.77%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.77%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.77%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.77%) Replication
8 2 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.77%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.38%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.38%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.58%) Windows
2 22 (8.43%) Linux
3 14 (5.36%) Unix
4 8 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.53%) zOS
6 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.15%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.77%) AIX
7 2 (0.77%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.46%) Load Balancing
2 40 (15.33%) Network Design
3 31 (11.88%) Network Management
4 28 (10.73%) DevOps
5 26 (9.96%) Technical Leadership
6 24 (9.20%) Network Architecture
7 23 (8.81%) Customer Requirements
7 23 (8.81%) Migration
8 22 (8.43%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (7.66%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (7.28%) ITSM
11 16 (6.13%) ITIL
11 16 (6.13%) Roadmaps
12 13 (4.98%) Cloud Security
13 12 (4.60%) RAD
13 12 (4.60%) Zero Trust
14 11 (4.21%) Computer Science
14 11 (4.21%) Problem Management
14 11 (4.21%) Requirements Gathering
15 10 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.18%) Python
2 17 (6.51%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.83%) SQL
4 8 (3.07%) ActionScript
5 4 (1.53%) Bash
5 4 (1.53%) Go
6 3 (1.15%) Java
6 3 (1.15%) Perl
6 3 (1.15%) PHP
7 2 (0.77%) C#
7 2 (0.77%) Ruby
7 2 (0.77%) Scala
8 1 (0.38%) C
8 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 63 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 61 (23.37%) Cisco Certification
3 47 (18.01%) CCNP
4 42 (16.09%) SC Cleared
5 22 (8.43%) CCNA
6 20 (7.66%) CCIE
7 11 (4.21%) Degree
8 10 (3.83%) DV Cleared
9 8 (3.07%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.92%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.77%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.38%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.38%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.21%) SLA
2 4 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.77%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (5.36%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.30%) Firmware
2 6 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.30%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.53%) ProxySG
5 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.77%) BitLocker
6 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.77%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.77%) PowerDNS
6 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.77%) vSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Docker
7 1 (0.38%) KVM
Systems Management
1 25 (9.58%) Ansible
2 24 (9.20%) Endace
2 24 (9.20%) Terraform
3 16 (6.13%) FortiGate
4 10 (3.83%) SCOM
5 7 (2.68%) Puppet
5 7 (2.68%) SCCM
5 7 (2.68%) SolarWinds Orion
6 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.53%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.15%) AirWatch
9 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.77%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.77%) NetBackup
9 2 (0.77%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.77%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.77%) VxRail
10 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 157 (60.15%) Cisco
2 64 (24.52%) Palo Alto
3 52 (19.92%) Juniper
4 40 (15.33%) CheckPoint
5 39 (14.94%) Fortinet
5 39 (14.94%) SolarWinds
6 25 (9.58%) Microsoft
7 16 (6.13%) Infoblox
8 14 (5.36%) Nokia
9 13 (4.98%) Meraki
10 12 (4.60%) Dell
11 10 (3.83%) VMware
12 9 (3.45%) Aruba
12 9 (3.45%) Google
13 8 (3.07%) Citrix
14 6 (2.30%) Blue Coat
14 6 (2.30%) ServiceNow
14 6 (2.30%) Splunk
15 5 (1.92%) HP
15 5 (1.92%) Zscaler