F5 Contracts 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 259 403
Rank change year-on-year -66 +144 +52
Contract jobs citing F5 175 341 247
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.91% 0.52%
As % of the Vendors category 1.42% 2.14% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 236 177
10th Percentile £400 £370 £358
25th Percentile £425 £433 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £671
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £505
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.99% -1.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.00% +28.44%
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -66.00% +29.63%

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 12,357 15,948 20,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.33% 42.67% 42.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,819 10,106 13,824
10th Percentile £280 £275 £267
25th Percentile £401 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £627 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 1,060 550
10th Percentile £14.76 £12.50 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.84 £18.53
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.65 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -23.33% +48.57%
75th Percentile £51.74 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
% change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%

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

F5
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

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in England

F5
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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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 3 July 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
London -8 71 £450 -5.26% 39
South West +42 27 £545 +11.69% 4
North of England -25 26 £482 -0.57% 12
South East -35 23 £550 - 18
Midlands +13 17 £540 +5.37% 6
West Midlands +11 15 £539 +13.37% 6
North West -10 13 £475 +9.65% 7
Yorkshire -12 12 £490 -2.10% 4
East of England +17 5 £520 -5.45% 6
East Midlands -1 2 £650 +8.33%
North East - 1 £550 - 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 4 (2.29%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.71%) Confluence
3 2 (1.14%) nginx
4 1 (0.57%) JBoss
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 49 (28.00%) AWS
2 41 (23.43%) Azure
3 17 (9.71%) SaaS
4 15 (8.57%) PaaS
5 11 (6.29%) GCP
6 10 (5.71%) Akamai
7 4 (2.29%) Amazon S3
7 4 (2.29%) Cloudflare
7 4 (2.29%) IaaS
8 3 (1.71%) GitHub
8 3 (1.71%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.14%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 108 (61.71%) Firewall
2 59 (33.71%) Network Security
3 53 (30.29%) DNS
4 46 (26.29%) Wireless
5 43 (24.57%) Cisco ISE
6 41 (23.43%) WAN
7 38 (21.71%) VPN
8 37 (21.14%) LAN
9 36 (20.57%) BGP
9 36 (20.57%) OSPF
10 35 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 31 (17.71%) DHCP
12 27 (15.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 27 (15.43%) SD-WAN
13 25 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (13.71%) VLAN
15 21 (12.00%) BIG-IP
16 20 (11.43%) Cisco Firepower
17 18 (10.29%) MPLS
18 17 (9.71%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (6.29%) Sonatype Nexus
2 10 (5.71%) JIRA
3 6 (3.43%) GitLab
4 3 (1.71%) Git
5 2 (1.14%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (21.14%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.86%) Finance
3 20 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (10.86%) Telecoms
5 15 (8.57%) Banking
6 11 (6.29%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.86%) Legal
8 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Advertising
9 1 (0.57%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.57%) Electronics
9 1 (0.57%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.57%) Marketing
9 1 (0.57%) Military
9 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 87 (49.71%) Network Engineer
2 24 (13.71%) Architect
3 20 (11.43%) Senior
4 18 (10.29%) Network Security Engineer
4 18 (10.29%) Security Engineer
5 13 (7.43%) Cisco Engineer
6 12 (6.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (6.29%) Network Architect
8 10 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Consultant
9 9 (5.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (4.57%) Juniper Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Designer
11 7 (4.00%) Network Designer
12 6 (3.43%) Administrator
12 6 (3.43%) Infrastructure Architect
12 6 (3.43%) Network Administrator
12 6 (3.43%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.86%) Middleware
2 4 (2.29%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.71%) JSON
4 2 (1.14%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.14%) XML
5 1 (0.57%) HTML
5 1 (0.57%) REST
5 1 (0.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.71%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (6.86%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (5.71%) Blackberry
4 7 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 7 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.86%) CSOC
5 5 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
6 4 (2.29%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.14%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.14%) Clustering
8 2 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.14%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.57%) FMCG
9 1 (0.57%) PKI
9 1 (0.57%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 25 (14.29%) Windows
2 17 (9.71%) Linux
3 8 (4.57%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (3.43%) VMS
5 4 (2.29%) Unix
6 3 (1.71%) CentOS
7 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (24.00%) Load Balancing
2 37 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (17.71%) Migration
4 28 (16.00%) Network Monitoring
5 26 (14.86%) Network Design
6 25 (14.29%) Roadmaps
7 22 (12.57%) Agile
8 18 (10.29%) Customer Requirements
9 17 (9.71%) Service Design
10 16 (9.14%) High Availability
11 15 (8.57%) ITIL
12 13 (7.43%) Validation
12 13 (7.43%) Zero Trust
13 12 (6.86%) Commercial Awareness
14 11 (6.29%) Network Architecture
14 11 (6.29%) Root Cause Analysis
14 11 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
15 10 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 10 (5.71%) Patch Management
15 10 (5.71%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.86%) Python
2 9 (5.14%) VB
3 8 (4.57%) Bash
4 7 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.86%) SQL
6 2 (1.14%) Perl
7 1 (0.57%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.57%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 66 (37.71%) Cisco Certification
2 59 (33.71%) Security Cleared
3 52 (29.71%) CCNP
4 43 (24.57%) SC Cleared
5 24 (13.71%) DV Cleared
6 18 (10.29%) CCIE
6 18 (10.29%) Degree
7 14 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (6.29%) CCSA
9 7 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (3.43%) CCNA
11 5 (2.86%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.29%) JNCIE
12 4 (2.29%) VCAP
13 3 (1.71%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.71%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 3 (1.71%) CISSP
14 2 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (1.14%) JNCIA
14 2 (1.14%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) SLA
2 4 (2.29%) GRC
3 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.57%) QA
System Software
1 26 (14.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 10 (5.71%) Firmware
4 6 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (3.43%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.29%) vSphere
6 1 (0.57%) Docker
6 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 50 (28.57%) Ansible
2 19 (10.86%) FortiGate
3 16 (9.14%) Terraform
4 7 (4.00%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (2.29%) OpenView
6 3 (1.71%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.14%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.14%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.14%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.57%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.57%) OPNET
8 1 (0.57%) SCCM
8 1 (0.57%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.57%) vRealize
8 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 139 (79.43%) Cisco
2 55 (31.43%) Juniper
3 53 (30.29%) CheckPoint
4 47 (26.86%) Palo Alto
5 43 (24.57%) SolarWinds
6 42 (24.00%) Fortinet
7 33 (18.86%) VMware
8 21 (12.00%) Citrix
9 18 (10.29%) Microsoft
10 17 (9.71%) Zscaler
11 16 (9.14%) Meraki
12 15 (8.57%) ServiceNow
13 14 (8.00%) Aruba
13 14 (8.00%) Infoblox
14 12 (6.86%) Ericsson
14 12 (6.86%) Nokia
15 10 (5.71%) Arista
15 10 (5.71%) Avaya
15 10 (5.71%) Ribbon
15 10 (5.71%) Splunk