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 12 August 2026, 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
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 330 304 246
Rank change year-on-year -26 -58 +131
Contract jobs citing F5 314 209 332
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.69% 0.76% 1.00%
As % of the Vendors category 1.66% 1.60% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 117 224
10th Percentile £380 £375 £361
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £488 £523
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.70% -0.48%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £582
90th Percentile £688 £652 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £44.28 - -
25th Percentile £48.68 - -
Median hourly rate £57.02 - £23.80
75th Percentile £65.01 - -
90th Percentile £69.20 - -
UK median hourly rate £57.02 - £23.80
% change year-on-year - - -66.00%

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 18,885 13,061 14,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.43% 47.18% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,889 8,265 9,244
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £623 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 631 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.98% -19.21%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.77
% change year-on-year +29.22% -15.52% -27.06%

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 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 2026.

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 12 August 2026. 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 -3 113 £563 +18.42% 13
North West +11 80 £575 +21.05% 11
West Midlands +5 75 £573 +34.82% 2
Midlands -1 75 £573 +27.33% 2
London -79 75 £500 +8.11% 32
South East -27 66 £520 -0.48% 4
Yorkshire -40 26 £488 +8.33% 2
South West -51 17 £495 -9.09% 6
North East - 13 £650 -
East of England -16 5 £530 +24.71% 1
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 7 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.59%) nginx
2 5 (1.59%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.96%) Apache
3 3 (0.96%) Confluence
3 3 (0.96%) IIS
3 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.96%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.87%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 56 (17.83%) Azure
2 50 (15.92%) AWS
3 23 (7.32%) OCI
4 19 (6.05%) GitHub
5 15 (4.78%) SaaS
6 10 (3.18%) GCP
7 9 (2.87%) IaaS
8 8 (2.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.91%) Cloudflare
10 6 (1.91%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.59%) Entra ID
12 4 (1.27%) Microsoft 365
13 3 (0.96%) Mimecast
13 3 (0.96%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.32%) Akamai
14 1 (0.32%) AWS CloudFormation
14 1 (0.32%) CloudBees
14 1 (0.32%) Route 53
14 1 (0.32%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 170 (54.14%) Firewall
2 154 (49.04%) BGP
3 139 (44.27%) DNS
4 120 (38.22%) BIG-IP
5 107 (34.08%) WAN
6 104 (33.12%) OSPF
7 102 (32.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 85 (27.07%) VPN
9 78 (24.84%) VXLAN
10 72 (22.93%) LAN
11 64 (20.38%) Network Security
12 58 (18.47%) TCP/IP
13 55 (17.52%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 54 (17.20%) Ethernet VPN
14 54 (17.20%) Multicast
15 52 (16.56%) DHCP
16 45 (14.33%) SSL
17 43 (13.69%) VLAN
18 42 (13.38%) DMZ
19 41 (13.06%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.27%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.96%) MySQL
3 1 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (7.64%) JIRA
2 20 (6.37%) GitLab
3 16 (5.10%) Fiddler
4 12 (3.82%) Jenkins
5 7 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.59%) Git
7 1 (0.32%) MSI
7 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (14.65%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.69%) Banking
3 33 (10.51%) Finance
4 31 (9.87%) Investment Banking
5 24 (7.64%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (6.69%) Public Sector
7 19 (6.05%) Telecoms
8 10 (3.18%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.23%) Retail
10 6 (1.91%) Military
11 5 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.59%) Legal
12 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.32%) Law
14 1 (0.32%) Police
14 1 (0.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 155 (49.36%) Network Engineer
2 62 (19.75%) Senior
3 58 (18.47%) Security Engineer
4 51 (16.24%) Network Security Engineer
5 40 (12.74%) Cisco Engineer
6 38 (12.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 35 (11.15%) Data Network Engineer
8 33 (10.51%) Architect
9 32 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 31 (9.87%) Data Engineer
10 31 (9.87%) Web Engineer
11 30 (9.55%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 30 (9.55%) Senior Network Engineer
12 19 (6.05%) Network Architect
12 19 (6.05%) Network Specialist
12 19 (6.05%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (5.41%) IP Network Engineer
14 15 (4.78%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 14 (4.46%) Firewall Specialist
16 10 (3.18%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (12.10%) 802.1X
2 10 (3.18%) YAML
3 8 (2.55%) JSON
4 7 (2.23%) SAML
5 6 (1.91%) NETCONF
5 6 (1.91%) OpenConfig
5 6 (1.91%) RESTCONF
5 6 (1.91%) YANG
6 5 (1.59%) REST
7 4 (1.27%) LDAP
8 3 (0.96%) LAMP
8 3 (0.96%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.64%) eBPF
10 1 (0.32%) .NET
10 1 (0.32%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.32%) Bun
10 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
10 1 (0.32%) JWT
10 1 (0.32%) OpenID
10 1 (0.32%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (33.76%) Data Centre
2 40 (12.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 28 (8.92%) PKI
4 26 (8.28%) Clustering
5 21 (6.69%) Cloud Native
6 20 (6.37%) Management Information System
7 13 (4.14%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.87%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.55%) Private Cloud
9 8 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 7 (2.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 6 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.59%) Distributed Applications
13 4 (1.27%) Digital Signage
13 4 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
14 3 (0.96%) Algorithms
14 3 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 3 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
15 2 (0.64%) Operational Technology
16 1 (0.32%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.69%) Windows
2 25 (7.96%) Linux
3 8 (2.55%) Unix
4 4 (1.27%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.96%) CentOS
5 3 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.32%) CatOS
6 1 (0.32%) Check Point GAiA
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (49.68%) Load Balancing
2 57 (18.15%) High Availability
3 51 (16.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (14.65%) CI/CD
5 44 (14.01%) Zero Trust
6 40 (12.74%) Network Design
7 38 (12.10%) Project Delivery
8 33 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
9 31 (9.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 30 (9.55%) Migration
10 30 (9.55%) Observability
11 29 (9.24%) Agile
12 27 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (8.60%) ITIL
12 27 (8.60%) Network Architecture
13 26 (8.28%) Identity Access Management
14 22 (7.01%) DevOps
15 21 (6.69%) Change Management
16 20 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
17 19 (6.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (27.39%) Python
2 12 (3.82%) SQL
3 11 (3.50%) ActionScript
4 10 (3.18%) JavaScript
5 9 (2.87%) Bash
6 8 (2.55%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.23%) VBA
8 6 (1.91%) Perl
9 3 (0.96%) C++
9 3 (0.96%) Lisp
10 2 (0.64%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.32%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.32%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 50 (15.92%) SC Cleared
3 49 (15.61%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (8.60%) DV Cleared
5 19 (6.05%) CCNP
6 17 (5.41%) CCIE
7 13 (4.14%) Degree
8 7 (2.23%) JNCIA
8 7 (2.23%) JNCIP
8 7 (2.23%) JNCIS
9 6 (1.91%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.96%) CCIE Security
11 3 (0.96%) CEH
11 3 (0.96%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.64%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.64%) CISSP
12 2 (0.64%) GIAC
12 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.59%) NCSC
2 3 (0.96%) NIST
2 3 (0.96%) SLA
3 2 (0.64%) GDPR
3 2 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.64%) JSP 440
4 1 (0.32%) GRC
4 1 (0.32%) QA
System Software
1 43 (13.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (6.69%) VMware NSX
3 17 (5.41%) Firmware
4 15 (4.78%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.27%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.96%) Docker
6 3 (0.96%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.96%) Postfix
6 3 (0.96%) vSphere
7 1 (0.32%) IAG
7 1 (0.32%) KVM
7 1 (0.32%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 76 (24.20%) Ansible
2 47 (14.97%) FortiGate
3 45 (14.33%) Terraform
4 7 (2.23%) WMI
5 6 (1.91%) Grafana
5 6 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (1.59%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (0.96%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.64%) Avamar
9 2 (0.64%) Puppet
9 2 (0.64%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.32%) Istio
10 1 (0.32%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
10 1 (0.32%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 197 (62.74%) Cisco
2 106 (33.76%) Palo Alto
3 71 (22.61%) Juniper
4 61 (19.43%) Fortinet
5 52 (16.56%) VMware
6 44 (14.01%) SolarWinds
7 42 (13.38%) Arista
8 41 (13.06%) CheckPoint
9 33 (10.51%) Splunk
10 28 (8.92%) Aruba
10 28 (8.92%) Microsoft
11 25 (7.96%) Infoblox
12 24 (7.64%) Blue Coat
13 22 (7.01%) Extreme Networks
14 15 (4.78%) McAfee
14 15 (4.78%) NetApp
14 15 (4.78%) ServiceNow
15 13 (4.14%) Zscaler
16 6 (1.91%) Meraki
17 5 (1.59%) Citrix