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 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 332 291 396
Rank change year-on-year -41 +105 +94
Contract jobs citing F5 153 271 275
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.63% 0.73% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 1.32% 1.73% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 173 204
10th Percentile £389 £379 £363
25th Percentile £449 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -5.21% +3.18%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £600
90th Percentile £651 £650 £671
UK median daily rate £536 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.20% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -66.00% +41.30%

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 11,562 15,655 21,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.47% 42.09% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,448 9,950 14,523
10th Percentile £287 £256 £270
25th Percentile £408 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £518 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £631 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 471 1,007 599
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.08 £15.19
25th Percentile £17.56 £14.27 £18.75
Median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.37 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

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 1 May 2025.

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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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 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
London -5 62 £480 -1.54% 15
South West +60 25 £513 +2.50% 5
South East -8 22 £538 +4.88% 18
Midlands +26 21 £582 +16.31% 7
West Midlands +13 11 £551 +16.00% 4
East Midlands +15 10 £651 +8.42% 3
North of England -12 10 £505 +6.32% 18
North West +1 5 £475 +9.83% 7
East of England +24 3 £465 +3.33% 5
Yorkshire -9 3 - - 10
North East - 2 £550 - 1
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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 (2.61%) Apache
1 4 (2.61%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.65%) JBoss
2 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.65%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 45 (29.41%) AWS
2 34 (22.22%) Azure
3 13 (8.50%) Cloudflare
4 11 (7.19%) PaaS
4 11 (7.19%) SaaS
5 5 (3.27%) Akamai
5 5 (3.27%) GCP
6 4 (2.61%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.96%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (1.31%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.65%) GitHub
9 1 (0.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 87 (56.86%) Firewall
2 51 (33.33%) DNS
3 34 (22.22%) Network Security
4 33 (21.57%) WAN
5 32 (20.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 30 (19.61%) VPN
7 28 (18.30%) LAN
8 26 (16.99%) Wireless
9 25 (16.34%) OSPF
10 22 (14.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 21 (13.73%) Cisco ISE
11 21 (13.73%) DHCP
12 20 (13.07%) BGP
13 19 (12.42%) MPLS
13 19 (12.42%) SSL
14 18 (11.76%) SD-WAN
15 17 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
15 17 (11.11%) IPsec
16 15 (9.80%) BIG-IP
16 15 (9.80%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Couchbase
3 1 (0.65%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.65%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.23%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (4.58%) GitLab
3 4 (2.61%) JIRA
4 1 (0.65%) Git
General
1 33 (21.57%) Finance
2 29 (18.95%) Social Skills
3 18 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 13 (8.50%) Banking
5 11 (7.19%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.61%) Law
7 3 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 3 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Electronics
8 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.65%) Marketing
8 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (41.83%) Network Engineer
2 27 (17.65%) Architect
3 18 (11.76%) Network Architect
4 17 (11.11%) Senior
5 14 (9.15%) Network Security Engineer
5 14 (9.15%) Security Engineer
6 11 (7.19%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 7 (4.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.92%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (3.27%) Migration Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Administrator
10 4 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Cloud Network Engineer
10 4 (2.61%) Network Administrator
10 4 (2.61%) Storage Engineer
11 3 (1.96%) Automation Engineer
11 3 (1.96%) Infoblox Engineer
11 3 (1.96%) Juniper Engineer
11 3 (1.96%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.96%) 802.1X
1 3 (1.96%) JSON
2 2 (1.31%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.31%) XML
3 1 (0.65%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (0.65%) HTML
3 1 (0.65%) Middleware
3 1 (0.65%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.42%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.84%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (6.54%) Blackberry
3 10 (6.54%) CSOC
4 9 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.58%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.96%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.96%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.96%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.31%) Clustering
8 2 (1.31%) PKI
8 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.65%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.65%) RSA SecurID
9 1 (0.65%) SCADA
9 1 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
9 1 (0.65%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (16.99%) Linux
1 26 (16.99%) Windows
2 16 (10.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (6.54%) VMS
4 4 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.96%) CentOS
6 2 (1.31%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.65%) Debian
7 1 (0.65%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.65%) Unix
7 1 (0.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (26.14%) Load Balancing
2 33 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (20.92%) Migration
4 24 (15.69%) Roadmaps
5 21 (13.73%) Network Design
6 19 (12.42%) Network Monitoring
7 15 (9.80%) Customer Requirements
7 15 (9.80%) Service Design
8 13 (8.50%) Root Cause Analysis
9 12 (7.84%) Commercial Awareness
9 12 (7.84%) DevOps
10 11 (7.19%) Network Architecture
10 11 (7.19%) SIEM
10 11 (7.19%) Thought Leadership
10 11 (7.19%) Zero Trust
11 10 (6.54%) Event Correlation
11 10 (6.54%) Impact Assessments
11 10 (6.54%) Validation
12 9 (5.88%) Agile
12 9 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 52 (33.99%) Python
2 15 (9.80%) Bash
3 6 (3.92%) VB
4 4 (2.61%) PHP
4 4 (2.61%) SQL
5 2 (1.31%) Perl
5 2 (1.31%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.65%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.65%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (0.65%) Go
Qualifications
1 61 (39.87%) Security Cleared
2 51 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 48 (31.37%) SC Cleared
4 41 (26.80%) CCNP
5 19 (12.42%) DV Cleared
6 13 (8.50%) Degree
7 12 (7.84%) CCIE
7 12 (7.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (4.58%) CCSA
8 7 (4.58%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (3.27%) CISSP
10 3 (1.96%) CCNA
11 2 (1.31%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.31%) CEH
11 2 (1.31%) GIAC
11 2 (1.31%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.31%) Master's Degree
11 2 (1.31%) VCAP
12 1 (0.65%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.27%) SLA
2 3 (1.96%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.31%) GRC
3 2 (1.31%) NIST
4 1 (0.65%) GDPR
4 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 20 (13.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (6.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.61%) Firmware
3 4 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.31%) vSphere
5 1 (0.65%) Docker
5 1 (0.65%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.65%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.65%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (30.07%) Ansible
2 21 (13.73%) Terraform
3 10 (6.54%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.96%) CA Spectrum
4 3 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.31%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.31%) OPNET
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.65%) Grafana
6 1 (0.65%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.65%) SCCM
6 1 (0.65%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.65%) TrustSec
6 1 (0.65%) vRealize
6 1 (0.65%) VxRail
6 1 (0.65%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 108 (70.59%) Cisco
2 51 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 48 (31.37%) CheckPoint
4 43 (28.10%) Juniper
5 38 (24.84%) SolarWinds
6 37 (24.18%) Fortinet
7 22 (14.38%) VMware
8 19 (12.42%) Red Hat
9 18 (11.76%) Zscaler
10 16 (10.46%) Infoblox
11 15 (9.80%) Citrix
11 15 (9.80%) ServiceNow
11 15 (9.80%) Splunk
12 13 (8.50%) Aruba
13 12 (7.84%) Ericsson
13 12 (7.84%) Nokia
14 11 (7.19%) Arista
14 11 (7.19%) Microsoft
15 10 (6.54%) Avaya
15 10 (6.54%) Ribbon