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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 233 373
Rank change year-on-year -67 +140 +31
Contract jobs citing F5 219 334 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 1.02% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 1.70% 2.32% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 220 159
10th Percentile £380 £400 £358
25th Percentile £413 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £723 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.71% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -67.17% +34.26%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £72.50
% change year-on-year +179.41% -67.17% +34.26%

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 12,865 14,401 18,712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.02% 44.18% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,156 8,822 12,481
10th Percentile £275 £300 £262
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £615 £630 £650
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 601 587
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.25 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £15.62 £18.97
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.25 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.38
% change year-on-year -16.74% -30.36% +85.44%

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
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 15 September 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
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 15 September 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 -23 77 £475 - 7
North of England -8 63 £490 -0.10% 18
West Midlands +26 42 £420 -20.00% 14
Midlands +12 42 £420 -30.00% 22
Yorkshire +1 36 £490 -2.10% 8
North West -21 32 £475 -3.06% 9
South East -52 23 £525 -4.55% 20
South West +18 16 £575 +24.32% 10
East of England -3 2 £520 -6.31% 14
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 7 (3.20%) Confluence
2 6 (2.74%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.74%) WebSphere
3 4 (1.83%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.91%) CICS
4 2 (0.91%) nginx
4 2 (0.91%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 85 (38.81%) AWS
2 43 (19.63%) Azure
3 32 (14.61%) GCP
4 30 (13.70%) Akamai
5 22 (10.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 21 (9.59%) Amazon ELB
6 21 (9.59%) Amazon S3
7 20 (9.13%) Amazon EC2
7 20 (9.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 11 (5.02%) SaaS
9 9 (4.11%) PaaS
10 6 (2.74%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.83%) GitHub
11 4 (1.83%) IaaS
12 2 (0.91%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (0.91%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.91%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.91%) OCI
12 2 (0.91%) VULTR
13 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 141 (64.38%) Firewall
2 83 (37.90%) Network Security
3 72 (32.88%) DNS
4 54 (24.66%) VPN
5 50 (22.83%) Wireless
6 48 (21.92%) WAN
7 46 (21.00%) SSL
8 44 (20.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 42 (19.18%) BGP
10 38 (17.35%) OSPF
11 37 (16.89%) TCP/IP
12 36 (16.44%) LAN
13 35 (15.98%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (12.79%) Cisco Nexus
15 27 (12.33%) Wireshark
16 25 (11.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 23 (10.50%) SD-WAN
18 20 (9.13%) BIG-IP
18 20 (9.13%) VLAN
19 19 (8.68%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (13.70%) Jenkins
2 26 (11.87%) Git
3 23 (10.50%) GitLab
4 13 (5.94%) JIRA
5 10 (4.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.83%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.91%) Fiddler
General
1 56 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 27 (12.33%) Finance
3 25 (11.42%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (10.50%) Banking
5 18 (8.22%) Telecoms
6 17 (7.76%) Public Sector
7 12 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.65%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.74%) Legal
10 5 (2.28%) Financial Institution
10 5 (2.28%) Military
11 3 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.91%) Retail
13 1 (0.46%) Advertising
13 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.46%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (36.99%) Network Engineer
2 37 (16.89%) Senior
3 25 (11.42%) Architect
4 24 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.68%) Security Engineer
6 15 (6.85%) Designer
7 13 (5.94%) Network Security Engineer
8 12 (5.48%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 11 (5.02%) Cisco Engineer
9 11 (5.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 11 (5.02%) Network Architect
10 10 (4.57%) Analyst
10 10 (4.57%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.57%) Senior Network Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) DevOps Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Juniper Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (4.11%) Senior DevOps
11 9 (4.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.57%) 802.1X
2 9 (4.11%) Middleware
3 5 (2.28%) JSON
4 4 (1.83%) SailPoint
5 3 (1.37%) REST
5 3 (1.37%) XML
6 2 (0.91%) LDAP
6 2 (0.91%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 51 (23.29%) Data Centre
2 16 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.39%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.94%) Private Cloud
5 11 (5.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.11%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.28%) Blackberry
8 5 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.83%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.83%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.91%) Clustering
11 2 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
11 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (0.91%) Mainframe
11 2 (0.91%) Replication
11 2 (0.91%) Video\Live Streaming
11 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.13%) Linux
1 20 (9.13%) Windows
2 12 (5.48%) Unix
3 9 (4.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.37%) VMS
5 2 (0.91%) Solaris
5 2 (0.91%) zOS
6 1 (0.46%) CentOS
6 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.46%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (21.92%) Load Balancing
2 40 (18.26%) High Availability
3 35 (15.98%) DevOps
4 32 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 29 (13.24%) Migration
6 28 (12.79%) DevSecOps
7 26 (11.87%) CI/CD
8 24 (10.96%) Incident Response
9 23 (10.50%) Infrastructure Automation
10 22 (10.05%) Agile
10 22 (10.05%) Network Monitoring
11 21 (9.59%) ITIL
12 19 (8.68%) Change Management
13 18 (8.22%) Root Cause Analysis
14 17 (7.76%) Infrastructure as Code
14 17 (7.76%) Test Automation
15 15 (6.85%) Application Security
16 14 (6.39%) Cybersecurity
16 14 (6.39%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 65 (29.68%) Python
2 24 (10.96%) Bash
3 13 (5.94%) PowerShell
4 11 (5.02%) Perl
5 8 (3.65%) SQL
6 5 (2.28%) VB
7 4 (1.83%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.91%) Java
Qualifications
1 62 (28.31%) Security Cleared
2 53 (24.20%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (23.29%) SC Cleared
4 41 (18.72%) CCNP
5 22 (10.05%) CCIE
6 14 (6.39%) Degree
7 13 (5.94%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.94%) JNCIE
8 9 (4.11%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.65%) CCSA
9 8 (3.65%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (3.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (2.28%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.83%) CCSE
13 3 (1.37%) CCDP
13 3 (1.37%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 3 (1.37%) CCNA
13 3 (1.37%) JNCIP
14 2 (0.91%) GWAPT
14 2 (0.91%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.20%) SLA
2 4 (1.83%) GRC
3 2 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.91%) COBIT
3 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (16.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (9.13%) Docker
3 16 (7.31%) VMware NSX
4 10 (4.57%) Active Directory
5 8 (3.65%) Firmware
6 7 (3.20%) vSphere
7 3 (1.37%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.91%) KVM
8 2 (0.91%) Snort
9 1 (0.46%) NFS
9 1 (0.46%) SRDF
9 1 (0.46%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.46%) Xen
9 1 (0.46%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 75 (34.25%) Ansible
2 55 (25.11%) Terraform
3 15 (6.85%) FortiGate
4 12 (5.48%) CSIRT
5 5 (2.28%) CA Spectrum
5 5 (2.28%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.83%) OpenView
7 3 (1.37%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.37%) vRealize
8 2 (0.91%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.91%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.46%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) SCCM
Vendors
1 120 (54.79%) Cisco
2 64 (29.22%) CheckPoint
3 57 (26.03%) Palo Alto
4 55 (25.11%) Juniper
5 44 (20.09%) VMware
6 38 (17.35%) SolarWinds
7 37 (16.89%) Fortinet
8 19 (8.68%) Microsoft
9 17 (7.76%) Meraki
10 16 (7.31%) Splunk
11 15 (6.85%) Zscaler
12 12 (5.48%) Blue Coat
12 12 (5.48%) Citrix
13 10 (4.57%) ServiceNow
14 9 (4.11%) LogicMonitor
15 8 (3.65%) Oracle
16 7 (3.20%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (3.20%) HP
17 6 (2.74%) Infoblox
17 6 (2.74%) NetApp