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 3 October 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
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 386 294 233
Rank change year-on-year -92 -61 +131
Contract jobs citing F5 270 237 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.85% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.40% 1.77% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 124 213
10th Percentile £380 £380 £400
25th Percentile £425 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £489 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -6.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £636 £622 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £529 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +8.13% -6.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.00 £65.75 -
Median hourly rate £62.00 £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year -6.77% +179.41% -67.17%
75th Percentile £63.00 £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.00 £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year -6.77% +179.41% -67.17%

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 19,307 13,378 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.50% 47.74% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,853 8,503 8,675
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £414 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £621 £630
90th Percentile £715 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,228 644 543
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.90 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £32.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% -21.41% -25.58%

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 3 October 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
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 October 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 -42 112 £575 +17.47% 23
North West -17 80 £588 +23.68% 19
London -78 67 £500 +5.26% 46
Midlands -39 63 £581 +32.05% 5
West Midlands -31 62 £581 +32.05% 3
South East -47 39 £433 -17.22% 14
Yorkshire -55 25 £490 - 4
South West -35 17 £480 -16.52% 7
North East -33 13 £650 +18.18%
East of England -23 4 £450 -13.46% 3
East Midlands - 1 - - 2
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 8 (2.96%) IIS
2 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.85%) nginx
3 5 (1.85%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.11%) Apache
4 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.11%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.74%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (2.22%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (20.00%) Azure
2 44 (16.30%) AWS
3 25 (9.26%) GitHub
4 23 (8.52%) OCI
5 16 (5.93%) IaaS
5 16 (5.93%) SaaS
6 12 (4.44%) GCP
7 8 (2.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.59%) Cloudflare
9 6 (2.22%) Entra ID
9 6 (2.22%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.37%) Akamai
13 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.37%) Google Ads
13 1 (0.37%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 143 (52.96%) Firewall
2 118 (43.70%) DNS
3 110 (40.74%) BGP
4 101 (37.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 95 (35.19%) BIG-IP
6 80 (29.63%) VPN
7 75 (27.78%) WAN
8 72 (26.67%) OSPF
9 67 (24.81%) Network Security
10 65 (24.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 52 (19.26%) VXLAN
12 50 (18.52%) TCP/IP
13 48 (17.78%) SSL
13 48 (17.78%) VLAN
14 40 (14.81%) Multicast
15 39 (14.44%) Wireless
16 36 (13.33%) LAN
17 35 (12.96%) Cisco Nexus
18 33 (12.22%) SD-WAN
19 32 (11.85%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.11%) MySQL
1 3 (1.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (8.15%) JIRA
2 21 (7.78%) GitLab
3 18 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 12 (4.44%) Fiddler
5 6 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.85%) Git
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) MSI
7 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.37%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.37%) Selenium
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (17.04%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.44%) Finance
3 36 (13.33%) Banking
4 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.89%) Investment Banking
6 19 (7.04%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 8 (2.96%) Legal
9 6 (2.22%) Retail
10 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.74%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
12 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.37%) Law
13 1 (0.37%) Military
13 1 (0.37%) Police
13 1 (0.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 122 (45.19%) Network Engineer
2 50 (18.52%) Security Engineer
3 42 (15.56%) Senior
4 39 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 37 (13.70%) Network Security Engineer
6 31 (11.48%) Architect
7 29 (10.74%) Cisco Engineer
8 27 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 22 (8.15%) Data Network Engineer
10 21 (7.78%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 21 (7.78%) Data Engineer
10 21 (7.78%) Web Engineer
11 18 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 16 (5.93%) Network Architect
13 14 (5.19%) Senior Network Engineer
14 13 (4.81%) IP Network Engineer
15 11 (4.07%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 11 (4.07%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
16 10 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
16 10 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (14.44%) Terraform
2 21 (7.78%) 802.1X
3 9 (3.33%) YAML
4 7 (2.59%) SAML
5 6 (2.22%) NETCONF
5 6 (2.22%) RESTCONF
6 5 (1.85%) JSON
6 5 (1.85%) REST
7 4 (1.48%) LDAP
7 4 (1.48%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.48%) YANG
8 3 (1.11%) LAMP
8 3 (1.11%) LEMP Stack
9 2 (0.74%) eBPF
9 2 (0.74%) gRPC
9 2 (0.74%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.37%) .NET
10 1 (0.37%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.37%) Bun
10 1 (0.37%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 98 (36.30%) Data Centre
2 35 (12.96%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (8.52%) Management Information System
4 21 (7.78%) Cloud Native
5 19 (7.04%) Public Cloud
6 12 (4.44%) Onboarding
7 11 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.96%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.59%) Distributed Applications
10 6 (2.22%) Digital Signage
10 6 (2.22%) PKI
11 5 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.85%) Mobile Payment
11 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.85%) Smartcard
12 4 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
12 4 (1.48%) Clustering
12 4 (1.48%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
13 3 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.48%) Linux
2 28 (10.37%) Windows
3 9 (3.33%) Unix
3 9 (3.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.11%) CentOS
4 3 (1.11%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.37%) CatOS
6 1 (0.37%) Check Point GAiA
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (42.59%) Load Balancing
2 59 (21.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 54 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 48 (17.78%) Zero Trust
5 40 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 36 (13.33%) Network Design
7 31 (11.48%) Agile
8 30 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (10.74%) High Availability
9 29 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
10 27 (10.00%) Migration
10 27 (10.00%) Network Architecture
11 25 (9.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (8.89%) DevOps
13 22 (8.15%) Change Management
13 22 (8.15%) ITIL
14 20 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 19 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (7.04%) Cybersecurity
16 18 (6.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 83 (30.74%) Python
2 17 (6.30%) ActionScript
3 10 (3.70%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.70%) SQL
4 8 (2.96%) Perl
5 7 (2.59%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.22%) Bash
7 5 (1.85%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.48%) VBA
9 3 (1.11%) Lisp
10 1 (0.37%) C++
10 1 (0.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.04%) SC Cleared
3 39 (14.44%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (7.41%) CCNP
5 18 (6.67%) CCIE
6 14 (5.19%) Degree
7 8 (2.96%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.59%) CISSP
9 6 (2.22%) CCSP
9 6 (2.22%) JNCIE
10 5 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (1.85%) CISA
10 5 (1.85%) CISM
10 5 (1.85%) CLAS
10 5 (1.85%) CREST Certified
10 5 (1.85%) IISP
11 3 (1.11%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.11%) CCNA
11 3 (1.11%) CEH
11 3 (1.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.59%) GDPR
2 7 (2.59%) NIST
3 6 (2.22%) GRC
4 5 (1.85%) ISO 31000
4 5 (1.85%) ISO 9001
4 5 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 5 (1.85%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.48%) NCSC
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 35 (12.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (7.04%) VMware NSX
3 16 (5.93%) Active Directory
4 14 (5.19%) Firmware
5 5 (1.85%) ISA Server
6 4 (1.48%) Docker
7 3 (1.11%) Dovecot
7 3 (1.11%) Postfix
7 3 (1.11%) Virtual Servers
7 3 (1.11%) vSphere
8 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (23.70%) Ansible
2 24 (8.89%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.59%) WMI
4 6 (2.22%) Cisco Prime
4 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.85%) CASB
5 5 (1.85%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.11%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.11%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.74%) Avamar
9 1 (0.37%) Istio
9 1 (0.37%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.37%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) SCCM
9 1 (0.37%) vRealize
Vendors
1 149 (55.19%) Cisco
2 93 (34.44%) Palo Alto
3 59 (21.85%) Fortinet
4 48 (17.78%) VMware
5 41 (15.19%) Juniper
6 36 (13.33%) Arista
7 33 (12.22%) CheckPoint
8 29 (10.74%) Aruba
8 29 (10.74%) Microsoft
9 25 (9.26%) Blue Coat
10 24 (8.89%) SolarWinds
11 17 (6.30%) Splunk
11 17 (6.30%) Zscaler
12 13 (4.81%) Infoblox
13 11 (4.07%) McAfee
13 11 (4.07%) NetApp
14 10 (3.70%) ServiceNow
15 9 (3.33%) Meraki
16 7 (2.59%) Google
17 6 (2.22%) Citrix