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 31 July 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 319 248
Rank change year-on-year -23 -71 +140
Contract jobs citing F5 319 198 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.72% 0.98%
As % of the Vendors category 1.71% 1.53% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 117 226
10th Percentile £382 £375 £361
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £488 £514
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -5.11% +2.75%
75th Percentile £588 £605 £577
90th Percentile £684 £643 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £515
% change year-on-year +4.71% -7.28% -1.90%
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 18,626 12,961 14,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.10% 47.10% 43.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,217 9,445
10th Percentile £313 £280 £298
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,000 626 805
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.93% -8.55% -33.97%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +13 123 £534 +12.34% 7
North West +10 84 £575 +21.05% 5
Midlands +3 77 £573 +27.33% 5
West Midlands -5 77 £573 +34.82% 5
London -75 70 £500 +11.11% 16
South East -26 66 £520 -0.48% 6
Yorkshire -38 32 £478 +6.11% 2
South West -50 17 £495 -9.09% 3
North East - 13 £650 -
East of England -17 5 £530 +24.71%
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 (2.19%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.57%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.25%) nginx
4 3 (0.94%) Apache
4 3 (0.94%) Confluence
4 3 (0.94%) IIS
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.94%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (2.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 9 (2.82%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 54 (16.93%) Azure
2 49 (15.36%) AWS
3 23 (7.21%) OCI
4 19 (5.96%) GitHub
5 15 (4.70%) SaaS
6 9 (2.82%) GCP
6 9 (2.82%) IaaS
7 8 (2.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (1.88%) Cloudflare
9 6 (1.88%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.25%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.94%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.94%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.31%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.31%) AWS Direct Connect
12 1 (0.31%) CloudBees
12 1 (0.31%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 165 (51.72%) Firewall
2 154 (48.28%) BGP
3 145 (45.45%) DNS
4 123 (38.56%) BIG-IP
5 106 (33.23%) WAN
6 104 (32.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 104 (32.60%) OSPF
7 89 (27.90%) VPN
8 77 (24.14%) VXLAN
9 70 (21.94%) LAN
10 61 (19.12%) Network Security
11 60 (18.81%) TCP/IP
12 57 (17.87%) Ethernet VPN
13 54 (16.93%) Multicast
14 50 (15.67%) DHCP
15 49 (15.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 45 (14.11%) SSL
17 43 (13.48%) VLAN
18 40 (12.54%) DMZ
18 40 (12.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.94%) MySQL
3 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 29 (9.09%) JIRA
2 20 (6.27%) GitLab
3 19 (5.96%) Fiddler
4 12 (3.76%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.88%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (1.57%) Git
7 1 (0.31%) MSI
7 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (15.36%) Banking
2 43 (13.48%) Social Skills
3 34 (10.66%) Investment Banking
4 30 (9.40%) Finance
5 22 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.96%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (5.96%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.82%) Financial Institution
8 7 (2.19%) Retail
9 6 (1.88%) Military
10 4 (1.25%) Legal
11 3 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.31%) Law
13 1 (0.31%) Police
13 1 (0.31%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 156 (48.90%) Network Engineer
2 61 (19.12%) Senior
3 58 (18.18%) Security Engineer
4 52 (16.30%) Network Security Engineer
5 40 (12.54%) Cisco Engineer
6 38 (11.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 37 (11.60%) Data Network Engineer
8 36 (11.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 34 (10.66%) Web Engineer
10 33 (10.34%) Architect
10 33 (10.34%) Data Engineer
11 31 (9.72%) Cisco Security Engineer
12 28 (8.78%) Senior Network Engineer
13 19 (5.96%) Network Specialist
13 19 (5.96%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 18 (5.64%) IP Network Engineer
14 18 (5.64%) Network Architect
15 16 (5.02%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 14 (4.39%) Firewall Specialist
17 10 (3.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.60%) 802.1X
2 11 (3.45%) JSON
3 7 (2.19%) SAML
3 7 (2.19%) YAML
4 6 (1.88%) NETCONF
4 6 (1.88%) OpenConfig
4 6 (1.88%) RESTCONF
4 6 (1.88%) YANG
5 5 (1.57%) REST
6 4 (1.25%) LDAP
7 3 (0.94%) LAMP
7 3 (0.94%) LEMP Stack
8 2 (0.63%) eBPF
9 1 (0.31%) .NET
9 1 (0.31%) .NET Framework
9 1 (0.31%) Bun
9 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.31%) React
Miscellaneous
1 106 (33.23%) Data Centre
2 40 (12.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 26 (8.15%) PKI
4 25 (7.84%) Clustering
5 21 (6.58%) Cloud Native
6 20 (6.27%) Management Information System
7 14 (4.39%) Public Cloud
8 9 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.82%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.51%) Private Cloud
10 6 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.25%) Digital Signage
12 3 (0.94%) Algorithms
12 3 (0.94%) Distributed Applications
12 3 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
12 3 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
12 3 (0.94%) Virtual Team
13 2 (0.63%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.48%) Windows
2 25 (7.84%) Linux
3 10 (3.13%) Unix
4 4 (1.25%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.94%) CentOS
5 3 (0.94%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.31%) CatOS
6 1 (0.31%) Check Point GAiA
6 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (47.65%) Load Balancing
2 57 (17.87%) High Availability
3 52 (16.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 43 (13.48%) Project Delivery
5 43 (13.48%) Zero Trust
6 39 (12.23%) Network Design
7 34 (10.66%) Agile
8 33 (10.34%) Observability
9 32 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
10 30 (9.40%) Migration
10 30 (9.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (8.78%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (8.46%) ITIL
13 26 (8.15%) Network Architecture
14 25 (7.84%) Identity Access Management
15 21 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 20 (6.27%) Change Management
16 20 (6.27%) DevOps
17 18 (5.64%) Malware Detection/Protection
Programming Languages
1 88 (27.59%) Python
2 12 (3.76%) ActionScript
3 10 (3.13%) JavaScript
3 10 (3.13%) SQL
4 9 (2.82%) Bash
4 9 (2.82%) VBA
5 7 (2.19%) PowerShell
6 3 (0.94%) C++
6 3 (0.94%) Lisp
6 3 (0.94%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.63%) Perl
8 1 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 86 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 49 (15.36%) SC Cleared
3 48 (15.05%) Cisco Certification
4 27 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 20 (6.27%) CCNP
6 16 (5.02%) CCIE
7 11 (3.45%) Degree
8 7 (2.19%) JNCIA
8 7 (2.19%) JNCIP
8 7 (2.19%) JNCIS
9 6 (1.88%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (0.94%) CCIE Security
11 3 (0.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.63%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.63%) CEH
12 2 (0.63%) CISSP
12 2 (0.63%) GIAC
13 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.57%) NCSC
2 3 (0.94%) SLA
3 2 (0.63%) GDPR
3 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) JSP 440
3 2 (0.63%) NIST
4 1 (0.31%) GRC
4 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 39 (12.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (6.27%) VMware NSX
3 18 (5.64%) Firmware
4 12 (3.76%) Active Directory
5 4 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (0.94%) Docker
6 3 (0.94%) Dovecot
6 3 (0.94%) Postfix
6 3 (0.94%) vSphere
7 1 (0.31%) IAG
7 1 (0.31%) KVM
7 1 (0.31%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 81 (25.39%) Ansible
2 46 (14.42%) FortiGate
3 42 (13.17%) Terraform
4 9 (2.82%) Grafana
5 8 (2.51%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.19%) WMI
7 5 (1.57%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.94%) HAProxy
9 3 (0.94%) Salt
10 2 (0.63%) Avamar
10 2 (0.63%) Puppet
10 2 (0.63%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.31%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.31%) SCCM
11 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 198 (62.07%) Cisco
2 107 (33.54%) Palo Alto
3 71 (22.26%) Juniper
4 59 (18.50%) Fortinet
5 49 (15.36%) VMware
6 45 (14.11%) Arista
7 43 (13.48%) SolarWinds
8 41 (12.85%) CheckPoint
9 36 (11.29%) Splunk
10 31 (9.72%) Aruba
11 28 (8.78%) Microsoft
12 27 (8.46%) Blue Coat
13 26 (8.15%) Infoblox
14 22 (6.90%) Extreme Networks
15 19 (5.96%) McAfee
15 19 (5.96%) ServiceNow
16 16 (5.02%) NetApp
17 13 (4.08%) Zscaler
18 6 (1.88%) Citrix
18 6 (1.88%) Meraki