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 5 September 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
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 286 231
Rank change year-on-year -77 -55 +158
Contract jobs citing F5 291 228 333
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.83% 1.03%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 1.76% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 120 222
10th Percentile £380 £380 £383
25th Percentile £425 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £491 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.92% -6.48% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £688 £738 £650
UK median daily rate £523 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +6.63% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £66.50 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year - +179.41% -67.17%
UK median hourly rate - £66.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year - +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 19,086 12,919 14,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.59% 47.16% 44.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,939 8,193 8,886
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £631
90th Percentile £706 £712 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,046 611 627
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.67 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% -23.79% -21.05%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.31 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%

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 5 September 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 5 September 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 -22 116 £575 +17.47% 5
North West -6 84 £575 +21.05% 4
West Midlands -17 73 £581 +32.05% 3
Midlands -23 73 £581 +32.05% 3
London -99 67 £525 -0.94% 34
South East -46 48 £450 -14.29% 10
Yorkshire -55 25 £488 -0.41% 1
South West -34 19 £495 -17.50% 6
North East -27 13 £650 +18.18%
East of England -20 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 6 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.72%) IIS
2 5 (1.72%) nginx
2 5 (1.72%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.03%) Apache
3 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (2.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 7 (2.41%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 55 (18.90%) Azure
2 50 (17.18%) AWS
3 23 (7.90%) OCI
4 20 (6.87%) GitHub
5 15 (5.15%) SaaS
6 11 (3.78%) IaaS
7 10 (3.44%) GCP
8 8 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 7 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (2.06%) Cloudflare
10 6 (2.06%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
12 3 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.03%) Mimecast
12 3 (1.03%) OneDrive
13 1 (0.34%) Akamai
13 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
13 1 (0.34%) Azure DevOps
13 1 (0.34%) Route 53
13 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 155 (53.26%) Firewall
2 129 (44.33%) BGP
3 126 (43.30%) DNS
4 109 (37.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 108 (37.11%) BIG-IP
6 90 (30.93%) VPN
7 89 (30.58%) WAN
8 83 (28.52%) OSPF
9 68 (23.37%) Network Security
10 62 (21.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 60 (20.62%) VXLAN
12 56 (19.24%) TCP/IP
13 50 (17.18%) SSL
14 49 (16.84%) VLAN
15 48 (16.49%) LAN
16 47 (16.15%) Multicast
17 45 (15.46%) Wireless
18 40 (13.75%) Cisco Nexus
19 39 (13.40%) DMZ
20 36 (12.37%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.03%) MySQL
1 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (8.25%) JIRA
2 20 (6.87%) GitLab
3 15 (5.15%) Fiddler
4 12 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 6 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (1.37%) Git
7 1 (0.34%) MSI
7 1 (0.34%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 47 (16.15%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.46%) Banking
3 32 (11.00%) Finance
4 30 (10.31%) Investment Banking
5 24 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (6.53%) Telecoms
7 18 (6.19%) Public Sector
8 8 (2.75%) Legal
9 7 (2.41%) Retail
10 5 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.03%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.03%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.69%) Military
12 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Law
13 1 (0.34%) Police
13 1 (0.34%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 146 (50.17%) Network Engineer
2 59 (20.27%) Security Engineer
3 53 (18.21%) Senior
4 49 (16.84%) Network Security Engineer
5 38 (13.06%) Cisco Engineer
6 36 (12.37%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 34 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 33 (11.34%) Architect
9 30 (10.31%) Data Network Engineer
10 27 (9.28%) Cisco Security Engineer
10 27 (9.28%) Data Engineer
10 27 (9.28%) Web Engineer
11 23 (7.90%) Senior Network Engineer
12 19 (6.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (5.84%) Network Architect
14 15 (5.15%) IP Network Engineer
15 14 (4.81%) Blue Coat Engineer
16 13 (4.47%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
17 10 (3.44%) Automation Engineer
17 10 (3.44%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (14.43%) Terraform
2 24 (8.25%) 802.1X
3 9 (3.09%) YAML
4 8 (2.75%) JSON
5 7 (2.41%) SAML
6 6 (2.06%) NETCONF
6 6 (2.06%) RESTCONF
7 5 (1.72%) REST
8 4 (1.37%) LDAP
8 4 (1.37%) OpenConfig
8 4 (1.37%) YANG
9 3 (1.03%) LAMP
9 3 (1.03%) LEMP Stack
10 2 (0.69%) eBPF
10 2 (0.69%) gRPC
11 1 (0.34%) .NET
11 1 (0.34%) Bun
11 1 (0.34%) JWT
11 1 (0.34%) OpenID
11 1 (0.34%) React
Miscellaneous
1 97 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (7.90%) Management Information System
4 21 (7.22%) Cloud Native
5 12 (4.12%) Public Cloud
6 11 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
7 10 (3.44%) PKI
8 8 (2.75%) Clustering
8 8 (2.75%) Private Cloud
9 7 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
9 7 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 6 (2.06%) Digital Signage
11 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
12 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
12 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
12 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
13 2 (0.69%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.28%) Linux
1 27 (9.28%) Windows
2 9 (3.09%) Unix
3 6 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.03%) CentOS
4 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.34%) CatOS
6 1 (0.34%) Check Point GAiA
6 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (47.08%) Load Balancing
2 54 (18.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (16.15%) CI/CD
4 45 (15.46%) Zero Trust
5 42 (14.43%) Project Delivery
6 41 (14.09%) High Availability
7 36 (12.37%) Network Design
8 30 (10.31%) Agile
8 30 (10.31%) Migration
8 30 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (9.28%) Network Architecture
10 23 (7.90%) ITIL
11 22 (7.56%) Change Management
11 22 (7.56%) DevOps
11 22 (7.56%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (6.53%) Cloud Security
13 19 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 83 (28.52%) Python
2 11 (3.78%) ActionScript
3 10 (3.44%) JavaScript
3 10 (3.44%) SQL
4 8 (2.75%) Perl
4 8 (2.75%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.41%) VBA
6 5 (1.72%) Bash
7 4 (1.37%) Shell Script
8 3 (1.03%) Lisp
9 1 (0.34%) C++
9 1 (0.34%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 72 (24.74%) Security Cleared
2 55 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 39 (13.40%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.87%) CCNP
5 18 (6.19%) CCIE
6 14 (4.81%) DV Cleared
7 13 (4.47%) Degree
8 6 (2.06%) JNCIE
9 4 (1.37%) CISSP
10 3 (1.03%) CCIE Security
10 3 (1.03%) CEH
10 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (0.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (0.69%) CCNA
11 2 (0.69%) CLAS
11 2 (0.69%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.69%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.37%) GDPR
1 4 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.37%) NCSC
1 4 (1.37%) NIST
2 3 (1.03%) GRC
3 2 (0.69%) ISO 31000
3 2 (0.69%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27005
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 45 (15.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (7.90%) VMware NSX
3 17 (5.84%) Firmware
4 16 (5.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (1.03%) Docker
5 3 (1.03%) Dovecot
5 3 (1.03%) Postfix
5 3 (1.03%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (1.03%) vSphere
6 2 (0.69%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.34%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (23.71%) Ansible
2 29 (9.97%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.41%) WMI
4 6 (2.06%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (1.72%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.03%) HAProxy
7 3 (1.03%) vCenter Server
8 2 (0.69%) Avamar
8 2 (0.69%) CASB
8 2 (0.69%) Grafana
8 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.34%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.34%) Puppet
9 1 (0.34%) SCCM
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 173 (59.45%) Cisco
2 106 (36.43%) Palo Alto
3 62 (21.31%) Fortinet
4 55 (18.90%) VMware
5 50 (17.18%) Juniper
6 38 (13.06%) Arista
6 38 (13.06%) CheckPoint
7 29 (9.97%) SolarWinds
8 27 (9.28%) Aruba
8 27 (9.28%) Blue Coat
8 27 (9.28%) Microsoft
9 21 (7.22%) Infoblox
10 16 (5.50%) Splunk
10 16 (5.50%) Zscaler
11 14 (4.81%) McAfee
11 14 (4.81%) NetApp
12 13 (4.47%) ServiceNow
13 9 (3.09%) Meraki
14 6 (2.06%) Citrix
14 6 (2.06%) Extreme Networks