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 29 November 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
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 295 262 372
Rank change year-on-year -33 +110 +25
Contract jobs citing F5 260 281 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.85% 0.91% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.77% 2.00% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 177 141
10th Percentile £373 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £713 £647 £669
UK median daily rate £500 £504 £538
% change year-on-year -0.74% -6.28% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £64.65
25th Percentile £65.75 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £23.80 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +179.41% -67.17% +271.79%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £23.15 £72.50
% change year-on-year +187.26% -68.07% +271.79%

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 14,648 14,030 17,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 45.29% 44.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,482 8,433 11,453
10th Percentile £286 £300 £253
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 708 437 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.31 £32.50 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.20% -27.37% +69.73%
75th Percentile £47.03 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%

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 29 November 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 29 November 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
North of England -3 99 £500 +2.04% 3
London +3 79 £500 +5.26% 7
Midlands +9 63 £440 -37.59% 8
West Midlands +33 62 £440 -23.14% 6
North West -11 59 £549 +11.99% 2
Yorkshire +10 53 £491 -1.85%
South East -52 25 £520 -5.45% 14
South West -6 12 £550 +18.92% 5
East of England -22 4 £520 -6.31% 4
North East -8 1 £550 - 1
East Midlands -28 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 10 (3.85%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.69%) Confluence
3 6 (2.31%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.77%) CICS
5 2 (0.77%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 5 (1.92%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 91 (35.00%) AWS
2 51 (19.62%) Azure
3 46 (17.69%) GCP
4 34 (13.08%) Akamai
5 27 (10.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 25 (9.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (9.23%) Amazon ELB
8 23 (8.85%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (8.85%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.46%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.08%) SaaS
11 6 (2.31%) PaaS
12 5 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.92%) GitHub
12 5 (1.92%) IaaS
13 4 (1.54%) Cloudflare
14 3 (1.15%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
15 2 (0.77%) Entra ID
15 2 (0.77%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 148 (56.92%) Firewall
2 103 (39.62%) DNS
3 89 (34.23%) Network Security
4 67 (25.77%) SSL
5 65 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 57 (21.92%) TCP/IP
6 57 (21.92%) VPN
7 55 (21.15%) WAN
8 50 (19.23%) BGP
9 49 (18.85%) Wireless
10 45 (17.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 41 (15.77%) OSPF
12 37 (14.23%) Wireshark
13 36 (13.85%) LAN
14 32 (12.31%) DMZ
15 28 (10.77%) BIG-IP
15 28 (10.77%) Cisco ISE
16 27 (10.38%) HTTP
17 24 (9.23%) Cisco Nexus
18 23 (8.85%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.77%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (12.69%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.31%) Git
3 24 (9.23%) GitLab
4 14 (5.38%) Fiddler
5 9 (3.46%) JIRA
6 6 (2.31%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.54%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.77%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
General
1 70 (26.92%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.62%) Banking
3 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (10.77%) Finance
5 26 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 25 (9.62%) Investment Banking
7 21 (8.08%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.38%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (3.08%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.69%) Military
11 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.54%) Legal
12 4 (1.54%) Retail
13 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 93 (35.77%) Network Engineer
2 37 (14.23%) Architect
3 34 (13.08%) Senior
4 25 (9.62%) Security Engineer
5 21 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (7.31%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.15%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) Network Security Engineer
8 14 (5.38%) Solutions Architect
8 14 (5.38%) Web Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 12 (4.62%) Senior DevOps
9 12 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.23%) Designer
11 10 (3.85%) Analyst
11 10 (3.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 10 (3.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 9 (3.46%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.62%) 802.1X
2 9 (3.46%) Middleware
3 4 (1.54%) JSON
3 4 (1.54%) XML
4 3 (1.15%) LDAP
4 3 (1.15%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.15%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.15%) REST
4 3 (1.15%) YANG
5 2 (0.77%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.77%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.77%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.77%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.46%) Data Centre
2 31 (11.92%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.92%) Security Posture
4 13 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (5.00%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.46%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.08%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.08%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.77%) Clustering
9 2 (0.77%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.77%) Replication
9 2 (0.77%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.23%) Linux
2 18 (6.92%) Windows
3 12 (4.62%) Unix
4 8 (3.08%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.15%) VMS
6 2 (0.77%) Solaris
6 2 (0.77%) zOS
7 1 (0.38%) MVS
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.69%) Load Balancing
2 45 (17.31%) DevOps
3 40 (15.38%) Incident Response
4 39 (15.00%) High Availability
5 37 (14.23%) DevSecOps
6 36 (13.85%) CI/CD
7 34 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.54%) Infrastructure Automation
9 29 (11.15%) Business Strategy
10 27 (10.38%) Change Management
10 27 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 26 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (9.23%) Migration
13 22 (8.46%) Application Security
13 22 (8.46%) Stakeholder Management
14 21 (8.08%) Network Design
15 20 (7.69%) Mentoring
15 20 (7.69%) Test Automation
16 19 (7.31%) Ethical Hacking
16 19 (7.31%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 80 (30.77%) Python
2 30 (11.54%) Bash
3 11 (4.23%) Perl
4 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
5 8 (3.08%) SQL
6 4 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.15%) VB
8 2 (0.77%) Java
Qualifications
1 71 (27.31%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 41 (15.77%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (10.77%) CCNP
5 21 (8.08%) CCIE
6 13 (5.00%) JNCIE
7 10 (3.85%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.08%) Degree
8 8 (3.08%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.92%) CCSA
9 5 (1.92%) CISSP
9 5 (1.92%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.54%) CCNA
10 4 (1.54%) CCSP
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.15%) CCDP
11 3 (1.15%) CCIE Security
11 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
11 3 (1.15%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (2.31%) PCI DSS
2 5 (1.92%) GDPR
2 5 (1.92%) NIST
2 5 (1.92%) SLA
3 2 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.77%) COBIT
3 2 (0.77%) GRC
4 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (11.15%) Docker
3 25 (9.62%) VMware NSX
4 14 (5.38%) Firmware
5 11 (4.23%) vSphere
6 10 (3.85%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.77%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.77%) KVM
8 2 (0.77%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.77%) Snort
9 1 (0.38%) NFS
9 1 (0.38%) SRDF
9 1 (0.38%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.38%) Xen
9 1 (0.38%) XenApp
9 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (29.62%) Ansible
2 66 (25.38%) Terraform
3 18 (6.92%) CSIRT
3 18 (6.92%) FortiGate
4 8 (3.08%) Kubernetes
5 6 (2.31%) vCenter Server
6 4 (1.54%) CA Spectrum
7 3 (1.15%) vRealize
8 2 (0.77%) HAProxy
8 2 (0.77%) PowerCLI
9 1 (0.38%) Argo
9 1 (0.38%) OpenView
9 1 (0.38%) Podman
9 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 108 (41.54%) Cisco
2 76 (29.23%) VMware
3 62 (23.85%) Palo Alto
4 57 (21.92%) Juniper
5 56 (21.54%) CheckPoint
6 39 (15.00%) Fortinet
7 36 (13.85%) Blue Coat
8 30 (11.54%) SolarWinds
9 24 (9.23%) McAfee
10 20 (7.69%) Meraki
10 20 (7.69%) Splunk
11 18 (6.92%) Microsoft
12 17 (6.54%) NetApp
13 15 (5.77%) Zscaler
14 9 (3.46%) LogicMonitor
14 9 (3.46%) Oracle
15 8 (3.08%) Citrix
16 7 (2.69%) CrowdStrike
16 7 (2.69%) IBM
16 7 (2.69%) Infoblox