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 20 March 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
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 313 322
Rank change year-on-year -15 +9 +83
Contract jobs citing F5 261 168 239
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.69% 0.63%
As % of the Vendors category 1.60% 1.46% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 99 152
10th Percentile £313 £388 £364
25th Percentile £400 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -10.38%
75th Percentile £560 £606 £553
90th Percentile £681 £664 £650
UK median daily rate £495 £531 £494
% change year-on-year -6.78% +7.54% -5.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile £42.05 - £60.55
25th Percentile £43.11 - £63.63
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £72.50
75th Percentile £62.29 - £76.25
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +3.57%

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 16,331 11,539 16,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.96% 47.21% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,660 7,401 10,280
10th Percentile £309 £293 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 399 942
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £12.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +22.82% -29.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -31.94%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 +10 102 £525 -4.55% 1
North West +40 87 £500 +2.04% 1
Midlands -19 68 £350 -40.17% 3
West Midlands -7 67 £350 -36.48% 3
London -41 66 £443 -7.81% 4
South East -31 56 £525 +5.00% 8
Yorkshire -41 22 £550 -
South West -45 6 £525 +9.09%
East of England -23 2 - - 2
East Midlands -48 1 - -
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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.30%) Confluence
3 4 (1.53%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.66%) MS Visio
2 8 (3.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (14.56%) AWS
2 37 (14.18%) Azure
3 17 (6.51%) GCP
4 8 (3.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.92%) Amazon S3
6 5 (1.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (1.92%) Nutanix
7 4 (1.53%) Akamai
7 4 (1.53%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.15%) Amazon ELB
8 3 (1.15%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.15%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 2 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.77%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.77%) GitHub
10 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 137 (52.49%) DNS
2 126 (48.28%) Firewall
3 95 (36.40%) BGP
4 88 (33.72%) BIG-IP
5 80 (30.65%) WAN
6 74 (28.35%) Network Security
7 68 (26.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 65 (24.90%) VPN
9 63 (24.14%) LAN
10 62 (23.75%) OSPF
10 62 (23.75%) TCP/IP
11 52 (19.92%) SSL
12 49 (18.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 42 (16.09%) HTTP
13 42 (16.09%) Wireshark
14 41 (15.71%) DMZ
15 38 (14.56%) DHCP
16 35 (13.41%) Cisco ASA
16 35 (13.41%) Multicast
17 33 (12.64%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 30 (11.49%) Fiddler
2 16 (6.13%) JIRA
3 11 (4.21%) Git
4 6 (2.30%) GitLab
5 5 (1.92%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
General
1 46 (17.62%) Banking
1 46 (17.62%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.56%) Investment Banking
3 37 (14.18%) Finance
4 21 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.51%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.75%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.60%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.68%) Military
9 6 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.53%) Retail
11 1 (0.38%) Billing
11 1 (0.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (49.81%) Network Engineer
2 42 (16.09%) Web Engineer
3 39 (14.94%) Senior
4 36 (13.79%) Security Engineer
5 34 (13.03%) Architect
6 31 (11.88%) Network Security Engineer
7 26 (9.96%) Cisco Engineer
7 26 (9.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 24 (9.20%) Data Network Engineer
9 22 (8.43%) Data Engineer
10 21 (8.05%) Senior Network Engineer
11 20 (7.66%) Cisco Security Engineer
11 20 (7.66%) IP Network Engineer
12 19 (7.28%) Blue Coat Engineer
13 17 (6.51%) Network Architect
14 13 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 12 (4.60%) Junior
16 11 (4.21%) Junior Network Engineer
16 11 (4.21%) Network Specialist
17 10 (3.83%) Firewall Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.20%) 802.1X
2 8 (3.07%) LDAP
3 7 (2.68%) JSON
3 7 (2.68%) SAML
4 6 (2.30%) NETCONF
4 6 (2.30%) YANG
5 5 (1.92%) OpenConfig
6 4 (1.53%) REST
6 4 (1.53%) RESTCONF
6 4 (1.53%) VML
7 3 (1.15%) XML
8 2 (0.77%) YAML
9 1 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 59 (22.61%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.96%) Management Information System
3 24 (9.20%) PKI
4 20 (7.66%) Clustering
5 14 (5.36%) Public Cloud
6 7 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.92%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.15%) Algorithms
10 3 (1.15%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.15%) iSeries
10 3 (1.15%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.15%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.77%) CESG
11 2 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.77%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.64%) Windows
2 16 (6.13%) Linux
3 8 (3.07%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.68%) Unix
4 7 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (2.68%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.53%) CatOS
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (54.41%) Load Balancing
2 43 (16.48%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (14.56%) High Availability
4 32 (12.26%) Observability
5 31 (11.88%) Data Loss Prevention
6 30 (11.49%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 27 (10.34%) ITIL
8 25 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (9.20%) Migration
9 24 (9.20%) Network Design
10 22 (8.43%) Change Management
10 22 (8.43%) DevOps
11 21 (8.05%) Identity Access Management
11 21 (8.05%) Incident Response
12 20 (7.66%) Roadmaps
13 19 (7.28%) Business Strategy
14 16 (6.13%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (6.13%) Mentoring
14 16 (6.13%) Project Delivery
15 15 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 57 (21.84%) Python
2 14 (5.36%) Bash
3 5 (1.92%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.53%) ActionScript
4 4 (1.53%) SQL
5 2 (0.77%) C++
5 2 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.77%) VBA
6 1 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 70 (26.82%) Security Cleared
2 45 (17.24%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (13.41%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.34%) DV Cleared
5 22 (8.43%) CCNP
6 19 (7.28%) CCIE
7 12 (4.60%) JNCIP
8 11 (4.21%) JNCIS
9 9 (3.45%) JNCIE
10 8 (3.07%) Degree
10 8 (3.07%) JNCIA
11 6 (2.30%) CCNA
12 5 (1.92%) CCIE Security
12 5 (1.92%) CISSP
13 4 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.53%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.53%) CCSP
14 3 (1.15%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.15%) CCSE
14 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.07%) NIST
2 6 (2.30%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.92%) GDPR
3 5 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.92%) JSP 440
3 5 (1.92%) SLA
4 3 (1.15%) NCSC
5 2 (0.77%) RMADS
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 63 (24.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (12.64%) VMware NSX
3 20 (7.66%) Firmware
4 16 (6.13%) Active Directory
5 13 (4.98%) Docker
6 10 (3.83%) vSphere
7 4 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.77%) KVM
9 2 (0.77%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.38%) IAG
10 1 (0.38%) RHEV
10 1 (0.38%) Xen
10 1 (0.38%) XenApp
10 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (21.07%) Ansible
2 35 (13.41%) FortiGate
3 26 (9.96%) Terraform
4 12 (4.60%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.83%) Grafana
5 10 (3.83%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.83%) Single Sign-On
6 7 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.68%) SCCM
7 5 (1.92%) Salt
8 4 (1.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.53%) Nagios
9 2 (0.77%) CSIRT
9 2 (0.77%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.38%) Podman
10 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.38%) Puppet
10 1 (0.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 143 (54.79%) Cisco
2 87 (33.33%) VMware
3 74 (28.35%) Palo Alto
4 59 (22.61%) Juniper
5 45 (17.24%) CheckPoint
6 44 (16.86%) Blue Coat
7 42 (16.09%) McAfee
8 32 (12.26%) SolarWinds
9 29 (11.11%) Splunk
10 25 (9.58%) Fortinet
11 21 (8.05%) NetApp
12 19 (7.28%) Extreme Networks
13 18 (6.90%) Microsoft
14 17 (6.51%) ServiceNow
15 16 (6.13%) Aruba
16 15 (5.75%) Arista
16 15 (5.75%) Meraki
17 12 (4.60%) Infoblox
18 11 (4.21%) Zscaler
19 7 (2.68%) Nokia