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 2 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 354 305 232
Rank change year-on-year -49 -73 +146
Contract jobs citing F5 291 221 334
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.64% 0.81% 1.01%
As % of the Vendors category 1.53% 1.71% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 117 224
10th Percentile £380 £369 £363
25th Percentile £425 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £688 £662 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +3.59% -7.14% -
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 18,963 12,897 14,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.10% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,876 8,177 9,059
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £707 £708 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 614 655
10th Percentile £14.46 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.09% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.93
90th Percentile £84.58 £69.65 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.31% -13.28% -31.76%

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 2 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 2 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 -20 117 £534 +10.65% 8
North West +4 86 £575 +21.05% 6
West Midlands -10 75 £581 +32.05% 3
Midlands -17 75 £581 +32.05% 3
London -88 67 £525 +10.53% 39
South East -44 48 £450 -16.28% 12
Yorkshire -46 24 £475 -2.96% 2
South West -42 19 £495 -13.91% 5
North East -33 13 £650 +18.18%
East of England -21 5 £530 +24.71% 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 6 (2.06%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.72%) nginx
2 5 (1.72%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.37%) IIS
4 3 (1.03%) Apache
4 3 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.03%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
6 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 54 (18.56%) Azure
2 49 (16.84%) AWS
3 23 (7.90%) OCI
4 18 (6.19%) GitHub
5 15 (5.15%) SaaS
6 9 (3.09%) GCP
6 9 (3.09%) IaaS
7 8 (2.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (2.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.06%) Cloudflare
9 6 (2.06%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.37%) Entra ID
11 3 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.03%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.03%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.34%) Akamai
12 1 (0.34%) AWS CloudFormation
12 1 (0.34%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.34%) Route 53
12 1 (0.34%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 153 (52.58%) Firewall
2 132 (45.36%) BGP
3 127 (43.64%) DNS
4 108 (37.11%) BIG-IP
4 108 (37.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 91 (31.27%) VPN
6 90 (30.93%) WAN
7 85 (29.21%) OSPF
8 66 (22.68%) Network Security
9 61 (20.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 61 (20.96%) VXLAN
10 57 (19.59%) TCP/IP
11 50 (17.18%) LAN
11 50 (17.18%) SSL
12 49 (16.84%) Multicast
13 48 (16.49%) VLAN
14 43 (14.78%) Wireless
15 41 (14.09%) DMZ
16 40 (13.75%) Cisco Nexus
17 37 (12.71%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.03%) MySQL
1 3 (1.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 22 (7.56%) JIRA
2 20 (6.87%) GitLab
3 16 (5.50%) Fiddler
4 10 (3.44%) 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 44 (15.12%) Banking
3 32 (11.00%) Finance
3 32 (11.00%) Investment Banking
4 24 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.53%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.75%) Legal
8 7 (2.41%) Retail
9 5 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.37%) 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
1 147 (50.52%) Network Engineer
2 59 (20.27%) Security Engineer
3 54 (18.56%) Senior
4 50 (17.18%) Network Security Engineer
5 39 (13.40%) Cisco Engineer
6 37 (12.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 34 (11.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 32 (11.00%) Architect
8 32 (11.00%) Data Network Engineer
9 29 (9.97%) Cisco Security Engineer
9 29 (9.97%) Data Engineer
9 29 (9.97%) Web Engineer
10 23 (7.90%) Senior Network Engineer
11 19 (6.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (5.84%) Network Architect
13 16 (5.50%) IP Network Engineer
14 15 (5.15%) Blue Coat Engineer
15 12 (4.12%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
16 11 (3.78%) Network Specialist
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 93 (31.96%) Data Centre
2 38 (13.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (7.90%) Management Information System
4 21 (7.22%) Cloud Native
5 11 (3.78%) Data Protection Act
5 11 (3.78%) PKI
6 9 (3.09%) Clustering
6 9 (3.09%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.75%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
8 7 (2.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 7 (2.41%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.72%) Digital Signage
10 4 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (1.03%) Algorithms
11 3 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
12 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
13 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.28%) Windows
2 26 (8.93%) Linux
3 9 (3.09%) Unix
4 5 (1.72%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.03%) CentOS
5 3 (1.03%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.34%) CatOS
7 1 (0.34%) Check Point GAiA
7 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (48.11%) Load Balancing
2 52 (17.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (15.46%) CI/CD
3 45 (15.46%) Zero Trust
4 42 (14.43%) High Availability
5 41 (14.09%) Project Delivery
6 36 (12.37%) Network Design
7 30 (10.31%) Migration
7 30 (10.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 28 (9.62%) Agile
9 27 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
9 27 (9.28%) Network Architecture
10 22 (7.56%) DevOps
10 22 (7.56%) ITIL
11 21 (7.22%) Change Management
12 20 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (6.87%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (6.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 19 (6.53%) Technical Leadership
14 18 (6.19%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 81 (27.84%) Python
2 10 (3.44%) JavaScript
2 10 (3.44%) SQL
3 9 (3.09%) ActionScript
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 54 (18.56%) 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 12 (4.12%) Degree
8 6 (2.06%) JNCIE
9 3 (1.03%) CCIE Security
9 3 (1.03%) CEH
9 3 (1.03%) CISSP
9 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.69%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.69%) CCNA
10 2 (0.69%) GIAC
10 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.37%) NCSC
2 3 (1.03%) GDPR
2 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.03%) NIST
3 2 (0.69%) GRC
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 31000
4 1 (0.34%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 46 (15.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (7.90%) VMware NSX
3 18 (6.19%) 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 1 (0.34%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.34%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 69 (23.71%) Ansible
2 30 (10.31%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.41%) WMI
4 5 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (1.72%) Kubernetes
4 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.03%) HAProxy
6 3 (1.03%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.69%) Avamar
7 2 (0.69%) Grafana
7 2 (0.69%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.34%) CASB
8 1 (0.34%) Istio
8 1 (0.34%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.34%) Puppet
8 1 (0.34%) SCCM
8 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 174 (59.79%) Cisco
2 106 (36.43%) Palo Alto
3 62 (21.31%) Fortinet
4 56 (19.24%) VMware
5 50 (17.18%) Juniper
6 38 (13.06%) Arista
6 38 (13.06%) CheckPoint
7 30 (10.31%) SolarWinds
8 27 (9.28%) Aruba
8 27 (9.28%) Blue Coat
9 26 (8.93%) Microsoft
10 21 (7.22%) Infoblox
11 16 (5.50%) Splunk
12 15 (5.15%) McAfee
12 15 (5.15%) NetApp
12 15 (5.15%) Zscaler
13 13 (4.47%) ServiceNow
14 9 (3.09%) Meraki
15 7 (2.41%) Extreme Networks
16 6 (2.06%) Citrix