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 22 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
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 257 367
Rank change year-on-year -40 +110 +46
Contract jobs citing F5 266 290 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.87% 0.93% 0.54%
As % of the Vendors category 1.82% 2.06% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 184 145
10th Percentile £376 £350 £355
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £588 £600
90th Percentile £713 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.45% +1.81%
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 14,583 14,091 17,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 45.07% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,389 8,482 11,678
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 733 440 624
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £14.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.98 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £32.75 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.66% -26.82% +66.57%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -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 22 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 22 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 +2 98 £500 +2.04% 5
London -13 80 £500 +5.26% 9
Midlands +14 70 £440 -34.30% 5
West Midlands +38 69 £440 -16.19% 5
North West -13 58 £500 +2.04% 3
Yorkshire -2 53 £491 -1.85% 1
South East -61 24 £520 -5.45% 10
South West -16 12 £550 +18.92% 5
East of England -20 4 £520 -6.31% 5
North East -5 1 £550 - 1
East Midlands -27 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 10 (3.76%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.63%) Confluence
3 6 (2.26%) WebSphere
4 3 (1.13%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.75%) CICS
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (1.50%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 92 (34.59%) AWS
2 53 (19.92%) Azure
3 47 (17.67%) GCP
4 34 (12.78%) Akamai
5 27 (10.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 25 (9.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 24 (9.02%) Amazon ELB
8 23 (8.65%) Amazon EC2
8 23 (8.65%) Amazon S3
9 9 (3.38%) OpenShift
10 8 (3.01%) SaaS
11 6 (2.26%) PaaS
12 5 (1.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 5 (1.88%) GitHub
12 5 (1.88%) IaaS
13 4 (1.50%) Cloudflare
14 3 (1.13%) Mimecast
15 2 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
15 2 (0.75%) Entra ID
15 2 (0.75%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 157 (59.02%) Firewall
2 104 (39.10%) DNS
3 97 (36.47%) Network Security
4 65 (24.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 64 (24.06%) SSL
6 58 (21.80%) VPN
7 55 (20.68%) TCP/IP
8 54 (20.30%) WAN
9 51 (19.17%) Wireless
10 48 (18.05%) BGP
11 46 (17.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 40 (15.04%) OSPF
13 38 (14.29%) Wireshark
14 36 (13.53%) LAN
15 33 (12.41%) Cisco ISE
16 32 (12.03%) BIG-IP
17 31 (11.65%) DMZ
18 26 (9.77%) HTTP
19 25 (9.40%) SD-WAN
20 24 (9.02%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.75%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 33 (12.41%) Jenkins
2 32 (12.03%) Git
3 24 (9.02%) GitLab
4 14 (5.26%) JIRA
5 13 (4.89%) Fiddler
6 6 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 4 (1.50%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.75%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.75%) Rational DOORS
General
1 70 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.29%) Banking
3 36 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (10.90%) Finance
5 25 (9.40%) Investment Banking
5 25 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 20 (7.52%) Telecoms
7 14 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (3.01%) Financial Institution
9 6 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.26%) Military
9 6 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.50%) Legal
11 3 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.13%) Retail
12 2 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.38%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 98 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 37 (13.91%) Architect
3 35 (13.16%) Senior
4 25 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (9.02%) Security Engineer
6 19 (7.14%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.02%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
8 14 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
9 13 (4.89%) Web Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) Automation Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) Designer
10 12 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 12 (4.51%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (4.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Analyst
11 10 (3.76%) Cisco Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 10 (3.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.14%) 802.1X
2 9 (3.38%) Middleware
3 4 (1.50%) JSON
3 4 (1.50%) REST
3 4 (1.50%) XML
4 3 (1.13%) LDAP
5 2 (0.75%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.75%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.75%) Regular Expression
5 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.75%) YANG
6 1 (0.38%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.38%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (23.31%) Data Centre
2 32 (12.03%) Management Information System
3 18 (6.77%) Security Posture
4 13 (4.89%) Data Protection Act
4 13 (4.89%) Private Cloud
5 9 (3.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.01%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.50%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.75%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.75%) Replication
9 2 (0.75%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.75%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (9.02%) Linux
2 18 (6.77%) Windows
3 12 (4.51%) Unix
4 8 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.13%) VMS
6 2 (0.75%) Solaris
6 2 (0.75%) zOS
7 1 (0.38%) MVS
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (32.33%) Load Balancing
2 45 (16.92%) DevOps
3 43 (16.17%) High Availability
4 40 (15.04%) Incident Response
5 37 (13.91%) DevSecOps
6 36 (13.53%) CI/CD
7 34 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (11.28%) Infrastructure Automation
8 30 (11.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (10.53%) Business Strategy
9 28 (10.53%) Migration
10 26 (9.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (9.40%) Change Management
12 24 (9.02%) ITIL
13 23 (8.65%) Agile
14 22 (8.27%) Application Security
14 22 (8.27%) Mentoring
14 22 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (7.89%) Network Design
16 20 (7.52%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (29.32%) Python
2 30 (11.28%) Bash
3 14 (5.26%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.14%) Perl
5 8 (3.01%) SQL
6 4 (1.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.13%) VB
8 2 (0.75%) Java
Qualifications
1 71 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 57 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 45 (16.92%) Cisco Certification
4 33 (12.41%) CCNP
5 23 (8.65%) CCIE
6 13 (4.89%) JNCIE
7 12 (4.51%) Degree
8 10 (3.76%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.01%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.88%) CCSA
10 5 (1.88%) CISSP
10 5 (1.88%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.50%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 4 (1.50%) CCNA
11 4 (1.50%) CCSP
11 4 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 3 (1.13%) CCDP
12 3 (1.13%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.63%) SLA
2 6 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.26%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.88%) GDPR
3 5 (1.88%) NIST
4 2 (0.75%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.75%) COBIT
4 2 (0.75%) GRC
5 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
System Software
1 60 (22.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (10.90%) Docker
3 24 (9.02%) VMware NSX
4 14 (5.26%) Firmware
5 11 (4.14%) vSphere
6 10 (3.76%) Active Directory
7 3 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.75%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.75%) KVM
8 2 (0.75%) Snort
9 1 (0.38%) NFS
9 1 (0.38%) ProxySG
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 82 (30.83%) Ansible
2 66 (24.81%) Terraform
3 19 (7.14%) FortiGate
4 18 (6.77%) CSIRT
5 8 (3.01%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.26%) vCenter Server
7 4 (1.50%) CA Spectrum
7 4 (1.50%) OpenView
8 3 (1.13%) vRealize
9 2 (0.75%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.75%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.38%) Argo
10 1 (0.38%) Podman
10 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.38%) Puppet
Vendors
1 117 (43.98%) Cisco
2 75 (28.20%) VMware
3 68 (25.56%) Palo Alto
4 59 (22.18%) CheckPoint
5 56 (21.05%) Juniper
6 43 (16.17%) Fortinet
7 35 (13.16%) SolarWinds
8 33 (12.41%) Blue Coat
9 22 (8.27%) McAfee
10 20 (7.52%) Meraki
10 20 (7.52%) Splunk
11 17 (6.39%) Microsoft
11 17 (6.39%) NetApp
12 16 (6.02%) Zscaler
13 9 (3.38%) LogicMonitor
13 9 (3.38%) Oracle
13 9 (3.38%) ServiceNow
14 8 (3.01%) Citrix
15 7 (2.63%) IBM
15 7 (2.63%) Infoblox