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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 284 359
Rank change year-on-year -30 +75 +32
Contract jobs citing F5 243 228 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.77% 0.83% 0.56%
As % of the Vendors category 1.65% 1.82% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 134 132
10th Percentile £337 £393 £355
25th Percentile £405 £452 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £603
90th Percentile £713 £643 £686
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £538
% change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £46.95 - £64.65
25th Percentile £50.08 - £68.75
Median hourly rate £57.61 - £72.50
75th Percentile £63.58 - £76.88
90th Percentile £65.78 - £77.50
UK median hourly rate £57.61 £22.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +156.04% -68.97% +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 14,767 12,547 15,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.91% 45.93% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,658 7,591 10,336
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 684 357 613
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.01
25th Percentile £18.16 £17.08 £18.95
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +54.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +64.06%

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 January 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 5 January 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 5 January 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 +1 99 £550 +12.24% 2
Midlands +8 72 £390 -38.61% 3
West Midlands +25 71 £390 -32.94% 3
North West +1 69 £500 +2.04% 2
London -5 62 £575 +21.05% 6
Yorkshire -16 43 £575 +15.00%
South East -59 27 £500 -4.76% 6
South West -22 8 £520 +8.05%
East of England -18 2 - - 10
North East -13 1 £550 -
East Midlands -45 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 (4.12%) OpenStack
2 6 (2.47%) Confluence
3 5 (2.06%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.82%) CICS
4 2 (0.82%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 12 (4.94%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.98%) AWS
2 44 (18.11%) Azure
3 40 (16.46%) GCP
4 28 (11.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 25 (10.29%) Akamai
5 25 (10.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 24 (9.88%) Amazon ELB
7 23 (9.47%) Amazon EC2
7 23 (9.47%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.70%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 4 (1.65%) Cloudflare
11 3 (1.23%) GitHub
11 3 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (1.23%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.82%) AWS CloudTrail
12 2 (0.82%) AWS Direct Connect
12 2 (0.82%) PaaS
12 2 (0.82%) SaaS
12 2 (0.82%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 135 (55.56%) Firewall
2 109 (44.86%) DNS
3 81 (33.33%) Network Security
4 73 (30.04%) SSL
5 67 (27.57%) TCP/IP
6 62 (25.51%) VPN
7 58 (23.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 52 (21.40%) WAN
9 50 (20.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 44 (18.11%) BGP
11 43 (17.70%) Wireshark
12 37 (15.23%) HTTP
13 36 (14.81%) BIG-IP
14 35 (14.40%) DMZ
15 34 (13.99%) Wireless
16 31 (12.76%) LAN
16 31 (12.76%) OSPF
17 26 (10.70%) MPLS
18 18 (7.41%) IPsec
19 15 (6.17%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.82%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (0.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 31 (12.76%) Git
1 31 (12.76%) Jenkins
2 22 (9.05%) Fiddler
2 22 (9.05%) GitLab
3 7 (2.88%) JIRA
4 5 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.23%) Robot Framework
6 2 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
General
1 69 (28.40%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.46%) Banking
3 34 (13.99%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (13.17%) Investment Banking
5 24 (9.88%) Public Sector
6 22 (9.05%) Finance
7 20 (8.23%) Telecoms
8 14 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.88%) Military
10 6 (2.47%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.47%) Retail
11 3 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Legal
13 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.41%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 89 (36.63%) Network Engineer
2 33 (13.58%) Senior
3 30 (12.35%) Architect
4 26 (10.70%) Security Engineer
5 22 (9.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (9.05%) Web Engineer
6 17 (7.00%) Network Architect
7 16 (6.58%) Operations Engineer
8 14 (5.76%) Network Security Engineer
9 13 (5.35%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.94%) DevOps Engineer
10 12 (4.94%) Senior DevOps
10 12 (4.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) IP Network Engineer
12 10 (4.12%) Junior
12 10 (4.12%) Junior Network Engineer
12 10 (4.12%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.94%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.47%) JSON
2 6 (2.47%) LDAP
3 5 (2.06%) Middleware
3 5 (2.06%) XML
4 4 (1.65%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.65%) VML
4 4 (1.65%) YANG
5 3 (1.23%) OpenConfig
5 3 (1.23%) REST
5 3 (1.23%) SAML
6 2 (0.82%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.82%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 50 (20.58%) Data Centre
2 34 (13.99%) Management Information System
3 18 (7.41%) Security Posture
4 10 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.29%) Cloud Native
7 7 (2.88%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.47%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.23%) Distributed Architecture
9 3 (1.23%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.82%) Clustering
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.82%) Mainframe
10 2 (0.82%) PKI
10 2 (0.82%) Replication
10 2 (0.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.41%) Linux
2 17 (7.00%) Windows
3 8 (3.29%) Unix
3 8 (3.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (0.82%) CatOS
5 2 (0.82%) Solaris
5 2 (0.82%) VMS
5 2 (0.82%) zOS
6 1 (0.41%) MVS
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (38.68%) Load Balancing
2 46 (18.93%) DevOps
3 41 (16.87%) Incident Response
4 37 (15.23%) DevSecOps
5 35 (14.40%) CI/CD
6 33 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (12.76%) High Availability
8 30 (12.35%) Business Strategy
9 28 (11.52%) Change Management
9 28 (11.52%) Infrastructure Automation
9 28 (11.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 25 (10.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 24 (9.88%) Migration
12 23 (9.47%) Application Security
13 22 (9.05%) Mentoring
14 21 (8.64%) Network Design
14 21 (8.64%) Test Automation
15 20 (8.23%) OWASP
16 19 (7.82%) Ethical Hacking
16 19 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 81 (33.33%) Python
2 30 (12.35%) Bash
3 10 (4.12%) Perl
4 9 (3.70%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.06%) SQL
6 4 (1.65%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 64 (26.34%) Security Cleared
2 50 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 34 (13.99%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (10.29%) CCNP
5 23 (9.47%) CCIE
6 14 (5.76%) JNCIE
7 10 (4.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (3.29%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.88%) Degree
10 6 (2.47%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.06%) CCNA
11 5 (2.06%) CISSP
12 4 (1.65%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.65%) CCDP
12 4 (1.65%) CCIE Security
12 4 (1.65%) CCSE
12 4 (1.65%) CCSP
13 3 (1.23%) CEH
13 3 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.23%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.88%) NIST
1 7 (2.88%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.06%) GDPR
4 3 (1.23%) SLA
5 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.82%) COBIT
5 2 (0.82%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) RMADS
System Software
1 65 (26.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 31 (12.76%) Docker
3 30 (12.35%) VMware NSX
4 13 (5.35%) Active Directory
5 12 (4.94%) Firmware
6 11 (4.53%) vSphere
7 3 (1.23%) KVM
7 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.82%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.82%) Snort
8 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.82%) Xen
9 1 (0.41%) NFS
9 1 (0.41%) RHEV
9 1 (0.41%) SRDF
9 1 (0.41%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 1 (0.41%) XenApp
9 1 (0.41%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (30.86%) Ansible
2 61 (25.10%) Terraform
3 18 (7.41%) CSIRT
4 10 (4.12%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.70%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.65%) vCenter Server
7 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.23%) Nagios
7 3 (1.23%) SCCM
7 3 (1.23%) vRealize
8 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.82%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.41%) Argo
9 1 (0.41%) Grafana
9 1 (0.41%) Norton AntiVirus
9 1 (0.41%) Podman
9 1 (0.41%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) Salt
Vendors
1 89 (36.63%) Cisco
2 83 (34.16%) VMware
3 69 (28.40%) Palo Alto
4 59 (24.28%) CheckPoint
5 44 (18.11%) Blue Coat
6 43 (17.70%) Juniper
7 33 (13.58%) McAfee
8 28 (11.52%) Fortinet
9 20 (8.23%) Splunk
10 19 (7.82%) NetApp
11 17 (7.00%) Meraki
11 17 (7.00%) Zscaler
12 14 (5.76%) SolarWinds
13 13 (5.35%) Microsoft
14 10 (4.12%) Aruba
15 8 (3.29%) Nokia
16 6 (2.47%) Imperva
16 6 (2.47%) ServiceNow
17 5 (2.06%) CrowdStrike
17 5 (2.06%) Infoblox