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 6 April 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
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 313 302
Rank change year-on-year -18 -11 +103
Contract jobs citing F5 269 164 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.67% 0.68%
As % of the Vendors category 1.61% 1.42% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 97 171
10th Percentile £315 £385 £378
25th Percentile £400 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.82% -8.02%
75th Percentile £560 £603 £568
90th Percentile £675 £661 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £42.05 - -
25th Percentile £43.11 - £58.50
Median hourly rate £48.72 - £63.00
75th Percentile £62.29 - £67.50
90th Percentile £68.11 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.72 - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.27%

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 16,756 11,514 15,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.34% 47.23% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,966 7,478 10,108
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 423 960
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £26.61 £29.00 £22.79
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +27.25% -40.03%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.72 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.36 £28.60 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.11% -46.40%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 +11 99 £525 -4.55% 1
North West +40 85 £613 +6.52%
Midlands -22 70 £345 -41.03% 5
West Midlands +1 69 £345 -37.39% 5
London -50 69 £475 -1.04% 5
South East -27 57 £525 +6.33% 7
Yorkshire -38 19 £490 -10.91% 1
South West -42 7 £475 -1.30%
East of England -30 3 £530 +13.98% 2
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 7 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.23%) Confluence
3 4 (1.49%) OpenStack
Applications
1 20 (7.43%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.75%) Azure
2 35 (13.01%) AWS
3 15 (5.58%) GCP
4 8 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.86%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.49%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.12%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.12%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.12%) GitHub
9 3 (1.12%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 2 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (0.37%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.37%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 1 (0.37%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (51.30%) DNS
2 131 (48.70%) Firewall
3 105 (39.03%) BGP
4 96 (35.69%) BIG-IP
5 86 (31.97%) WAN
6 74 (27.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 71 (26.39%) Network Security
8 68 (25.28%) LAN
8 68 (25.28%) VPN
9 67 (24.91%) OSPF
10 61 (22.68%) TCP/IP
11 49 (18.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 49 (18.22%) SSL
12 42 (15.61%) DHCP
12 42 (15.61%) HTTP
13 41 (15.24%) DMZ
13 41 (15.24%) Multicast
14 39 (14.50%) Wireshark
15 37 (13.75%) VXLAN
16 36 (13.38%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 29 (10.78%) Fiddler
2 19 (7.06%) JIRA
3 8 (2.97%) Git
4 3 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.74%) GitLab
5 2 (0.74%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
General
1 51 (18.96%) Banking
2 47 (17.47%) Social Skills
3 38 (14.13%) Investment Banking
4 37 (13.75%) Finance
5 18 (6.69%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (5.95%) Public Sector
7 15 (5.58%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.83%) Telecoms
9 8 (2.97%) Military
10 6 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (1.86%) Retail
12 4 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.37%) Billing
13 1 (0.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 137 (50.93%) Network Engineer
2 42 (15.61%) Security Engineer
2 42 (15.61%) Web Engineer
3 40 (14.87%) Senior
4 38 (14.13%) Architect
4 38 (14.13%) Network Security Engineer
5 31 (11.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 31 (11.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 29 (10.78%) Data Network Engineer
7 26 (9.67%) Data Engineer
8 24 (8.92%) Cisco Security Engineer
8 24 (8.92%) Senior Network Engineer
9 20 (7.43%) IP Network Engineer
10 19 (7.06%) Blue Coat Engineer
11 18 (6.69%) Network Architect
12 15 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.58%) Network Specialist
13 12 (4.46%) Firewall Specialist
14 11 (4.09%) Junior
15 10 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.29%) 802.1X
2 9 (3.35%) JSON
3 8 (2.97%) LDAP
4 7 (2.60%) SAML
5 6 (2.23%) NETCONF
5 6 (2.23%) YANG
6 5 (1.86%) OpenConfig
7 4 (1.49%) RESTCONF
7 4 (1.49%) VML
8 3 (1.12%) REST
9 2 (0.74%) XML
9 2 (0.74%) YAML
10 1 (0.37%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 61 (22.68%) Data Centre
2 26 (9.67%) PKI
3 24 (8.92%) Management Information System
4 22 (8.18%) Clustering
5 15 (5.58%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.86%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Architecture
10 3 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.12%) iSeries
10 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.74%) CESG
11 2 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
11 2 (0.74%) Enterprise Storage
12 1 (0.37%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.64%) Windows
2 16 (5.95%) Linux
3 8 (2.97%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.60%) Unix
4 7 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.49%) CatOS
6 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (55.02%) Load Balancing
2 40 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
3 39 (14.50%) High Availability
4 33 (12.27%) Observability
5 29 (10.78%) Data Loss Prevention
5 29 (10.78%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 27 (10.04%) ITIL
6 27 (10.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (8.92%) Network Design
8 23 (8.55%) Change Management
8 23 (8.55%) Identity Access Management
9 22 (8.18%) Migration
10 20 (7.43%) Project Delivery
11 19 (7.06%) Agile
11 19 (7.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (7.06%) Roadmaps
12 17 (6.32%) DevOps
12 17 (6.32%) Incident Response
13 16 (5.95%) Business Strategy
13 16 (5.95%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.45%) Python
2 11 (4.09%) Bash
3 5 (1.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (1.86%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.86%) VBA
4 4 (1.49%) ActionScript
5 3 (1.12%) SQL
6 2 (0.74%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 71 (26.39%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.47%) Cisco Certification
3 35 (13.01%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.04%) DV Cleared
5 22 (8.18%) CCNP
6 19 (7.06%) CCIE
7 12 (4.46%) JNCIP
8 11 (4.09%) JNCIS
9 9 (3.35%) JNCIE
10 8 (2.97%) Degree
10 8 (2.97%) JNCIA
11 6 (2.23%) CCNA
12 5 (1.86%) CCIE Security
12 5 (1.86%) CISSP
13 4 (1.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.49%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.49%) CCSP
14 3 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.12%) CCSE
14 3 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.97%) NIST
2 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.23%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.86%) GDPR
3 5 (1.86%) JSP 440
3 5 (1.86%) SLA
4 3 (1.12%) NCSC
5 2 (0.74%) RMADS
System Software
1 62 (23.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (12.64%) VMware NSX
3 20 (7.43%) Firmware
4 17 (6.32%) Active Directory
5 10 (3.72%) Docker
5 10 (3.72%) vSphere
6 4 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (1.49%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.74%) KVM
8 2 (0.74%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.37%) IAG
9 1 (0.37%) RHEV
9 1 (0.37%) Xen
9 1 (0.37%) XenApp
9 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (19.70%) Ansible
2 39 (14.50%) FortiGate
3 24 (8.92%) Terraform
4 13 (4.83%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.09%) Grafana
6 10 (3.72%) Kubernetes
6 10 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.60%) SCCM
8 5 (1.86%) Salt
9 4 (1.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.49%) Nagios
10 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.37%) Argo
11 1 (0.37%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.37%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.37%) Podman
11 1 (0.37%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.37%) Puppet
11 1 (0.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (57.62%) Cisco
2 82 (30.48%) VMware
3 75 (27.88%) Palo Alto
4 63 (23.42%) Juniper
5 43 (15.99%) CheckPoint
6 38 (14.13%) Blue Coat
7 37 (13.75%) McAfee
8 34 (12.64%) SolarWinds
9 29 (10.78%) Fortinet
10 28 (10.41%) Splunk
11 21 (7.81%) Extreme Networks
11 21 (7.81%) Microsoft
11 21 (7.81%) NetApp
12 18 (6.69%) Arista
13 17 (6.32%) Infoblox
13 17 (6.32%) ServiceNow
14 16 (5.95%) Aruba
15 15 (5.58%) Meraki
16 12 (4.46%) Zscaler
17 6 (2.23%) BigPanda