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 3 February 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
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 325 287 335
Rank change year-on-year -38 +48 +58
Contract jobs citing F5 238 198 232
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.72% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.57% 1.64% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 110 157
10th Percentile £317 £400 £367
25th Percentile £400 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £490
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -10.91%
75th Percentile £628 £600 £594
90th Percentile £721 £652 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -5.66%
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 15,165 12,061 16,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.86% 46.27% 43.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,957 7,243 10,765
10th Percentile £300 £283 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £715 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 346 850
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.78 £19.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.58 £30.41 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.46% +1.35% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.27 £63.75 £57.46
90th Percentile £71.50 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +3.45%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 3 February 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 +4 107 £588 +17.79% 16
North West +16 82 £550 +12.24% 10
Midlands -9 74 £415 -31.97% 3
West Midlands +28 73 £415 -24.68% 3
London -22 55 £500 -2.44% 10
Yorkshire -24 35 £625 +56.25% 6
South East -52 25 £500 -1.23% 13
South West -35 7 £520 +12.43% 2
East of England -22 2 - - 4
North East -16 1 £550 -
East Midlands -44 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 9 (3.78%) OpenStack
2 7 (2.94%) Confluence
3 6 (2.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 76 (31.93%) AWS
2 44 (18.49%) Azure
3 37 (15.55%) GCP
4 23 (9.66%) Akamai
5 20 (8.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 17 (7.14%) Amazon S3
7 16 (6.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 16 (6.72%) Amazon ELB
8 15 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (3.36%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (2.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 4 (1.68%) Cloudflare
12 4 (1.68%) Mimecast
12 4 (1.68%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.84%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 2 (0.84%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.84%) OCI
13 2 (0.84%) PaaS
13 2 (0.84%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 119 (50.00%) Firewall
2 114 (47.90%) DNS
3 75 (31.51%) Network Security
4 66 (27.73%) TCP/IP
5 65 (27.31%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 64 (26.89%) SSL
7 58 (24.37%) VPN
8 53 (22.27%) BIG-IP
9 52 (21.85%) BGP
9 52 (21.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 51 (21.43%) WAN
11 50 (21.01%) Wireshark
12 42 (17.65%) HTTP
13 37 (15.55%) DMZ
14 36 (15.13%) LAN
15 34 (14.29%) OSPF
16 30 (12.61%) Wireless
17 28 (11.76%) MPLS
18 18 (7.56%) Cisco ASA
19 17 (7.14%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (0.42%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (11.76%) Fiddler
2 22 (9.24%) Git
3 17 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 16 (6.72%) GitLab
5 10 (4.20%) JIRA
6 2 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.42%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 42 (17.65%) Banking
3 35 (14.71%) Investment Banking
4 31 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
5 29 (12.18%) Finance
6 19 (7.98%) Public Sector
7 15 (6.30%) Telecoms
8 12 (5.04%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.94%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.52%) Military
10 6 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.52%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
12 1 (0.42%) Billing
12 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 95 (39.92%) Network Engineer
2 30 (12.61%) Senior
3 29 (12.18%) Architect
3 29 (12.18%) Security Engineer
3 29 (12.18%) Web Engineer
4 18 (7.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 14 (5.88%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 14 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (5.88%) IP Network Engineer
5 14 (5.88%) Junior
5 14 (5.88%) Network Architect
6 13 (5.46%) Cisco Engineer
6 13 (5.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 13 (5.46%) Junior Network Engineer
6 13 (5.46%) Operations Engineer
7 12 (5.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (5.04%) Senior DevOps
7 12 (5.04%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 10 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.78%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.94%) JSON
1 7 (2.94%) LDAP
2 6 (2.52%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.52%) SAML
3 5 (2.10%) XML
4 4 (1.68%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.68%) REST
4 4 (1.68%) VML
4 4 (1.68%) YANG
5 3 (1.26%) OpenConfig
6 2 (0.84%) RESTCONF
7 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 41 (17.23%) Data Centre
2 30 (12.61%) Management Information System
3 17 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.62%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.36%) Cloud Native
5 8 (3.36%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.52%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.52%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.68%) PKI
7 4 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (1.26%) iSeries
9 2 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.84%) CESG
9 2 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (0.84%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.88%) Windows
2 10 (4.20%) Linux
3 8 (3.36%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2012
4 6 (2.52%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (1.68%) CatOS
6 3 (1.26%) Unix
7 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (41.60%) Load Balancing
2 40 (16.81%) DevOps
3 36 (15.13%) Incident Response
3 36 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (13.03%) DevSecOps
5 28 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 25 (10.50%) Business Strategy
6 25 (10.50%) Data Loss Prevention
7 24 (10.08%) Change Management
7 24 (10.08%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 24 (10.08%) Migration
8 23 (9.66%) High Availability
8 23 (9.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 23 (9.66%) Mentoring
9 22 (9.24%) Application Security
9 22 (9.24%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (8.82%) Network Design
10 21 (8.82%) OWASP
11 19 (7.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 19 (7.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 68 (28.57%) Python
2 24 (10.08%) Bash
3 7 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 4 (1.68%) Perl
4 4 (1.68%) SQL
5 1 (0.42%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 54 (22.69%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.39%) SC Cleared
3 31 (13.03%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (9.24%) CCNP
5 21 (8.82%) CCIE
6 12 (5.04%) JNCIE
7 10 (4.20%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.78%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.52%) CCNA
9 6 (2.52%) Degree
10 5 (2.10%) CCIE Security
10 5 (2.10%) CISSP
10 5 (2.10%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.68%) CCDP
11 4 (1.68%) CCSP
11 4 (1.68%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.26%) CCSE
12 3 (1.26%) CEH
12 3 (1.26%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.94%) NIST
2 6 (2.52%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.10%) GDPR
3 5 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.26%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.84%) COBIT
5 2 (0.84%) NCSC
5 2 (0.84%) RMADS
5 2 (0.84%) SLA
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 63 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 25 (10.50%) Docker
4 15 (6.30%) Firmware
5 14 (5.88%) Active Directory
6 10 (4.20%) vSphere
7 4 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.84%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.42%) KVM
10 1 (0.42%) RHEV
10 1 (0.42%) Snort
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.42%) Xen
10 1 (0.42%) XenApp
10 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (24.79%) Ansible
2 44 (18.49%) Terraform
3 17 (7.14%) CSIRT
4 11 (4.62%) FortiGate
5 10 (4.20%) Kubernetes
6 8 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.52%) SCCM
8 5 (2.10%) Prometheus
9 4 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (1.68%) Nagios
10 2 (0.84%) Grafana
10 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.84%) Salt
11 1 (0.42%) Argo
11 1 (0.42%) Backup Exec
11 1 (0.42%) Norton AntiVirus
11 1 (0.42%) Podman
11 1 (0.42%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 91 (38.24%) Cisco
2 86 (36.13%) VMware
3 63 (26.47%) Palo Alto
4 51 (21.43%) CheckPoint
5 45 (18.91%) Blue Coat
6 39 (16.39%) McAfee
7 38 (15.97%) Juniper
8 28 (11.76%) Fortinet
9 20 (8.40%) NetApp
10 19 (7.98%) Splunk
11 17 (7.14%) Meraki
12 16 (6.72%) Microsoft
13 15 (6.30%) Zscaler
14 14 (5.88%) SolarWinds
15 11 (4.62%) Aruba
16 8 (3.36%) Nokia
16 8 (3.36%) ServiceNow
17 5 (2.10%) Dell
17 5 (2.10%) Infoblox
17 5 (2.10%) Red Hat