F5 Contracts in the Midlands

F5
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 155 196
Rank change year-on-year +40 +41 -65
Contract jobs citing F5 18 15 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.66% 0.43% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 1.52% 0.86% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 7
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile £463 £313 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £472 £513
90th Percentile £656 £569 £593
England median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +12.93%

All Vendors
Midlands

F5 is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,188 1,753 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 43.52% 50.45% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 1,165 1,516
10th Percentile £213 £204 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £675 £648
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 59 90
10th Percentile £10.93 £13.19 £9.49
25th Percentile £12.75 £15.25 £12.38
Median hourly rate £15.61 £20.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.98% +21.21% +3.13%
75th Percentile £26.50 £35.13 £22.00
90th Percentile £45.50 £65.20 £27.11
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £20.95
% change year-on-year -40.00% +79.04% -4.80%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
West Midlands +44 13 £475 +35.71% 6
East Midlands +10 5 £600 +84.62% 4
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) Firewall
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (33.33%) Network Security
3 6 (33.33%) WAN
4 5 (27.78%) LAN
4 5 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (16.67%) SAN
5 3 (16.67%) VPN
6 2 (11.11%) DMZ
7 1 (5.56%) BGP
7 1 (5.56%) BIG-IP
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (5.56%) DNS
7 1 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (5.56%) HSRP
7 1 (5.56%) IPsec
7 1 (5.56%) OSPF
7 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (5.56%) Finance
2 1 (5.56%) Law
2 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) Architect
2 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
2 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Load Balancing
1 5 (27.78%) Network Architecture
2 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.11%) Hardware Maintenance
4 2 (11.11%) High Availability
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.56%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
5 1 (5.56%) Incident Response
5 1 (5.56%) Key Management
5 1 (5.56%) Preventative Maintenance
5 1 (5.56%) SIEM
5 1 (5.56%) Static Application Security Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 7 (38.89%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (5.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) FortiGate
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Aruba
2 5 (27.78%) Fortinet
2 5 (27.78%) SolarWinds
3 4 (22.22%) Juniper
4 3 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.56%) Qualys
6 1 (5.56%) Splunk