F5 Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

F5
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 October 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
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 118 134
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 +64
Contract jobs citing F5 54 17 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.00% 0.63% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 4.02% 1.38% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 10
10th Percentile £353 £378 £393
25th Percentile £380 £491 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £620 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +37.72% -
75th Percentile £488 £673 £513
90th Percentile £638 £717 £634
England median daily rate £489 £525 £510
% change year-on-year -6.95% +2.94% -5.20%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,344 1,234 1,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 49.80% 46.01% 51.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 784 995
10th Percentile £239 £226 £213
25th Percentile £360 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +3.68% -3.06%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 29 45
10th Percentile £15.74 £13.37 £12.40
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -15.00% +13.90%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.65%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing F5 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

F5 job vacancy trend in the Midlands

F5
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing F5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing F5

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the Midlands

F5
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing F5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing F5

F5
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 6 October 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
West Midlands +42 54 £440 -12.00% 3
F5
England

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (25.93%) AWS
2 10 (18.52%) Akamai
2 10 (18.52%) GCP
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 34 (62.96%) Firewall
2 33 (61.11%) DNS
3 27 (50.00%) Network Security
4 19 (35.19%) SSL
5 17 (31.48%) Wireshark
6 16 (29.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 16 (29.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (27.78%) VPN
7 15 (27.78%) Wireless
8 14 (25.93%) DMZ
9 13 (24.07%) WAN
10 10 (18.52%) BIG-IP
10 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
11 9 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
11 9 (16.67%) DMVPN
11 9 (16.67%) IPsec
12 7 (12.96%) HTTP
13 6 (11.11%) SD-WAN
14 5 (9.26%) Cisco ISE
14 5 (9.26%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Fiddler
2 4 (7.41%) Git
2 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.41%) JIRA
3 3 (5.56%) GitLab
4 1 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (27.78%) Banking
1 15 (27.78%) Investment Banking
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Military
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Operations Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Senior
4 5 (9.26%) Python Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
5 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Junior
6 3 (5.56%) Junior Network Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Network Consultant
6 3 (5.56%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (3.70%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (29.63%) Management Information System
2 13 (24.07%) Data Centre
3 9 (16.67%) Security Posture
4 5 (9.26%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) Load Balancing
2 11 (20.37%) DevSecOps
3 9 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 9 (16.67%) Change Management
3 9 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 9 (16.67%) Inventory Management
3 9 (16.67%) ITIL
4 8 (14.81%) Application Security
4 8 (14.81%) Ethical Hacking
4 8 (14.81%) Migration
4 8 (14.81%) OWASP
4 8 (14.81%) Test Automation
5 7 (12.96%) CI/CD
5 7 (12.96%) High Availability
5 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (11.11%) Security Testing
7 5 (9.26%) Mentoring
8 4 (7.41%) Continuous Deployment
8 4 (7.41%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.67%) Python
2 4 (7.41%) Bash
2 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (24.07%) SC Cleared
3 9 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (14.81%) CCNP
5 7 (12.96%) CCIE
6 4 (7.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 3 (5.56%) Degree
8 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (1.85%) CCIE Security
9 1 (1.85%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (1.85%) CCSE
9 1 (1.85%) CCSM
9 1 (1.85%) CWSP
9 1 (1.85%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (20.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.41%) Docker
3 2 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (25.93%) Ansible
2 8 (14.81%) CSIRT
3 4 (7.41%) OpenView
3 4 (7.41%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.85%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) Cisco
2 18 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 15 (27.78%) Blue Coat
4 11 (20.37%) Juniper
4 11 (20.37%) VMware
5 10 (18.52%) Palo Alto
6 9 (16.67%) Splunk
7 6 (11.11%) Fortinet
7 6 (11.11%) McAfee
7 6 (11.11%) NetApp
8 5 (9.26%) SolarWinds
9 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
10 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.70%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.85%) Arista
11 1 (1.85%) Aruba
11 1 (1.85%) EMC
11 1 (1.85%) Infoblox
11 1 (1.85%) NetScout