F5 Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

F5
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 8 June 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
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing F5 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.18% - -
As % of the Vendors category 7.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £650 - -

All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 158 93 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.73% 43.87% 37.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 67 41
10th Percentile £361 £308 £335
25th Percentile £419 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -12.44%
75th Percentile £594 £568 £550
90th Percentile £650 £630 £650
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 3
10th Percentile £26.66 £21.29 £12.05
25th Percentile £60.00 £26.41 £13.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £35.63 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.46% +103.57% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £44.16 £18.75
90th Percentile - £48.86 -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £65.00 £35.63 £13.99
% change year-on-year +82.46% +154.65% -

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing F5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing F5

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 12 (100.00%) AWS
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
1 12 (100.00%) OCI
2 5 (41.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) BGP
1 12 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 12 (100.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 12 (100.00%) Firewall
1 12 (100.00%) OSPF
1 12 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 11 (91.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 11 (91.67%) SD-WAN
3 10 (83.33%) WAN
4 5 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (41.67%) WLAN
5 1 (8.33%) Network Security
5 1 (8.33%) NGFW
5 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 10 (83.33%) Senior
1 10 (83.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (91.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Zero Trust
2 11 (91.67%) CI/CD
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) Load Balancing
3 8 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (50.00%) Network Design
5 5 (41.67%) High Availability
5 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Network Architecture
7 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 1 (8.33%) Backlog Management
8 1 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
8 1 (8.33%) Operational Stability
8 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (91.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Ansible
1 11 (91.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 11 (91.67%) Arista
3 10 (83.33%) Aruba
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint