F5 Contracts in the North of England

F5
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 144 192
Rank change year-on-year -12 +48 +23
Contract jobs citing F5 10 41 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.30% 0.86% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 2.01% 1.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 39 20
10th Percentile £438 £378 £400
25th Percentile £463 £432 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £546 £549 £550
90th Percentile £563 £669 £558
England median daily rate £547 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +9.45% -5.21% +3.18%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,679 2,042 2,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 50.96% 42.83% 39.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,078 1,194 1,581
10th Percentile £230 £250 £248
25th Percentile £363 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £564 £585 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 212 66
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £15.00
25th Percentile £21.24 £12.53 £19.77
Median hourly rate £32.50 £15.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +116.67% -57.14% +96.52%
75th Percentile £59.65 £21.08 £49.05
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.15 £54.88
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the North of England

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the North of England

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the North of England

F5
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +1 5 £475 +9.83% 7
Yorkshire -9 3 - - 10
North East - 2 £550 - 1
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (10.00%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 3 (30.00%) MPLS
2 3 (30.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) OSPF
3 2 (20.00%) VLAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (10.00%) IGMP
4 1 (10.00%) Multicast
4 1 (10.00%) NX-OS
4 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (10.00%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infoblox Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) LAN Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Network Implementation Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) High Availability
3 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Service Design
3 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (10.00%) Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Artefact Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) CCNP
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (20.00%) CCIE
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) JNCIE
2 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (10.00%) Arista
4 1 (10.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) HP
4 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Symantec
4 1 (10.00%) Zscaler