F5 Contracts in the North West

F5
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 115 116 140
Rank change year-on-year +1 +24 +20
Contract jobs citing F5 5 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.25% 0.76% 0.53%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 1.92% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 20 12
10th Percentile £428 £378 £478
25th Percentile £450 £401 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £433 £538
Median % change year-on-year +9.83% -19.53% -7.33%
75th Percentile £499 £434 £550
90th Percentile £521 £553 £618
England median daily rate £547 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +9.45% -5.21% +3.18%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the North West

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the North West

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the North West

F5
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Cheshire +1 3 £475 -6.17% 2
Manchester -1 1 - - 4
Merseyside - 1 £535 - 1
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) BGP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) OSPF
2 2 (40.00%) VLAN
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
3 1 (20.00%) IGMP
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) NX-OS
3 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Designer
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) LAN Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) High Availability
1 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (40.00%) Service Design
1 2 (40.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 2 (40.00%) Technology Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Data Security
2 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (20.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (40.00%) CCIE
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 2 (40.00%) JNCIE
2 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler