F5 Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

F5
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 3 December 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 -
Contract jobs citing F5 1 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 0.52% 2.22% 1.53%
As % of the Vendors category 1.43% 4.23% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £453 £441
25th Percentile - £456 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -17.39% -
75th Percentile - £550 £613
90th Percentile - £588 -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -6.38% +6.82% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 - -

All Vendors
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 70 71 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 36.46% 52.59% 55.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 43 86
10th Percentile £200 £360 £405
25th Percentile £213 £374 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -14.55% +15.18%
75th Percentile £548 £594 £634
90th Percentile £550 £698 £670
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 17 13
10th Percentile £25.48 £39.00 £21.65
25th Percentile £32.94 £59.50 £45.63
Median hourly rate £33.89 £62.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.78% +8.70% +13.26%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.05 £72.75 £69.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.00 £62.50 £51.42
% change year-on-year -64.80% +21.55% +75.38%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing F5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing F5

F5
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing F5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing F5

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Security Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) WhatsUp Gold
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Acronis
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware