F5 Contract Job Trends in Reading

F5
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 13 February 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
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 70 90
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -2
Contract jobs citing F5 11 8 3
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.31% 1.02% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 2.17% 2.24% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £268
25th Percentile £463 £563 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £490
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +17.35% +28.52%
75th Percentile £488 £588 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £438 £495 £490
% change year-on-year -11.62% +1.02% +26.45%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 508 357 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 60.55% 45.48% 48.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 218 380
10th Percentile £303 £363 £213
25th Percentile £443 £457 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +9.52% -7.08%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £620
90th Percentile £664 £675 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -8.26% +9.00% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 3 19
10th Percentile £14.50 £26.80 £52.90
25th Percentile £65.00 £27.63 £56.58
Median hourly rate £81.00 £29.00 £60.14
Median % change year-on-year +179.31% -51.78% +0.51%
75th Percentile £96.25 £53.10 £62.92
90th Percentile £104.40 £67.55 £63.63
Berkshire median hourly rate £49.97 £56.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -11.94% -5.43% -7.23%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Reading

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing F5

F5
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing F5

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) BGP
1 7 (63.64%) WAN
2 6 (54.55%) MPLS
2 6 (54.55%) SNMP
2 6 (54.55%) TACACS
3 5 (45.45%) LAN
3 5 (45.45%) OSPF
3 5 (45.45%) Wireless
4 2 (18.18%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) DWDM
4 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) SDH
4 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (9.09%) BIG-IP
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 1 (9.09%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Billing
4 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Designer
1 4 (36.36%) IP Designer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) IP Specialist
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Project Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) NETCONF
1 2 (18.18%) OpenConfig
1 2 (18.18%) RESTCONF
1 2 (18.18%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (81.82%) Data Centre
2 6 (54.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (27.27%) iSeries
3 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
1 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (36.36%) Validation
2 2 (18.18%) ArchiMate
2 2 (18.18%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (18.18%) Boundary Protection
2 2 (18.18%) BPMN
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.09%) Change Control
3 1 (9.09%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CCIE
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (54.55%) JNCIE
2 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) Degree
4 1 (9.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (36.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 4 (36.36%) Terraform
3 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
2 8 (72.73%) Juniper
3 6 (54.55%) Fortinet
4 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) IBM
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) Nokia
5 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
6 1 (9.09%) Meraki