F5 Contracts in Scotland

F5
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 123 157
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +5
Contract jobs citing F5 8 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.49% 0.23% 0.33%
As % of the Vendors category 1.06% 0.57% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 6
10th Percentile £415 £613 £438
25th Percentile £419 £669 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £775 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.55% +55.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £456 £784 £528
90th Percentile £498 £786 £544
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 754 883 1,139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 46.49% 40.77% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 441 556 806
10th Percentile £225 £179 £175
25th Percentile £363 £318 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £473
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% -4.86% +5.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £543
90th Percentile £613 £669 £629
UK median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 18
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.00 £18.90
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.00 £21.36
Median hourly rate £19.17 £17.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.54% -69.57% +43.75%
75th Percentile £24.14 £54.38 £64.50
90th Percentile £26.99 £60.00 £69.13
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in Scotland

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for F5 in Scotland

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in Scotland

F5
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 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
Edinburgh +9 4 £425 -38.18% 2
Glasgow -5 1 £435 -44.23% 7
Aberdeen - 1 £438 -
F5
UK

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (75.00%) Firewall
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (62.50%) IPsec
2 5 (62.50%) SD-WAN
2 5 (62.50%) VPN
2 5 (62.50%) WAN
3 4 (50.00%) LAN
4 3 (37.50%) Network Security
4 3 (37.50%) Unified Communications
4 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (25.00%) BGP
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (25.00%) EIGRP
5 2 (25.00%) OSPF
5 2 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (37.50%) High Availability
2 3 (37.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Document Management
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
3 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) CCNP
4 1 (12.50%) CISM
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cisco
2 5 (62.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 1 (12.50%) VMware