F5 Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

F5
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 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
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 39 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing F5 37 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 5.59% 2.21% -
As % of the Vendors category 10.63% 4.02% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £464 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £700 - -
90th Percentile £703 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £575 - -

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 348 199 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 52.57% 54.97% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 116 89
10th Percentile £313 £234 £373
25th Percentile £400 £452 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £534 £587
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -9.19% +11.90%
75th Percentile £541 £600 £650
90th Percentile £651 £683 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £482 £533 £581
% change year-on-year -9.66% -8.30% +16.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - £13.14 £18.65
25th Percentile - £15.22 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +70.53%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £20.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +2.56% +90.43%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Sheffield

F5
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing F5

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in Sheffield

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 3 (8.11%) Confluence
2 2 (5.41%) CICS
2 2 (5.41%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.41%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.70%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Azure
3 12 (32.43%) GCP
4 7 (18.92%) Akamai
5 3 (8.11%) Cloudflare
5 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.41%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.70%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 22 (59.46%) DNS
2 17 (45.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 16 (43.24%) Network Security
4 15 (40.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 14 (37.84%) DMZ
6 12 (32.43%) Firewall
7 4 (10.81%) NAS
7 4 (10.81%) SAN
8 3 (8.11%) HTTP
8 3 (8.11%) HTTPS
9 2 (5.41%) BIG-IP
9 2 (5.41%) VSAN
9 2 (5.41%) Wireshark
10 1 (2.70%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (2.70%) Cisco Firepower
10 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (2.70%) iSCSI
10 1 (2.70%) Multicast
10 1 (2.70%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Jenkins
2 4 (10.81%) JIRA
3 3 (8.11%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) GitLab
4 1 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (45.95%) Banking
2 14 (37.84%) Investment Banking
3 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Operations Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Migration Specialist
3 3 (8.11%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Server Migration Specialist
3 3 (8.11%) Server Specialist
4 2 (5.41%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.41%) Lead
4 2 (5.41%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Citrix Expert
5 1 (2.70%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Lead Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Virtualisation Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Web Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) Middleware
2 3 (8.11%) JSON
2 3 (8.11%) LDAP
2 3 (8.11%) REST
2 3 (8.11%) XML
3 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Management Information System
2 6 (16.22%) Security Posture
3 5 (13.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.41%) Clustering
4 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
4 2 (5.41%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.41%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.41%) Replication
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.70%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.22%) Linux
2 5 (13.51%) Windows
3 3 (8.11%) VMS
3 3 (8.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.41%) Solaris
4 2 (5.41%) zOS
5 1 (2.70%) MVS
5 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Business Strategy
1 15 (40.54%) Load Balancing
2 14 (37.84%) Design Patterns
3 8 (21.62%) Application Security
3 8 (21.62%) OWASP
4 6 (16.22%) DevOps
4 6 (16.22%) DevSecOps
4 6 (16.22%) Migration
5 5 (13.51%) Agile
5 5 (13.51%) CI/CD
5 5 (13.51%) Ethical Hacking
5 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (10.81%) Security Operations
6 4 (10.81%) Threat Detection
7 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (8.11%) SDLC
7 3 (8.11%) Server Migrations
7 3 (8.11%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (8.11%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.81%) SQL
3 3 (8.11%) Python
4 2 (5.41%) Java
4 2 (5.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) CEH
1 3 (8.11%) GIAC
1 3 (8.11%) GWAPT
2 2 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) VCAP
2 2 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.70%) CCA
3 1 (2.70%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 25 (67.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (18.92%) VMware NSX
2 7 (18.92%) vSphere
3 5 (13.51%) Active Directory
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (5.41%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.41%) KVM
6 1 (2.70%) Docker
6 1 (2.70%) NFS
6 1 (2.70%) Snort
6 1 (2.70%) SRDF
6 1 (2.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (2.70%) Xen
6 1 (2.70%) XenApp
6 1 (2.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (18.92%) Ansible
2 6 (16.22%) Terraform
2 6 (16.22%) vCenter Server
3 5 (13.51%) CSIRT
4 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.11%) vRealize
5 2 (5.41%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.70%) Argo
6 1 (2.70%) Podman
6 1 (2.70%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (67.57%) VMware
2 5 (13.51%) Cisco
3 4 (10.81%) Imperva
4 3 (8.11%) NetApp
4 3 (8.11%) Red Hat
4 3 (8.11%) Splunk
5 2 (5.41%) Broadcom
5 2 (5.41%) EMC
5 2 (5.41%) Infoblox
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.41%) NetScout
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle
5 2 (5.41%) SevOne
6 1 (2.70%) ArcSight
6 1 (2.70%) Citrix
6 1 (2.70%) Google
6 1 (2.70%) IBM
6 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.70%) Pure Storage