F5 Contracts in the UK excluding London

F5
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 227 329
Rank change year-on-year -23 +102 +45
Contract jobs citing F5 89 175 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.70% 0.84% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 1.42% 1.98% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 115 90
10th Percentile £407 £378 £325
25th Percentile £455 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.45% - -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £550
90th Percentile £638 £683 £575
UK median daily rate £536 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.20% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -66.00% +41.30%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 8,846 10,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.84% 42.63% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 5,327 7,325
10th Percentile £216 £205 £205
25th Percentile £370 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.58%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £689 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 949 474
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.79%
75th Percentile £58.61 £58.70 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.88 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.00 £43.69
% change year-on-year +20.23% -49.65% +107.85%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South West +57 25 £513 +2.50% 5
South East -9 22 £538 +4.88% 19
Midlands +23 21 £582 +16.31% 3
West Midlands +14 11 £551 +16.00% 3
East Midlands +19 10 £651 +8.42%
North of England -8 10 £505 +6.32% 25
Scotland +6 9 £438 -43.91% 7
North West -2 5 £475 +9.83% 14
East of England +23 3 £465 +3.33% 4
Yorkshire -10 3 - - 9
North East - 2 £550 - 2
Wales - 1 £475 -
F5
UK

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.12%) Confluence
1 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (19.10%) AWS
1 17 (19.10%) Azure
2 11 (12.36%) PaaS
2 11 (12.36%) SaaS
3 6 (6.74%) Cloudflare
4 5 (5.62%) Akamai
5 2 (2.25%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.12%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 35 (39.33%) Firewall
2 20 (22.47%) DNS
3 17 (19.10%) Network Security
3 17 (19.10%) VPN
4 15 (16.85%) LAN
4 15 (16.85%) WAN
5 13 (14.61%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 13 (14.61%) IPsec
6 12 (13.48%) Cisco ISE
6 12 (13.48%) PBX
6 12 (13.48%) VoIP
7 11 (12.36%) OSPF
8 10 (11.24%) Cisco Firepower
8 10 (11.24%) Wireless
9 9 (10.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 9 (10.11%) MPLS
9 9 (10.11%) SD-WAN
10 8 (8.99%) BGP
10 8 (8.99%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (7.87%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 2 (2.25%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (17.98%) Telecoms
2 11 (12.36%) Social Skills
3 10 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.11%) Finance
4 9 (10.11%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
6 4 (4.49%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Electronics
8 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (34.83%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.22%) Architect
3 11 (12.36%) Network Architect
4 8 (8.99%) Network Security Engineer
4 8 (8.99%) Security Engineer
5 7 (7.87%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 6 (6.74%) Senior
7 5 (5.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.49%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Field Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Network Field Engineer
9 3 (3.37%) Senior Network Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Cisco Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Consultant
10 2 (2.25%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (2.25%) Network Designer
10 2 (2.25%) Senior Security Architect
10 2 (2.25%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.25%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.25%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.12%) HTML
2 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (13.48%) Video Conferencing
2 10 (11.24%) Blackberry
3 8 (8.99%) CSOC
4 6 (6.74%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.74%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (4.49%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.25%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) CMDB
7 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.12%) FMCG
7 1 (1.12%) RSA SecurID
7 1 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (19.10%) Windows
2 14 (15.73%) Linux
3 12 (13.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (8.99%) VMS
5 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.60%) Load Balancing
1 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (19.10%) Roadmaps
3 15 (16.85%) Customer Requirements
3 15 (16.85%) Migration
3 15 (16.85%) Service Design
4 12 (13.48%) Commercial Awareness
5 11 (12.36%) Root Cause Analysis
6 10 (11.24%) Impact Assessments
7 9 (10.11%) SIEM
7 9 (10.11%) Thought Leadership
7 9 (10.11%) Validation
8 8 (8.99%) Cost Reduction
8 8 (8.99%) Event Correlation
8 8 (8.99%) Network Architecture
8 8 (8.99%) Network Design
8 8 (8.99%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (7.87%) High Availability
9 7 (7.87%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (6.74%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 24 (26.97%) Python
2 9 (10.11%) Bash
3 6 (6.74%) VB
4 3 (3.37%) SQL
5 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 51 (57.30%) Security Cleared
2 40 (44.94%) SC Cleared
3 29 (32.58%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (24.72%) CCNP
5 19 (21.35%) DV Cleared
6 10 (11.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (6.74%) CCIE
8 4 (4.49%) CISSP
8 4 (4.49%) Degree
9 3 (3.37%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (2.25%) CCNA
10 2 (2.25%) CEH
10 2 (2.25%) GIAC
10 2 (2.25%) JNCIE
10 2 (2.25%) Master's Degree
11 1 (1.12%) A+ Certification
11 1 (1.12%) CCDP
11 1 (1.12%) CCSA
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) SLA
2 3 (3.37%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) GRC
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (16.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.87%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.25%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.12%) vSphere
4 1 (1.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (21.35%) Ansible
2 8 (8.99%) FortiGate
3 6 (6.74%) Terraform
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.12%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.12%) SCCM
Vendors
1 66 (74.16%) Cisco
2 31 (34.83%) Palo Alto
3 27 (30.34%) Juniper
4 20 (22.47%) SolarWinds
5 17 (19.10%) Fortinet
6 15 (16.85%) VMware
7 14 (15.73%) CheckPoint
8 12 (13.48%) Citrix
8 12 (13.48%) Ericsson
8 12 (13.48%) Nokia
8 12 (13.48%) Red Hat
9 11 (12.36%) ServiceNow
10 10 (11.24%) Avaya
10 10 (11.24%) Ribbon
10 10 (11.24%) Zscaler
11 9 (10.11%) Splunk
12 5 (5.62%) Aruba
12 5 (5.62%) Infoblox
12 5 (5.62%) Microsoft
13 4 (4.49%) Ruckus Wireless