F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 320 377 503
Rank change year-on-year +57 +126 -105
Contract jobs citing F5 300 381 393
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.64% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.63% 1.49% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 275 245
10th Percentile £400 £400 £363
25th Percentile £433 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £704 £650 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% +41.30% +106.42%
75th Percentile £45.65 £74.35 -
90th Percentile £58.76 £76.96 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.00 £78.70 £49.54
% change year-on-year -19.95% +58.86% +106.42%

All Vendors
UK

F5 is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
England +107 261 £500 -5.66% 63
UK excluding London +115 171 £500 - 37
London +40 99 £488 -11.36% 26
Work from Home +7 77 £550 +4.76% 50
South East +59 73 £538 +7.50% 14
North of England +46 41 £475 -9.52% 4
North West +20 21 £433 -19.53% 2
Yorkshire +29 20 £515 +5.64% 2
Scotland +42 17 £780 +56.00%
Midlands +25 17 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands +38 12 £475 +35.71% 3
South West +13 11 £500 +2.56% 4
East of England +21 9 £450 -18.18% 10
East Midlands +15 5 £600 +84.62% 1
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 19 (6.33%) IIS
2 8 (2.67%) Apache
2 8 (2.67%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.33%) JBoss
5 2 (0.67%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.67%) nginx
6 1 (0.33%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 70 (23.33%) Azure
2 58 (19.33%) AWS
3 28 (9.33%) Cloudflare
4 22 (7.33%) Akamai
5 15 (5.00%) GCP
6 14 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 5 (1.67%) GitHub
8 5 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.67%) OCI
9 4 (1.33%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.00%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.67%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.67%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.67%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 157 (52.33%) Firewall
2 86 (28.67%) BGP
3 80 (26.67%) WAN
4 67 (22.33%) MPLS
5 57 (19.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 55 (18.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 53 (17.67%) LAN
8 51 (17.00%) VPN
9 50 (16.67%) DNS
9 50 (16.67%) OSPF
10 40 (13.33%) Network Security
10 40 (13.33%) Wireless
11 38 (12.67%) Cisco Firepower
12 36 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
12 36 (12.00%) SD-WAN
13 33 (11.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 33 (11.00%) SSL
14 24 (8.00%) DMZ
15 23 (7.67%) TCP/IP
16 22 (7.33%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.67%) DB2
3 3 (1.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.33%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.33%) Data Hub
4 1 (0.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 21 (7.00%) Git
2 12 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 11 (3.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (2.00%) JIRA
5 4 (1.33%) Fiddler
5 4 (1.33%) Vagrant
6 3 (1.00%) Burp Suite
General
1 102 (34.00%) Finance
2 62 (20.67%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.00%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.00%) Banking
4 18 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 17 (5.67%) Retail
6 9 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.67%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.67%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.33%) Law
11 3 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.00%) Marketing
11 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.33%) Advertising
12 1 (0.33%) Automotive
12 1 (0.33%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.33%) Legal
12 1 (0.33%) Local Government
12 1 (0.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 162 (54.00%) Network Engineer
2 63 (21.00%) Architect
3 43 (14.33%) Network Architect
4 34 (11.33%) Senior
5 18 (6.00%) Security Engineer
6 17 (5.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 17 (5.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 15 (5.00%) Senior Architect
7 15 (5.00%) Senior Network Architect
7 15 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
8 12 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 11 (3.67%) Web Engineer
10 10 (3.33%) Developer
11 9 (3.00%) Cloud Engineer
11 9 (3.00%) Lead
12 8 (2.67%) Administrator
12 8 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
12 8 (2.67%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.33%) Enterprise Architect
13 7 (2.33%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.33%) JSON
2 11 (3.67%) .NET
3 9 (3.00%) 802.1X
3 9 (3.00%) NETCONF
3 9 (3.00%) XML
3 9 (3.00%) YANG
4 7 (2.33%) REST
5 6 (2.00%) LDAP
6 4 (1.33%) .NET Framework
6 4 (1.33%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.33%) SAML
6 4 (1.33%) Twisted
7 3 (1.00%) gRPC
7 3 (1.00%) Kafka
7 3 (1.00%) Middleware
7 3 (1.00%) VML
7 3 (1.00%) WebSockets
8 2 (0.67%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 59 (19.67%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 12 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 10 (3.33%) PKI
4 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (0.67%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.67%) Replication
8 2 (0.67%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.67%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.67%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.33%) Data Fabric
9 1 (0.33%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.67%) Linux
2 34 (11.33%) Windows
3 26 (8.67%) Unix
4 12 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.33%) AIX
5 4 (1.33%) Solaris
5 4 (1.33%) zOS
6 3 (1.00%) Mac OS
6 3 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 42 (14.00%) Network Design
3 33 (11.00%) DevOps
4 32 (10.67%) Network Management
5 29 (9.67%) Migration
6 26 (8.67%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (8.33%) Network Architecture
7 25 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 23 (7.67%) Customer Requirements
9 20 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
9 20 (6.67%) Roadmaps
10 19 (6.33%) CI/CD
10 19 (6.33%) ITSM
11 16 (5.33%) Cloud Security
11 16 (5.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (5.33%) ITIL
12 15 (5.00%) Computer Science
13 13 (4.33%) RAD
13 13 (4.33%) Requirements Gathering
13 13 (4.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.00%) Python
2 21 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 14 (4.67%) Bash
4 12 (4.00%) Java
4 12 (4.00%) SQL
5 10 (3.33%) Perl
6 9 (3.00%) ActionScript
7 6 (2.00%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.33%) Go
9 3 (1.00%) PHP
10 2 (0.67%) C#
10 2 (0.67%) Ruby
10 2 (0.67%) Scala
11 1 (0.33%) C
Qualifications
1 67 (22.33%) Cisco Certification
2 64 (21.33%) Security Cleared
3 52 (17.33%) CCNP
4 42 (14.00%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.67%) CCNA
6 21 (7.00%) CCIE
7 15 (5.00%) Degree
8 11 (3.67%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.67%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.67%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.33%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.67%) SLA
2 4 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.67%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
3 6 (2.00%) Firmware
3 6 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.00%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.33%) ProxySG
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.67%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.67%) PowerDNS
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.67%) vSphere
8 1 (0.33%) Docker
8 1 (0.33%) KVM
Systems Management
1 29 (9.67%) Ansible
2 25 (8.33%) Terraform
3 24 (8.00%) Endace
4 18 (6.00%) FortiGate
5 11 (3.67%) SCCM
6 10 (3.33%) SCOM
7 7 (2.33%) Puppet
7 7 (2.33%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (1.33%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.33%) Tivoli
10 3 (1.00%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.67%) NetBackup
11 2 (0.67%) SCVMM
11 2 (0.67%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 166 (55.33%) Cisco
2 66 (22.00%) Palo Alto
3 56 (18.67%) Juniper
4 47 (15.67%) Fortinet
5 43 (14.33%) CheckPoint
6 40 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 29 (9.67%) Microsoft
8 18 (6.00%) Infoblox
9 15 (5.00%) Nokia
9 15 (5.00%) VMware
10 13 (4.33%) Meraki
11 12 (4.00%) Dell
12 10 (3.33%) Aruba
13 9 (3.00%) Citrix
13 9 (3.00%) Google
14 7 (2.33%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.00%) HP
15 6 (2.00%) ServiceNow
15 6 (2.00%) Splunk
15 6 (2.00%) Zscaler