F5 Contracts

F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 274 373
Rank change year-on-year -68 +99 +80
Contract jobs citing F5 201 376 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.86% 0.61%
As % of the Vendors category 1.35% 2.02% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 260 248
10th Percentile £385 £378 £382
25th Percentile £419 £432 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -0.99% -1.46%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.00% +29.63%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,890 18,640 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 42.88% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 11,577 16,146
10th Percentile £280 £271 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 1,161 648
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%
75th Percentile £53.25 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +50.10%

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 3 July 2025.

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
Top 16 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 3 July 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
England -66 175 £490 -2.10% 189
UK excluding London -54 109 £500 -2.44% 108
London -8 71 £450 -5.26% 95
Work from Home -37 55 £456 -14.72% 58
South West +42 27 £545 +11.69% 8
North of England -25 26 £482 -0.57% 29
South East -35 23 £550 - 30
Midlands +13 17 £540 +5.37% 15
West Midlands +11 15 £539 +13.37% 14
North West -10 13 £475 +9.65% 14
Yorkshire -12 12 £490 -2.10% 12
Scotland +5 11 £450 -21.81% 12
East of England +17 5 £520 -5.45% 11
East Midlands -1 2 £650 +8.33% 1
Wales +5 1 £475 -17.39% 2
North East - 1 £550 - 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 4 (1.99%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.49%) Confluence
3 2 (1.00%) nginx
4 1 (0.50%) JBoss
4 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 54 (26.87%) AWS
2 46 (22.89%) Azure
3 17 (8.46%) SaaS
4 15 (7.46%) PaaS
5 11 (5.47%) GCP
6 10 (4.98%) Akamai
7 5 (2.49%) Cloudflare
8 4 (1.99%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.99%) IaaS
9 3 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (1.49%) GitHub
9 3 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.00%) Apigee
10 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 123 (61.19%) Firewall
2 66 (32.84%) Network Security
3 56 (27.86%) DNS
4 49 (24.38%) WAN
4 49 (24.38%) Wireless
5 48 (23.88%) VPN
6 46 (22.89%) Cisco ISE
7 43 (21.39%) LAN
8 41 (20.40%) BGP
8 41 (20.40%) OSPF
9 38 (18.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 35 (17.41%) Cisco Nexus
11 34 (16.92%) SD-WAN
12 33 (16.42%) DHCP
13 27 (13.43%) Cisco ASA
14 26 (12.94%) VLAN
15 25 (12.44%) IPsec
16 24 (11.94%) BIG-IP
17 22 (10.95%) Cisco Firepower
18 20 (9.95%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.99%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.50%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.50%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (5.47%) Sonatype Nexus
2 10 (4.98%) JIRA
3 6 (2.99%) GitLab
4 5 (2.49%) Git
5 4 (1.99%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 44 (21.89%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.41%) Finance
3 23 (11.44%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.45%) Telecoms
5 17 (8.46%) Banking
6 15 (7.46%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.49%) Legal
8 3 (1.49%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.00%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.50%) Advertising
10 1 (0.50%) Electronics
10 1 (0.50%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Military
10 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 100 (49.75%) Network Engineer
2 24 (11.94%) Architect
3 22 (10.95%) Senior
4 18 (8.96%) Network Security Engineer
4 18 (8.96%) Security Engineer
5 13 (6.47%) Cisco Engineer
6 12 (5.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 12 (5.97%) Consultant
6 12 (5.97%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (5.47%) Network Architect
8 10 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 9 (4.48%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 8 (3.98%) Juniper Engineer
11 7 (3.48%) Designer
11 7 (3.48%) Network Designer
12 6 (2.99%) Administrator
12 6 (2.99%) Field Engineer
12 6 (2.99%) Network Administrator
12 6 (2.99%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.49%) Middleware
2 4 (1.99%) SailPoint
3 3 (1.49%) JSON
3 3 (1.49%) REST
3 3 (1.49%) RESTful
4 2 (1.00%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.00%) SOAP
4 2 (1.00%) XML
5 1 (0.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.89%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 12 (5.97%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (4.98%) Blackberry
4 8 (3.98%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.48%) Private Cloud
6 5 (2.49%) CSOC
6 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.99%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.99%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.99%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.49%) Clustering
8 3 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.00%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.00%) Life Science
9 2 (1.00%) PMI
9 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (1.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.43%) Windows
2 20 (9.95%) Linux
3 9 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.99%) Unix
4 6 (2.99%) VMS
5 3 (1.49%) CentOS
6 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.38%) Load Balancing
2 39 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (18.41%) Migration
4 34 (16.92%) Network Monitoring
5 27 (13.43%) Roadmaps
6 26 (12.94%) Agile
6 26 (12.94%) Network Design
7 21 (10.45%) High Availability
8 18 (8.96%) Customer Requirements
9 17 (8.46%) ITIL
9 17 (8.46%) Service Design
10 14 (6.97%) Zero Trust
11 13 (6.47%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (6.47%) Validation
12 12 (5.97%) Commercial Awareness
12 12 (5.97%) Network Architecture
12 12 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (5.47%) Computer Science
13 11 (5.47%) Project Delivery
13 11 (5.47%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 43 (21.39%) Python
2 10 (4.98%) Bash
3 9 (4.48%) VB
4 7 (3.48%) PowerShell
5 5 (2.49%) SQL
6 4 (1.99%) Perl
7 2 (1.00%) Java
7 2 (1.00%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.50%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.50%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 74 (36.82%) Cisco Certification
2 65 (32.34%) Security Cleared
3 55 (27.36%) CCNP
4 49 (24.38%) SC Cleared
5 24 (11.94%) DV Cleared
6 21 (10.45%) Degree
7 19 (9.45%) CCIE
8 14 (6.97%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (5.47%) CCSA
10 10 (4.98%) CCNA
11 7 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.48%) Master's Degree
12 4 (1.99%) CISSP
12 4 (1.99%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.99%) PMI Certification
12 4 (1.99%) PMP
12 4 (1.99%) VCAP
13 3 (1.49%) AWS Certification
13 3 (1.49%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 3 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.48%) SLA
2 4 (1.99%) GRC
3 2 (1.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.00%) NIST
3 2 (1.00%) QA
4 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (13.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.98%) Firmware
4 7 (3.48%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.99%) vSphere
7 1 (0.50%) Docker
7 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.50%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.50%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 51 (25.37%) Ansible
2 20 (9.95%) FortiGate
3 16 (7.96%) Terraform
4 7 (3.48%) CA Spectrum
5 4 (1.99%) OpenView
6 3 (1.49%) HAProxy
7 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.00%) PowerCLI
7 2 (1.00%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
8 1 (0.50%) OPNET
8 1 (0.50%) SCCM
8 1 (0.50%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.50%) vRealize
8 1 (0.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 154 (76.62%) Cisco
2 57 (28.36%) CheckPoint
2 57 (28.36%) Palo Alto
3 56 (27.86%) Juniper
4 44 (21.89%) Fortinet
4 44 (21.89%) SolarWinds
5 35 (17.41%) VMware
6 23 (11.44%) Citrix
7 19 (9.45%) Microsoft
8 18 (8.96%) Zscaler
9 17 (8.46%) Meraki
9 17 (8.46%) ServiceNow
10 16 (7.96%) Aruba
10 16 (7.96%) Infoblox
11 12 (5.97%) Ericsson
11 12 (5.97%) Nokia
12 10 (4.98%) Arista
12 10 (4.98%) Avaya
12 10 (4.98%) Ribbon
12 10 (4.98%) Splunk