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 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 297 384
Rank change year-on-year -52 +87 +99
Contract jobs citing F5 170 314 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.73% 0.60%
As % of the Vendors category 1.23% 1.73% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 199 252
10th Percentile £385 £396 £376
25th Percentile £425 £432 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £619
90th Percentile £625 £670 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £536 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +7.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 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 13,821 18,135 24,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.60% 42.42% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,616 11,242 16,673
10th Percentile £281 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £618 £630 £644
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 1,107 685
10th Percentile £14.59 £12.08 £15.22
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% -42.77% +97.37%

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 14 May 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 14 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
England -51 143 £540 +8.00% 105
UK excluding London -31 85 £536 +7.20% 77
London +3 58 £480 -1.54% 46
Work from Home +12 57 £475 -13.64% 63
South West +58 25 £513 +5.13% 4
Midlands +18 20 £571 +14.15% 8
South East -17 20 £494 -8.14% 25
West Midlands +13 11 £551 +16.00% 8
East Midlands +9 9 £650 +8.38%
North of England -20 9 £475 - 29
Scotland +10 8 £438 -43.55% 10
North West -4 5 £475 +9.83% 17
East of England +21 3 £465 +3.33% 2
Yorkshire -12 3 - - 12
North East - 1 £550 -
Wales - 1 £475 -

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 1 (0.59%) Confluence
1 1 (0.59%) JBoss
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (25.88%) AWS
2 37 (21.76%) Azure
3 11 (6.47%) PaaS
3 11 (6.47%) SaaS
4 8 (4.71%) Cloudflare
5 5 (2.94%) Akamai
5 5 (2.94%) GCP
6 4 (2.35%) Amazon S3
6 4 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.59%) GitHub
8 1 (0.59%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 100 (58.82%) Firewall
2 52 (30.59%) DNS
3 45 (26.47%) Network Security
4 42 (24.71%) VPN
5 38 (22.35%) WAN
6 35 (20.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 35 (20.59%) OSPF
7 33 (19.41%) LAN
8 32 (18.82%) Wireless
9 30 (17.65%) BGP
9 30 (17.65%) IPsec
10 24 (14.12%) Cisco ISE
10 24 (14.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 23 (13.53%) DHCP
11 23 (13.53%) SD-WAN
11 23 (13.53%) SSL
12 22 (12.94%) Cisco Nexus
13 21 (12.35%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (12.35%) MPLS
14 20 (11.76%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.59%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (5.88%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (4.12%) GitLab
3 4 (2.35%) JIRA
General
1 40 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.18%) Finance
3 21 (12.35%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.59%) Telecoms
5 14 (8.24%) Public Sector
6 13 (7.65%) Banking
7 4 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.76%) Law
8 3 (1.76%) Legal
9 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.59%) Advertising
10 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Electronics
10 1 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.59%) Marketing
10 1 (0.59%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (43.53%) Network Engineer
2 26 (15.29%) Architect
3 19 (11.18%) Senior
4 17 (10.00%) Network Architect
5 14 (8.24%) Network Security Engineer
5 14 (8.24%) Security Engineer
6 13 (7.65%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) Consultant
9 5 (2.94%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (2.94%) Project Manager
9 5 (2.94%) Support Specialist
10 4 (2.35%) Administrator
10 4 (2.35%) Field Engineer
10 4 (2.35%) Network Administrator
10 4 (2.35%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.76%) 802.1X
1 3 (1.76%) JSON
2 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
2 2 (1.18%) XML
3 1 (0.59%) HTML
3 1 (0.59%) Middleware
3 1 (0.59%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 24 (14.12%) Data Centre
2 12 (7.06%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (5.88%) Blackberry
3 10 (5.88%) CSOC
4 9 (5.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (2.94%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.76%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.76%) Clustering
7 3 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.18%) Life Science
8 2 (1.18%) PKI
8 2 (1.18%) PMI
8 2 (1.18%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.59%) CMDB
9 1 (0.59%) FMCG
9 1 (0.59%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 27 (15.88%) Windows
2 19 (11.18%) Linux
3 13 (7.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (5.88%) VMS
5 5 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.76%) CentOS
7 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.59%) Unix
8 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (22.94%) Load Balancing
2 36 (21.18%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (18.82%) Migration
4 25 (14.71%) Network Monitoring
5 24 (14.12%) Roadmaps
6 22 (12.94%) Network Design
7 18 (10.59%) Root Cause Analysis
8 15 (8.82%) Customer Requirements
8 15 (8.82%) Service Design
9 13 (7.65%) Agile
10 12 (7.06%) Commercial Awareness
10 12 (7.06%) DevOps
11 11 (6.47%) Computer Science
11 11 (6.47%) High Availability
11 11 (6.47%) SIEM
11 11 (6.47%) Thought Leadership
12 10 (5.88%) Event Correlation
12 10 (5.88%) Impact Assessments
12 10 (5.88%) Validation
12 10 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 50 (29.41%) Python
2 14 (8.24%) Bash
3 6 (3.53%) VB
4 3 (1.76%) SQL
5 2 (1.18%) Perl
5 2 (1.18%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.59%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.59%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 62 (36.47%) Security Cleared
2 58 (34.12%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 47 (27.65%) CCNP
5 17 (10.00%) Degree
5 17 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 12 (7.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (6.47%) CCIE
8 8 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (4.12%) CCSA
10 6 (3.53%) CISSP
11 5 (2.94%) CCNA
12 4 (2.35%) Master's Degree
12 4 (2.35%) PMI Certification
12 4 (2.35%) PMP
13 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 2 (1.18%) CCDP
13 2 (1.18%) GIAC
13 2 (1.18%) JNCIE
13 2 (1.18%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.94%) SLA
2 3 (1.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (1.18%) GRC
3 2 (1.18%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.18%) NIST
4 1 (0.59%) GDPR
4 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 22 (12.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (6.47%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.35%) Firmware
3 4 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 2 (1.18%) vSphere
5 1 (0.59%) Docker
5 1 (0.59%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 46 (27.06%) Ansible
2 17 (10.00%) Terraform
3 11 (6.47%) FortiGate
4 3 (1.76%) CA Spectrum
4 3 (1.76%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.18%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.18%) OPNET
6 1 (0.59%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.59%) SCCM
6 1 (0.59%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.59%) TrustSec
6 1 (0.59%) vRealize
6 1 (0.59%) VxRail
Vendors
1 127 (74.71%) Cisco
2 63 (37.06%) Palo Alto
3 55 (32.35%) CheckPoint
4 42 (24.71%) Juniper
5 37 (21.76%) SolarWinds
6 36 (21.18%) Fortinet
7 24 (14.12%) VMware
8 18 (10.59%) Infoblox
9 17 (10.00%) ServiceNow
9 17 (10.00%) Zscaler
10 16 (9.41%) Red Hat
11 15 (8.82%) Aruba
12 14 (8.24%) Citrix
12 14 (8.24%) Splunk
13 12 (7.06%) Ericsson
13 12 (7.06%) Microsoft
13 12 (7.06%) Nokia
14 11 (6.47%) Arista
15 10 (5.88%) Meraki
15 10 (5.88%) Ribbon