F5 Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

F5
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 7 October 2026, 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 73 110
Rank change year-on-year -36 +37 +8
Contract jobs citing F5 65 54 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.82% 2.91% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 4.17% 5.54% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 21 2
10th Percentile £410 £353 £466
25th Percentile £550 £380 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -12.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £488 £534
90th Percentile - £638 £544
England median daily rate £550 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +12.82% -7.14% +2.94%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,558 974 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.57% 52.51% 47.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,007 626 586
10th Percentile £313 £243 £213
25th Percentile £402 £385 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £613
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £515 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.78% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 35 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.34 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.48 £19.13 £17.32
Median hourly rate £20.62 £30.00 £28.81
Median % change year-on-year -31.28% +4.12% +25.27%
75th Percentile £33.99 £36.25 £42.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £56.63
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.39% -28.14% -20.08%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

F5 job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

F5
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing F5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing F5

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the West Midlands

F5
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing F5.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing F5

F5
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 October 2026. 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
Birmingham +5 46 - - 4
Warwickshire -19 11 £581 +52.89%
F5
England

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.62%) AWS
1 3 (4.62%) Azure
1 3 (4.62%) OCI
1 3 (4.62%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (72.31%) DNS
2 30 (46.15%) DMZ
3 27 (41.54%) VPN
4 26 (40.00%) BGP
5 23 (35.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 23 (35.38%) Multicast
6 20 (30.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 19 (29.23%) BIG-IP
8 17 (26.15%) SSL
9 15 (23.08%) HTTP
9 15 (23.08%) Wireshark
10 13 (20.00%) TCP/IP
11 11 (16.92%) Network Security
12 10 (15.38%) Firewall
12 10 (15.38%) WAN
13 7 (10.77%) SNMP
14 6 (9.23%) IPsec
15 5 (7.69%) Wireless
16 4 (6.15%) Cisco Nexus
16 4 (6.15%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Fiddler
2 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) Robot Framework
General
1 24 (36.92%) Banking
1 24 (36.92%) Investment Banking
2 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.08%) Finance
Job Titles
1 41 (63.08%) Network Engineer
2 25 (38.46%) Security Engineer
3 24 (36.92%) Network Security Engineer
4 22 (33.85%) Cisco Engineer
4 22 (33.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 22 (33.85%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 22 (33.85%) Data Engineer
4 22 (33.85%) Data Network Engineer
4 22 (33.85%) Web Engineer
5 13 (20.00%) IP Network Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Senior
7 8 (12.31%) VMware Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Senior Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.15%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (4.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (3.08%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.62%) LDAP
2 3 (4.62%) SAML
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 20 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 6 (9.23%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.31%) Windows
2 7 (10.77%) Linux
3 1 (1.54%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (70.77%) Load Balancing
2 12 (18.46%) Data Loss Prevention
2 12 (18.46%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (12.31%) CI/CD
4 8 (12.31%) Migration
5 7 (10.77%) Architectural Design
5 7 (10.77%) Network Management
6 5 (7.69%) Business Strategy
7 4 (6.15%) DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (6.15%) Network Architecture
7 4 (6.15%) Network Design
7 4 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (4.62%) High Availability
8 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (4.62%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (4.62%) Zero Trust
9 2 (3.08%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.31%) Python
2 7 (10.77%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) CCIE
3 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 22 (33.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (18.46%) Firmware
3 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.62%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Ansible
2 7 (10.77%) WMI
3 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 41 (63.08%) Cisco
2 24 (36.92%) VMware
3 16 (24.62%) Palo Alto
4 15 (23.08%) Blue Coat
5 14 (21.54%) Fortinet
6 12 (18.46%) McAfee
6 12 (18.46%) NetApp
7 9 (13.85%) SolarWinds
8 7 (10.77%) CheckPoint
8 7 (10.77%) ServiceNow
8 7 (10.77%) Splunk
9 3 (4.62%) Arista
9 3 (4.62%) Aruba
9 3 (4.62%) Juniper
9 3 (4.62%) Microsoft
9 3 (4.62%) Zscaler