F5 Contracts 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 99 134
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +35
Contract jobs citing F5 11 12 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.82% 0.62% 0.21%
As % of the Vendors category 1.75% 1.43% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 3
10th Percentile £528 - -
25th Percentile £543 £463 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +35.71% -30.00%
75th Percentile £574 £500 £375
90th Percentile £602 £575 -
England median daily rate £547 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +9.45% -5.21% +3.18%

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 628 841 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.69% 43.19% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 538 735
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £320 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 29
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.07 £13.15
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%
75th Percentile £29.25 £28.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £31.43 £55.00 £72.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the West Midlands

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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 1 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
Warwickshire - 8 £551 - 1
Birmingham +13 3 £600 +26.32% 2
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Akamai
1 2 (18.18%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Network Security
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (9.09%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (9.09%) HTTP
2 1 (9.09%) NX-OS
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Web Applications Architect
1 1 (9.09%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (72.73%) CSOC
2 1 (9.09%) Client/Server
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Linux
1 8 (72.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 8 (72.73%) VMS
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Event Correlation
1 8 (72.73%) SIEM
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
2 2 (18.18%) OWASP
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) DevSecOps
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
3 1 (9.09%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Python
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) CEH
2 2 (18.18%) CISSP
2 2 (18.18%) GIAC
3 1 (9.09%) CCNP
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
1 9 (81.82%) Fortinet
2 8 (72.73%) Palo Alto
2 8 (72.73%) Red Hat
2 8 (72.73%) ServiceNow
2 8 (72.73%) SolarWinds
2 8 (72.73%) Splunk
3 2 (18.18%) Imperva
4 1 (9.09%) Arista