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 13 March 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
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 85 95
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +43
Contract jobs citing F5 72 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.55% 0.83% 0.88%
As % of the Vendors category 5.27% 1.68% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 11
10th Percentile £263 £528 £425
25th Percentile £313 £543 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £551 £475
Median % change year-on-year -36.48% +16.00% +35.71%
75th Percentile £475 £574 £494
90th Percentile £528 £602 £500
England median daily rate £500 £537 £488
% change year-on-year -6.89% +10.15% -8.02%

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 1,367 656 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.39% 49.77% 44.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 432 554
10th Percentile £293 £200 £233
25th Percentile £400 £375 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £600
90th Percentile £645 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.45% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 58
10th Percentile £16.06 £12.25 £11.11
25th Percentile £20.06 £17.40 £13.44
Median hourly rate £25.08 £19.50 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year +28.59% +1.43% +8.49%
75th Percentile £30.56 £30.17 £26.98
90th Percentile £65.72 £34.03 £46.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £30.78 £25.00
% change year-on-year -18.78% +23.12% -28.57%

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 13 March 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 13 March 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 +15 52 £450 -25.00% 4
Coventry - 12 £300 -
Warwickshire -17 7 £363 -34.21%
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 6 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.72%) AWS
2 6 (8.33%) GCP
3 5 (6.94%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 4 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.39%) Akamai
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 62 (86.11%) DNS
2 33 (45.83%) VPN
3 32 (44.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 31 (43.06%) DMZ
5 30 (41.67%) BIG-IP
5 30 (41.67%) SSL
6 29 (40.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 28 (38.89%) Wireshark
8 27 (37.50%) HTTP
9 26 (36.11%) BGP
10 22 (30.56%) TCP/IP
11 20 (27.78%) Multicast
12 19 (26.39%) Firewall
13 14 (19.44%) WAN
13 14 (19.44%) Wireless
14 12 (16.67%) LAN
14 12 (16.67%) Network Security
15 10 (13.89%) Cisco ASA
16 8 (11.11%) IPsec
17 6 (8.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 21 (29.17%) Fiddler
2 3 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.39%) Git
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
3 1 (1.39%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (55.56%) Banking
1 40 (55.56%) Investment Banking
2 8 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.94%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 51 (70.83%) Network Engineer
2 28 (38.89%) Web Engineer
3 22 (30.56%) Security Engineer
4 21 (29.17%) Network Security Engineer
5 20 (27.78%) Cisco Engineer
5 20 (27.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 20 (27.78%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 20 (27.78%) Data Engineer
5 20 (27.78%) Data Network Engineer
6 19 (26.39%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 19 (26.39%) IP Network Engineer
7 8 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Architect
9 6 (8.33%) Network Architect
10 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
11 2 (2.78%) Automation Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) Python Engineer
12 1 (1.39%) Lead
12 1 (1.39%) Senior
12 1 (1.39%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) LDAP
1 6 (8.33%) SAML
2 2 (2.78%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 29 (40.28%) Management Information System
2 10 (13.89%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (80.56%) Load Balancing
2 19 (26.39%) Data Loss Prevention
2 19 (26.39%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 11 (15.28%) Business Strategy
4 10 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (11.11%) Design Patterns
6 7 (9.72%) ITIL
7 6 (8.33%) Migration
8 5 (6.94%) Data Protection
8 5 (6.94%) Mentoring
8 5 (6.94%) Network Design
8 5 (6.94%) Roadmaps
8 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.94%) Zero Trust
9 4 (5.56%) Incident Response
9 4 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
9 4 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (5.56%) Project Delivery
9 4 (5.56%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (11.11%) CCNP
1 8 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.94%) CCIE
4 4 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.56%) CCSP
4 4 (5.56%) CISSP
4 4 (5.56%) Degree
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (4.17%) CCIE Security
6 2 (2.78%) JNCIE
6 2 (2.78%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.39%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.39%) CCIE Wireless
7 1 (1.39%) CWSP
7 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) GDPR
1 5 (6.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (6.94%) NIST
1 5 (6.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 37 (51.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (26.39%) Firmware
3 10 (13.89%) VMware NSX
4 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Ansible
2 6 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.39%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 40 (55.56%) Cisco
2 37 (51.39%) VMware
3 23 (31.94%) Blue Coat
4 21 (29.17%) McAfee
4 21 (29.17%) NetApp
5 16 (22.22%) Palo Alto
6 10 (13.89%) CheckPoint
7 7 (9.72%) Juniper
7 7 (9.72%) SolarWinds
8 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
9 5 (6.94%) Fortinet
9 5 (6.94%) Meraki
10 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.78%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.78%) Splunk
12 1 (1.39%) Aruba
12 1 (1.39%) Zscaler