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 8 December 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
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 108 102
Rank change year-on-year +36 -6 +73
Contract jobs citing F5 65 2 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.94% 0.11% 0.79%
As % of the Vendors category 5.54% 0.24% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 1 11
10th Percentile £341 - £413
25th Percentile £373 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £620 £450
Median % change year-on-year -29.03% +37.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 - £500
90th Percentile £598 - £525
England median daily rate £490 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -2.00% -6.98% +1.42%

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 1,174 845 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.12% 46.74% 52.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 551 639
10th Percentile £275 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £372 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +7.53% -6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £597
90th Percentile £650 £713 £682
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 22
10th Percentile £15.36 £12.18 £17.53
25th Percentile £17.89 £16.42 £17.88
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +29.67% +32.96%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.31 £26.94
90th Percentile £50.00 £39.13 £41.48
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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
Birmingham +34 44 £483 -22.10% 5
Warwickshire - 13 £380 -
Coventry - 7 £400 -
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 3 (4.62%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) AWS
2 15 (23.08%) GCP
3 10 (15.38%) Akamai
4 8 (12.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 7 (10.77%) Azure
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.15%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.08%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 47 (72.31%) DNS
2 34 (52.31%) Firewall
3 30 (46.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 28 (43.08%) SSL
5 27 (41.54%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 25 (38.46%) Network Security
7 24 (36.92%) Wireshark
8 20 (30.77%) VPN
9 19 (29.23%) DMZ
9 19 (29.23%) WAN
9 19 (29.23%) Wireless
10 16 (24.62%) HTTP
10 16 (24.62%) TCP/IP
11 15 (23.08%) BIG-IP
12 12 (18.46%) IPsec
13 9 (13.85%) Cisco IPT
13 9 (13.85%) DMVPN
13 9 (13.85%) LAN
14 8 (12.31%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (10.77%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Fiddler
2 4 (6.15%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) GitLab
4 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (40.00%) Banking
1 26 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (35.38%) Network Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Architect
3 8 (12.31%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) IP Network Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Web Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Network Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Senior
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Junior
8 3 (4.62%) Junior Network Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.62%) LDAP
2 3 (4.62%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 17 (26.15%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.31%) Security Posture
4 5 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Load Balancing
2 17 (26.15%) Business Strategy
3 14 (21.54%) Design Patterns
4 11 (16.92%) DevSecOps
5 9 (13.85%) Change Management
5 9 (13.85%) Inventory Management
6 8 (12.31%) Application Security
6 8 (12.31%) Data Loss Prevention
6 8 (12.31%) Ethical Hacking
6 8 (12.31%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 8 (12.31%) OWASP
6 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.23%) Incident Response
8 6 (9.23%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (9.23%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.23%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (6.15%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) CCNP
3 8 (12.31%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (9.23%) CCIE
5 4 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
5 4 (6.15%) CCSP
5 4 (6.15%) CISSP
5 4 (6.15%) Degree
6 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.62%) CCIE Security
7 2 (3.08%) JNCIE
7 2 (3.08%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.54%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (1.54%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (1.54%) CWSP
8 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.54%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.69%) GDPR
1 5 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (7.69%) NIST
1 5 (7.69%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (44.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (12.31%) Firmware
3 7 (10.77%) VMware NSX
4 4 (6.15%) Docker
5 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (23.08%) Ansible
2 9 (13.85%) Terraform
3 8 (12.31%) CSIRT
4 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 29 (44.62%) VMware
2 24 (36.92%) Cisco
3 21 (32.31%) Blue Coat
4 16 (24.62%) CheckPoint
5 14 (21.54%) Juniper
6 13 (20.00%) Palo Alto
7 12 (18.46%) McAfee
7 12 (18.46%) NetApp
8 9 (13.85%) Splunk
9 7 (10.77%) Fortinet
10 6 (9.23%) SolarWinds
11 5 (7.69%) Meraki
11 5 (7.69%) Microsoft
12 2 (3.08%) Forcepoint
13 1 (1.54%) Arista
13 1 (1.54%) Aruba
13 1 (1.54%) EMC
13 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
13 1 (1.54%) NetScout
13 1 (1.54%) Zscaler