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 14 February 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
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 90 97
Rank change year-on-year +16 +7 +60
Contract jobs citing F5 72 9 18
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.79% 0.62% 0.95%
As % of the Vendors category 5.74% 1.24% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £293 £521 £433
25th Percentile £335 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £551 £475
Median % change year-on-year -31.03% +16.00% -22.45%
75th Percentile £488 £586 £497
90th Percentile £578 £606 £518
England median daily rate £500 £525 £488
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -11.36%

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 1,255 725 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.66% 49.66% 46.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 471 535
10th Percentile £263 £200 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 52
10th Percentile £15.05 £12.79 £11.07
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.13 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £23.60 £21.23
Median % change year-on-year +5.93% +11.19% +19.78%
75th Percentile £28.61 £33.38 £26.50
90th Percentile £49.00 £40.58 £41.03
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £28.50
% change year-on-year -22.18% +7.42% -12.31%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 +31 52 £469 -21.88% 4
Coventry - 10 £325 - 1
Warwickshire -11 9 £378 -31.49% 1
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 5 (6.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) AWS
2 10 (13.89%) GCP
3 8 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (9.72%) Azure
5 5 (6.94%) Akamai
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
6 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.78%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 58 (80.56%) DNS
2 32 (44.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 32 (44.44%) SSL
3 29 (40.28%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 29 (40.28%) VPN
4 27 (37.50%) DMZ
4 27 (37.50%) Wireshark
5 26 (36.11%) BIG-IP
6 25 (34.72%) Firewall
7 24 (33.33%) HTTP
8 23 (31.94%) TCP/IP
9 18 (25.00%) BGP
9 18 (25.00%) Network Security
10 15 (20.83%) WAN
10 15 (20.83%) Wireless
11 12 (16.67%) Multicast
12 11 (15.28%) LAN
13 9 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (12.50%) IPsec
14 6 (8.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 19 (26.39%) Fiddler
2 4 (5.56%) Git
2 4 (5.56%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.17%) GitLab
4 2 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 36 (50.00%) Banking
1 36 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.94%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (56.94%) Network Engineer
2 20 (27.78%) Web Engineer
3 16 (22.22%) Security Engineer
4 15 (20.83%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 15 (20.83%) IP Network Engineer
5 14 (19.44%) Network Security Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) Data Engineer
6 12 (16.67%) Data Network Engineer
7 11 (15.28%) Operations Engineer
8 7 (9.72%) Architect
9 6 (8.33%) Network Architect
10 5 (6.94%) Python Engineer
10 5 (6.94%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.56%) Senior
11 4 (5.56%) Senior DevOps
11 4 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.94%) LDAP
1 5 (6.94%) SAML
2 4 (5.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 29 (40.28%) Management Information System
2 13 (18.06%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.17%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (68.06%) Load Balancing
2 15 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
2 15 (20.83%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 13 (18.06%) Business Strategy
4 10 (13.89%) Design Patterns
5 9 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.72%) Mentoring
6 7 (9.72%) Migration
7 6 (8.33%) DevSecOps
7 6 (8.33%) Incident Response
7 6 (8.33%) ITIL
7 6 (8.33%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.94%) Data Protection
8 5 (6.94%) High Availability
8 5 (6.94%) Network Design
8 5 (6.94%) OWASP
8 5 (6.94%) Roadmaps
8 5 (6.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (6.94%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (18.06%) Python
2 4 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (18.06%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 7 (9.72%) CCNP
3 7 (9.72%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (6.94%) CCIE
5 4 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.56%) CCSP
5 4 (5.56%) CISSP
5 4 (5.56%) Degree
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.17%) CCIE Security
7 2 (2.78%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.78%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.39%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (1.39%) CCIE Wireless
8 1 (1.39%) CWSP
8 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 34 (47.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (20.83%) Firmware
3 9 (12.50%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.94%) Active Directory
5 4 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (19.44%) Ansible
2 9 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (6.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.17%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 34 (47.22%) VMware
2 33 (45.83%) Cisco
3 23 (31.94%) Blue Coat
4 19 (26.39%) McAfee
4 19 (26.39%) NetApp
5 17 (23.61%) Palo Alto
6 14 (19.44%) CheckPoint
7 9 (12.50%) Juniper
8 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
8 6 (8.33%) SolarWinds
9 5 (6.94%) Fortinet
9 5 (6.94%) Meraki
10 4 (5.56%) Splunk
11 2 (2.78%) Forcepoint
11 2 (2.78%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.39%) Aruba
12 1 (1.39%) EMC
12 1 (1.39%) Zscaler