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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 76 108
Rank change year-on-year -30 +32 +3
Contract jobs citing F5 67 51 3
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.86% 2.78% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 4.24% 5.36% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 21 2
10th Percentile £346 £353 £466
25th Percentile £491 £380 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -12.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £635 £488 £534
90th Percentile £688 £638 £544
England median daily rate £530 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +8.72% -7.14% +1.45%

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 1,581 952 898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.84% 51.82% 47.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,035 623 584
10th Percentile £313 £243 £213
25th Percentile £403 £386 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £614
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 32 13
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.18 £14.40
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.97 £15.22
Median hourly rate £21.50 £30.00 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +14.83% +13.59%
75th Percentile £33.99 £35.63 £45.50
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £57.75
England median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.16%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 47 £500 +3.52% 1
Warwickshire -13 12 £573 +50.79%
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 (1.49%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.48%) AWS
1 3 (4.48%) Azure
1 3 (4.48%) OCI
1 3 (4.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 48 (71.64%) DNS
2 30 (44.78%) DMZ
3 29 (43.28%) VPN
4 27 (40.30%) BGP
5 24 (35.82%) Multicast
6 22 (32.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 20 (29.85%) BIG-IP
8 19 (28.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 18 (26.87%) SSL
10 15 (22.39%) HTTP
10 15 (22.39%) Wireshark
11 14 (20.90%) TCP/IP
12 11 (16.42%) Firewall
12 11 (16.42%) Network Security
12 11 (16.42%) WAN
13 7 (10.45%) IPsec
13 7 (10.45%) SNMP
14 5 (7.46%) Wireless
15 4 (5.97%) LAN
15 4 (5.97%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) Fiddler
2 3 (4.48%) GitLab
3 1 (1.49%) Git
3 1 (1.49%) JIRA
3 1 (1.49%) Robot Framework
General
1 25 (37.31%) Banking
2 24 (35.82%) Investment Banking
3 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.99%) Finance
5 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (64.18%) Network Engineer
2 27 (40.30%) Security Engineer
3 26 (38.81%) Network Security Engineer
4 23 (34.33%) Cisco Engineer
4 23 (34.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 23 (34.33%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 23 (34.33%) Data Engineer
4 23 (34.33%) Data Network Engineer
4 23 (34.33%) Web Engineer
5 13 (19.40%) IP Network Engineer
6 12 (17.91%) Blue Coat Engineer
7 9 (13.43%) Senior
8 7 (10.45%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (8.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Automation Engineer
10 4 (5.97%) Senior Automation Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) IT Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.97%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.48%) LDAP
2 3 (4.48%) SAML
2 3 (4.48%) Terraform
3 1 (1.49%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (28.36%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.45%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.94%) Windows
2 7 (10.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.49%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (68.66%) Load Balancing
2 12 (17.91%) Data Loss Prevention
2 12 (17.91%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 10 (14.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.94%) CI/CD
5 7 (10.45%) Architectural Design
5 7 (10.45%) Migration
5 7 (10.45%) Network Management
6 5 (7.46%) Business Strategy
6 5 (7.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.97%) DevOps
7 4 (5.97%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (5.97%) Network Architecture
7 4 (5.97%) Network Design
7 4 (5.97%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (4.48%) Change Management
8 3 (4.48%) High Availability
8 3 (4.48%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (4.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (4.48%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (13.43%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) SQL
3 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.49%) CCIE
3 1 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 21 (31.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (17.91%) Firmware
3 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.48%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (13.43%) Ansible
2 7 (10.45%) WMI
3 3 (4.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (64.18%) Cisco
2 23 (34.33%) VMware
3 17 (25.37%) Palo Alto
4 15 (22.39%) Blue Coat
5 14 (20.90%) Fortinet
6 12 (17.91%) McAfee
6 12 (17.91%) NetApp
7 9 (13.43%) SolarWinds
8 8 (11.94%) CheckPoint
9 7 (10.45%) ServiceNow
9 7 (10.45%) Splunk
10 4 (5.97%) Juniper
10 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
11 3 (4.48%) Arista
11 3 (4.48%) Aruba
11 3 (4.48%) Zscaler
12 1 (1.49%) Infoblox