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 28 November 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
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 102 101
Rank change year-on-year +25 -1 +76
Contract jobs citing F5 65 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.02% 0.21% 0.80%
As % of the Vendors category 5.57% 0.46% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 11
10th Percentile £351 £470 £413
25th Percentile £380 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £488 £585 £500
90th Percentile £608 £606 £525
England median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% -0.94%

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 1,166 877 988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.18% 46.77% 52.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 751 561 640
10th Percentile £275 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £374 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +6.38% -5.05%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £596
90th Percentile £651 £713 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 17 21
10th Percentile £15.98 £12.18 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.06 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.67 £30.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +30.43% +39.39%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £28.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £40.50 £42.25
England median hourly rate £25.00 £32.50 £44.75
% change year-on-year -23.08% -27.37% +69.73%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 43 £483 -8.00% 5
Warwickshire - 13 £380 - 1
Coventry - 8 £438 -
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:

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 44 (67.69%) DNS
2 35 (53.85%) Firewall
3 29 (44.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 29 (44.62%) Network Security
4 26 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 24 (36.92%) SSL
6 20 (30.77%) Wireshark
7 19 (29.23%) DMZ
8 17 (26.15%) VPN
8 17 (26.15%) WAN
8 17 (26.15%) Wireless
9 15 (23.08%) TCP/IP
10 14 (21.54%) BIG-IP
11 12 (18.46%) HTTP
12 9 (13.85%) Cisco IPT
12 9 (13.85%) DMVPN
12 9 (13.85%) IPsec
13 8 (12.31%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (12.31%) SD-WAN
14 6 (9.23%) Cisco ISE
Development Applications
1 11 (16.92%) Fiddler
2 4 (6.15%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 3 (4.62%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (38.46%) Banking
1 25 (38.46%) Investment Banking
2 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.31%) Telecoms
5 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.62%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Military
8 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Network Engineer
2 15 (23.08%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) IP Network Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Network Architect
4 7 (10.77%) Web Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Security Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Python Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Senior
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 DevOps
7 4 (6.15%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Junior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.85%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (38.46%) Management Information System
2 18 (27.69%) 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
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (53.85%) 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
5 9 (13.85%) ITIL
6 8 (12.31%) Application Security
6 8 (12.31%) Ethical Hacking
6 8 (12.31%) OWASP
6 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
7 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.77%) Data Loss Prevention
7 7 (10.77%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 7 (10.77%) Mentoring
7 7 (10.77%) Migration
7 7 (10.77%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.23%) Incident Response
8 6 (9.23%) Network Segmentation
8 6 (9.23%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (6.15%) Bash
3 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (26.15%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (13.85%) CCNP
3 9 (13.85%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (10.77%) CCIE
5 5 (7.69%) Degree
6 4 (6.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Certification
6 4 (6.15%) CCSP
6 4 (6.15%) CISSP
7 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.62%) CCIE Security
8 2 (3.08%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 2 (3.08%) JNCIE
8 2 (3.08%) JNCIP
9 1 (1.54%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (1.54%) CWSP
9 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
9 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 25 (38.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.77%) Firmware
3 4 (6.15%) Docker
3 4 (6.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (27.69%) Ansible
2 9 (13.85%) Terraform
3 8 (12.31%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.54%) OpenView
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) Cisco
1 25 (38.46%) VMware
2 20 (30.77%) Blue Coat
3 16 (24.62%) CheckPoint
4 14 (21.54%) Juniper
5 13 (20.00%) Palo Alto
6 11 (16.92%) McAfee
6 11 (16.92%) NetApp
7 9 (13.85%) Splunk
8 8 (12.31%) Fortinet
8 8 (12.31%) SolarWinds
9 5 (7.69%) Meraki
10 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
11 2 (3.08%) Forcepoint
11 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
12 1 (1.54%) Arista
12 1 (1.54%) Aruba
12 1 (1.54%) EMC
12 1 (1.54%) Infoblox
12 1 (1.54%) NetScout