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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 86 100
Rank change year-on-year -12 +14 +18
Contract jobs citing F5 76 30 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.20% 1.75% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 4.82% 3.63% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 3
10th Percentile £328 £351 £470
25th Percentile £433 £380 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -16.19% +50.00%
75th Percentile £608 £488 £650
90th Percentile £688 £587 £710
England median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -

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 1,578 827 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.59% 48.11% 46.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,060 534 603
10th Percentile £315 £230 £263
25th Percentile £400 £354 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% - -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £621
90th Percentile £651 £638 £700
England median daily rate £513 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 29 20
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.86 £13.93
25th Percentile £18.34 £24.66 £15.17
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £28.81
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +4.12% +28.06%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.25 £50.31
90th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £57.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +17 55 £500 +7.18%
Warwickshire -15 11 £565 +48.68% 1
Coventry -25 3 £275 -31.25%
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 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (3.95%) AWS
1 3 (3.95%) Azure
1 3 (3.95%) OCI
1 3 (3.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (75.00%) DNS
2 36 (47.37%) DMZ
2 36 (47.37%) VPN
3 33 (43.42%) BGP
4 30 (39.47%) Multicast
5 26 (34.21%) BIG-IP
6 24 (31.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 21 (27.63%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 21 (27.63%) SSL
8 19 (25.00%) HTTP
9 18 (23.68%) Wireshark
10 16 (21.05%) TCP/IP
11 10 (13.16%) Firewall
11 10 (13.16%) WAN
12 9 (11.84%) Network Security
13 7 (9.21%) IPsec
13 7 (9.21%) SNMP
14 5 (6.58%) Wireless
15 4 (5.26%) HTTPS
15 4 (5.26%) LAN
Development Applications
1 15 (19.74%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.95%) GitLab
2 3 (3.95%) JIRA
3 1 (1.32%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (40.79%) Banking
2 30 (39.47%) Investment Banking
3 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.32%) Finance
Job Titles
1 53 (69.74%) Network Engineer
2 33 (43.42%) Security Engineer
3 32 (42.11%) Network Security Engineer
4 30 (39.47%) Cisco Engineer
4 30 (39.47%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 30 (39.47%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 30 (39.47%) Data Engineer
4 30 (39.47%) Data Network Engineer
4 30 (39.47%) Web Engineer
5 15 (19.74%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 15 (19.74%) IP Network Engineer
6 9 (11.84%) Senior
7 6 (7.89%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Architect
11 2 (2.63%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 2 (2.63%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.26%) LDAP
1 4 (5.26%) SAML
2 2 (2.63%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.32%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.58%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.95%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 7 (9.21%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (73.68%) Load Balancing
2 15 (19.74%) Data Loss Prevention
2 15 (19.74%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 9 (11.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 8 (10.53%) Migration
5 7 (9.21%) Architectural Design
5 7 (9.21%) Network Management
6 5 (6.58%) Business Strategy
6 5 (6.58%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps
7 4 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
7 4 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (3.95%) Change Management
8 3 (3.95%) High Availability
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (3.95%) Inventory Management
8 3 (3.95%) Network Architecture
8 3 (3.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (3.95%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.84%) Python
2 7 (9.21%) SQL
3 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.58%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.63%) CCNP
3 2 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 23 (30.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (19.74%) Firmware
3 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (11.84%) Ansible
2 7 (9.21%) WMI
3 4 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 51 (67.11%) Cisco
2 25 (32.89%) VMware
3 17 (22.37%) Blue Coat
3 17 (22.37%) Palo Alto
4 15 (19.74%) McAfee
4 15 (19.74%) NetApp
5 13 (17.11%) Fortinet
6 10 (13.16%) SolarWinds
7 9 (11.84%) ServiceNow
8 7 (9.21%) CheckPoint
8 7 (9.21%) Splunk
9 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
10 3 (3.95%) Arista
10 3 (3.95%) Aruba
10 3 (3.95%) Juniper
11 1 (1.32%) Infoblox