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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 107 113
Rank change year-on-year +33 +6 +66
Contract jobs citing F5 47 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.56% 0.21% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 5.03% 0.45% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 3 6
10th Percentile £352 £470 £363
25th Percentile £380 £481 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +20.00% +2.94%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £450
90th Percentile £648 £710 £488
England median daily rate £490 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -6.76% - -2.37%

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 934 883 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 50.84% 46.25% 50.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 586 645
10th Percentile £238 £250 £216
25th Percentile £380 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £648 £725 £700
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 17
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.40 £17.30
25th Percentile £28.11 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +40.00% +29.61%
75th Percentile £46.63 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £46.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.93% -23.58% +83.33%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for F5 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +19 26 £485 -7.57% 2
Warwickshire - 16 £380 - 2
Coventry - 5 £400 -
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 9 (19.15%) Akamai
2 9 (19.15%) GCP
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon ELB
3 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 32 (68.09%) Firewall
2 28 (59.57%) DNS
3 24 (51.06%) Network Security
4 16 (34.04%) SSL
5 15 (31.91%) Wireless
6 14 (29.79%) VPN
6 14 (29.79%) Wireshark
7 13 (27.66%) WAN
8 12 (25.53%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 12 (25.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 11 (23.40%) DMZ
10 9 (19.15%) Cisco IPT
10 9 (19.15%) DMVPN
10 9 (19.15%) IPsec
11 8 (17.02%) BIG-IP
12 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
13 6 (12.77%) SD-WAN
14 5 (10.64%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (10.64%) DHCP
14 5 (10.64%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Fiddler
1 4 (8.51%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (23.40%) Banking
1 11 (23.40%) Investment Banking
2 9 (19.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
4 6 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Military
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (34.04%) Network Engineer
2 8 (17.02%) Operations Engineer
3 6 (12.77%) Security Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Python Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Senior
5 4 (8.51%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Consultant
5 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Network Security Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Firewall Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Junior
6 3 (6.38%) Junior Network Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Network Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.38%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.15%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (27.66%) Data Centre
2 12 (25.53%) Management Information System
3 8 (17.02%) Security Posture
4 4 (8.51%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.13%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (36.17%) Load Balancing
2 9 (19.15%) Change Management
2 9 (19.15%) DevSecOps
2 9 (19.15%) Inventory Management
2 9 (19.15%) ITIL
3 7 (14.89%) Application Security
3 7 (14.89%) Business Strategy
3 7 (14.89%) Design Patterns
3 7 (14.89%) Ethical Hacking
3 7 (14.89%) Migration
3 7 (14.89%) OWASP
3 7 (14.89%) Test Automation
4 6 (12.77%) High Availability
4 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.64%) Network Segmentation
5 5 (10.64%) Security Testing
6 4 (8.51%) Asset Management
6 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.51%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) Python
2 4 (8.51%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.38%) Bash
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.15%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (17.02%) CCNP
5 7 (14.89%) CCIE
6 4 (8.51%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 3 (6.38%) Degree
8 2 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.13%) CCIE Security
9 1 (2.13%) CCIE Wireless
9 1 (2.13%) CCSE
9 1 (2.13%) CCSM
9 1 (2.13%) CWSP
9 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (25.53%) Ansible
2 7 (14.89%) CSIRT
3 4 (8.51%) OpenView
4 3 (6.38%) Terraform
5 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 24 (51.06%) Cisco
2 17 (36.17%) CheckPoint
3 13 (27.66%) Blue Coat
4 11 (23.40%) Juniper
5 9 (19.15%) Palo Alto
6 7 (14.89%) Splunk
6 7 (14.89%) VMware
7 6 (12.77%) Fortinet
8 5 (10.64%) SolarWinds
9 4 (8.51%) McAfee
9 4 (8.51%) NetApp
9 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
10 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
10 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.13%) Arista
11 1 (2.13%) Aruba
11 1 (2.13%) EMC
11 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
11 1 (2.13%) NetScout