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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 86 99
Rank change year-on-year -3 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing F5 71 11 12
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.26% 0.82% 0.62%
As % of the Vendors category 5.01% 1.75% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 8
10th Percentile £263 £528 -
25th Percentile £303 £543 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £551 £475
Median % change year-on-year -38.29% +16.00% +35.71%
75th Percentile £379 £574 £500
90th Percentile £485 £602 £575
England median daily rate £495 £547 £500
% change year-on-year -9.55% +9.45% -5.21%

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 1,417 629 842
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.04% 46.80% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 951 412 539
10th Percentile £306 £186 £250
25th Percentile £400 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £484 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +7.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £600
90th Percentile £645 £686 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 23 53
10th Percentile £19.47 £12.25 £11.07
25th Percentile £23.75 £15.22 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.98 £18.51 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +83.58% -7.22% +7.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £69.57 £31.54 £55.00
England median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -44.10%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +19 53 £500 -16.67%
Coventry - 9 £275 - 2
Warwickshire -22 7 £340 -38.29%
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 7 (9.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (1.41%) AWS
1 1 (1.41%) Azure
1 1 (1.41%) OCI
1 1 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 62 (87.32%) DNS
2 41 (57.75%) VPN
3 34 (47.89%) BIG-IP
4 32 (45.07%) DMZ
5 31 (43.66%) BGP
6 30 (42.25%) Multicast
6 30 (42.25%) SSL
7 28 (39.44%) HTTP
8 27 (38.03%) Wireshark
9 22 (30.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 21 (29.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 20 (28.17%) TCP/IP
12 15 (21.13%) Firewall
13 13 (18.31%) WAN
14 12 (16.90%) IPsec
15 11 (15.49%) Wireless
16 9 (12.68%) Cisco ASA
16 9 (12.68%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (12.68%) HTTPS
16 9 (12.68%) LAN
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Fiddler
2 5 (7.04%) JIRA
3 1 (1.41%) GitLab
General
1 38 (53.52%) Banking
2 37 (52.11%) Investment Banking
3 4 (5.63%) Social Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (88.73%) Network Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) Security Engineer
2 33 (46.48%) Web Engineer
3 32 (45.07%) Network Security Engineer
4 30 (42.25%) Cisco Engineer
4 30 (42.25%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 30 (42.25%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 30 (42.25%) Data Engineer
4 30 (42.25%) Data Network Engineer
5 19 (26.76%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 19 (26.76%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (4.23%) Architect
7 2 (2.82%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (2.82%) Senior
8 1 (1.41%) Firewall Engineer
8 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (1.41%) Senior Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.41%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.41%) Technical Architect
8 1 (1.41%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.68%) LDAP
1 9 (12.68%) SAML
2 2 (2.82%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.41%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.58%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.41%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.63%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (80.28%) Load Balancing
2 19 (26.76%) Data Loss Prevention
2 19 (26.76%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 7 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (7.04%) Agile
5 4 (5.63%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (5.63%) Deadline-Driven
5 4 (5.63%) ITIL
5 4 (5.63%) Migration
5 4 (5.63%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (5.63%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (4.23%) Change Management
6 3 (4.23%) Design Patterns
6 3 (4.23%) High Availability
6 3 (4.23%) Inventory Management
6 3 (4.23%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (2.82%) Business Strategy
7 2 (2.82%) Network Design
8 1 (1.41%) Risk Management
8 1 (1.41%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.82%) Python
2 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (8.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.63%) CCNP
3 4 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 28 (39.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (26.76%) Firmware
3 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
3 9 (12.68%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (67.61%) Cisco
2 30 (42.25%) VMware
3 21 (29.58%) Blue Coat
4 19 (26.76%) McAfee
4 19 (26.76%) NetApp
5 16 (22.54%) Palo Alto
6 13 (18.31%) CheckPoint
7 8 (11.27%) Microsoft
8 5 (7.04%) Juniper
8 5 (7.04%) SolarWinds
9 4 (5.63%) ServiceNow
10 1 (1.41%) Arista
10 1 (1.41%) Aruba
10 1 (1.41%) Fortinet
10 1 (1.41%) Infoblox