F5 Contracts 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 22 August 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
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 106 116
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 +63
DemandTrendContract jobs citing F5 32 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.85% 0.26% 0.37%
As % of the Vendors category 3.83% 0.58% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 5
10th Percentile £351 £470 -
25th Percentile £380 £481 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £350
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% -22.22%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £400
90th Percentile £564 £710 £423
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - -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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 836 868 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.32% 45.76% 50.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 596 681
10th Percentile £231 £263 £220
25th Percentile £358 £362 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 25
10th Percentile £13.78 £13.95 £16.54
25th Percentile £24.66 £14.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £24.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.67% +36.36%
75th Percentile £43.25 £45.50 £42.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £84.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £28.25 £35.50
% change year-on-year -10.97% -20.42% +57.78%

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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +16 16 £483 -8.00% 3
Warwickshire - 12 £380 - 2
Coventry -1 4 £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 8 (25.00%) Akamai
1 8 (25.00%) AWS
1 8 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (3.13%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 24 (75.00%) Firewall
2 17 (53.13%) DNS
2 17 (53.13%) Network Security
3 11 (34.38%) Wireless
3 11 (34.38%) Wireshark
4 9 (28.13%) WAN
5 8 (25.00%) VPN
6 7 (21.88%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 7 (21.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (21.88%) SSL
7 6 (18.75%) Cisco IPT
7 6 (18.75%) DMVPN
7 6 (18.75%) DMZ
7 6 (18.75%) IPsec
8 5 (15.63%) BIG-IP
8 5 (15.63%) Cisco ASA
8 5 (15.63%) DHCP
8 5 (15.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (6.25%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Fiddler
2 1 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Banking
2 6 (18.75%) Investment Banking
3 4 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 5 (15.63%) Operations Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Consultant
3 4 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Network Consultant
4 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Principal Network Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Network Consultant
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Junior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Security Technical Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 8 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 7 (21.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.13%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (34.38%) Load Balancing
2 9 (28.13%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) Application Security
3 7 (21.88%) DevSecOps
3 7 (21.88%) Ethical Hacking
3 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
4 6 (18.75%) Change Management
4 6 (18.75%) Inventory Management
4 6 (18.75%) OWASP
4 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (15.63%) Business Strategy
5 5 (15.63%) Design Patterns
5 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
6 4 (12.50%) Agile
6 4 (12.50%) Asset Management
6 4 (12.50%) High Availability
6 4 (12.50%) Migration
6 4 (12.50%) Problem Management
6 4 (12.50%) Service Management
7 3 (9.38%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (21.88%) CCNP
3 6 (18.75%) CCIE
3 6 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 6 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (9.38%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 2 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.13%) CCIE Security
6 1 (3.13%) CCSE
6 1 (3.13%) CCSM
6 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) CSIRT
2 6 (18.75%) Ansible
3 4 (12.50%) OpenView
4 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.13%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 18 (56.25%) Cisco
2 11 (34.38%) CheckPoint
3 7 (21.88%) Blue Coat
3 7 (21.88%) Juniper
3 7 (21.88%) Splunk
4 6 (18.75%) Fortinet
4 6 (18.75%) Palo Alto
5 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
5 5 (15.63%) VMware
6 4 (12.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.13%) Arista
8 1 (3.13%) Infoblox
8 1 (3.13%) McAfee
8 1 (3.13%) NetApp
8 1 (3.13%) NetScout
8 1 (3.13%) Zscaler