F5 Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

F5
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 24 December 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 24 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 -
Contract jobs citing F5 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 0.40% 1.48% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 0.66% 2.30% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £725 £475 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%

All Vendors
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 151 87 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 59.68% 64.44% 57.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 64 95
10th Percentile £205 £175 £205
25th Percentile £286 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.33% -10.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £518
90th Percentile £710 £618 £672
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £510
% change year-on-year -2.68% +0.74% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £14.10 - -
25th Percentile £15.00 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.00 £12.25
Median % change year-on-year +53.33% +22.45% -43.63%
75th Percentile £33.50 - -
90th Percentile £34.40 - -
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £38.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -42.11% -30.91% +110.61%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing F5 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

F5 job vacancy trend in West Sussex

F5
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing F5.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing F5

F5
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
Worthing - 1 £700 -
F5
South East

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Server Virtualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware