F5 Job Trends in the North East

F5
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring knowledge or experience of F5 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited F5 over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within F5 Networks, Inc.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing F5 7 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.27% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.30% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61,761 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,576 - -
75th Percentile £69,390 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Vendors
North East

F5 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 537 343 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 20.89% 47.71% 32.95%
Number of salaries quoted 326 201 560
10th Percentile £29,250 £25,000 £24,950
25th Percentile £36,563 £25,087 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £32,951 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +47.02% -24.25% -12.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £67,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% +10.00% -13.04%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing F5 relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

F5 job vacancy trend in the North East

F5
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing F5.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing F5

F5
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the North East region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Durham - 6 - -
Tyne and Wear - 1 £65,576 - 2
F5
England

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 6 (85.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) AWS
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) BGP
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) OSPF
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Nexus
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco Wireless
2 6 (85.71%) EIGRP
2 6 (85.71%) LAN
2 6 (85.71%) Network Security
2 6 (85.71%) SNMP
2 6 (85.71%) VLAN
2 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 6 (85.71%) WAAS
2 6 (85.71%) WAN
2 6 (85.71%) Wireless
2 6 (85.71%) Wireless Security
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (14.29%) NGFW
3 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
General
1 6 (85.71%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Senior
1 7 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 6 (85.71%) Analytical Thinking
2 6 (85.71%) Collaborative Working
2 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
2 6 (85.71%) Kalman Filter
2 6 (85.71%) Project Delivery
2 6 (85.71%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (85.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (85.71%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Coaching
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) CCIE
1 6 (85.71%) CCNP
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Blue Coat
1 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) Infoblox
1 6 (85.71%) Motorola
1 6 (85.71%) ServiceNow
1 6 (85.71%) SolarWinds
2 1 (14.29%) Arista
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto