F5 Job Trends in the North West

F5
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 197 196
Rank change year-on-year +13 -1 +99
Permanent jobs citing F5 2 8 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.031% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.44% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £64,946
25th Percentile £52,000 £22,750 £68,616
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £80,813
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -38.13% +11.47%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,500 £96,592
90th Percentile - £87,000 £102,410
England median annual salary £65,000 £77,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -16.13% +24.00% -3.85%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,622 1,824 1,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 25.46% 36.09% 32.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,024 905 1,240
10th Percentile £25,913 £31,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £66,778
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,000 £84,056
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

F5 job vacancy trend in the North West

F5
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing F5

F5
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
Manchester +24 1 £56,000 -44.00% 3
F5
England

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) LiveLink
1 1 (50.00%) OpenStack
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Line Management
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) VMware