F5 Job Trends in Scotland

F5
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 7 November 2025, 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 146 140
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 +88
Permanent jobs citing F5 6 1 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.22% 0.031% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.12% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £71,500 - £58,201
25th Percentile £71,875 - £61,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 - £83,037
Median % change year-on-year - - +50.98%
75th Percentile £83,375 - £106,289
90th Percentile £84,500 - -
UK median annual salary £71,000 £80,000 £63,000
% change year-on-year -11.25% +26.98% -3.08%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,249 864 983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 45.43% 26.40% 41.44%
Number of salaries quoted 538 412 849
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 -
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,688 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,851 £51,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -36.21% +28.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £48,750 £67,313 £62,833
90th Percentile £70,375 £82,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -3.51%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

F5 job vacancy trend in Scotland

F5
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing F5.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing F5

F5
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh - 6 £77,000 - 2
F5
UK

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (50.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
1 3 (50.00%) LAN
1 3 (50.00%) MPLS
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
1 3 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Network Technical Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Security Technical Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Design Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
1 6 (100.00%) Observability
1 6 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 6 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (66.67%) Thought Leadership
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) Coaching
3 3 (50.00%) Community of Practice
3 3 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (50.00%) High Availability
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (50.00%) People Management
3 3 (50.00%) Tech Ops
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCNA
1 3 (50.00%) CCNP
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 3 (50.00%) Grafana
2 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk