F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 April 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
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 574 667 704
Rank change year-on-year +93 +37 +57
Permanent jobs citing F5 110 220 285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.57% 0.60% 0.66%
Number of salaries quoted 80 195 178
10th Percentile £42,375 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,125 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £74,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,185 36,439 43,331
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.78% 37.05% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 11,735 25,145 24,687
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,700 £31,000
25th Percentile £37,574 £36,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,600 £68,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing F5.

Salary trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +80 102 £62,500 +4.17% 45
UK excluding London +112 45 £55,000 - 38
London +73 45 £86,750 +23.93% 12
Work from Home +126 21 £57,500 -8.00% 25
South East +92 16 £57,500 +4.55% 10
South West +120 8 £48,507 +7.79% 6
North of England +43 8 £32,500 -27.78% 12
Midlands +37 7 £62,250 +3.75% 3
Yorkshire +61 6 £33,750 -15.63% 6
West Midlands +30 6 £62,250 +3.75% 3
Scotland - 3 - - 6
East of England +43 2 £65,000 +8.33% 1
North West +1 2 £23,500 -60.83% 5
East Midlands +46 1 - -
Wales +38 1 £37,733 -

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.73%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.82%) Confluence
3 2 (1.82%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.82%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.91%) IIS
4 1 (0.91%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 9 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.91%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 61 (55.45%) Azure
2 34 (30.91%) GCP
3 16 (14.55%) AWS
4 6 (5.45%) GitHub
5 4 (3.64%) SaaS
6 3 (2.73%) IaaS
7 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.82%) PaaS
7 2 (1.82%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.91%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 58 (52.73%) Firewall
2 54 (49.09%) LAN
3 45 (40.91%) WAN
4 40 (36.36%) Cisco ISE
4 40 (36.36%) SD-WAN
5 33 (30.00%) VPN
6 26 (23.64%) Ethernet
7 23 (20.91%) BGP
7 23 (20.91%) Cisco Nexus
7 23 (20.91%) OSPF
8 19 (17.27%) Network Security
9 17 (15.45%) Cisco Firepower
9 17 (15.45%) Wireless
10 14 (12.73%) BIG-IP
11 11 (10.00%) MPLS
12 10 (9.09%) IPsec
13 9 (8.18%) TCP/IP
14 8 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (7.27%) DNS
14 8 (7.27%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.45%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.73%) Big Data
3 2 (1.82%) Power BI
3 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (8.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (4.55%) Git
2 5 (4.55%) GitLab
3 3 (2.73%) JIRA
4 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.36%) Finance
3 17 (15.45%) Banking
4 16 (14.55%) Telecoms
5 12 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (8.18%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (6.36%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.73%) Marketing
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Retail
10 2 (1.82%) Legal
10 2 (1.82%) Police
11 1 (0.91%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (36.36%) Network Engineer
2 31 (28.18%) Architect
3 28 (25.45%) Network Architect
4 16 (14.55%) Designer
4 16 (14.55%) Network Designer
5 14 (12.73%) Senior
6 9 (8.18%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Cisco Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Cloud Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Network Deployment Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Analyst
10 4 (3.64%) Network Analyst
10 4 (3.64%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (23.64%) JSON
2 15 (13.64%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.82%) .NET
3 2 (1.82%) LDAP
3 2 (1.82%) Middleware
4 1 (0.91%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.91%) CSS
4 1 (0.91%) HTML
4 1 (0.91%) REST
4 1 (0.91%) SAML
4 1 (0.91%) Vue
4 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 50 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 27 (24.55%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
3 2 (1.82%) Clustering
3 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (1.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.82%) Replication
4 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.91%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.91%) PKI
4 1 (0.91%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.64%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Windows
3 2 (1.82%) Solaris
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (22.73%) Due Diligence
2 16 (14.55%) Change Management
2 16 (14.55%) Load Balancing
3 11 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
4 10 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
4 10 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (8.18%) Change Control
5 9 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (8.18%) Inventory Management
5 9 (8.18%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (8.18%) Validation
6 8 (7.27%) Project Management
7 7 (6.36%) DevOps
7 7 (6.36%) High Availability
7 7 (6.36%) Network Design
7 7 (6.36%) Task Automation
8 6 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (5.45%) Technology Roadmap
8 6 (5.45%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.55%) Python
2 12 (10.91%) SQL
3 7 (6.36%) Java
4 6 (5.45%) Bash
5 3 (2.73%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.82%) C#
6 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.82%) Ruby
7 1 (0.91%) Scala
Qualifications
1 59 (53.64%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (48.18%) Security Cleared
3 52 (47.27%) CCNP
4 47 (42.73%) SC Cleared
5 26 (23.64%) Degree
6 23 (20.91%) CCNA
7 18 (16.36%) CCIE
8 12 (10.91%) JNCIS
9 8 (7.27%) CCSE
10 7 (6.36%) DV Cleared
11 6 (5.45%) CCSA
12 4 (3.64%) Check Point Certification
12 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (2.73%) APMG
13 3 (2.73%) CISM
13 3 (2.73%) CISSP
14 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
14 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
14 1 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.91%) COBIT
2 1 (0.91%) QA
System Software
1 31 (28.18%) VMware NSX
2 8 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.64%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.73%) Docker
5 2 (1.82%) Firmware
5 2 (1.82%) KVM
5 2 (1.82%) NFS
5 2 (1.82%) SRDF
5 2 (1.82%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.82%) Xen
6 1 (0.91%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 53 (48.18%) Ansible
2 36 (32.73%) Terraform
3 33 (30.00%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.82%) Puppet
6 1 (0.91%) Grafana
6 1 (0.91%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.91%) Istio
6 1 (0.91%) linkerd
6 1 (0.91%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.91%) SCCM
6 1 (0.91%) SCOM
6 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (83.64%) Cisco
2 51 (46.36%) CheckPoint
3 34 (30.91%) VMware
4 29 (26.36%) Google
5 26 (23.64%) Blue Coat
5 26 (23.64%) Palo Alto
6 23 (20.91%) Fortinet
7 22 (20.00%) Juniper
8 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
8 14 (12.73%) SolarWinds
9 9 (8.18%) Zscaler
10 8 (7.27%) Arista
10 8 (7.27%) LogicMonitor
11 6 (5.45%) Citrix
12 5 (4.55%) Infoblox
13 4 (3.64%) Aruba
13 4 (3.64%) Meraki
13 4 (3.64%) Netskope
14 3 (2.73%) Avaya
14 3 (2.73%) Riverbed