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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 726 595 563
Rank change year-on-year -131 -32 -107
Permanent jobs citing F5 82 85 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.070% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.39% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 35 43 136
10th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £46,575
25th Percentile £61,761 £52,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +12.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £85,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £64,038 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.43% +4.76% -13.72%

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 28,141 21,535 24,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 23.87% 43.27% 33.25%
Number of salaries quoted 17,849 11,098 12,279
10th Percentile £29,750 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £50,000 £56,252
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -11.11% -2.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,901 £76,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -

F5
Job Vacancy Trend

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

F5 job vacancy trend in the UK

F5
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing F5.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing F5

F5
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 14 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 9 October 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
England -131 78 £70,000 +7.69% 100
UK excluding London -124 43 £64,038 +16.43% 54
London -67 37 £75,000 +15.38% 46
Work from Home -23 22 £65,576 -12.57% 42
North of England -57 18 £65,576 +13.31% 15
North West -14 11 £65,576 +13.31% 12
South West -71 11 - - 8
South East -59 5 £62,500 +13.64% 14
Scotland +9 4 - - 7
Yorkshire - 4 £65,576 - 3
East of England -41 3 £62,500 +8.70% 2
North East - 3 £16,000 -
Midlands - 2 £53,250 - 8
West Midlands - 2 £53,250 - 5

F5
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.22%) nginx
1 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.22%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 21 (25.61%) Azure
2 20 (24.39%) AWS
3 11 (13.41%) GitHub
4 9 (10.98%) IaaS
5 4 (4.88%) Datadog
5 4 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.22%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 57 (69.51%) Firewall
2 44 (53.66%) DNS
3 36 (43.90%) Network Security
4 35 (42.68%) VPN
5 34 (41.46%) WAN
6 28 (34.15%) SD-WAN
7 26 (31.71%) BGP
8 23 (28.05%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 23 (28.05%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 21 (25.61%) BIG-IP
10 19 (23.17%) Wireless
11 17 (20.73%) LAN
12 16 (19.51%) OSPF
12 16 (19.51%) TCP/IP
13 13 (15.85%) DHCP
14 12 (14.63%) Cisco ISE
15 10 (12.20%) MPLS
16 9 (10.98%) SSL
17 8 (9.76%) NetScaler
18 6 (7.32%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.44%) Big Data
2 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.41%) JIRA
2 9 (10.98%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.10%) Git
4 2 (2.44%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (1.22%) GitLab
General
1 42 (51.22%) Social Skills
2 28 (34.15%) Finance
3 17 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.63%) Banking
5 9 (10.98%) Telecoms
6 8 (9.76%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (7.32%) Digital Health
7 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (6.10%) Marketing
8 5 (6.10%) Retail
9 4 (4.88%) Law
10 3 (3.66%) Aerospace
10 3 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (3.66%) Legal
11 2 (2.44%) French Language
11 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (1.22%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 55 (67.07%) Network Engineer
2 22 (26.83%) Senior
3 21 (25.61%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.10%) Lead
6 4 (4.88%) Architect
6 4 (4.88%) Automation Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Lead Network Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Network Architect
7 3 (3.66%) Network Security Architect
7 3 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.44%) Consultant
8 2 (2.44%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.98%) Terraform
2 6 (7.32%) Apache NiFi
3 3 (3.66%) Jinja
3 3 (3.66%) JSON
3 3 (3.66%) YAML
4 1 (1.22%) FIDO
4 1 (1.22%) OpenID
4 1 (1.22%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (53.66%) Data Centre
2 13 (15.85%) Public Cloud
3 10 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (10.98%) Onboarding
5 6 (7.32%) CMDB
6 5 (6.10%) Private Cloud
6 5 (6.10%) Security Posture
7 4 (4.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (4.88%) PKI
8 3 (3.66%) Management Information System
8 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.44%) CSOC
9 2 (2.44%) Fat Client
9 2 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.44%) Thin Client
10 1 (1.22%) Clustering
10 1 (1.22%) Mobile Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Online Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Replication
10 1 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.63%) Windows
2 11 (13.41%) Linux
3 4 (4.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.44%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (46.34%) Load Balancing
2 21 (25.61%) CI/CD
2 21 (25.61%) High Availability
2 21 (25.61%) Network Design
3 20 (24.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (18.29%) Agile
6 15 (18.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 15 (18.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (17.07%) Change Management
8 13 (15.85%) Business Continuity
9 12 (14.63%) Mentoring
9 12 (14.63%) Project Delivery
10 10 (12.20%) ITIL
10 10 (12.20%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
11 9 (10.98%) Technical Leadership
12 8 (9.76%) Network Monitoring
12 8 (9.76%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 35 (42.68%) Python
2 9 (10.98%) ActionScript
3 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 42 (51.22%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (42.68%) CCNP
3 19 (23.17%) CCNA
4 12 (14.63%) Degree
5 10 (12.20%) Security Cleared
6 8 (9.76%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (8.54%) CCIE
7 7 (8.54%) DV Cleared
8 6 (7.32%) AWS Certification
9 3 (3.66%) CCSP
9 3 (3.66%) CISM
9 3 (3.66%) CISSP
10 2 (2.44%) APMG
10 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.44%) CCSE
10 2 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (2.44%) MCSE
10 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.88%) NIST
1 4 (4.88%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.66%) SLA
3 2 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 11 (13.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (12.20%) VMware NSX
3 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
4 4 (4.88%) Firmware
5 2 (2.44%) UAG
Systems Management
1 25 (30.49%) Ansible
2 3 (3.66%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.66%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.44%) AirWatch
3 2 (2.44%) Packer
3 2 (2.44%) SCCM
3 2 (2.44%) SolarWinds Orion
3 2 (2.44%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.22%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 49 (59.76%) Cisco
2 39 (47.56%) Palo Alto
3 18 (21.95%) CheckPoint
4 17 (20.73%) Infoblox
5 16 (19.51%) VMware
6 15 (18.29%) Fortinet
7 13 (15.85%) Arista
8 12 (14.63%) Meraki
9 11 (13.41%) Microsoft
9 11 (13.41%) SolarWinds
10 7 (8.54%) Citrix
10 7 (8.54%) ServiceNow
11 6 (7.32%) Dell
11 6 (7.32%) Splunk
12 5 (6.10%) Zscaler
13 4 (4.88%) Avaya
13 4 (4.88%) ForeScout
13 4 (4.88%) Netskope
13 4 (4.88%) SevOne
14 3 (3.66%) Aruba