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 14 May 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 606 666 682
Rank change year-on-year +60 +16 +72
Permanent jobs citing F5 106 218 302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.51% 0.60% 0.71%
Number of salaries quoted 74 199 203
10th Percentile £42,500 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £46,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £86,250 £77,125 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £81,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,985
% change year-on-year - +7.87% +1.97%

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 20,610 36,256 42,369
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.41% 36.61% 41.86%
Number of salaries quoted 11,805 24,865 24,278
10th Percentile £26,312 £26,700 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £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 £75,000
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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +26 96 £65,000 +8.33% 78
UK excluding London +89 42 £55,000 - 60
London +79 42 £83,500 +15.17% 34
Work from Home +66 21 £58,750 -11.32% 44
South East +74 14 £57,500 +4.55% 22
South West +112 8 £48,507 +7.79% 4
North of England +12 7 £32,500 -27.78% 20
Yorkshire +66 6 £33,750 -15.63% 9
Midlands +37 5 £62,500 +4.17% 6
Scotland - 5 - - 7
West Midlands +33 4 £62,500 +4.17% 6
East of England +32 2 £65,000 +8.33% 2
Wales +41 1 £37,733 -
East Midlands +30 1 - -
North West -25 1 £23,500 -60.83% 11

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 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.83%) nginx
2 3 (2.83%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.89%) Confluence
3 2 (1.89%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.89%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.94%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (10.38%) MS Visio
2 9 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.94%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 62 (58.49%) Azure
2 37 (34.91%) GCP
3 18 (16.98%) AWS
4 6 (5.66%) GitHub
5 4 (3.77%) SaaS
6 3 (2.83%) IaaS
7 2 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.89%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.89%) PaaS
8 1 (0.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.94%) Cloudflare
8 1 (0.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 58 (54.72%) Firewall
2 53 (50.00%) LAN
3 46 (43.40%) WAN
4 39 (36.79%) Cisco ISE
4 39 (36.79%) SD-WAN
5 30 (28.30%) VPN
6 27 (25.47%) Ethernet
7 22 (20.75%) BGP
7 22 (20.75%) Cisco Nexus
7 22 (20.75%) OSPF
8 20 (18.87%) Network Security
9 17 (16.04%) Wireless
10 15 (14.15%) Cisco Firepower
11 13 (12.26%) BIG-IP
12 11 (10.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 10 (9.43%) DNS
13 10 (9.43%) IPsec
13 10 (9.43%) MPLS
14 9 (8.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 7 (6.60%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.66%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.83%) Big Data
3 2 (1.89%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (7.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (6.60%) GitLab
3 5 (4.72%) Git
4 3 (2.83%) JIRA
5 2 (1.89%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (22.64%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.09%) Banking
2 16 (15.09%) Finance
3 14 (13.21%) Telecoms
4 9 (8.49%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (8.49%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.66%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (4.72%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.83%) Marketing
7 3 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.83%) Retail
8 2 (1.89%) Legal
9 1 (0.94%) Games
9 1 (0.94%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.94%) Police
Job Titles
1 37 (34.91%) Network Engineer
2 34 (32.08%) Architect
3 31 (29.25%) Network Architect
4 15 (14.15%) Senior
5 14 (13.21%) Designer
5 14 (13.21%) Network Designer
6 10 (9.43%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (6.60%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 6 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Cloud Automation Engineer
9 5 (4.72%) Software Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Analyst
10 4 (3.77%) Consultant
10 4 (3.77%) Deployment Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Network Deployment Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (25.47%) JSON
2 14 (13.21%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.89%) .NET
3 2 (1.89%) LDAP
3 2 (1.89%) Middleware
4 1 (0.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.94%) CSS
4 1 (0.94%) HTML
4 1 (0.94%) REST
4 1 (0.94%) SAML
4 1 (0.94%) Vue
4 1 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (44.34%) Data Centre
2 30 (28.30%) Public Cloud
3 2 (1.89%) Clustering
3 2 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.89%) Private Cloud
3 2 (1.89%) Replication
4 1 (0.94%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.94%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (0.94%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (0.94%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.94%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.94%) PKI
4 1 (0.94%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.83%) Linux
1 3 (2.83%) Windows
2 2 (1.89%) Solaris
3 1 (0.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (24.53%) Due Diligence
2 15 (14.15%) Change Management
2 15 (14.15%) Load Balancing
3 11 (10.38%) Mentoring
3 11 (10.38%) Project Delivery
4 9 (8.49%) Change Control
4 9 (8.49%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (8.49%) DevOps
4 9 (8.49%) High Availability
4 9 (8.49%) Inventory Management
4 9 (8.49%) Validation
5 8 (7.55%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (7.55%) Network Virtualisation
5 8 (7.55%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (7.55%) Project Management
5 8 (7.55%) Roadmaps
5 8 (7.55%) Test Automation
6 6 (5.66%) CI/CD
6 6 (5.66%) Community of Practice
6 6 (5.66%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 46 (43.40%) Python
2 11 (10.38%) SQL
3 7 (6.60%) Java
4 6 (5.66%) Bash
5 3 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.89%) C#
6 2 (1.89%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.89%) Ruby
7 1 (0.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 55 (51.89%) Cisco Certification
2 49 (46.23%) CCNP
2 49 (46.23%) Security Cleared
3 45 (42.45%) SC Cleared
4 22 (20.75%) CCNA
4 22 (20.75%) Degree
5 15 (14.15%) CCIE
6 10 (9.43%) JNCIS
7 7 (6.60%) CCSE
8 5 (4.72%) CCSA
8 5 (4.72%) Check Point Certification
8 5 (4.72%) DV Cleared
9 4 (3.77%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (2.83%) APMG
10 3 (2.83%) CISM
10 3 (2.83%) CISSP
11 1 (0.94%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.94%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.94%) COBIT
2 1 (0.94%) QA
System Software
1 31 (29.25%) VMware NSX
2 6 (5.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.83%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.89%) Docker
5 2 (1.89%) KVM
5 2 (1.89%) NFS
5 2 (1.89%) SRDF
5 2 (1.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (1.89%) Xen
6 1 (0.94%) Firmware
6 1 (0.94%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 49 (46.23%) Ansible
2 38 (35.85%) Terraform
3 33 (31.13%) FortiGate
4 5 (4.72%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.89%) Puppet
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.94%) Grafana
6 1 (0.94%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.94%) Istio
6 1 (0.94%) linkerd
6 1 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.94%) SCCM
6 1 (0.94%) SCOM
6 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 88 (83.02%) Cisco
2 50 (47.17%) CheckPoint
3 34 (32.08%) VMware
4 30 (28.30%) Google
5 27 (25.47%) Blue Coat
6 25 (23.58%) Palo Alto
7 23 (21.70%) Fortinet
8 19 (17.92%) Juniper
9 13 (12.26%) SolarWinds
10 12 (11.32%) Microsoft
11 8 (7.55%) Zscaler
12 7 (6.60%) Arista
12 7 (6.60%) LogicMonitor
13 5 (4.72%) Meraki
13 5 (4.72%) Riverbed
14 4 (3.77%) Aruba
14 4 (3.77%) Citrix
14 4 (3.77%) Infoblox
15 3 (2.83%) Avaya
15 3 (2.83%) Oracle