F5 Contracts in England

F5
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within F5 Networks, Inc.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 410 492
Rank change year-on-year +129 +82 -109
Contract jobs citing F5 284 255 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.77% 0.52% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.83% 1.24% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 185 198
10th Percentile £378 £330 £363
25th Percentile £432 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +15.75%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £585
90th Percentile £660 £675 £616
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year -66.00% - -

All Vendors
England

F5 is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,534 20,539 27,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.22% 41.87% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,857 14,126 18,815
10th Percentile £263 £266 £275
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £638
90th Percentile £749 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 592 771
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.02 £11.90
25th Percentile £14.37 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.23 £38.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.27% +83.33% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £63.94 £45.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in England

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in England.

Daily rate trend for F5 in England

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in England.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +46 107 £488 -11.36% 19
South East +72 87 £538 +7.50% 18
North of England +61 47 £475 -5.00% 9
Yorkshire +38 25 £508 +12.78% 4
North West +28 22 £433 -21.36% 5
Midlands +34 15 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands +27 10 £475 +35.71% 2
East of England +13 9 £450 -18.18% 10
South West +4 8 £488 - 6
East Midlands +21 5 £600 +84.62% 2
F5
UK

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 13 (4.58%) IIS
2 7 (2.46%) Apache
2 7 (2.46%) Tomcat
3 6 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.70%) Confluence
4 2 (0.70%) JBoss
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.70%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 64 (22.54%) Azure
2 51 (17.96%) AWS
3 26 (9.15%) Cloudflare
4 23 (8.10%) Akamai
5 18 (6.34%) GCP
6 14 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.11%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.76%) OCI
9 4 (1.41%) GitHub
10 3 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.06%) BigCommerce
11 2 (0.70%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.70%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.70%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.70%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 151 (53.17%) Firewall
2 84 (29.58%) BGP
3 76 (26.76%) WAN
4 65 (22.89%) MPLS
5 57 (20.07%) Cisco Nexus
6 49 (17.25%) DNS
7 48 (16.90%) VPN
8 46 (16.20%) OSPF
9 45 (15.85%) Cisco Firepower
9 45 (15.85%) LAN
10 39 (13.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (13.38%) Wireless
12 37 (13.03%) SD-WAN
13 36 (12.68%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (10.56%) Network Security
15 27 (9.51%) SSL
16 24 (8.45%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 21 (7.39%) DMZ
17 21 (7.39%) IPsec
17 21 (7.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.41%) DB2
3 2 (0.70%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.70%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (4.23%) Git
1 12 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (1.76%) JIRA
3 4 (1.41%) Fiddler
4 3 (1.06%) Burp Suite
4 3 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.70%) Vagrant
General
1 100 (35.21%) Finance
2 55 (19.37%) Social Skills
3 25 (8.80%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.34%) Banking
5 17 (5.99%) Retail
6 11 (3.87%) Public Sector
7 7 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 6 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 5 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.70%) Law
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Automotive
12 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.35%) Legal
12 1 (0.35%) Local Government
12 1 (0.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 151 (53.17%) Network Engineer
2 53 (18.66%) Architect
3 39 (13.73%) Network Architect
4 25 (8.80%) Senior
5 16 (5.63%) Cisco Engineer
5 16 (5.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 15 (5.28%) Security Engineer
7 13 (4.58%) Web Engineer
8 11 (3.87%) Senior Network Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (3.17%) Senior Architect
10 9 (3.17%) Senior Network Architect
11 8 (2.82%) Administrator
11 8 (2.82%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.46%) Network Security Engineer
12 7 (2.46%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.11%) Enterprise Architect
13 6 (2.11%) Firewall Engineer
13 6 (2.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 6 (2.11%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (4.58%) JSON
2 10 (3.52%) .NET
3 9 (3.17%) 802.1X
4 7 (2.46%) NETCONF
4 7 (2.46%) XML
4 7 (2.46%) YANG
5 6 (2.11%) LDAP
6 5 (1.76%) Middleware
7 4 (1.41%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.41%) Kafka
7 4 (1.41%) SAML
8 3 (1.06%) gRPC
8 3 (1.06%) VML
8 3 (1.06%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.70%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 51 (17.96%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.23%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 5 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.41%) Distributed Architecture
6 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.06%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.06%) PKI
7 2 (0.70%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.70%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.70%) Data Fabric
7 2 (0.70%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.70%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Replication
7 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.70%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.86%) Windows
2 27 (9.51%) Linux
3 14 (4.93%) Unix
4 8 (2.82%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.11%) zOS
6 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.41%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.70%) AIX
7 2 (0.70%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (19.72%) Load Balancing
2 44 (15.49%) Network Design
3 33 (11.62%) Network Management
4 30 (10.56%) Migration
5 28 (9.86%) DevOps
6 27 (9.51%) Technical Leadership
7 25 (8.80%) Customer Requirements
7 25 (8.80%) Network Architecture
8 21 (7.39%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (6.69%) ITSM
10 17 (5.99%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (5.63%) ITIL
12 15 (5.28%) Roadmaps
13 14 (4.93%) Project Delivery
14 12 (4.23%) RAD
15 11 (3.87%) Computer Science
15 11 (3.87%) Network Monitoring
15 11 (3.87%) Problem Management
15 11 (3.87%) Requirements Gathering
16 10 (3.52%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 39 (13.73%) Python
2 17 (5.99%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.87%) SQL
4 8 (2.82%) ActionScript
5 4 (1.41%) Bash
5 4 (1.41%) Go
6 3 (1.06%) Java
6 3 (1.06%) Perl
6 3 (1.06%) PHP
7 2 (0.70%) C#
7 2 (0.70%) Ruby
7 2 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.35%) C
8 1 (0.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 70 (24.65%) Security Cleared
2 64 (22.54%) Cisco Certification
3 51 (17.96%) CCNP
4 39 (13.73%) SC Cleared
5 24 (8.45%) CCNA
6 22 (7.75%) CCIE
7 17 (5.99%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.87%) Degree
9 9 (3.17%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.76%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.70%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.70%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.35%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.35%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.23%) SLA
2 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.70%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (4.93%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.58%) VMware NSX
3 9 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.11%) Firmware
5 5 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.41%) ProxySG
7 3 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.70%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.70%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.70%) PowerDNS
8 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.70%) vSphere
9 1 (0.35%) Docker
9 1 (0.35%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (10.92%) Endace
2 21 (7.39%) Ansible
3 18 (6.34%) Terraform
4 15 (5.28%) FortiGate
5 10 (3.52%) SCOM
6 8 (2.82%) Puppet
7 7 (2.46%) SCCM
8 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.11%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (1.41%) AirWatch
9 4 (1.41%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.70%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.70%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.70%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.70%) VxRail
11 1 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.35%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 168 (59.15%) Cisco
2 60 (21.13%) Palo Alto
3 58 (20.42%) Juniper
4 45 (15.85%) CheckPoint
5 40 (14.08%) SolarWinds
6 37 (13.03%) Fortinet
7 25 (8.80%) Microsoft
8 17 (5.99%) VMware
9 15 (5.28%) Infoblox
10 14 (4.93%) Nokia
11 12 (4.23%) Dell
11 12 (4.23%) Meraki
12 9 (3.17%) Google
13 8 (2.82%) Aruba
13 8 (2.82%) Citrix
14 7 (2.46%) ServiceNow
15 6 (2.11%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.11%) HP
15 6 (2.11%) Splunk
16 5 (1.76%) Riverbed