F5 Contracts in the North of England

F5
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 13 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
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 190 220
Rank change year-on-year +55 +30 -57
Contract jobs citing F5 49 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.06% 0.28% 0.32%
As % of the Vendors category 2.48% 0.70% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 10 17
10th Percentile £390 £394 £455
25th Percentile £432 £422 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -11.36% +50.68%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £580
90th Percentile £673 £564 £586
England median daily rate £500 £525 £514
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.19% +14.17%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,972 2,300 2,711
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 42.54% 40.26% 37.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 1,558 1,845
10th Percentile £256 £231 £180
25th Percentile £393 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £644
England median daily rate £520 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 67 178
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.74 £10.41
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.27 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.09 £37.50 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -59.77% +101.69% -5.50%
75th Percentile £23.64 £46.03 £36.45
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.47 £68.00
England median hourly rate £22.30 £37.50 £21.35
% change year-on-year -40.53% +75.64% +1.67%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
Yorkshire +41 27 £515 +14.44% 5
North West +36 22 £433 -17.62% 5
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England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (30.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) Azure
2 16 (32.65%) Akamai
2 16 (32.65%) Cloudflare
3 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (10.20%) GCP
5 3 (6.12%) AWS
5 3 (6.12%) GitHub
6 2 (4.08%) Kong
7 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
7 1 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (32.65%) DMZ
1 16 (32.65%) SD-WAN
2 14 (28.57%) Wireless
3 13 (26.53%) Cisco IOS
3 13 (26.53%) Cisco Nexus
4 10 (20.41%) Firewall
5 9 (18.37%) DNS
6 6 (12.24%) Network Security
7 5 (10.20%) Wireshark
8 3 (6.12%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (6.12%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 2 (4.08%) BIG-IP
9 2 (4.08%) HTTP
9 2 (4.08%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (4.08%) SSL
9 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
9 2 (4.08%) VPN
10 1 (2.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (2.04%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.08%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.08%) Data Hub
2 2 (4.08%) DB2
2 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (6.12%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.08%) CircleCI
2 2 (4.08%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) Travis CI
General
1 22 (44.90%) Finance
2 12 (24.49%) Retail
3 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.20%) Banking
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Network Engineer
2 13 (26.53%) Architect
3 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 6 (12.24%) Security Architect
4 5 (10.20%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Wireless Engineer
4 5 (10.20%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Network Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 3 (6.12%) Security Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) DevOps Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead
7 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) JSON
1 3 (6.12%) Kafka
2 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.08%) Middleware
2 2 (4.08%) XML
2 2 (4.08%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.69%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.12%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.08%) Data Fabric
4 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
4 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (2.04%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.20%) Linux
1 5 (10.20%) Windows
1 5 (10.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.53%) ITSM
2 12 (24.49%) RAD
3 8 (16.33%) DevOps
4 7 (14.29%) Migration
5 6 (12.24%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (10.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (10.20%) ETL
7 4 (8.16%) Agile
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.16%) OWASP
8 3 (6.12%) Cloud Security
8 3 (6.12%) Incident Response
8 3 (6.12%) Key Management
8 3 (6.12%) Network Design
9 2 (4.08%) Data Management
9 2 (4.08%) Risk Management
9 2 (4.08%) Scrum
9 2 (4.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.12%) ActionScript
1 3 (6.12%) Python
2 2 (4.08%) Bash
2 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.08%) SQL
3 1 (2.04%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (4.08%) CCNP
3 1 (2.04%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (12.24%) Terraform
2 3 (6.12%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) Kibana
3 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.08%) logstash
3 2 (4.08%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.08%) Puppet
4 1 (2.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (32.65%) Palo Alto
2 13 (26.53%) Cisco
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) CheckPoint
5 3 (6.12%) Juniper
5 3 (6.12%) Splunk
6 2 (4.08%) Databricks
6 2 (4.08%) IBM
6 2 (4.08%) Oracle
7 1 (2.04%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (2.04%) Imperva
7 1 (2.04%) Qualys