F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 303 395 487
Rank change year-on-year +92 +92 -86
Contract jobs citing F5 317 346 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.60% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 1.73% 1.39% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 252 256
10th Percentile £400 £375 £363
25th Percentile £432 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £614 £580
90th Percentile £723 £650 £619
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,355 24,882 34,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.63% 42.90% 39.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,374 16,645 23,109
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £637
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,115 685 867
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.75 £15.15
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.34
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.91
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK 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
England +129 284 £500 -4.76% 69
UK excluding London +118 179 £500 - 46
London +46 107 £488 -11.36% 21
South East +72 87 £538 +7.50% 19
Work from Home +21 87 £550 +4.76% 27
North of England +61 47 £475 -5.00% 8
Yorkshire +38 25 £508 +12.78% 4
North West +28 22 £433 -21.36% 4
Midlands +34 15 £500 +42.86% 4
Scotland +43 10 £780 +56.00% 1
West Midlands +27 10 £475 +35.71% 2
East of England +13 9 £450 -18.18% 9
South West +4 8 £488 - 6
East Midlands +21 5 £600 +84.62% 2
Northern Ireland - 3 - -

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 20 (6.31%) IIS
2 8 (2.52%) Apache
2 8 (2.52%) Tomcat
3 6 (1.89%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.26%) JBoss
5 2 (0.63%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.32%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.32%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.50%) Azure
2 52 (16.40%) AWS
3 28 (8.83%) Cloudflare
4 24 (7.57%) Akamai
5 18 (5.68%) GCP
6 14 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.89%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.58%) GitHub
8 5 (1.58%) OCI
9 3 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.95%) BigCommerce
10 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.63%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.63%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.63%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 156 (49.21%) Firewall
2 88 (27.76%) BGP
3 84 (26.50%) WAN
4 67 (21.14%) MPLS
5 57 (17.98%) Cisco Nexus
6 52 (16.40%) LAN
7 51 (16.09%) DNS
8 50 (15.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 50 (15.77%) VPN
9 49 (15.46%) OSPF
10 45 (14.20%) Cisco Firepower
11 39 (12.30%) Wireless
12 38 (11.99%) SD-WAN
13 36 (11.36%) Cisco ASA
14 35 (11.04%) Network Security
15 32 (10.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 30 (9.46%) SSL
17 21 (6.62%) DMZ
17 21 (6.62%) IPsec
17 21 (6.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.89%) DB2
3 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.63%) Data Hub
3 2 (0.63%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.63%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 16 (5.05%) Git
2 12 (3.79%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (2.52%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.89%) JIRA
5 4 (1.26%) Fiddler
5 4 (1.26%) Vagrant
6 3 (0.95%) Burp Suite
General
1 110 (34.70%) Finance
2 67 (21.14%) Social Skills
3 26 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (6.62%) Banking
5 17 (5.36%) Retail
6 16 (5.05%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (1.89%) Financial Institution
10 5 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.58%) Law
11 3 (0.95%) Marketing
11 3 (0.95%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.32%) Advertising
12 1 (0.32%) Automotive
12 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.32%) Legal
12 1 (0.32%) Local Government
12 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 164 (51.74%) Network Engineer
2 66 (20.82%) Architect
3 45 (14.20%) Network Architect
4 32 (10.09%) Senior
5 19 (5.99%) Security Engineer
6 18 (5.68%) Cisco Engineer
6 18 (5.68%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 15 (4.73%) Senior Architect
7 15 (4.73%) Senior Network Architect
8 13 (4.10%) Senior Network Engineer
8 13 (4.10%) Web Engineer
9 11 (3.47%) Lead
10 10 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.15%) Network Security Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) Administrator
11 8 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (2.52%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.21%) Enterprise Architect
12 7 (2.21%) Enterprise Security Architect
13 6 (1.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.73%) JSON
2 11 (3.47%) .NET
3 9 (2.84%) 802.1X
4 8 (2.52%) NETCONF
4 8 (2.52%) XML
4 8 (2.52%) YANG
5 6 (1.89%) LDAP
6 5 (1.58%) Kafka
6 5 (1.58%) Middleware
7 4 (1.26%) .NET Framework
7 4 (1.26%) SAML
8 3 (0.95%) gRPC
8 3 (0.95%) REST
8 3 (0.95%) VML
8 3 (0.95%) WebSockets
9 2 (0.63%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.32%) AngularJS
10 1 (0.32%) Twisted
10 1 (0.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (16.72%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 10 (3.15%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
6 4 (1.26%) PKI
7 3 (0.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 3 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.63%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.63%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.63%) Fat Client
8 2 (0.63%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.63%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.63%) Replication
8 2 (0.63%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.63%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (11.04%) Windows
2 34 (10.73%) Linux
3 19 (5.99%) Unix
4 12 (3.79%) Windows Server
5 7 (2.21%) zOS
6 4 (1.26%) AIX
6 4 (1.26%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.26%) Solaris
6 4 (1.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (18.93%) Load Balancing
2 45 (14.20%) Network Design
3 33 (10.41%) Migration
3 33 (10.41%) Network Management
4 30 (9.46%) DevOps
5 27 (8.52%) Technical Leadership
6 26 (8.20%) Network Architecture
7 25 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
8 24 (7.57%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (5.99%) ITSM
9 19 (5.99%) Roadmaps
10 17 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
11 16 (5.05%) ITIL
12 15 (4.73%) Computer Science
12 15 (4.73%) Project Delivery
13 13 (4.10%) RAD
13 13 (4.10%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (3.79%) CI/CD
15 11 (3.47%) Network Monitoring
15 11 (3.47%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.46%) Python
2 21 (6.62%) PowerShell
3 13 (4.10%) SQL
4 10 (3.15%) Bash
5 9 (2.84%) ActionScript
6 8 (2.52%) Java
7 6 (1.89%) Perl
8 4 (1.26%) Go
9 3 (0.95%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.95%) PHP
10 2 (0.63%) C#
10 2 (0.63%) Ruby
10 2 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.32%) C
Qualifications
1 71 (22.40%) Security Cleared
2 70 (22.08%) Cisco Certification
3 56 (17.67%) CCNP
4 39 (12.30%) SC Cleared
5 28 (8.83%) CCNA
6 23 (7.26%) CCIE
7 18 (5.68%) DV Cleared
8 15 (4.73%) Degree
9 9 (2.84%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.63%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.63%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.32%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.32%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.79%) SLA
2 5 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (0.95%) NIST
4 2 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 18 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 13 (4.10%) VMware NSX
3 9 (2.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (1.89%) Firmware
6 5 (1.58%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (1.26%) ProxySG
8 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.63%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.63%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.63%) PowerDNS
9 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.63%) vSphere
10 1 (0.32%) Docker
10 1 (0.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (9.78%) Endace
2 25 (7.89%) Ansible
3 19 (5.99%) Terraform
4 17 (5.36%) FortiGate
5 11 (3.47%) SCCM
6 10 (3.15%) SCOM
7 8 (2.52%) Puppet
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (1.89%) SolarWinds Orion
9 4 (1.26%) AirWatch
9 4 (1.26%) Kubernetes
9 4 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (1.26%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (0.63%) NetBackup
10 2 (0.63%) SCVMM
10 2 (0.63%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.63%) VxRail
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 177 (55.84%) Cisco
2 62 (19.56%) Juniper
3 61 (19.24%) Palo Alto
4 47 (14.83%) CheckPoint
5 44 (13.88%) Fortinet
6 40 (12.62%) SolarWinds
7 29 (9.15%) Microsoft
8 21 (6.62%) VMware
9 16 (5.05%) Infoblox
10 15 (4.73%) Nokia
11 12 (3.79%) Dell
11 12 (3.79%) Meraki
12 9 (2.84%) Aruba
12 9 (2.84%) Citrix
12 9 (2.84%) Google
13 7 (2.21%) HP
13 7 (2.21%) ServiceNow
13 7 (2.21%) Splunk
14 6 (1.89%) IBM
14 6 (1.89%) Zscaler