F5 Contracts with Work from Home Options

F5
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 264 276 415
Rank change year-on-year +12 +139 -81
Contract jobs citing F5 85 202 212
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.80% 0.48%
As % of the Vendors category 1.34% 1.86% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 161 140
10th Percentile £400 £403 £313
25th Percentile £475 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £550
90th Percentile £726 £650 £608
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.00
Median hourly rate - - £59.00
75th Percentile - - £61.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +125.00%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,355 10,874 17,361
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.55% 43.17% 39.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,971 7,318 11,820
10th Percentile £325 £325 £345
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £728 £745 £714
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 255 259
10th Percentile £13.44 £17.50 £14.47
25th Percentile £16.70 £27.88 £19.81
Median hourly rate £32.12 £53.35 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.80% +33.38% +41.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £67.50 £56.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -4.10%

F5
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

F5 trend for jobs with a WFH option

F5
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing F5.

F5 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

F5
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing F5 over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

F5 daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

F5
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing F5.

F5 hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (3.53%) Confluence
1 3 (3.53%) IIS
2 2 (2.35%) JBoss
3 1 (1.18%) Apache
3 1 (1.18%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.18%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 18 (21.18%) Azure
2 13 (15.29%) AWS
3 9 (10.59%) Akamai
3 9 (10.59%) Cloudflare
4 6 (7.06%) GCP
5 5 (5.88%) GitHub
6 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.18%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.18%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 38 (44.71%) Firewall
2 23 (27.06%) BGP
3 19 (22.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 18 (21.18%) OSPF
5 17 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 17 (20.00%) WAN
6 15 (17.65%) LAN
7 14 (16.47%) VPN
8 13 (15.29%) DNS
8 13 (15.29%) SD-WAN
9 11 (12.94%) NX-OS
10 10 (11.76%) Network Security
11 8 (9.41%) MPLS
12 7 (8.24%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (8.24%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (7.06%) Multicast
14 5 (5.88%) NetScaler
15 4 (4.71%) Wi-Fi
16 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
16 3 (3.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.35%) DB2
1 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.53%) Git
3 3 (3.53%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (2.35%) Vagrant
5 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.18%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.18%) GitLab
5 1 (1.18%) Travis CI
General
1 32 (37.65%) Finance
2 21 (24.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Retail
6 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.35%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.35%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.18%) Automotive
7 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 37 (43.53%) Network Engineer
2 23 (27.06%) Architect
3 16 (18.82%) Senior
4 13 (15.29%) Network Architect
5 10 (11.76%) Senior Architect
5 10 (11.76%) Senior Network Architect
6 7 (8.24%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Security Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.53%) Security Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Network Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) Network Technical Architect
9 2 (2.35%) Voice Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.41%) JSON
2 5 (5.88%) LDAP
3 2 (2.35%) Kafka
3 2 (2.35%) Middleware
3 2 (2.35%) XML
4 1 (1.18%) .NET
4 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.18%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.18%) Web Services
4 1 (1.18%) YAML
4 1 (1.18%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.76%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.71%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.35%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) IVR
5 1 (1.18%) PKI
5 1 (1.18%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
2 7 (8.24%) Linux
3 4 (4.71%) Mac OS
3 4 (4.71%) Unix
3 4 (4.71%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.35%) AIX
4 2 (2.35%) Solaris
4 2 (2.35%) zOS
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (17.65%) Migration
2 10 (11.76%) DevOps
3 7 (8.24%) Change Management
3 7 (8.24%) Load Balancing
3 7 (8.24%) Low Latency
4 6 (7.06%) CI/CD
4 6 (7.06%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (5.88%) ITIL
6 4 (4.71%) Cloud Security
6 4 (4.71%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (4.71%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (4.71%) Identity Access Management
6 4 (4.71%) Incident Management
6 4 (4.71%) Privileged Access Management
6 4 (4.71%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (4.71%) RAD
7 3 (3.53%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (3.53%) Project Delivery
7 3 (3.53%) Roadmaps
7 3 (3.53%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.65%) Python
2 7 (8.24%) ActionScript
3 3 (3.53%) Java
4 2 (2.35%) Bash
4 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.35%) SQL
5 1 (1.18%) Go
5 1 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (22.35%) CCNP
3 13 (15.29%) CCIE
4 5 (5.88%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.71%) CCNA
6 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) Degree
7 2 (2.35%) DV Cleared
7 2 (2.35%) SC Cleared
8 1 (1.18%) CCIE Routing and Switching
8 1 (1.18%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.18%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (1.18%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) Virtual Servers
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (2.35%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.18%) Docker
4 1 (1.18%) Firmware
4 1 (1.18%) KVM
4 1 (1.18%) PowerDNS
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (16.47%) Ansible
2 6 (7.06%) Terraform
3 5 (5.88%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.71%) AirWatch
4 4 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (3.53%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.35%) Puppet
6 2 (2.35%) Tivoli
6 2 (2.35%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.18%) Endace
7 1 (1.18%) Grafana
7 1 (1.18%) Kibana
7 1 (1.18%) logstash
7 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.18%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 50 (58.82%) Cisco
2 19 (22.35%) Fortinet
3 14 (16.47%) CheckPoint
4 13 (15.29%) Palo Alto
5 8 (9.41%) Juniper
5 8 (9.41%) SolarWinds
6 7 (8.24%) Microsoft
7 5 (5.88%) Arista
7 5 (5.88%) HP
8 4 (4.71%) Apple
8 4 (4.71%) Genesys
8 4 (4.71%) Google
8 4 (4.71%) IBM
8 4 (4.71%) Planview
8 4 (4.71%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.53%) Riverbed
9 3 (3.53%) Splunk
9 3 (3.53%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.35%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.35%) VMware