F5 Contracts in England

F5
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of F5 products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited F5 over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 267 394 474
Rank change year-on-year +127 +80 -68
Contract jobs citing F5 317 258 341
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.85% 0.55% 0.49%
As % of the Vendors category 2.01% 1.29% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 189 228
10th Percentile £400 £348 £346
25th Percentile £439 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £616
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% -12.90%
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £59.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +35.00%

All Vendors
England

F5 falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,802 19,999 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.13% 42.52% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,992 13,722 19,314
10th Percentile £270 £267 £278
25th Percentile £408 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,063 547 756
10th Percentile £12.28 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £18.84 £15.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%
75th Percentile £59.10 £60.00 £48.48
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.25 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

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 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in England

F5
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

F5
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 12 June 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 +41 114 £488 -11.36% 16
South East +66 94 £550 +10.00% 12
North of England +59 60 £490 +3.16% 9
Yorkshire +36 31 £508 +6.84% 6
North West +35 29 £433 -13.36% 3
Midlands +20 18 £513 +46.43% 6
South West -3 13 £488 +2.63% 3
West Midlands +26 12 £475 +35.71% 4
East of England +9 10 £413 -21.43% 1
East Midlands +5 6 £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 (4.10%) IIS
2 8 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.21%) Apache
3 7 (2.21%) Tomcat
4 5 (1.58%) Confluence
5 3 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
6 2 (0.63%) JBoss
6 2 (0.63%) nginx
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
Business Applications
1 3 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 67 (21.14%) Azure
2 56 (17.67%) AWS
3 26 (8.20%) Cloudflare
4 23 (7.26%) Akamai
5 20 (6.31%) GCP
6 13 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.21%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.21%) GitHub
8 6 (1.89%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.58%) OCI
10 4 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.95%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.95%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.95%) Kong
11 3 (0.95%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.95%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.95%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.63%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 166 (52.37%) Firewall
2 80 (25.24%) BGP
3 73 (23.03%) WAN
4 59 (18.61%) MPLS
5 58 (18.30%) Cisco Nexus
6 52 (16.40%) VPN
7 50 (15.77%) DNS
8 47 (14.83%) Cisco Firepower
8 47 (14.83%) SD-WAN
9 44 (13.88%) OSPF
10 39 (12.30%) Cisco ASA
10 39 (12.30%) LAN
11 38 (11.99%) Network Security
11 38 (11.99%) Wireless
12 35 (11.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 29 (9.15%) SSL
14 28 (8.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 22 (6.94%) DMZ
16 20 (6.31%) IPsec
17 18 (5.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.58%) DB2
3 3 (0.95%) BigQuery
3 3 (0.95%) Data Hub
3 3 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.95%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
2 10 (3.15%) Git
2 10 (3.15%) JIRA
3 6 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.58%) Fiddler
5 3 (0.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (0.95%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.95%) CircleCI
5 3 (0.95%) GitLab
5 3 (0.95%) Travis CI
6 2 (0.63%) Vagrant
General
1 115 (36.28%) Finance
2 68 (21.45%) Social Skills
3 30 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (8.20%) Banking
5 21 (6.62%) Retail
6 14 (4.42%) Financial Institution
7 10 (3.15%) Public Sector
7 10 (3.15%) Telecoms
8 4 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (0.95%) Law
9 3 (0.95%) Marketing
10 2 (0.63%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Automotive
11 1 (0.32%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 169 (53.31%) Network Engineer
2 50 (15.77%) Architect
3 36 (11.36%) Network Architect
4 24 (7.57%) Senior
5 20 (6.31%) Cisco Engineer
5 20 (6.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 16 (5.05%) Security Engineer
7 11 (3.47%) Network Security Engineer
7 11 (3.47%) Web Engineer
8 10 (3.15%) Cloud Engineer
8 10 (3.15%) Senior Network Engineer
9 9 (2.84%) Administrator
10 8 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
10 8 (2.52%) Lead
11 7 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.21%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.21%) Senior Architect
11 7 (2.21%) Senior Network Architect
12 6 (1.89%) DevOps Engineer
12 6 (1.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.42%) JSON
2 9 (2.84%) .NET
2 9 (2.84%) 802.1X
3 8 (2.52%) XML
4 5 (1.58%) .NET Framework
4 5 (1.58%) Middleware
4 5 (1.58%) NETCONF
4 5 (1.58%) SAML
4 5 (1.58%) YANG
5 4 (1.26%) Kafka
6 3 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.95%) gRPC
6 3 (0.95%) Software Packaging
6 3 (0.95%) VML
6 3 (0.95%) WebSockets
6 3 (0.95%) YAML
7 2 (0.63%) LDAP
8 1 (0.32%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 50 (15.77%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 10 (3.15%) Onboarding
3 9 (2.84%) Public Cloud
4 6 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (1.89%) Hedge funds
5 4 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.26%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.26%) PKI
5 4 (1.26%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (0.95%) Data Fabric
6 3 (0.95%) Data Structures
6 3 (0.95%) Fat Client
6 3 (0.95%) Management Information System
6 3 (0.95%) Thin Client
6 3 (0.95%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.63%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (9.46%) Linux
2 26 (8.20%) Windows
3 15 (4.73%) Unix
4 7 (2.21%) zOS
5 6 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.95%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.63%) AIX
7 2 (0.63%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (15.77%) Load Balancing
2 45 (14.20%) Network Design
3 34 (10.73%) Migration
4 31 (9.78%) DevOps
5 28 (8.83%) Network Management
6 26 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (7.89%) Customer Requirements
8 22 (6.94%) Network Architecture
8 22 (6.94%) Technical Leadership
9 20 (6.31%) Agile
10 19 (5.99%) ITSM
11 18 (5.68%) Project Delivery
12 17 (5.36%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (5.05%) ITIL
14 15 (4.73%) Low Latency
15 13 (4.10%) Application Security
15 13 (4.10%) Network Monitoring
16 12 (3.79%) RAD
16 12 (3.79%) Requirements Gathering
16 12 (3.79%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 44 (13.88%) Python
2 20 (6.31%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.47%) ActionScript
4 7 (2.21%) Bash
4 7 (2.21%) SQL
5 4 (1.26%) Go
6 3 (0.95%) Java
6 3 (0.95%) PHP
7 2 (0.63%) C#
7 2 (0.63%) Ruby
7 2 (0.63%) Scala
8 1 (0.32%) C
8 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 80 (25.24%) Security Cleared
2 74 (23.34%) Cisco Certification
3 63 (19.87%) CCNP
4 38 (11.99%) SC Cleared
5 33 (10.41%) CCNA
6 30 (9.46%) CCIE
7 28 (8.83%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.10%) AWS Certification
9 8 (2.52%) Degree
10 5 (1.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.58%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.58%) CCSA
10 5 (1.58%) CISSP
11 3 (0.95%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.63%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.32%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.32%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.79%) SLA
2 3 (0.95%) QA
3 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.63%) NIST
System Software
1 22 (6.94%) VMware NSX
2 12 (3.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 6 (1.89%) Firmware
5 5 (1.58%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.26%) Docker
6 4 (1.26%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.95%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.95%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.95%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.63%) PowerDNS
8 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.63%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (9.78%) Endace
2 28 (8.83%) Ansible
3 23 (7.26%) Terraform
4 16 (5.05%) FortiGate
5 15 (4.73%) Puppet
6 10 (3.15%) SCOM
7 6 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.89%) SCCM
7 6 (1.89%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (1.58%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.58%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.95%) AirWatch
9 3 (0.95%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.95%) Grafana
9 3 (0.95%) Kibana
9 3 (0.95%) logstash
9 3 (0.95%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.95%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.95%) VxRail
Vendors
1 183 (57.73%) Cisco
2 72 (22.71%) Palo Alto
3 66 (20.82%) Juniper
4 64 (20.19%) CheckPoint
5 57 (17.98%) Fortinet
6 42 (13.25%) SolarWinds
7 28 (8.83%) VMware
8 23 (7.26%) Microsoft
9 16 (5.05%) Infoblox
10 13 (4.10%) Aruba
10 13 (4.10%) Dell
11 11 (3.47%) Nokia
11 11 (3.47%) Riverbed
12 10 (3.15%) Arista
13 9 (2.84%) Meraki
14 8 (2.52%) AlgoSec
14 8 (2.52%) Blue Coat
14 8 (2.52%) Splunk
15 7 (2.21%) Citrix
15 7 (2.21%) Zscaler