F5 Contracts in London

F5
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 341 447
Rank change year-on-year +63 +106 -73
Contract jobs citing F5 108 149 171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.57% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 1.45% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 107 117
10th Percentile £400 £398 £313
25th Percentile £440 £473 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £550 £650 £588
90th Percentile £650 £738 £613
England median daily rate £500 £525 £516
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.84% +14.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% - -
England median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +5.88%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,156 10,265 14,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 40.95% 39.45% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,914 7,272 10,462
10th Percentile £300 £325 £355
25th Percentile £425 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £572 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% +4.05% +6.80%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £775
England median daily rate £515 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -4.19% +2.38% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 126 180
10th Percentile £13.87 £16.13 £16.95
25th Percentile £16.90 £21.00 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.46% -25.71% +31.33%
75th Percentile £35.69 £53.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £59.38 £70.00 £60.63
England median hourly rate £22.08 £35.00 £21.35
% change year-on-year -36.93% +63.93% +1.67%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in London

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in London

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in London

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in London

F5
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Central London +27 4 £450 -10.00% 2
East London - 2 - - 6
West London +12 1 - -
F5
England

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (6.48%) Apache
1 7 (6.48%) Tomcat
2 6 (5.56%) IIS
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.85%) nginx
5 1 (0.93%) JBoss
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.93%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 34 (31.48%) AWS
2 29 (26.85%) Azure
3 11 (10.19%) GCP
4 7 (6.48%) Akamai
4 7 (6.48%) Cloudflare
5 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.63%) OCI
6 3 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.85%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.85%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.85%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.93%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 78 (72.22%) Firewall
2 40 (37.04%) BGP
3 33 (30.56%) LAN
4 30 (27.78%) MPLS
4 30 (27.78%) OSPF
5 29 (26.85%) DNS
6 26 (24.07%) WAN
7 24 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
8 23 (21.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 21 (19.44%) Wireless
10 19 (17.59%) VPN
11 17 (15.74%) Cisco ASA
11 17 (15.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 16 (14.81%) SD-WAN
13 15 (13.89%) IPsec
14 13 (12.04%) Internet
14 13 (12.04%) Network Security
15 11 (10.19%) DHCP
15 11 (10.19%) NX-OS
15 11 (10.19%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (9.26%) Git
2 9 (8.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (2.78%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.93%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.93%) JIRA
4 1 (0.93%) Vagrant
General
1 42 (38.89%) Finance
2 31 (28.70%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (12.04%) Banking
5 7 (6.48%) Financial Institution
6 4 (3.70%) Retail
7 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (61.11%) Network Engineer
2 11 (10.19%) Cisco Engineer
2 11 (10.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 11 (10.19%) Senior
3 10 (9.26%) Web Engineer
4 8 (7.41%) Senior Network Engineer
5 7 (6.48%) Security Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Architect
7 5 (4.63%) Design Engineer
7 5 (4.63%) Network Design Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Administrator
8 4 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) IP Network Engineer
8 4 (3.70%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (2.78%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) JSON
2 5 (4.63%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.63%) NETCONF
2 5 (4.63%) XML
2 5 (4.63%) YANG
3 4 (3.70%) .NET
3 4 (3.70%) LDAP
4 3 (2.78%) gRPC
4 3 (2.78%) Middleware
4 3 (2.78%) WebSockets
5 2 (1.85%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.93%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.93%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (3.70%) Distributed Architecture
3 4 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.85%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.85%) PKI
5 2 (1.85%) Replication
5 2 (1.85%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.85%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) IVR
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.67%) Linux
2 14 (12.96%) Unix
3 9 (8.33%) Windows
4 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.93%) AIX
5 1 (0.93%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (30.56%) Load Balancing
2 14 (12.96%) DevOps
2 14 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (11.11%) Network Design
4 10 (9.26%) Problem Management
5 8 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
5 8 (7.41%) Low Latency
5 8 (7.41%) Migration
6 7 (6.48%) Agile
6 7 (6.48%) Application Security
6 7 (6.48%) Deployment Automation
6 7 (6.48%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (6.48%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (6.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 7 (6.48%) Roadmaps
7 6 (5.56%) Change Management
7 6 (5.56%) ITSM
7 6 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
7 6 (5.56%) Predictive Analysis
7 6 (5.56%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.63%) Python
2 11 (10.19%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.63%) SQL
4 4 (3.70%) Bash
4 4 (3.70%) Go
5 3 (2.78%) ActionScript
5 3 (2.78%) Perl
5 3 (2.78%) PHP
6 2 (1.85%) C#
6 2 (1.85%) Java
6 2 (1.85%) Ruby
6 2 (1.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (32.41%) CCNP
1 35 (32.41%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (14.81%) CCIE
3 14 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 14 (12.96%) Security Cleared
4 11 (10.19%) CCNA
5 9 (8.33%) AWS Certification
6 5 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.63%) Azure Certification
7 4 (3.70%) Degree
7 4 (3.70%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.85%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.93%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.56%) Firmware
2 4 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.70%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.85%) BitLocker
3 2 (1.85%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.85%) PowerDNS
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.85%) vSphere
4 1 (0.93%) Docker
4 1 (0.93%) KVM
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Ansible
2 10 (9.26%) Puppet
3 9 (8.33%) Terraform
4 5 (4.63%) FortiGate
4 5 (4.63%) SolarWinds Orion
5 4 (3.70%) SCCM
5 4 (3.70%) SCOM
6 2 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.85%) NetBackup
6 2 (1.85%) SCVMM
6 2 (1.85%) VxRail
7 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.93%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (61.11%) Cisco
2 31 (28.70%) Palo Alto
3 26 (24.07%) Fortinet
4 24 (22.22%) CheckPoint
5 15 (13.89%) Infoblox
5 15 (13.89%) Juniper
6 13 (12.04%) SolarWinds
7 12 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 10 (9.26%) Nokia
9 8 (7.41%) VMware
10 7 (6.48%) Google
11 6 (5.56%) Riverbed
12 5 (4.63%) Dell
13 4 (3.70%) Arista
14 3 (2.78%) AlgoSec
14 3 (2.78%) Commvault
14 3 (2.78%) EMC
14 3 (2.78%) Imperva
15 2 (1.85%) Meraki
15 2 (1.85%) Splunk