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 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 125 184 220
Rank change year-on-year +59 +36 -44
Contract jobs citing F5 60 18 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.24% 0.33% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 2.98% 0.80% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 10 23
10th Percentile £412 £394 £389
25th Percentile £432 £422 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -13.64% +45.70%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £578
90th Percentile £669 £564 £586
England median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +16.67%

All Vendors
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,016 2,243 2,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 41.61% 41.22% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,476 1,871
10th Percentile £251 £220 £180
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £650 £688 £645
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 77 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.74 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.63 £17.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.70 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.25% +53.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £26.39 £43.75 £36.19
90th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £75.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

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 12 June 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

F5
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 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
Yorkshire +36 31 £508 +6.84% 6
North West +35 29 £433 -13.36% 3
F5
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 3 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 19 (31.67%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) Akamai
2 16 (26.67%) Cloudflare
3 7 (11.67%) GCP
4 6 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.67%) AWS
5 4 (6.67%) GitHub
6 3 (5.00%) Kong
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (30.00%) SD-WAN
2 16 (26.67%) DMZ
3 14 (23.33%) Wireless
4 13 (21.67%) Cisco IOS
4 13 (21.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 13 (21.67%) Firewall
5 10 (16.67%) DNS
6 8 (13.33%) Network Security
7 5 (8.33%) Wireshark
8 4 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (5.00%) BIG-IP
9 3 (5.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (5.00%) HTTP
9 3 (5.00%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (5.00%) SSL
9 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
9 3 (5.00%) VPN
10 2 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
11 1 (1.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 1 (1.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.00%) BigQuery
2 3 (5.00%) Data Hub
2 3 (5.00%) DB2
2 3 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 3 (5.00%) CircleCI
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.00%) Travis CI
General
1 27 (45.00%) Finance
2 15 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Retail
4 5 (8.33%) Banking
4 5 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 14 (23.33%) Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Enterprise Security Architect
3 6 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 5 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (8.33%) Wireless Engineer
4 5 (8.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Lead
6 3 (5.00%) Network Architect
6 3 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Security Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (5.00%) Senior
6 3 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) JSON
2 3 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.00%) Kafka
2 3 (5.00%) XML
2 3 (5.00%) YAML
3 2 (3.33%) Middleware
4 1 (1.67%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 17 (28.33%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) Data Fabric
4 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.67%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Linux
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
1 6 (10.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) ITSM
2 12 (20.00%) RAD
3 10 (16.67%) Migration
4 9 (15.00%) DevOps
5 6 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (10.00%) ETL
5 6 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (8.33%) Agile
6 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (6.67%) Incident Response
7 4 (6.67%) OWASP
8 3 (5.00%) API Integration
8 3 (5.00%) Continuous Deployment
8 3 (5.00%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (5.00%) Database Optimisation
8 3 (5.00%) Network Design
8 3 (5.00%) Secure Coding
8 3 (5.00%) SIEM
8 3 (5.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.67%) ActionScript
1 4 (6.67%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) Bash
2 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.67%) Java
3 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (6.67%) CCNP
3 3 (5.00%) CCNA
4 2 (3.33%) CCIE
4 2 (3.33%) CCSA
4 2 (3.33%) CISSP
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (1.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
2 4 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (5.00%) Grafana
3 3 (5.00%) Kibana
3 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.00%) logstash
3 3 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.00%) Puppet
4 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Palo Alto
2 15 (25.00%) Cisco
3 9 (15.00%) CheckPoint
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.67%) Splunk
6 3 (5.00%) Databricks
6 3 (5.00%) Juniper
6 3 (5.00%) Oracle
7 2 (3.33%) AlgoSec
7 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 2 (3.33%) IBM
8 1 (1.67%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (1.67%) Imperva
8 1 (1.67%) Qualys