F5 Contracts in the UK excluding London

F5
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 211 317 365
Rank change year-on-year +106 +48 -64
Contract jobs citing F5 203 113 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.95% 0.50% 0.46%
As % of the Vendors category 2.26% 1.11% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 83 76
10th Percentile £391 £325 £375
25th Percentile £434 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +19.45%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £576
90th Percentile £659 £585 £662
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.10
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +35.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the UK excluding London

F5
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +42 5 £600 +14.29% 4
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
F5
UK

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (2.46%) Confluence
1 5 (2.46%) IIS
2 4 (1.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (7.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 34 (16.75%) Azure
2 19 (9.36%) AWS
3 17 (8.37%) Cloudflare
4 16 (7.88%) Akamai
5 11 (5.42%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (4.93%) GCP
7 6 (2.96%) GitHub
8 3 (1.48%) BigCommerce
8 3 (1.48%) Kong
8 3 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.99%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.49%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.49%) PaaS
10 1 (0.49%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 86 (42.36%) Firewall
2 50 (24.63%) WAN
3 43 (21.18%) Cisco Firepower
4 38 (18.72%) BGP
4 38 (18.72%) Cisco Nexus
5 34 (16.75%) SD-WAN
6 32 (15.76%) VPN
7 31 (15.27%) MPLS
8 29 (14.29%) SSL
9 24 (11.82%) Network Security
10 22 (10.84%) Cisco ASA
11 19 (9.36%) DNS
12 16 (7.88%) DMZ
12 16 (7.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 15 (7.39%) Wireless
14 14 (6.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 14 (6.90%) OSPF
14 14 (6.90%) TCP/IP
14 14 (6.90%) Wi-Fi
15 13 (6.40%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.48%) BigQuery
2 3 (1.48%) Data Hub
2 3 (1.48%) DB2
2 3 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (1.48%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (3.94%) JIRA
2 5 (2.46%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.97%) Fiddler
4 3 (1.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.48%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.48%) Git
4 3 (1.48%) GitLab
4 3 (1.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.48%) Travis CI
General
1 65 (32.02%) Finance
2 36 (17.73%) Social Skills
3 15 (7.39%) Retail
4 12 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (3.94%) Banking
6 7 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 6 (2.96%) Law
8 5 (2.46%) Financial Institution
8 5 (2.46%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.48%) Marketing
10 1 (0.49%) Advertising
10 1 (0.49%) Automotive
10 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.49%) Legal
10 1 (0.49%) Local Government
10 1 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 96 (47.29%) Network Engineer
2 47 (23.15%) Architect
3 36 (17.73%) Network Architect
4 14 (6.90%) Senior
5 9 (4.43%) Security Engineer
6 7 (3.45%) Senior Architect
6 7 (3.45%) Senior Network Architect
7 6 (2.96%) Cisco Engineer
7 6 (2.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
7 6 (2.96%) Enterprise Security Architect
7 6 (2.96%) Security Architect
7 6 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
8 5 (2.46%) Administrator
8 5 (2.46%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (2.46%) Project Manager
8 5 (2.46%) Wireless Engineer
8 5 (2.46%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 4 (1.97%) Build Engineer
9 4 (1.97%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.94%) JSON
2 6 (2.96%) Kafka
3 5 (2.46%) .NET
4 4 (1.97%) .NET Framework
4 4 (1.97%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.97%) SAML
5 3 (1.48%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.48%) VML
5 3 (1.48%) XML
5 3 (1.48%) YAML
6 2 (0.99%) Middleware
7 1 (0.49%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 38 (18.72%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 6 (2.96%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (2.96%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.97%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 4 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (1.48%) Data Fabric
5 3 (1.48%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.48%) Security Posture
6 2 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.99%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.49%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.49%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.49%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.87%) Windows
2 16 (7.88%) Linux
3 9 (4.43%) zOS
4 3 (1.48%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.48%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.49%) Unix
5 1 (0.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (16.75%) Network Design
2 29 (14.29%) Network Management
3 28 (13.79%) Migration
4 25 (12.32%) Customer Requirements
5 22 (10.84%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (10.34%) Load Balancing
7 20 (9.85%) Network Architecture
8 18 (8.87%) Project Delivery
9 17 (8.37%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (6.90%) DevOps
11 13 (6.40%) ITSM
12 12 (5.91%) RAD
13 11 (5.42%) High Availability
14 10 (4.93%) Agile
14 10 (4.93%) ITIL
14 10 (4.93%) Network Monitoring
15 9 (4.43%) Capacity Planning
15 9 (4.43%) Disaster Recovery
16 8 (3.94%) Requirements Gathering
16 8 (3.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.94%) ActionScript
1 8 (3.94%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.45%) Python
3 4 (1.97%) SQL
4 3 (1.48%) Bash
5 1 (0.49%) C
5 1 (0.49%) Java
5 1 (0.49%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 68 (33.50%) Security Cleared
2 30 (14.78%) Cisco Certification
3 26 (12.81%) SC Cleared
4 24 (11.82%) DV Cleared
5 21 (10.34%) CCNP
6 17 (8.37%) CCNA
7 7 (3.45%) Degree
8 6 (2.96%) CCIE
9 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (1.48%) CCSA
10 3 (1.48%) CISSP
11 2 (0.99%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.99%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 4 (1.97%) NIST
1 4 (1.97%) QA
2 3 (1.48%) SLA
3 1 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 17 (8.37%) VMware NSX
2 6 (2.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.97%) ProxySG
5 3 (1.48%) Docker
6 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (15.27%) Endace
2 12 (5.91%) Terraform
3 10 (4.93%) Ansible
3 10 (4.93%) FortiGate
4 5 (2.46%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.46%) SCOM
5 4 (1.97%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (1.48%) AirWatch
6 3 (1.48%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.48%) Grafana
6 3 (1.48%) Kibana
6 3 (1.48%) logstash
6 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.48%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.48%) Puppet
7 1 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.49%) SCCM
7 1 (0.49%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.49%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 108 (53.20%) Cisco
2 48 (23.65%) Juniper
3 36 (17.73%) Palo Alto
4 27 (13.30%) CheckPoint
5 26 (12.81%) SolarWinds
6 18 (8.87%) VMware
7 17 (8.37%) Fortinet
8 12 (5.91%) Aruba
8 12 (5.91%) Microsoft
9 9 (4.43%) Splunk
10 7 (3.45%) Dell
10 7 (3.45%) Meraki
11 6 (2.96%) Blue Coat
11 6 (2.96%) ServiceNow
12 5 (2.46%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.97%) Qualys
14 3 (1.48%) AlgoSec
14 3 (1.48%) Apple
14 3 (1.48%) Nokia
14 3 (1.48%) Planview