F5
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of F5 products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited F5 over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within F5 Networks, Inc.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 672 663 760
Rank change year-on-year -9 +97 -151
Permanent jobs citing F5 234 291 572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.31% 0.34%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 0.74% 0.86%
Number of salaries quoted 213 206 409
10th Percentile £36,580 £41,250 £38,900
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,350 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,548 £86,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -9.09%

All Vendors
UK

F5 is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 37,023 39,220 66,135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.13% 41.46% 38.93%
Number of salaries quoted 24,927 23,473 33,368
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,673 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.66% +5.26% +3.26%

F5
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing F5.

Salary trend for F5 in the UK

F5
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing F5 over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Salary histogram for F5 in the UK

F5
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +42 229 £60,000 +9.09% 58
UK excluding London -62 145 £53,000 +0.95% 40
London +90 84 £75,000 +23.46% 20
Work from Home -23 78 £70,000 +27.27% 38
South East +21 49 £53,000 -2.75% 14
North of England +26 48 £45,000 -14.29% 11
North West +15 33 £60,000 -13.60% 5
Midlands -20 27 £60,000 +38.73% 5
West Midlands -8 23 £61,250 +41.62% 3
Yorkshire +47 15 £40,000 -39.85% 6
East of England -6 14 £60,000 +9.09% 2
South West -39 6 £47,500 -13.64% 5
East Midlands -10 4 £37,500 +1.06% 2
Wales 0 1 - -

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 10 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.14%) nginx
4 3 (1.28%) Apache
4 3 (1.28%) SAS
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.28%) SPSS
3 1 (0.43%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
1 1 (0.43%) Misys Opics
Cloud Services
1 45 (19.23%) Azure
2 29 (12.39%) AWS
3 17 (7.26%) GCP
4 12 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.56%) dbt
5 6 (2.56%) Fivetran
5 6 (2.56%) Snowflake
6 4 (1.71%) SaaS
7 3 (1.28%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.28%) IaaS
7 3 (1.28%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.28%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.85%) Cloudflare
8 2 (0.85%) GitHub
8 2 (0.85%) Kong
8 2 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 68 (29.06%) Firewall
2 60 (25.64%) Cisco Firepower
3 48 (20.51%) WAN
4 46 (19.66%) VPN
5 36 (15.38%) Network Security
6 35 (14.96%) BGP
7 32 (13.68%) DNS
8 29 (12.39%) LAN
8 29 (12.39%) OSPF
9 28 (11.97%) Cisco Nexus
10 27 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
11 26 (11.11%) Wireless
12 25 (10.68%) SSL
13 24 (10.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 24 (10.26%) MPLS
14 23 (9.83%) SD-WAN
15 22 (9.40%) TCP/IP
16 19 (8.12%) BIG-IP
17 18 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.13%) BigQuery
2 12 (5.13%) Data Hub
2 12 (5.13%) DB2
2 12 (5.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 12 (5.13%) MongoDB
3 10 (4.27%) Tableau
4 9 (3.85%) Data Mining
5 7 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (2.14%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.71%) MySQL
8 3 (1.28%) Power BI
9 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (5.13%) JIRA
2 11 (4.70%) Git
3 6 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.43%) GitLab
5 1 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 89 (38.03%) Social Skills
2 57 (24.36%) Finance
3 24 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.40%) Banking
5 20 (8.55%) Health Technology
6 17 (7.26%) Financial Institution
7 15 (6.41%) Law
8 9 (3.85%) Games
8 9 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.99%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.14%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.28%) Retail
12 2 (0.85%) Electronics
12 2 (0.85%) Military
12 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Billing
13 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 71 (30.34%) Network Engineer
2 52 (22.22%) Senior
3 37 (15.81%) Developer
4 22 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 19 (8.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 16 (6.84%) Analyst
7 15 (6.41%) Linux Engineer
7 15 (6.41%) Security Engineer
8 14 (5.98%) Network Security Engineer
8 14 (5.98%) Senior Developer
8 14 (5.98%) Senior Network Engineer
9 13 (5.56%) Consultant
10 12 (5.13%) Software Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Architect
11 11 (4.70%) Cisco Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Network Architect
12 10 (4.27%) Administrator
12 10 (4.27%) Applications Developer
12 10 (4.27%) Junior
13 9 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.84%) CSS
1 16 (6.84%) HTML
2 13 (5.56%) .NET
3 11 (4.70%) 802.1X
4 8 (3.42%) REST
5 7 (2.99%) LDAP
5 7 (2.99%) Web Services
6 6 (2.56%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.56%) TensorFlow
6 6 (2.56%) Vue
7 5 (2.14%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.71%) .NET Framework
8 4 (1.71%) React
9 1 (0.43%) Ajax
9 1 (0.43%) ASP.NET
9 1 (0.43%) JSON
9 1 (0.43%) Laravel
9 1 (0.43%) Next.js
9 1 (0.43%) Spring
9 1 (0.43%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 44 (18.80%) Data Centre
2 25 (10.68%) Public Cloud
3 12 (5.13%) Cyberattack
3 12 (5.13%) Data Fabric
4 10 (4.27%) Replication
5 9 (3.85%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 8 (3.42%) FPGA
7 6 (2.56%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.71%) Life Science
8 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.28%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.28%) IoT
9 3 (1.28%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.85%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.85%) FlexPod
10 2 (0.85%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.85%) PropTech
11 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.21%) Linux
2 33 (14.10%) Windows
3 16 (6.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (5.13%) zOS
5 10 (4.27%) CentOS
6 9 (3.85%) Windows Server
7 7 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (2.56%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.71%) Unix
10 1 (0.43%) AIX
10 1 (0.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (28.21%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (20.09%) Agile
3 37 (15.81%) Load Balancing
4 27 (11.54%) Disaster Recovery
5 26 (11.11%) ITIL
6 22 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (8.97%) Migration
8 20 (8.55%) Computer Science
9 19 (8.12%) Analytics
9 19 (8.12%) Software Engineering
10 17 (7.26%) Decision-Making
10 17 (7.26%) Project Delivery
11 15 (6.41%) Project Management
12 14 (5.98%) Mentoring
13 13 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
14 12 (5.13%) Data Management
14 12 (5.13%) Database Optimisation
14 12 (5.13%) ETL
14 12 (5.13%) Incident Response
14 12 (5.13%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 76 (32.48%) SQL
2 46 (19.66%) Python
3 33 (14.10%) C#
4 26 (11.11%) Java
5 22 (9.40%) JavaScript
6 10 (4.27%) R
7 9 (3.85%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.42%) Bash
8 8 (3.42%) Perl
9 6 (2.56%) Scala
10 5 (2.14%) PHP
11 4 (1.71%) Delphi
12 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.28%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.85%) C
13 2 (0.85%) C++
14 1 (0.43%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (21.37%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (20.09%) CCNP
2 47 (20.09%) Security Cleared
3 39 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 29 (12.39%) Degree
5 23 (9.83%) CCNA
6 16 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (4.70%) CCIE
8 10 (4.27%) DV Cleared
9 6 (2.56%) JNCIS
10 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (1.71%) MCSA
11 4 (1.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 3 (1.28%) CCDA
12 3 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.85%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.85%) CCSA
13 2 (0.85%) CCSE
13 2 (0.85%) CISSP
14 1 (0.43%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) SLA
2 5 (2.14%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.28%) NIST
4 1 (0.43%) GDPR
4 1 (0.43%) QA
System Software
1 18 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.99%) vSphere
4 5 (2.14%) VMware NSX
5 3 (1.28%) Firmware
5 3 (1.28%) NFS
5 3 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.43%) Docker
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (10.68%) Ansible
2 14 (5.98%) Terraform
3 12 (5.13%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.56%) Endace
4 6 (2.56%) Nagios
5 4 (1.71%) Nessus
5 4 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.71%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 3 (1.28%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.28%) SCCM
6 3 (1.28%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.28%) VxRail
6 3 (1.28%) WSUS
7 2 (0.85%) HAProxy
7 2 (0.85%) Packer
7 2 (0.85%) SCOM
7 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.85%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.43%) Puppet
8 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 102 (43.59%) Cisco
2 38 (16.24%) Juniper
3 31 (13.25%) CheckPoint
4 29 (12.39%) Palo Alto
4 29 (12.39%) VMware
5 27 (11.54%) Microsoft
6 24 (10.26%) Oracle
7 22 (9.40%) Fortinet
8 21 (8.97%) Red Hat
9 15 (6.41%) SolarWinds
10 13 (5.56%) Meraki
11 12 (5.13%) Databricks
12 8 (3.42%) Aruba
13 7 (2.99%) Avaya
13 7 (2.99%) Salesforce
14 6 (2.56%) Dataiku
14 6 (2.56%) Dell
14 6 (2.56%) IBM
14 6 (2.56%) Infoblox
15 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow