F5 Contracts in England

F5
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 405 469
Rank change year-on-year +122 +64 -84
Contract jobs citing F5 290 247 319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.80% 0.51% 0.45%
As % of the Vendors category 1.89% 1.22% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 179 205
10th Percentile £379 £348 £363
25th Percentile £432 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £586
90th Percentile £656 £678 £613
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +35.00%
75th Percentile - - £58.50
90th Percentile - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +125.00%

All Vendors
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,315 20,235 27,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.12% 41.91% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,726 13,929 18,958
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,016 576 790
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.41 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.13% +75.27% +1.88%
75th Percentile £56.31 £63.36 £47.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.03
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in England

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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

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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 15 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
London +63 109 £500 -9.09% 16
South East +67 86 £544 +8.75% 22
North of England +57 51 £478 +0.53% 10
Yorkshire +43 29 £515 +14.44% 5
North West +32 22 £433 -13.50% 5
Midlands +31 15 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands +24 10 £475 +35.71% 2
East of England +17 9 £450 -18.18% 6
South West +7 9 £488 +1.30% 5
East Midlands +12 5 £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 12 (4.14%) IIS
2 7 (2.41%) Apache
2 7 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.41%) Tomcat
3 5 (1.72%) Confluence
4 2 (0.69%) JBoss
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.69%) nginx
Applications
1 17 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.72%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 66 (22.76%) Azure
2 56 (19.31%) AWS
3 26 (8.97%) Cloudflare
4 23 (7.93%) Akamai
5 21 (7.24%) GCP
6 13 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.41%) GitHub
8 6 (2.07%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.72%) OCI
10 3 (1.03%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (1.03%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.03%) BigCommerce
10 3 (1.03%) Kong
11 2 (0.69%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.69%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.69%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.69%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 155 (53.45%) Firewall
2 84 (28.97%) BGP
3 76 (26.21%) WAN
4 65 (22.41%) MPLS
5 58 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 52 (17.93%) DNS
7 50 (17.24%) VPN
8 46 (15.86%) OSPF
9 45 (15.52%) Cisco Firepower
9 45 (15.52%) LAN
10 39 (13.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 38 (13.10%) Wireless
12 37 (12.76%) SD-WAN
13 35 (12.07%) Cisco ASA
14 30 (10.34%) Network Security
14 30 (10.34%) SSL
15 27 (9.31%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 21 (7.24%) DMZ
16 21 (7.24%) IPsec
16 21 (7.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.38%) DB2
3 3 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (0.69%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.69%) Data Hub
4 2 (0.69%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (5.17%) Git
2 14 (4.83%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (2.76%) JIRA
4 6 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.72%) Fiddler
6 3 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (1.03%) Burp Suite
6 3 (1.03%) CircleCI
6 3 (1.03%) GitLab
6 3 (1.03%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.69%) Vagrant
General
1 102 (35.17%) Finance
2 60 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.31%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.24%) Banking
5 19 (6.55%) Retail
6 12 (4.14%) Public Sector
7 8 (2.76%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.03%) Marketing
9 3 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Law
11 1 (0.34%) Advertising
11 1 (0.34%) Automotive
11 1 (0.34%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.34%) Legal
11 1 (0.34%) Local Government
11 1 (0.34%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 152 (52.41%) Network Engineer
2 54 (18.62%) Architect
3 39 (13.45%) Network Architect
4 25 (8.62%) Senior
5 17 (5.86%) Cisco Engineer
5 17 (5.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 15 (5.17%) Security Engineer
7 11 (3.79%) Senior Network Engineer
7 11 (3.79%) Web Engineer
8 10 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 9 (3.10%) Administrator
9 9 (3.10%) Senior Architect
9 9 (3.10%) Senior Network Architect
10 7 (2.41%) Network Security Engineer
10 7 (2.41%) Security Architect
11 6 (2.07%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (2.07%) Firewall Engineer
11 6 (2.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (2.07%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (2.07%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.52%) JSON
2 10 (3.45%) XML
3 9 (3.10%) .NET
3 9 (3.10%) 802.1X
4 7 (2.41%) NETCONF
4 7 (2.41%) YANG
5 6 (2.07%) LDAP
6 5 (1.72%) .NET Framework
6 5 (1.72%) Middleware
6 5 (1.72%) SAML
7 4 (1.38%) Kafka
8 3 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.03%) gRPC
8 3 (1.03%) VML
8 3 (1.03%) WebSockets
8 3 (1.03%) YAML
9 2 (0.69%) Software Packaging
10 1 (0.34%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 9 (3.10%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.10%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.38%) Distributed Architecture
5 4 (1.38%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.03%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.03%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.03%) PKI
7 2 (0.69%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.69%) Fat Client
7 2 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) Replication
7 2 (0.69%) Thin Client
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.00%) Linux
2 27 (9.31%) Windows
3 16 (5.52%) Unix
4 6 (2.07%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.07%) zOS
5 4 (1.38%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.38%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.69%) AIX
6 2 (0.69%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (18.62%) Load Balancing
2 44 (15.17%) Network Design
3 33 (11.38%) Migration
3 33 (11.38%) Network Management
4 32 (11.03%) DevOps
5 27 (9.31%) Technical Leadership
6 26 (8.97%) Customer Requirements
7 25 (8.62%) Network Architecture
8 24 (8.28%) Problem-Solving
9 19 (6.55%) ITSM
10 16 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
10 16 (5.52%) Roadmaps
11 15 (5.17%) Agile
11 15 (5.17%) ITIL
12 14 (4.83%) Project Delivery
13 12 (4.14%) RAD
14 11 (3.79%) Network Monitoring
14 11 (3.79%) Requirements Gathering
15 10 (3.45%) Application Security
15 10 (3.45%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.17%) Python
2 19 (6.55%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.79%) ActionScript
4 9 (3.10%) SQL
5 7 (2.41%) Bash
6 4 (1.38%) Go
7 3 (1.03%) Java
7 3 (1.03%) Perl
7 3 (1.03%) PHP
8 2 (0.69%) C#
8 2 (0.69%) Ruby
8 2 (0.69%) Scala
9 1 (0.34%) C
9 1 (0.34%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 71 (24.48%) Security Cleared
2 66 (22.76%) Cisco Certification
3 53 (18.28%) CCNP
4 38 (13.10%) SC Cleared
5 25 (8.62%) CCNA
6 22 (7.59%) CCIE
7 19 (6.55%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.79%) AWS Certification
9 10 (3.45%) Degree
10 5 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (1.72%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.69%) JNCIS
12 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
13 1 (0.34%) CCIE Routing and Switching
13 1 (0.34%) JNCIP
13 1 (0.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.14%) SLA
2 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.03%) QA
3 2 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.69%) NIST
4 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 14 (4.83%) VMware NSX
2 13 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.07%) Firmware
5 5 (1.72%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.38%) Docker
6 4 (1.38%) ProxySG
7 3 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.69%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.69%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.69%) PowerDNS
8 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.69%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) KVM
Systems Management
1 31 (10.69%) Endace
2 26 (8.97%) Ansible
3 21 (7.24%) Terraform
4 15 (5.17%) FortiGate
5 13 (4.48%) Puppet
6 9 (3.10%) SCOM
7 7 (2.41%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.07%) SolarWinds Orion
9 5 (1.72%) SCCM
9 5 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (1.38%) AirWatch
11 3 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.03%) Grafana
11 3 (1.03%) Kibana
11 3 (1.03%) logstash
11 3 (1.03%) Progress Chef
11 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 170 (58.62%) Cisco
2 62 (21.38%) Palo Alto
3 61 (21.03%) Juniper
4 47 (16.21%) CheckPoint
5 40 (13.79%) Fortinet
6 39 (13.45%) SolarWinds
7 26 (8.97%) Microsoft
8 19 (6.55%) VMware
9 15 (5.17%) Infoblox
9 15 (5.17%) Nokia
10 12 (4.14%) Dell
11 11 (3.79%) Meraki
12 9 (3.10%) Google
12 9 (3.10%) Splunk
13 8 (2.76%) Aruba
14 7 (2.41%) Citrix
14 7 (2.41%) ServiceNow
15 6 (2.07%) Blue Coat
15 6 (2.07%) HP
15 6 (2.07%) Riverbed