F5 Contracts in the Thames Valley

F5
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 10 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
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 121 138
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 -7
Contract jobs citing F5 19 25 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.71% 0.87% 0.84%
As % of the Vendors category 1.51% 1.80% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 21
10th Percentile £212 £389 £375
25th Percentile £213 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +42.11%
75th Percentile £571 £525 £648
90th Percentile £584 £572 £708
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.85% +19.13%

All Vendors
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,261 1,388 1,617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 47.03% 48.23% 45.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 937 1,110
10th Percentile £213 £280 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £589
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 52 54
10th Percentile £15.95 £16.43 -
25th Percentile £20.17 £18.50 £10.77
Median hourly rate £52.50 £48.40 £14.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.47% +230.38% -12.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.21 £34.29
90th Percentile £62.00 £79.92 £67.46
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £48.40 £19.52
% change year-on-year +3.31% +147.95% -8.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing F5 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing F5 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing F5 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing F5 in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for F5 in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing F5 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire +5 15 £550 +37.50% 2
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £225 -55.88% 2
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South East

F5
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
2 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco Firepower
2 7 (36.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 6 (31.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (31.58%) MPLS
4 5 (26.32%) NetScaler
5 4 (21.05%) BGP
5 4 (21.05%) WAN
6 3 (15.79%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (10.53%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (10.53%) DMVPN
7 2 (10.53%) EIGRP
7 2 (10.53%) Firewall
7 2 (10.53%) IPsec
7 2 (10.53%) Network Security
7 2 (10.53%) OSPF
7 2 (10.53%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (10.53%) Sourcefire
7 2 (10.53%) SSL
7 2 (10.53%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Build Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Network Architect
2 4 (21.05%) Network Build Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) IT Support
4 2 (10.53%) Network Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Security Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Network Architect
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
1 5 (26.32%) Onboarding
2 3 (15.79%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Mac OS
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
1 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Migration
2 5 (26.32%) ITIL
2 5 (26.32%) Network Design
3 4 (21.05%) Knowledge Transfer
3 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) Change Control
5 2 (10.53%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 2 (10.53%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (10.53%) Network Management
5 2 (10.53%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Scrum
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.53%) User Stories
6 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.26%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.79%) CCNA
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) CCNP
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Endace
2 3 (15.79%) AirWatch
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Cisco
2 8 (42.11%) Juniper
3 3 (15.79%) Apple
3 3 (15.79%) HP
3 3 (15.79%) Planview
3 3 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 2 (10.53%) Aruba
4 2 (10.53%) Blue Coat
4 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
4 2 (10.53%) Fortinet
4 2 (10.53%) McAfee
4 2 (10.53%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.53%) Zscaler
5 1 (5.26%) Dell
5 1 (5.26%) Nokia