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 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 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 218 347 370
Rank change year-on-year +129 +23 -77
Contract jobs citing F5 180 107 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.89% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Vendors category 2.08% 1.03% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 78 74
10th Percentile £378 £325 £375
25th Percentile £432 £416 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £547 £571
90th Percentile £664 £575 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.65
UK median hourly rate £23.80 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -66.00% +29.63% +125.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,668 10,397 12,296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.64% 44.65% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,214 7,122 8,303
10th Percentile £206 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 964 472 654
10th Percentile £11.86 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £59.93 £62.13 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.57
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

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 14 May 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 14 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
South East +70 88 £544 +8.75% 25
North of England +60 51 £478 -2.05% 10
Yorkshire +44 29 £515 +14.44% 5
North West +40 22 £433 -17.62% 5
Midlands +24 15 £500 +42.86% 4
West Midlands +27 10 £475 +35.71% 2
East of England +19 9 £450 -18.18% 6
South West -1 9 £488 +1.30% 6
Scotland +34 5 £775 +55.00%
East Midlands +15 5 £600 +84.62% 2
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 6 (3.33%) IIS
2 5 (2.78%) Confluence
3 4 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.56%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (17.78%) Azure
2 18 (10.00%) AWS
3 17 (9.44%) Cloudflare
4 16 (8.89%) Akamai
5 11 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (4.44%) GCP
7 6 (3.33%) GitHub
8 4 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.67%) BigCommerce
9 3 (1.67%) Kong
10 2 (1.11%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
11 1 (0.56%) PaaS
11 1 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 74 (41.11%) Firewall
2 44 (24.44%) WAN
3 41 (22.78%) Cisco Firepower
4 40 (22.22%) BGP
5 35 (19.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 32 (17.78%) SSL
7 31 (17.22%) MPLS
8 28 (15.56%) VPN
9 21 (11.67%) SD-WAN
10 20 (11.11%) DNS
11 19 (10.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 18 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (9.44%) TCP/IP
14 16 (8.89%) DMZ
14 16 (8.89%) Wireless
15 14 (7.78%) Network Security
15 14 (7.78%) OSPF
16 13 (7.22%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (7.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 11 (6.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.11%) BigQuery
3 2 (1.11%) Data Hub
3 2 (1.11%) DB2
3 2 (1.11%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 6 (3.33%) Git
1 6 (3.33%) JIRA
2 5 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (2.22%) Fiddler
4 3 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (1.67%) CircleCI
4 3 (1.67%) GitLab
4 3 (1.67%) Travis CI
General
1 62 (34.44%) Finance
2 31 (17.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (8.33%) Retail
4 12 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.44%) Banking
6 7 (3.89%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (2.78%) Law
8 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.67%) Marketing
10 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.56%) Advertising
11 1 (0.56%) Automotive
11 1 (0.56%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.56%) Legal
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
11 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 86 (47.78%) Network Engineer
2 46 (25.56%) Architect
3 35 (19.44%) Network Architect
4 14 (7.78%) Senior
5 7 (3.89%) Senior Architect
5 7 (3.89%) Senior Network Architect
6 6 (3.33%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (3.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Architect
6 6 (3.33%) Enterprise Security Architect
6 6 (3.33%) Security Architect
7 5 (2.78%) Administrator
7 5 (2.78%) Project Manager
7 5 (2.78%) Security Engineer
7 5 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.78%) Wireless Engineer
7 5 (2.78%) Wireless Network Engineer
8 4 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (2.22%) Network Build Engineer
8 4 (2.22%) SharePoint Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.00%) JSON
2 6 (3.33%) .NET
3 5 (2.78%) Kafka
4 4 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 4 (2.22%) 802.1X
4 4 (2.22%) SAML
4 4 (2.22%) XML
5 3 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (1.67%) VML
5 3 (1.67%) YAML
6 2 (1.11%) Middleware
6 2 (1.11%) REST
7 1 (0.56%) AngularJS
7 1 (0.56%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.56%) OLE
7 1 (0.56%) Twisted
7 1 (0.56%) Web Services
7 1 (0.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.44%) Data Centre
2 6 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.33%) Public Cloud
2 6 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.11%) Data Fabric
4 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.11%) PKI
4 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.56%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.56%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.89%) Windows
2 13 (7.22%) Linux
3 7 (3.89%) zOS
4 4 (2.22%) Mac OS
4 4 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.67%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (17.78%) Network Design
2 30 (16.67%) Network Management
3 26 (14.44%) Customer Requirements
4 25 (13.89%) Migration
5 24 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
6 21 (11.67%) Network Architecture
7 19 (10.56%) Load Balancing
8 16 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (7.78%) DevOps
9 14 (7.78%) Project Delivery
10 13 (7.22%) ITSM
11 12 (6.67%) RAD
12 11 (6.11%) ITIL
13 10 (5.56%) Computer Science
13 10 (5.56%) Disaster Recovery
14 8 (4.44%) Agile
14 8 (4.44%) Requirements Gathering
14 8 (4.44%) Service Delivery
15 7 (3.89%) CI/CD
15 7 (3.89%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 10 (5.56%) Python
2 9 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (4.44%) ActionScript
4 5 (2.78%) Bash
5 4 (2.22%) Java
6 3 (1.67%) SQL
7 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 2 (1.11%) Perl
8 1 (0.56%) C
Qualifications
1 58 (32.22%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 25 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 17 (9.44%) CCNP
5 15 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 14 (7.78%) CCNA
7 11 (6.11%) Degree
8 6 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.67%) CCIE
10 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
10 2 (1.11%) JNCIS
11 1 (0.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.22%) SLA
3 3 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 3 (1.67%) NIST
3 3 (1.67%) QA
4 2 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 9 (5.00%) VMware NSX
2 5 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.22%) ProxySG
4 3 (1.67%) Docker
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (17.22%) Endace
2 12 (6.67%) Terraform
3 11 (6.11%) Ansible
4 10 (5.56%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.78%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.78%) SCOM
6 4 (2.22%) AirWatch
6 4 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (1.67%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (1.67%) Grafana
7 3 (1.67%) Kibana
7 3 (1.67%) logstash
7 3 (1.67%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.67%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.67%) Puppet
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.56%) SCCM
8 1 (0.56%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 98 (54.44%) Cisco
2 45 (25.00%) Juniper
3 30 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 27 (15.00%) SolarWinds
5 19 (10.56%) CheckPoint
6 12 (6.67%) Microsoft
7 10 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 10 (5.56%) VMware
8 8 (4.44%) Aruba
8 8 (4.44%) Meraki
8 8 (4.44%) Splunk
9 7 (3.89%) Dell
9 7 (3.89%) ServiceNow
10 4 (2.22%) Apple
10 4 (2.22%) Blue Coat
10 4 (2.22%) CA
10 4 (2.22%) Citrix
10 4 (2.22%) HP
10 4 (2.22%) Nokia
10 4 (2.22%) Planview