Aruba Contract Job Trends in England

Aruba
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Aruba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aruba over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, 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 Aruba Networks.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 464 444
Rank change year-on-year -61 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing Aruba 117 37 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.61% 0.28% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 20 53
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £420 £391 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -3.68% +18.75%
75th Percentile £588 £525 £580
90th Percentile £657 £533 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +2.15% -2.11% +14.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £76.03 - -
25th Percentile £76.25 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +14.81% - -

All Vendors
England

Aruba 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,193 13,111 14,461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.63% 47.22% 44.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,941 8,324 8,828
10th Percentile £311 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £620 £616 £630
90th Percentile £710 £713 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 613 594
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.75 £14.26
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £33.25
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -24.36% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +7.36% -16.17% -31.56%

Aruba
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aruba relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Aruba job vacancy trend in England

Aruba
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aruba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aruba

Aruba
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Aruba in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Aruba in England

Aruba
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aruba.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Aruba

Aruba
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 Aruba within the England region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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 -58 39 £525 +5.00% 42
North of England -50 32 £575 +23.66% 21
Midlands -17 30 £413 +8.20% 11
West Midlands -33 22 £413 +8.20% 9
North West -27 21 £575 +24.32% 17
North East - 12 £650 - 1
South East -70 9 £425 -5.56% 32
East Midlands - 7 - - 2
Yorkshire -42 5 - - 4
East of England -25 2 £435 +16.00% 5
Aruba
UK

Aruba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (34.19%) Azure
2 34 (29.06%) AWS
3 19 (16.24%) OCI
4 12 (10.26%) SaaS
5 5 (4.27%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.42%) GCP
7 3 (2.56%) GitHub
7 3 (2.56%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 61 (52.14%) WAN
2 53 (45.30%) Firewall
3 50 (42.74%) Wireless
4 43 (36.75%) SD-WAN
5 39 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 37 (31.62%) BGP
7 33 (28.21%) WLAN
8 31 (26.50%) LAN
9 30 (25.64%) OSPF
9 30 (25.64%) VXLAN
10 22 (18.80%) Ethernet VPN
10 22 (18.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 21 (17.95%) Network Security
11 21 (17.95%) VLAN
12 18 (15.38%) BIG-IP
12 18 (15.38%) VPN
13 11 (9.40%) DNS
14 10 (8.55%) Cisco ISE
14 10 (8.55%) DHCP
15 8 (6.84%) 5G
Development Applications
1 18 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (0.85%) Git
2 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
2 13 (11.11%) Legal
3 11 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.13%) Finance
5 4 (3.42%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.71%) Banking
7 2 (1.71%) French Language
7 2 (1.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.71%) Law
7 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.71%) Military
8 1 (0.85%) Games
8 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.85%) Police
8 1 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 54 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 28 (23.93%) Senior
3 18 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (13.68%) Architect
4 16 (13.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (11.11%) Network Architect
6 11 (9.40%) Cisco Engineer
7 10 (8.55%) Consultant
7 10 (8.55%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Wireless Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 7 (5.98%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Network Consultant
11 4 (3.42%) Business Analyst
11 4 (3.42%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Network Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Service Desk Engineer
12 3 (2.56%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 3 (2.56%) Network Field Engineer
12 3 (2.56%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (17.95%) Terraform
2 16 (13.68%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.56%) SAML
4 1 (0.85%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 25 (21.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (8.55%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (2.56%) Handset
5 3 (2.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.56%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.71%) IoT
6 2 (1.71%) PKI
6 2 (1.71%) SCADA
6 2 (1.71%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.85%) Animation
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.85%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.68%) Windows
2 4 (3.42%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (23.93%) Infrastructure as Code
2 27 (23.08%) Zero Trust
3 22 (18.80%) CI/CD
3 22 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 22 (18.80%) Load Balancing
4 19 (16.24%) Migration
4 19 (16.24%) Network Design
5 15 (12.82%) High Availability
5 15 (12.82%) Network Architecture
6 14 (11.97%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (11.97%) Validation
7 12 (10.26%) DevOps
7 12 (10.26%) Project Delivery
8 11 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (9.40%) Network Segmentation
9 10 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (8.55%) User Experience
10 9 (7.69%) Runbook
11 7 (5.98%) Problem-Solving
11 7 (5.98%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (21.37%) Python
2 3 (2.56%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 30 (25.64%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (24.79%) CCNP
3 26 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 23 (19.66%) SC Cleared
5 13 (11.11%) CCIE
6 9 (7.69%) Degree
7 7 (5.98%) CCNA
8 6 (5.13%) CCSE
9 3 (2.56%) CCIE Security
9 3 (2.56%) CCIE Wireless
9 3 (2.56%) CWDP
9 3 (2.56%) CWNA
9 3 (2.56%) CWNE
9 3 (2.56%) CWSP
9 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.56%) PMP
10 2 (1.71%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.85%) CCSA
11 1 (0.85%) CISSP
11 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.56%) NIST
2 2 (1.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.42%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.71%) Firmware
5 1 (0.85%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (23.08%) Ansible
2 16 (13.68%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.85%) CASB
3 1 (0.85%) Nagios
Vendors
1 77 (65.81%) Cisco
2 43 (36.75%) Palo Alto
3 29 (24.79%) Arista
3 29 (24.79%) Fortinet
4 28 (23.93%) F5
5 23 (19.66%) Juniper
6 11 (9.40%) Meraki
7 8 (6.84%) CheckPoint
7 8 (6.84%) SolarWinds
8 6 (5.13%) Ekahau
8 6 (5.13%) Microsoft
9 5 (4.27%) VMware
10 4 (3.42%) Riverbed
11 3 (2.56%) HP
11 3 (2.56%) Mitel
11 3 (2.56%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.56%) Ping Identity
11 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.71%) Blue Coat
12 2 (1.71%) Perforce