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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 430 458
Rank change year-on-year -25 +28 +7
Contract jobs citing Aruba 145 53 93
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 0.47% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 31 57
10th Percentile £382 £350 £323
25th Percentile £428 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £488 £488
90th Percentile £653 £550 £606
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £44.10 - -
25th Percentile £55.88 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £77.00 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.07% - -
75th Percentile £78.63 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £78.70 - -
UK median hourly rate £77.25 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year +14.44% - -

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 17,035 11,395 15,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.50% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,932 7,255 9,788
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £514
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.22% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 917 495 1,025
10th Percentile £15.70 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.13 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.52 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%

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 4 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Aruba in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Aruba in England

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 4 June 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 -43 45 £528 +9.90% 7
North of England -41 40 £525 +13.51% 12
South East -43 31 £445 +7.88% 23
North West -9 25 £523 +10.00% 4
Midlands -42 22 £406 +14.04% 8
West Midlands -43 19 £406 +14.04% 6
North East - 12 £588 - 7
Yorkshire -54 9 £506 +19.12% 1
East of England -30 3 £650 +160.00% 2
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 3 (2.07%) Confluence
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 47 (32.41%) Azure
2 33 (22.76%) AWS
3 18 (12.41%) OCI
4 12 (8.28%) SaaS
5 4 (2.76%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.76%) GCP
6 3 (2.07%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.07%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.38%) IaaS
7 2 (1.38%) PaaS
8 1 (0.69%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.69%) GitHub
8 1 (0.69%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 87 (60.00%) WAN
2 82 (56.55%) Firewall
3 59 (40.69%) LAN
3 59 (40.69%) Wireless
4 56 (38.62%) SD-WAN
4 56 (38.62%) Wi-Fi
5 45 (31.03%) BGP
6 44 (30.34%) OSPF
7 31 (21.38%) VXLAN
7 31 (21.38%) WLAN
8 27 (18.62%) VPN
9 25 (17.24%) Ethernet VPN
10 22 (15.17%) Cisco ISE
11 21 (14.48%) VLAN
12 17 (11.72%) BIG-IP
12 17 (11.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 17 (11.72%) Network Security
13 16 (11.03%) IPsec
14 13 (8.97%) Internet
14 13 (8.97%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 17 (11.72%) GitLab
2 4 (2.76%) JIRA
3 2 (1.38%) Git
4 1 (0.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (15.17%) Social Skills
2 15 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (8.97%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.90%) Legal
4 10 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.52%) Finance
6 7 (4.83%) Law
7 6 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.69%) Military
9 1 (0.69%) Police
9 1 (0.69%) Publishing
9 1 (0.69%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (50.34%) Network Engineer
2 27 (18.62%) Senior
3 23 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (13.79%) Architect
4 20 (13.79%) Cisco Engineer
5 18 (12.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 16 (11.03%) Network Architect
6 16 (11.03%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.59%) Wireless Engineer
8 9 (6.21%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 8 (5.52%) Senior Network Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) WAN Engineer
11 4 (2.76%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.76%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
11 4 (2.76%) Consultant
12 3 (2.07%) Network Consultant
12 3 (2.07%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.07%) Site Engineer
12 3 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (19.31%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.38%) CSS
2 2 (1.38%) HTML
3 1 (0.69%) SAML
3 1 (0.69%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (33.79%) Data Centre
2 27 (18.62%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
3 9 (6.21%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.83%) PKI
5 4 (2.76%) BYOD
6 3 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.07%) Wiki
7 2 (1.38%) Cloud Security Posture
7 2 (1.38%) IoT
7 2 (1.38%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.69%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (0.69%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.69%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.90%) Linux
2 8 (5.52%) Unix
2 8 (5.52%) Windows
3 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.69%) Zero Trust
2 23 (15.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (14.48%) Load Balancing
3 21 (14.48%) Network Design
3 21 (14.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 20 (13.79%) CI/CD
5 19 (13.10%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (13.10%) Network Architecture
6 15 (10.34%) Migration
7 14 (9.66%) DevOps
7 14 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (9.66%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (8.97%) Incident Management
8 13 (8.97%) Mentoring
8 13 (8.97%) Network Segmentation
9 12 (8.28%) High Availability
9 12 (8.28%) Project Delivery
9 12 (8.28%) User Experience
10 9 (6.21%) Customer Requirements
11 8 (5.52%) Bill of Materials
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.55%) Python
2 3 (2.07%) Lisp
3 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (33.79%) Cisco Certification
1 49 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 48 (33.10%) CCNP
3 41 (28.28%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.48%) Degree
5 18 (12.41%) CCNA
6 15 (10.34%) CCIE
7 7 (4.83%) CCSE
8 5 (3.45%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.76%) CCIE Wireless
9 4 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (2.76%) CWDP
9 4 (2.76%) CWNA
9 4 (2.76%) CWNE
9 4 (2.76%) CWSP
10 3 (2.07%) CCIE Security
11 2 (1.38%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.38%) JNCIS
11 2 (1.38%) PMI Certification
11 2 (1.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) NIST
2 2 (1.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.69%) NCSC
3 1 (0.69%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.38%) Firmware
4 1 (0.69%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (0.69%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.69%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.69%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (22.07%) Ansible
2 22 (15.17%) Terraform
3 10 (6.90%) FortiGate
4 8 (5.52%) Grafana
4 8 (5.52%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.45%) Salt
6 3 (2.07%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.38%) CASB
8 1 (0.69%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 107 (73.79%) Cisco
2 74 (51.03%) Palo Alto
3 40 (27.59%) CheckPoint
4 33 (22.76%) F5
5 27 (18.62%) Arista
6 24 (16.55%) Fortinet
7 23 (15.86%) Juniper
8 19 (13.10%) Meraki
9 18 (12.41%) Ekahau
10 11 (7.59%) ServiceNow
11 10 (6.90%) Microsoft
12 6 (4.14%) BigPanda
12 6 (4.14%) SolarWinds
12 6 (4.14%) Splunk
13 5 (3.45%) ForeScout
13 5 (3.45%) HP
14 4 (2.76%) VMware
14 4 (2.76%) Zscaler
15 3 (2.07%) Netskope
15 3 (2.07%) Symantec