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 13 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
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 432 456
Rank change year-on-year -34 +24 +9
Contract jobs citing Aruba 143 52 94
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.33% 0.21% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 0.45% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 30 56
10th Percentile £400 £373 £313
25th Percentile £425 £401 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.94% -4.17% -5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £488 £488
90th Percentile £650 £556 £608
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 17,337 11,653 15,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.60% 47.38% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,121 7,399 9,964
10th Percentile £313 £276 £268
25th Percentile £413 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.52% -1.49%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £515
% change year-on-year -0.60% -2.33% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 515 1,047
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.21 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% +13.38% -37.66%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.38 £59.75
90th Percentile £79.56 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.80
% change year-on-year +23.48% +10.59% -44.00%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -31 46 £515 +7.29% 6
North of England -31 38 £525 +12.90% 8
South East -45 30 £445 +7.88% 19
North West -18 23 £525 +10.53% 6
Midlands -38 21 £406 +47.73% 5
West Midlands -36 19 £406 +47.73% 5
North East - 13 £588 - 2
Yorkshire -49 8 £363 -18.54%
East of England - 3 £650 - 1
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 2 (1.40%) Confluence
1 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 50 (34.97%) Azure
2 37 (25.87%) AWS
3 19 (13.29%) OCI
4 13 (9.09%) SaaS
5 6 (4.20%) Entra ID
6 5 (3.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (2.80%) GCP
8 3 (2.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.10%) GitHub
8 3 (2.10%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.40%) IaaS
9 2 (1.40%) PaaS
10 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.70%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 84 (58.74%) WAN
2 80 (55.94%) Firewall
3 63 (44.06%) Wireless
4 58 (40.56%) LAN
5 57 (39.86%) SD-WAN
6 54 (37.76%) Wi-Fi
7 43 (30.07%) BGP
8 41 (28.67%) OSPF
9 33 (23.08%) WLAN
10 31 (21.68%) VXLAN
11 27 (18.88%) VPN
12 26 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
13 23 (16.08%) VLAN
14 20 (13.99%) Cisco ISE
14 20 (13.99%) Network Security
15 19 (13.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 18 (12.59%) BIG-IP
17 15 (10.49%) IPsec
18 12 (8.39%) Internet
18 12 (8.39%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) GitLab
2 3 (2.10%) JIRA
3 2 (1.40%) Git
4 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 26 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 14 (9.79%) Documentation Skills
3 13 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 12 (8.39%) Legal
5 9 (6.29%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.59%) Finance
7 7 (4.90%) Law
8 5 (3.50%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.70%) Military
10 1 (0.70%) Police
10 1 (0.70%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 71 (49.65%) Network Engineer
2 26 (18.18%) Senior
3 23 (16.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (13.99%) Cisco Engineer
5 19 (13.29%) Architect
6 18 (12.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 16 (11.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.79%) Network Architect
9 11 (7.69%) Wireless Engineer
10 9 (6.29%) Wireless Network Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (4.90%) Senior Network Engineer
12 6 (4.20%) WAN Engineer
13 5 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
14 4 (2.80%) Business Analyst
14 4 (2.80%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
14 4 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
14 4 (2.80%) Network Delivery Manager
14 4 (2.80%) Network Manager
15 3 (2.10%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (20.28%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.10%) SAML
3 2 (1.40%) CSS
3 2 (1.40%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (33.57%) Data Centre
2 27 (18.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (6.99%) Cloud Native
4 8 (5.59%) Security Posture
5 6 (4.20%) PKI
6 4 (2.80%) BYOD
7 3 (2.10%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.10%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.40%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.40%) IoT
8 2 (1.40%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.40%) Wiki
9 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.70%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.70%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.70%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.99%) Linux
2 8 (5.59%) Unix
2 8 (5.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (20.98%) Zero Trust
2 24 (16.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (16.08%) CI/CD
4 22 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 22 (15.38%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 20 (13.99%) Network Design
6 19 (13.29%) Network Architecture
7 15 (10.49%) DevOps
8 14 (9.79%) Migration
8 14 (9.79%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (9.09%) High Availability
9 13 (9.09%) Incident Management
10 12 (8.39%) Mentoring
10 12 (8.39%) Network Segmentation
10 12 (8.39%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (8.39%) Project Delivery
10 12 (8.39%) User Experience
11 10 (6.99%) Network Monitoring
11 10 (6.99%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 26 (18.18%) Python
2 3 (2.10%) Lisp
3 2 (1.40%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (32.87%) Cisco Certification
1 47 (32.87%) Security Cleared
2 46 (32.17%) CCNP
3 40 (27.97%) SC Cleared
4 21 (14.69%) Degree
5 19 (13.29%) CCNA
6 13 (9.09%) CCIE
7 7 (4.90%) CCSE
8 5 (3.50%) DV Cleared
9 4 (2.80%) CCIE Wireless
9 4 (2.80%) CWDP
9 4 (2.80%) CWNA
9 4 (2.80%) CWNE
9 4 (2.80%) CWSP
9 4 (2.80%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.80%) PMP
10 3 (2.10%) CCIE Security
10 3 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (1.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.40%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.80%) NIST
2 3 (2.10%) GDPR
3 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.70%) NCSC
3 1 (0.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.40%) Firmware
4 1 (0.70%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (0.70%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.70%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 35 (24.48%) Ansible
2 23 (16.08%) Terraform
3 13 (9.09%) FortiGate
4 8 (5.59%) Grafana
4 8 (5.59%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.50%) Salt
6 3 (2.10%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.40%) CASB
8 1 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 105 (73.43%) Cisco
2 75 (52.45%) Palo Alto
3 37 (25.87%) CheckPoint
4 34 (23.78%) F5
5 28 (19.58%) Arista
6 24 (16.78%) Fortinet
7 21 (14.69%) Juniper
8 17 (11.89%) Meraki
9 16 (11.19%) Ekahau
10 10 (6.99%) ServiceNow
11 9 (6.29%) SolarWinds
12 8 (5.59%) Microsoft
13 6 (4.20%) BigPanda
13 6 (4.20%) Splunk
14 5 (3.50%) HP
14 5 (3.50%) Zscaler
15 4 (2.80%) ForeScout
16 3 (2.10%) Ping Identity
16 3 (2.10%) VMware
17 2 (1.40%) Blue Coat