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 23 May 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
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 448 425 449
Rank change year-on-year -23 +24 +26
Contract jobs citing Aruba 146 56 89
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.86% 0.49% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 34 55
10th Percentile £392 £358 £322
25th Percentile £429 £401 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -5.26%
75th Percentile £560 £516 £491
90th Percentile £651 £589 £609
UK median daily rate £500 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +14.29% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.25 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £67.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% - -
75th Percentile £38.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £67.50 -
% change year-on-year -44.44% - -

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 17,036 11,355 15,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.02% 47.65% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,009 7,302 9,724
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -3.74%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 909 460 1,008
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.09
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.31 £57.33
90th Percentile £76.69 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +26.91% +15.12% -47.88%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -40 45 £525 +9.38% 11
South East -44 36 £445 +7.88% 21
North of England -48 36 £525 +10.53% 11
North West -22 21 £520 +9.47% 5
Midlands -56 19 £413 -5.71% 11
West Midlands -51 16 £413 -5.71% 11
North East - 10 £588 - 6
Yorkshire -59 7 £506 -10.00%
East of England -29 3 £650 +160.00% 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 3 (2.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 42 (28.77%) Azure
2 28 (19.18%) AWS
3 15 (10.27%) OCI
4 9 (6.16%) SaaS
5 4 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.74%) GCP
6 3 (2.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.05%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.37%) Google Ads
7 2 (1.37%) IaaS
7 2 (1.37%) PaaS
8 1 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.68%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.68%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 92 (63.01%) WAN
2 86 (58.90%) Firewall
3 64 (43.84%) LAN
4 56 (38.36%) Wireless
5 54 (36.99%) Wi-Fi
6 52 (35.62%) SD-WAN
7 51 (34.93%) BGP
8 50 (34.25%) OSPF
9 29 (19.86%) VPN
10 27 (18.49%) WLAN
11 24 (16.44%) VXLAN
12 23 (15.75%) IPsec
13 22 (15.07%) Ethernet VPN
14 21 (14.38%) VLAN
15 20 (13.70%) Cisco ISE
16 19 (13.01%) Structured Cabling
17 17 (11.64%) Network Security
18 14 (9.59%) BIG-IP
18 14 (9.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 12 (8.22%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 14 (9.59%) GitLab
2 4 (2.74%) JIRA
3 2 (1.37%) Git
4 1 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (16.44%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.38%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (9.59%) Manufacturing
4 13 (8.90%) Public Sector
5 10 (6.85%) Legal
6 8 (5.48%) Finance
7 7 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (4.79%) Law
8 3 (2.05%) Retail
9 2 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Military
10 1 (0.68%) Police
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
10 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (55.48%) Network Engineer
2 22 (15.07%) Senior
3 20 (13.70%) Cisco Engineer
3 20 (13.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (12.33%) Architect
5 14 (9.59%) Network Architect
6 13 (8.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (7.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (6.85%) Wireless Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (5.48%) Wireless Network Engineer
10 6 (4.11%) WAN Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.74%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
11 4 (2.74%) Consultant
12 3 (2.05%) Network Consultant
12 3 (2.05%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 3 (2.05%) Site Engineer
12 3 (2.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (17.12%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.05%) VML
3 2 (1.37%) CSS
3 2 (1.37%) HTML
4 1 (0.68%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (34.93%) Data Centre
2 23 (15.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.16%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.79%) PKI
5 6 (4.11%) Cloud Native
6 4 (2.74%) BYOD
7 3 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.05%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.05%) Wiki
8 2 (1.37%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.37%) IoT
8 2 (1.37%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.68%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.85%) Linux
2 8 (5.48%) Unix
2 8 (5.48%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.49%) Zero Trust
2 20 (13.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (13.70%) Load Balancing
3 18 (12.33%) Network Design
3 18 (12.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 17 (11.64%) CI/CD
4 17 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (10.96%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (10.27%) Migration
6 15 (10.27%) Network Architecture
7 14 (9.59%) Project Delivery
7 14 (9.59%) Technical Leadership
8 13 (8.90%) Incident Management
8 13 (8.90%) Network Segmentation
9 12 (8.22%) Customer Requirements
9 12 (8.22%) Mentoring
10 11 (7.53%) DevOps
10 11 (7.53%) User Experience
11 9 (6.16%) High Availability
12 8 (5.48%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.38%) Python
2 2 (1.37%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.68%) Lisp
3 1 (0.68%) SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (36.30%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (35.62%) CCNP
2 52 (35.62%) Security Cleared
3 46 (31.51%) SC Cleared
4 23 (15.75%) Degree
5 21 (14.38%) CCNA
6 14 (9.59%) CCIE
7 5 (3.42%) CCSE
7 5 (3.42%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.05%) CCIE Wireless
9 3 (2.05%) CWDP
9 3 (2.05%) CWNA
9 3 (2.05%) CWNE
9 3 (2.05%) CWSP
10 2 (1.37%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.37%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.37%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.37%) PMP
11 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.74%) NIST
2 2 (1.37%) GDPR
3 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.68%) NCSC
3 1 (0.68%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Active Directory
1 3 (2.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.37%) Firmware
3 1 (0.68%) FreeRADIUS
3 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.68%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.68%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (19.86%) Ansible
2 19 (13.01%) Terraform
3 10 (6.85%) FortiGate
4 8 (5.48%) Grafana
4 8 (5.48%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.42%) Salt
6 3 (2.05%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.37%) CASB
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 111 (76.03%) Cisco
2 76 (52.05%) Palo Alto
3 47 (32.19%) CheckPoint
4 30 (20.55%) F5
5 24 (16.44%) Arista
6 22 (15.07%) Fortinet
7 21 (14.38%) Juniper
7 21 (14.38%) Meraki
8 17 (11.64%) Ekahau
9 11 (7.53%) ServiceNow
10 10 (6.85%) Microsoft
11 6 (4.11%) BigPanda
11 6 (4.11%) SolarWinds
11 6 (4.11%) Splunk
12 5 (3.42%) ForeScout
12 5 (3.42%) HP
13 4 (2.74%) VMware
13 4 (2.74%) Zscaler
14 3 (2.05%) Netskope
14 3 (2.05%) Symantec