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 7 October 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 519 475 435
Rank change year-on-year -44 -40 +14
Contract jobs citing Aruba 115 43 87
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.25% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.60% 0.32% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 28 53
10th Percentile £395 £353 £350
25th Percentile £425 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +27.80%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £580
90th Percentile £655 £600 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 0
10th Percentile £69.82 £29.14 -
25th Percentile £76.25 £42.59 -
Median hourly rate £77.50 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -
75th Percentile £78.75 £68.50 -
90th Percentile - £70.60 -
UK median hourly rate £77.50 £65.00 -
% change year-on-year +19.23% - -

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 19,301 13,346 14,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.46% 47.75% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,823 8,487 8,564
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £629
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 643 527
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.87 £14.93
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -28.14% -20.08%
75th Percentile £61.79 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £25.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.44% -22.74% -23.98%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -53 39 £525 -4.55% 28
North of England -43 31 £575 +23.66% 31
Midlands -18 30 £413 +8.20% 6
West Midlands -28 23 £413 +8.20% 4
North West -23 20 £575 +24.32% 25
North East - 13 £650 - 1
South East -71 7 £467 +0.32% 24
East Midlands - 7 - - 2
Yorkshire -31 5 £363 -22.04% 5
East of England -26 3 £500 +33.33% 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 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 41 (35.65%) Azure
2 35 (30.43%) AWS
3 19 (16.52%) OCI
4 12 (10.43%) SaaS
5 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
5 6 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.48%) GCP
6 4 (3.48%) GitHub
7 3 (2.61%) Nutanix
7 3 (2.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (1.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.87%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.87%) IaaS
9 1 (0.87%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 59 (51.30%) WAN
2 55 (47.83%) Firewall
3 49 (42.61%) Wireless
4 40 (34.78%) SD-WAN
5 36 (31.30%) BGP
6 33 (28.70%) Wi-Fi
7 32 (27.83%) LAN
8 31 (26.96%) WLAN
9 30 (26.09%) VXLAN
10 29 (25.22%) OSPF
11 23 (20.00%) Network Security
12 22 (19.13%) Ethernet VPN
12 22 (19.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 20 (17.39%) VLAN
14 18 (15.65%) BIG-IP
15 17 (14.78%) VPN
16 12 (10.43%) Cisco ISE
17 10 (8.70%) Cisco Wireless
17 10 (8.70%) DHCP
17 10 (8.70%) DNS
Development Applications
1 18 (15.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.87%) Git
General
1 23 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.17%) Legal
3 12 (10.43%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (5.22%) Finance
5 4 (3.48%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.74%) Banking
7 2 (1.74%) French Language
7 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.74%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Military
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.87%) Law
8 1 (0.87%) Police
8 1 (0.87%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 50 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 30 (26.09%) Senior
3 19 (16.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (14.78%) Architect
4 17 (14.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (12.17%) Network Architect
6 11 (9.57%) Cisco Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Consultant
7 10 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Wireless Engineer
8 7 (6.09%) Wireless Network Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Network Consultant
9 5 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (3.48%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.48%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
10 4 (3.48%) Network Manager
10 4 (3.48%) Service Desk Engineer
11 3 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
11 3 (2.61%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (19.13%) Terraform
2 16 (13.91%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.61%) SAML
4 1 (0.87%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 40 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 25 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.48%) Handset
6 2 (1.74%) IoT
6 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.74%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.74%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.74%) PKI
6 2 (1.74%) SCADA
7 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.87%) Animation
7 1 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.87%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.87%) NHS
7 1 (0.87%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.78%) Windows
2 5 (4.35%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.61%) Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (26.09%) Infrastructure as Code
2 26 (22.61%) Zero Trust
3 23 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 23 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 21 (18.26%) Network Design
5 18 (15.65%) Migration
6 14 (12.17%) High Availability
6 14 (12.17%) Network Architecture
6 14 (12.17%) Project Delivery
6 14 (12.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 14 (12.17%) Validation
7 13 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.30%) DevOps
8 12 (10.43%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (9.57%) Network Segmentation
10 9 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (7.83%) Mentoring
10 9 (7.83%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (7.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 26 (22.61%) Python
2 3 (2.61%) Lisp
3 1 (0.87%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 31 (26.96%) Cisco Certification
1 31 (26.96%) Security Cleared
2 30 (26.09%) CCNP
3 28 (24.35%) SC Cleared
4 13 (11.30%) CCIE
5 9 (7.83%) Degree
6 8 (6.96%) CCNA
7 6 (5.22%) CCSE
8 3 (2.61%) CCIE Security
8 3 (2.61%) CCIE Wireless
8 3 (2.61%) CWDP
8 3 (2.61%) CWNA
8 3 (2.61%) CWNE
8 3 (2.61%) CWSP
8 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.61%) PMP
9 2 (1.74%) CISSP
9 2 (1.74%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.87%) CCSA
10 1 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) NIST
2 2 (1.74%) GDPR
3 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (10.43%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.35%) FreeRADIUS
4 2 (1.74%) Firmware
5 1 (0.87%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.87%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (24.35%) Ansible
2 17 (14.78%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.87%) CASB
3 1 (0.87%) Grafana
3 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.87%) Nagios
Vendors
1 77 (66.96%) Cisco
2 43 (37.39%) Palo Alto
3 35 (30.43%) Fortinet
4 29 (25.22%) Arista
4 29 (25.22%) F5
5 25 (21.74%) Juniper
6 9 (7.83%) CheckPoint
7 8 (6.96%) Meraki
7 8 (6.96%) Microsoft
7 8 (6.96%) SolarWinds
8 7 (6.09%) VMware
9 5 (4.35%) Ekahau
10 4 (3.48%) Mitel
10 4 (3.48%) Riverbed
11 3 (2.61%) ForeScout
11 3 (2.61%) NVIDIA
11 3 (2.61%) Ping Identity
12 2 (1.74%) Blue Coat
12 2 (1.74%) Perforce
12 2 (1.74%) ServiceNow