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 26 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
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 419 443
Rank change year-on-year -30 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing Aruba 149 57 90
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.24% 0.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.87% 0.50% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 34 54
10th Percentile £394 £358 £322
25th Percentile £429 £401 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -7.89%
75th Percentile £562 £516 £492
90th Percentile £651 £589 £611
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 17,032 11,349 15,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.68% 41.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,998 7,290 9,756
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +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 912 467 1,015
10th Percentile £15.64 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.87 £17.47 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -43.11%
75th Percentile £59.19 £55.13 £57.41
90th Percentile £77.43 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.84%

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 26 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 26 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 -35 46 £525 +9.38% 9
North of England -44 39 £525 +10.53% 12
South East -39 36 £445 +7.88% 20
North West -17 24 £523 +10.00% 5
Midlands -46 20 £413 -5.71% 6
West Midlands -48 17 £413 -5.71% 6
North East - 11 £588 - 6
Yorkshire -53 8 £506 -10.00% 1
East of England -34 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 (2.01%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 44 (29.53%) Azure
2 30 (20.13%) AWS
3 17 (11.41%) OCI
4 11 (7.38%) SaaS
5 4 (2.68%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.68%) GCP
6 3 (2.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Google Ads
7 2 (1.34%) IaaS
7 2 (1.34%) PaaS
8 1 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 94 (63.09%) WAN
2 88 (59.06%) Firewall
3 64 (42.95%) LAN
4 57 (38.26%) Wireless
5 56 (37.58%) Wi-Fi
6 54 (36.24%) SD-WAN
7 53 (35.57%) BGP
8 52 (34.90%) OSPF
9 29 (19.46%) VPN
9 29 (19.46%) WLAN
10 27 (18.12%) VXLAN
11 24 (16.11%) Ethernet VPN
12 23 (15.44%) IPsec
13 21 (14.09%) Cisco ISE
13 21 (14.09%) VLAN
14 19 (12.75%) Structured Cabling
15 17 (11.41%) Network Security
16 16 (10.74%) BIG-IP
16 16 (10.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 12 (8.05%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 16 (10.74%) GitLab
2 4 (2.68%) JIRA
3 2 (1.34%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 21 (14.09%) Documentation Skills
3 14 (9.40%) Manufacturing
3 14 (9.40%) Public Sector
4 10 (6.71%) Legal
5 8 (5.37%) Finance
6 7 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.70%) Law
7 3 (2.01%) Retail
8 2 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Military
9 1 (0.67%) Police
9 1 (0.67%) Publishing
9 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 81 (54.36%) Network Engineer
2 25 (16.78%) Senior
3 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (14.09%) Cisco Engineer
5 20 (13.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 18 (12.08%) Architect
7 15 (10.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (9.40%) Network Architect
9 11 (7.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 10 (6.71%) Wireless Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (5.37%) Wireless Network Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) WAN Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 4 (2.68%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
13 4 (2.68%) Consultant
14 3 (2.01%) Network Consultant
14 3 (2.01%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 3 (2.01%) Site Engineer
14 3 (2.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (17.45%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.01%) VML
3 2 (1.34%) CSS
3 2 (1.34%) HTML
4 1 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (36.24%) Data Centre
2 25 (16.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (6.04%) Security Posture
4 8 (5.37%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.70%) PKI
6 4 (2.68%) BYOD
7 3 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.01%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.01%) Wiki
8 2 (1.34%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (1.34%) IoT
8 2 (1.34%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.67%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 1 (0.67%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.67%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.67%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.71%) Linux
2 8 (5.37%) Unix
2 8 (5.37%) Windows
3 1 (0.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.46%) Zero Trust
2 22 (14.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (14.77%) Load Balancing
3 20 (13.42%) Network Design
3 20 (13.42%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 19 (12.75%) CI/CD
5 18 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (11.41%) Network Architecture
6 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (10.07%) Migration
8 14 (9.40%) Project Delivery
8 14 (9.40%) Technical Leadership
9 13 (8.72%) DevOps
9 13 (8.72%) Incident Management
9 13 (8.72%) Network Segmentation
10 12 (8.05%) Customer Requirements
10 12 (8.05%) Mentoring
11 11 (7.38%) High Availability
11 11 (7.38%) User Experience
12 8 (5.37%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.44%) Python
2 2 (1.34%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.34%) Lisp
3 1 (0.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 54 (36.24%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (35.57%) CCNP
2 53 (35.57%) Security Cleared
3 46 (30.87%) SC Cleared
4 23 (15.44%) Degree
5 21 (14.09%) CCNA
6 15 (10.07%) CCIE
7 5 (3.36%) CCSE
7 5 (3.36%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.01%) CCIE Wireless
9 3 (2.01%) CWDP
9 3 (2.01%) CWNA
9 3 (2.01%) CWNE
9 3 (2.01%) CWSP
10 2 (1.34%) CCIE Security
10 2 (1.34%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.34%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.34%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.68%) NIST
2 2 (1.34%) GDPR
3 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.67%) NCSC
3 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.34%) Firmware
4 1 (0.67%) FreeRADIUS
4 1 (0.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.67%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (20.81%) Ansible
2 21 (14.09%) Terraform
3 10 (6.71%) FortiGate
4 8 (5.37%) Grafana
4 8 (5.37%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.36%) Salt
6 3 (2.01%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (1.34%) CASB
8 1 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 112 (75.17%) Cisco
2 78 (52.35%) Palo Alto
3 47 (31.54%) CheckPoint
4 33 (22.15%) F5
5 26 (17.45%) Arista
6 22 (14.77%) Fortinet
7 21 (14.09%) Juniper
7 21 (14.09%) Meraki
8 17 (11.41%) Ekahau
9 11 (7.38%) ServiceNow
10 10 (6.71%) Microsoft
11 6 (4.03%) BigPanda
11 6 (4.03%) SolarWinds
11 6 (4.03%) Splunk
12 5 (3.36%) ForeScout
12 5 (3.36%) HP
13 4 (2.68%) VMware
13 4 (2.68%) Zscaler
14 3 (2.01%) Netskope
14 3 (2.01%) Symantec