TACACS Contract Job Trends in England

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring TACACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 491 558
Rank change year-on-year -46 +67 +169
Contract jobs citing TACACS 13 24 8
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.043% 0.077% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.63% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 1
10th Percentile £376 £378 -
25th Percentile £406 £404 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £617
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -31.12% -1.28%
75th Percentile £419 £531 £626
90th Percentile £479 £556 -
UK median daily rate £413 £425 £609
% change year-on-year -2.94% -30.16% -2.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £21.38
25th Percentile - - £24.31
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
75th Percentile - - £33.38
90th Percentile - - £51.75
UK median hourly rate - £38.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - +52.00% +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

TACACS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,410 3,824 5,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.27% 12.28% 14.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,191 2,218 3,483
10th Percentile £206 £240 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £600
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 136 333
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £18.10
25th Percentile £20.75 £24.09 £23.00
Median hourly rate £32.77 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -32.52% -14.04% +25.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.81 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -22.73% +29.18%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TACACS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

TACACS job vacancy trend in England

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TACACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TACACS

TACACS
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TACACS in England over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in England

TACACS
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TACACS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TACACS

TACACS
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 TACACS within the England region over the 6 months to 24 November 2025. 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
South East -1 8 - - 1
London -13 2 £388 +10.71% 1
South West +7 1 £513 -6.82%
Yorkshire -42 1 £413 +1.23%
North of England -46 1 £413 +0.30% 1
TACACS
UK

TACACS
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 6 (46.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
1 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) SNMP
2 9 (69.23%) BGP
2 9 (69.23%) WAN
3 8 (61.54%) OSPF
4 7 (53.85%) LAN
4 7 (53.85%) MPLS
4 7 (53.85%) Wireless
5 4 (30.77%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
5 4 (30.77%) Spanning Tree
6 3 (23.08%) FTP
6 3 (23.08%) SSH
6 3 (23.08%) Wireshark
7 2 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
7 2 (15.38%) IOS XR
7 2 (15.38%) VLAN
7 2 (15.38%) WLAN
8 1 (7.69%) Network Security
8 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Telecoms
4 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
5 1 (7.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Designer
2 5 (38.46%) Network Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IP Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
1 1 (7.69%) NETCONF
1 1 (7.69%) OpenConfig
1 1 (7.69%) RESTCONF
1 1 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (53.85%) Data Centre
1 7 (53.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Validation
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (23.08%) Defect Management
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
4 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Change Management
5 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) ITSM
5 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Network Design
5 1 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (53.85%) CCIE
2 7 (53.85%) JNCIE
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCNA
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (53.85%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (53.85%) F5
2 7 (53.85%) Fortinet
2 7 (53.85%) Juniper
2 7 (53.85%) VMware
3 4 (30.77%) Meraki
4 2 (15.38%) Ciena
5 1 (7.69%) Aruba
5 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
5 1 (7.69%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds