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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 518 466 551
Rank change year-on-year -52 +85 +144
Contract jobs citing TACACS 25 23 13
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.087% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.73% 0.67% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 7
10th Percentile £356 £365 £413
25th Percentile £406 £401 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% +61.54%
75th Percentile £556 £506 -
90th Percentile £575 £560 £545
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +8.82% -19.05% +61.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £23.65
25th Percentile - £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% -68.15%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £36.00
90th Percentile - - £54.90
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year - -3.39% -62.42%

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 3,430 3,431 5,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.43% 12.95% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,242 1,970 3,277
10th Percentile £204 £218 £205
25th Percentile £355 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £676 £680 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £493
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.42% -4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 106 380
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.41 £22.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +140.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.00 £75.71
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.11% -32.50% +141.49%

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 1 February 2026.

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 1 February 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
South East -17 7 - -
London -31 7 £388 -3.13%
South West - 6 £531 - 5
North of England -63 4 £469 +11.61% 3
North West -25 2 £438 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire -58 1 £413 -0.60%
North East - 1 £525 - 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 5 (20.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) AWS
1 5 (20.00%) OpenShift
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
3 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (60.00%) BGP
2 14 (56.00%) MPLS
3 12 (48.00%) SNMP
4 11 (44.00%) Network Security
4 11 (44.00%) WAN
5 9 (36.00%) Cisco IOS
6 8 (32.00%) LAN
6 8 (32.00%) OSPF
7 7 (28.00%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (28.00%) Wireless
8 6 (24.00%) VLAN
8 6 (24.00%) VPN
9 5 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (20.00%) Firewall
10 4 (16.00%) SD-WAN
10 4 (16.00%) Spanning Tree
10 4 (16.00%) SSH
11 3 (12.00%) Ethernet
11 3 (12.00%) FTP
11 3 (12.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) French Language
5 1 (4.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Designer
2 5 (20.00%) IP Designer
2 5 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Network Operations Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Operations Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) IP Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Consultant
6 1 (4.00%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Voice Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 5 (20.00%) LDAP
2 2 (8.00%) NETCONF
2 2 (8.00%) OpenConfig
2 2 (8.00%) RESTCONF
2 2 (8.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (28.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (28.00%) PKI
2 4 (16.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
1 5 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Validation
2 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 5 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (12.00%) Agile
4 3 (12.00%) Defect Management
4 3 (12.00%) ITSM
4 3 (12.00%) Network Design
4 3 (12.00%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (12.00%) RBAC
4 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
4 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (8.00%) Change Control
5 2 (8.00%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (8.00%) High Availability
5 2 (8.00%) Migration
5 2 (8.00%) Project Management
5 2 (8.00%) SIEM
5 2 (8.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Python
2 3 (12.00%) Bash
2 3 (12.00%) PHP
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) CCIE
1 7 (28.00%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (28.00%) JNCIE
1 7 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) APMG
3 3 (12.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) GIAC
3 3 (12.00%) GSEC
3 3 (12.00%) SSCP
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) JNCIP
4 1 (4.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (12.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Ansible
2 5 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (20.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (12.00%) SCOM
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (4.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 24 (96.00%) Cisco
2 10 (40.00%) VMware
3 9 (36.00%) Fortinet
4 8 (32.00%) Juniper
5 7 (28.00%) F5
6 4 (16.00%) Aruba
6 4 (16.00%) Palo Alto
7 3 (12.00%) CheckPoint
7 3 (12.00%) Meraki
8 2 (8.00%) Ciena
8 2 (8.00%) ForeScout
8 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
9 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (4.00%) Nokia
9 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds