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 7 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 469 539
Rank change year-on-year -53 +70 +145
Contract jobs citing TACACS 19 25 10
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.060% 0.091% 0.028%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.71% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 5
10th Percentile £349 £378 -
25th Percentile £369 £404 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -19.05% +61.54%
75th Percentile £561 £531 -
90th Percentile £576 £556 £555
UK median daily rate £413 £425 £525
% change year-on-year -2.94% -19.05% +61.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - £24.48
25th Percentile - £18.50 £24.81
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year - -35.59% +22.92%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £43.88
90th Percentile - - £58.05
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - -16.18% +41.67%

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 3,366 3,500 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.64% 12.80% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,045 3,127
10th Percentile £205 £220 £207
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -20 8 - -
London -19 6 £413 +3.13% 1
North of England -57 3 £413 +0.30% 2
North West -24 2 £438 -16.67% 2
South West -2 1 £513 -6.82%
Yorkshire -58 1 £413 +1.23%
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 (31.58%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (10.53%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) AWS
1 6 (31.58%) OpenShift
2 3 (15.79%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) SNMP
2 12 (63.16%) WAN
3 11 (57.89%) BGP
4 10 (52.63%) MPLS
5 9 (47.37%) LAN
5 9 (47.37%) OSPF
6 8 (42.11%) Wireless
7 6 (31.58%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (26.32%) Network Security
8 5 (26.32%) VLAN
9 4 (21.05%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (21.05%) Firewall
9 4 (21.05%) SD-WAN
9 4 (21.05%) Spanning Tree
9 4 (21.05%) SSH
10 3 (15.79%) Ethernet
10 3 (15.79%) FTP
10 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
10 3 (15.79%) Wireshark
11 2 (10.53%) IOS XR
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Telecoms
4 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Finance
5 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.26%) French Language
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Designer
1 6 (31.58%) IP Designer
1 6 (31.58%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) IP Specialist
3 2 (10.53%) Network Operations Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (21.05%) 802.1X
2 2 (10.53%) NETCONF
2 2 (10.53%) OpenConfig
2 2 (10.53%) RESTCONF
2 2 (10.53%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (42.11%) Data Centre
1 8 (42.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (21.05%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (10.53%) PKI
4 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Validation
2 6 (31.58%) Incident Response
2 6 (31.58%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (15.79%) Defect Management
3 3 (15.79%) Network Design
3 3 (15.79%) RBAC
3 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 2 (10.53%) Change Control
4 2 (10.53%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) High Availability
4 2 (10.53%) ITSM
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) SIEM
4 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Test Planning
4 2 (10.53%) Test Strategy
4 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.26%) Network Management
5 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.26%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Bash
3 1 (5.26%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) CCIE
1 8 (42.11%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (42.11%) JNCIE
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 6 (31.58%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (31.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) Ansible
2 6 (31.58%) Terraform
3 4 (21.05%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (52.63%) Fortinet
3 8 (42.11%) F5
3 8 (42.11%) Juniper
4 6 (31.58%) VMware
5 3 (15.79%) Aruba
5 3 (15.79%) Meraki
5 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
6 2 (10.53%) Ciena
6 2 (10.53%) ForeScout
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (5.26%) Nokia
7 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds