TACACS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of 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 218 155 -
Rank change year-on-year -63 - -
Contract jobs citing TACACS 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.080% 0.27% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.65% 1.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £323 £381 -
25th Percentile £377 £399 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £420 -
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% - -
75th Percentile £550 £438 -
90th Percentile £573 £488 -
England median daily rate £525 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +23.53% -19.05% +61.54%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 619 573 715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 12.37% 16.99% 14.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 334 522
10th Percentile £192 £163 £213
25th Percentile £330 £244 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £474
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -5.01% +1.88%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £669
England median daily rate £490 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 25
10th Percentile - £12.19 £12.92
25th Percentile £15.50 £19.25 £17.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £24.76 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.07% +10.04% +111.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £41.50 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £51.30 £48.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -30.00% +140.18%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

TACACS job vacancy trend in the North of England

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TACACS

TACACS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TACACS in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in the North of England

TACACS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing TACACS

TACACS
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of 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
North West -25 2 £438 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire -58 1 £413 -0.60%
North East - 1 £525 - 1
TACACS
England

TACACS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (50.00%) SSH
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (25.00%) FTP
3 1 (25.00%) IOS XR
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SDH
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) SSL
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Change Management
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) High Availability
1 1 (25.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Network Design
1 1 (25.00%) Network Management
1 1 (25.00%) RBAC
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (25.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
2 1 (25.00%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) Ciena
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Nokia