TACACS Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring TACACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 107 124
Rank change year-on-year -43 +17 +13
Contract jobs citing TACACS 6 8 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.18% 0.48% 0.044%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.49% 3.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.00% - -
South East median daily rate £325 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £49.24 - -
25th Percentile £50.72 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £54.88 - £19.00
75th Percentile £57.47 - £19.50
90th Percentile £58.01 - -
South East median hourly rate £54.88 - £19.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 404 253 380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.32% 15.14% 16.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 138 183
10th Percentile £325 £298 £267
25th Percentile £400 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -5.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £590 £538 £608
90th Percentile £640 £600 £638
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 13 17
10th Percentile £16.01 - £42.78
25th Percentile £19.34 £14.20 £65.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £21.90 £73.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.40% -70.20% +5.87%
75th Percentile £53.75 £89.63 £87.46
90th Percentile £70.50 - -
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £54.94 £57.35
% change year-on-year -11.32% -4.21% -1.46%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

TACACS job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TACACS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TACACS

TACACS
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TACACS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing TACACS

TACACS
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TACACS within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
Berkshire -24 6 £325 -35.00% 1
TACACS
South East

TACACS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (33.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) BGP
1 6 (100.00%) SNMP
2 4 (66.67%) MPLS
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) OSPF
3 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) IP Network Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) IP Specialist
1 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
1 2 (33.33%) Network Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) NETCONF
1 4 (66.67%) OpenConfig
1 4 (66.67%) RESTCONF
1 4 (66.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Mindset
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (33.33%) Private Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 2 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (16.67%) Life Science
3 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Network Design
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) CCIE
2 4 (66.67%) JNCIE
3 2 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (33.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Meraki
3 2 (33.33%) NetScout
3 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) SevOne
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) VMware