Barracuda Networks Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Barracuda Networks
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Barracuda Networks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Barracuda Networks over the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Barracuda Networks.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 387 347 398
Rank change year-on-year -40 +51 +98
Contract jobs citing Barracuda Networks 5 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.027% 0.034% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.059% 0.073% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 1
10th Percentile £93 - -
25th Percentile £170 £150 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £225 £325
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -30.77% -29.73%
75th Percentile £475 £525 £338
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £63.00

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Barracuda Networks falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,544 6,842 9,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.74% 46.06% 47.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,094 5,760
10th Percentile £220 £215 £208
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 364 516
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.59 £16.17 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.86 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% -43.63% +103.91%
75th Percentile £43.84 £61.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%

Barracuda Networks
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Barracuda Networks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Barracuda Networks job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Barracuda Networks
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Barracuda Networks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Barracuda Networks in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Barracuda Networks in the UK excluding London

Barracuda Networks
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Barracuda Networks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Barracuda Networks within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
East of England - 4 £475 - 1
Midlands - 1 £225 -
West Midlands - 1 £225 -
Barracuda Networks
UK

Barracuda Networks
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) ITSM
1 3 (60.00%) Network Segmentation
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
1 3 (60.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam