TACACS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TACACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 329 401
Rank change year-on-year -63 +72 +76
Contract jobs citing TACACS 12 23 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.065% 0.16% 0.020%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.53% 0.97% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 1
10th Percentile £323 £400 -
25th Percentile £377 £404 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -22.73% +69.23%
75th Percentile £536 £538 £575
90th Percentile £567 £556 -
UK median daily rate £413 £425 £538
% change year-on-year -2.94% -20.93% +43.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £28.35
25th Percentile - £18.50 £33.38
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year - -56.82% +91.30%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £56.88
90th Percentile - - £63.25
UK median hourly rate - £28.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year - -16.18% +41.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,251 2,364 3,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.23% 16.04% 17.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,494 1,342 2,078
10th Percentile £200 £190 £205
25th Percentile £300 £313 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £597
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 114 272
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.22 £17.30
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.88 £24.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -38.04% +38.45%
75th Percentile £67.88 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £83.68 £70.88 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.40
% change year-on-year -2.86% -37.94% +50.96%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

TACACS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

TACACS
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TACACS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in the UK excluding London

TACACS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

TACACS
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 TACACS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
South East -16 8 - - 2
North of England -55 3 £413 +0.30% 2
North West -17 2 £438 -16.67% 2
South West -4 1 £513 -6.82%
Yorkshire -50 1 £413 +1.23%
TACACS
UK

TACACS
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 6 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) SNMP
2 10 (83.33%) BGP
2 10 (83.33%) MPLS
2 10 (83.33%) WAN
3 8 (66.67%) LAN
3 8 (66.67%) OSPF
4 7 (58.33%) Wireless
5 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
6 2 (16.67%) Spanning Tree
6 2 (16.67%) SSH
7 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
7 1 (8.33%) IOS XR
7 1 (8.33%) IPsec
7 1 (8.33%) NGN
7 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
7 1 (8.33%) VLAN
7 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (8.33%) Finance
5 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 1 (8.33%) French Language
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Designer
1 6 (50.00%) IP Designer
2 2 (16.67%) IP Specialist
2 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 2 (16.67%) OpenConfig
1 2 (16.67%) RESTCONF
1 2 (16.67%) YANG
2 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 8 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (25.00%) Network Design
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
4 1 (8.33%) Change Management
4 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
4 1 (8.33%) Defect Management
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (8.33%) Migration
4 1 (8.33%) Network Management
4 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (8.33%) RBAC
4 1 (8.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
4 1 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) CCIE
1 8 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (66.67%) JNCIE
2 6 (50.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (66.67%) Ansible
2 6 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (8.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
2 9 (75.00%) Fortinet
3 8 (66.67%) F5
3 8 (66.67%) Juniper
4 6 (50.00%) VMware
5 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 1 (8.33%) Aruba
6 1 (8.33%) Ciena
6 1 (8.33%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (8.33%) Meraki
6 1 (8.33%) Nokia
6 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds