TACACS Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring TACACS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TACACS over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 359 371 418
Rank change year-on-year +12 +47 +95
Contract jobs citing TACACS 9 7 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.059% 0.038% 0.036%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 0.25% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - £404 £343
25th Percentile - £422 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -42.31%
75th Percentile - £525 £519
90th Percentile - £538 £583
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £600
% change year-on-year - -16.67% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -
75th Percentile - £19.50 £39.19
90th Percentile - - £63.83
UK median hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - -24.00% +13.64%

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 2,194 2,803 3,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.40% 15.18% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,297 1,639 2,173
10th Percentile £200 £205 £205
25th Percentile £325 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £608 £575
90th Percentile £638 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 282 184
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.69 £57.42
Median % change year-on-year -20.84% -6.49% +118.39%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.65
90th Percentile £87.50 £75.00 £76.72
UK median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -2.63% -5.79% +55.14%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TACACS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TACACS in the UK excluding London

TACACS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TACACS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TACACS in the UK excluding London

TACACS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TACACS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for TACACS in the UK excluding London

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 5 August 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 +31 6 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
Scotland - 1 - -
TACACS
UK

TACACS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) OpenShift
2 2 (22.22%) GCP
2 2 (22.22%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
1 9 (100.00%) OSPF
2 7 (77.78%) DNS
3 5 (55.56%) Spanning Tree
4 4 (44.44%) EIGRP
4 4 (44.44%) Ethernet VPN
4 4 (44.44%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (44.44%) IPv6
4 4 (44.44%) SAN
4 4 (44.44%) VLAN
4 4 (44.44%) VSAN
4 4 (44.44%) Wireless
5 3 (33.33%) DHCP
5 3 (33.33%) Firewall
6 2 (22.22%) HTTP
6 2 (22.22%) IPsec
6 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (22.22%) SSL
6 2 (22.22%) WAN
7 1 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Product Owner
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) IP Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Life Science
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Runbook
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Coaching
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (22.22%) Load Balancing
3 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Product Management
3 2 (22.22%) Product Requirements
3 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
3 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Ceph
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Argo
1 2 (22.22%) Nagios
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Dell
3 3 (33.33%) Juniper
3 3 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 2 (22.22%) Arista
4 2 (22.22%) Meraki
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) F5
5 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
5 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (11.11%) Riverbed