Arista Contract Job Trends

Arista
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Arista products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Arista over the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, 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 Arista Networks.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 525 498 554
Rank change year-on-year -27 +56 +112
Contract jobs citing Arista 50 42 45
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Vendors category 0.29% 0.28% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 27 26
10th Percentile £326 £420 £450
25th Percentile £450 £513 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +0.90% +11.50%
75th Percentile £628 £675 £725
90th Percentile £670 £697 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -48.57% +2.44% +7.89%

All Vendors
UK

Arista 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,333 15,031 19,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.73% 45.76% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,111 8,928 12,223
10th Percentile £300 £283 £252
25th Percentile £409 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £715 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 815 443 671
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.52 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.51 £19.04
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% -39.17% +73.88%
75th Percentile £45.88 £61.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.05 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £46.09
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.76% +101.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Arista relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Arista job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Arista.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Arista

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Arista over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Arista in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Arista.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Arista

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Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Arista within the UK over the 6 months to 2 January 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
England -47 44 £550 -2.22% 11
London -7 42 £550 -10.75% 11
Work from Home -4 18 £483 -23.05% 7
UK excluding London -54 4 £270 -48.57% 4
Scotland - 3 £270 - 1
North West -31 1 - -
North of England -38 1 - -

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) AWS
2 5 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (8.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) BGP
1 17 (34.00%) VXLAN
2 16 (32.00%) OSPF
3 15 (30.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 12 (24.00%) Firewall
5 11 (22.00%) Multicast
5 11 (22.00%) WAN
6 7 (14.00%) LAN
6 7 (14.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (12.00%) VPN
8 5 (10.00%) DHCP
8 5 (10.00%) DNS
8 5 (10.00%) MPLS
9 4 (8.00%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (8.00%) NX-OS
9 4 (8.00%) VLAN
10 3 (6.00%) HSRP
10 3 (6.00%) Network Security
10 3 (6.00%) Structured Cabling
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) Git
2 5 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (54.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Banking
4 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.00%) Military
5 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (72.00%) Network Engineer
2 16 (32.00%) Automation Engineer
3 15 (30.00%) Python Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) IP Network Engineer
4 13 (26.00%) Switch Engineer
5 9 (18.00%) Senior
6 6 (12.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (12.00%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (10.00%) Project Manager
8 4 (8.00%) Architect
9 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (6.00%) IT Manager
9 3 (6.00%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (4.00%) Network Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
10 2 (4.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) Jinja
2 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (34.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (26.00%) Hedge funds
3 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) CMDB
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) SCADA
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.00%) DevOps
1 8 (16.00%) Migration
2 6 (12.00%) Agile
2 6 (12.00%) Project Management
3 5 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (10.00%) Low Latency
3 5 (10.00%) Network Design
3 5 (10.00%) Observability
3 5 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 4 (8.00%) Change Control
4 4 (8.00%) Logistics
4 4 (8.00%) Time Management
5 3 (6.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (6.00%) Load Balancing
5 3 (6.00%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (6.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (6.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (2.00%) Go
3 1 (2.00%) Perl
3 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (14.00%) CCIE
3 4 (8.00%) CCNP
4 3 (6.00%) Degree
4 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.00%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (2.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) PMO
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (8.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.00%) KVM
2 2 (4.00%) vSphere
3 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 31 (62.00%) Ansible
2 6 (12.00%) Terraform
3 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.00%) Grafana
4 3 (6.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.00%) Istio
6 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 24 (48.00%) Cisco
2 8 (16.00%) Palo Alto
3 5 (10.00%) Aruba
3 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 4 (8.00%) CheckPoint
4 4 (8.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (8.00%) VMware
5 3 (6.00%) F5
6 2 (4.00%) Juniper
6 2 (4.00%) NVIDIA
6 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.00%) Wind River
6 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.00%) BigPanda
7 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.00%) Mellanox