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 15 September 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 Arista Networks.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 515 605
Rank change year-on-year +28 +90 +143
Contract jobs citing Arista 70 46 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.12% 0.094%
As % of the Vendors category 0.46% 0.27% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 35
10th Percentile £450 £213 £463
25th Percentile £491 £250 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £470 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -10.48% +9.38%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £653
90th Percentile £663 - £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +37.50% -20.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
90th Percentile £39.88 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 15,284 16,849 22,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.09% 44.17% 44.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,359 10,137 14,497
10th Percentile £275 £288 £263
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £612 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 785 684 656
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.26 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.62 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.38
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% -30.36% +85.44%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £64.43
90th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.05 £30.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year -29.83% -25.60% +101.63%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Arista as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Arista 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 15 September 2025.

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 9 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 15 September 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
England +39 66 £578 +22.87% 13
London +40 59 £600 +23.71% 5
Work from Home +28 26 £483 -19.58% 9
UK excluding London +4 6 £550 +37.50% 8
North of England - 3 £550 - 4
Midlands - 3 £450 -
North West - 3 £550 - 2
South West - 3 £550 -
West Midlands - 3 £450 -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (2.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 35 (50.00%) AWS
2 7 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) IaaS
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.86%) PaaS
4 2 (2.86%) SaaS
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 41 (58.57%) BGP
2 33 (47.14%) OSPF
3 29 (41.43%) Multicast
4 25 (35.71%) Firewall
5 24 (34.29%) Ethernet VPN
6 22 (31.43%) VXLAN
7 10 (14.29%) MPLS
7 10 (14.29%) WAN
8 9 (12.86%) IPsec
9 7 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
9 7 (10.00%) NX-OS
9 7 (10.00%) Unicast
10 6 (8.57%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (7.14%) DNS
11 5 (7.14%) HTTP
11 5 (7.14%) LAN
11 5 (7.14%) Network Security
11 5 (7.14%) SSL
11 5 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 40 (57.14%) Finance
2 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Military
7 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (82.86%) Network Engineer
2 25 (35.71%) Python Engineer
3 20 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (25.71%) Automation Engineer
5 16 (22.86%) Senior
6 14 (20.00%) IP Network Engineer
6 14 (20.00%) Switch Engineer
7 13 (18.57%) Cisco Engineer
7 13 (18.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 9 (12.86%) Senior Network Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Consultant
9 3 (4.29%) Implementation Engineer
9 3 (4.29%) Senior Consultant
10 2 (2.86%) Network Design Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Product Owner
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Network Architect
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Jinja
2 2 (2.86%) eBPF
3 1 (1.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 16 (22.86%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Low Latency
2 8 (11.43%) Agile
2 8 (11.43%) DevOps
3 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (8.57%) Change Control
4 6 (8.57%) Load Balancing
5 5 (7.14%) Change Management
5 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 5 (7.14%) High Availability
5 5 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (5.71%) Business Case
6 4 (5.71%) Coaching
7 3 (4.29%) Migration
7 3 (4.29%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (4.29%) Process Improvement
7 3 (4.29%) Product Management
7 3 (4.29%) Task Automation
8 2 (2.86%) Incident Management
8 2 (2.86%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (62.86%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) C
3 1 (1.43%) Bash
3 1 (1.43%) Go
3 1 (1.43%) Perl
3 1 (1.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (20.00%) CCIE
3 13 (18.57%) CCNP
4 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.86%) CISSP
4 2 (2.86%) JNCIE
5 1 (1.43%) CCIE Data Center
5 1 (1.43%) Degree
5 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Firmware
1 2 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 2 (2.86%) KVM
1 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (71.43%) Ansible
2 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 4 (5.71%) Nagios
4 2 (2.86%) Icinga
4 2 (2.86%) Observium
5 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (50.00%) Cisco
2 12 (17.14%) Fortinet
3 7 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (8.57%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 4 (5.71%) SolarWinds
7 3 (4.29%) F5
7 3 (4.29%) Juniper
7 3 (4.29%) VMware
8 2 (2.86%) Meraki
8 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.86%) Wind River
9 1 (1.43%) Aruba
9 1 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.43%) McAfee
9 1 (1.43%) NVIDIA
9 1 (1.43%) Splunk