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 10 February 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 487 532
Rank change year-on-year -52 +45 +119
Contract jobs citing Arista 48 45 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.32% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 30 43
10th Percentile £302 £427 £471
25th Percentile £400 £507 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £588 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +14.63% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £554
90th Percentile £670 £681 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £418 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -16.50% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.75
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
75th Percentile - - £41.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 17,748 14,202 19,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.09% 46.27% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,436 8,435 12,351
10th Percentile £300 £275 £255
25th Percentile £412 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -1.87%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 410 924
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% +7.52% -13.41%
75th Percentile £56.13 £63.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.81 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.95% +3.13% -4.59%

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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 10 February 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 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 10 February 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 -76 38 £490 -16.60% 14
London -38 32 £490 -18.33% 12
Work from Home -33 13 £475 -22.66% 2
UK excluding London -56 12 £418 -16.50% 8
Scotland - 7 £344 - 1
North of England -60 4 £490 +0.51% 1
North West -27 2 £490 +0.51% 1
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East -22 1 - - 6

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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 (10.42%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.17%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) MS Visio
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) AWS
2 3 (6.25%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) Catchpoint
2 3 (6.25%) GCP
2 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
3 2 (4.17%) IBM Watson
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (2.08%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 19 (39.58%) Firewall
2 17 (35.42%) BGP
3 15 (31.25%) WAN
4 14 (29.17%) OSPF
5 12 (25.00%) VPN
6 11 (22.92%) LAN
6 11 (22.92%) Multicast
7 10 (20.83%) Network Security
8 9 (18.75%) TCP/IP
9 8 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (16.67%) DNS
10 7 (14.58%) VXLAN
11 6 (12.50%) DHCP
11 6 (12.50%) Ethernet VPN
11 6 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (10.42%) HSRP
12 5 (10.42%) SD-WAN
13 4 (8.33%) VLAN
13 4 (8.33%) VRRP
13 4 (8.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 7 (14.58%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (8.33%) Git
2 4 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 19 (39.58%) Finance
2 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.25%) Banking
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Military
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (64.58%) Network Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Automation Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) IP Network Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Python Engineer
3 8 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.33%) Architect
5 4 (8.33%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Core Network Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (6.25%) IT Manager
6 3 (6.25%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Cisco Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Network Project Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Operations Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Principal Architect
7 2 (4.17%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.17%) Django
2 1 (2.08%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (41.67%) Data Centre
2 8 (16.67%) Hedge funds
3 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Private Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.08%) CESG
5 1 (2.08%) CMDB
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) SCADA
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Migration
2 8 (16.67%) Observability
2 8 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (14.58%) Network Design
4 6 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (12.50%) Low Latency
5 5 (10.42%) Agile
5 5 (10.42%) CI/CD
5 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
5 5 (10.42%) DevOps
5 5 (10.42%) Load Balancing
5 5 (10.42%) Project Delivery
5 5 (10.42%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.33%) AI
6 4 (8.33%) Logistics
6 4 (8.33%) Project Management
6 4 (8.33%) Runbook
6 4 (8.33%) Security Architecture
6 4 (8.33%) Time Management
6 4 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 21 (43.75%) Python
2 1 (2.08%) Bash
2 1 (2.08%) Perl
2 1 (2.08%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (27.08%) CCNP
3 6 (12.50%) CCIE
4 4 (8.33%) Degree
5 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.17%) CCNA
6 2 (4.17%) CISSP
6 2 (4.17%) JNCIA
6 2 (4.17%) JNCIS
7 1 (2.08%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.08%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.08%) CISM
7 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.08%) GIAC
7 1 (2.08%) OCP
7 1 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (2.08%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.08%) GDPR
2 1 (2.08%) NCSC
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (18.75%) VMware NSX
2 5 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (10.42%) vSphere
3 2 (4.17%) Hyper-V
3 2 (4.17%) KVM
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (54.17%) Ansible
2 7 (14.58%) Grafana
2 7 (14.58%) Prometheus
2 7 (14.58%) Terraform
3 5 (10.42%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.17%) Istio
4 2 (4.17%) Salt
5 1 (2.08%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 30 (62.50%) Cisco
2 15 (31.25%) Palo Alto
3 10 (20.83%) VMware
4 9 (18.75%) Fortinet
5 7 (14.58%) F5
5 7 (14.58%) Juniper
6 6 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 6 (12.50%) ServiceNow
7 5 (10.42%) Aruba
8 4 (8.33%) Splunk
9 3 (6.25%) Red Hat
9 3 (6.25%) SevOne
10 2 (4.17%) AppNeta
10 2 (4.17%) BigPanda
10 2 (4.17%) IBM
10 2 (4.17%) NetScout
10 2 (4.17%) NVIDIA
10 2 (4.17%) Wind River
10 2 (4.17%) Zscaler