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 6 November 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
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 495 598
Rank change year-on-year -14 +103 +102
Contract jobs citing Arista 65 56 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.19% 0.15% 0.078%
As % of the Vendors category 0.39% 0.34% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 38 22
10th Percentile £450 £213 £440
25th Percentile £464 £263 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £530
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +7.31% +10.42%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £725
90th Percentile £664 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +4.76% - +10.53%

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 16,484 16,398 21,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 44.89% 45.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,325 9,657 13,517
10th Percentile £283 £296 £260
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 843 506 665
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.57
25th Percentile £17.96 £17.00 £19.76
Median hourly rate £25.08 £31.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.40% -28.25% +75.60%
75th Percentile £40.00 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.92 £71.25 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £42.75
% change year-on-year -20.30% -34.50% +94.32%

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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 6 November 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 6 November 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 +8 61 £550 -3.30% 33
London +6 56 £550 -8.33% 26
Work from Home +10 29 £483 -19.58% 16
UK excluding London -43 4 £550 +4.76% 15
South West +12 2 £550 - 1
North West -14 2 £550 -
North of England -32 2 £550 - 1
Midlands - 2 £450 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £450 - 3

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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 (7.69%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (7.69%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.08%) AWS
2 4 (6.15%) Azure
3 3 (4.62%) GCP
4 2 (3.08%) IaaS
4 2 (3.08%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.08%) PaaS
4 2 (3.08%) SaaS
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.54%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.54%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 30 (46.15%) BGP
2 24 (36.92%) OSPF
3 22 (33.85%) Multicast
4 21 (32.31%) Firewall
5 19 (29.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 19 (29.23%) VXLAN
6 7 (10.77%) WAN
7 6 (9.23%) MPLS
7 6 (9.23%) Unicast
8 5 (7.69%) DNS
8 5 (7.69%) IPsec
8 5 (7.69%) LAN
8 5 (7.69%) NX-OS
9 4 (6.15%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (6.15%) IGMP
9 4 (6.15%) Network Security
10 3 (4.62%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (4.62%) EIGRP
10 3 (4.62%) HSRP
10 3 (4.62%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) Git
2 3 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.54%) GitLab
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (63.08%) Finance
2 24 (36.92%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Banking
3 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 4 (6.15%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.54%) Military
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (81.54%) Network Engineer
2 25 (38.46%) Python Engineer
3 22 (33.85%) Automation Engineer
4 21 (32.31%) AWS Engineer
5 18 (27.69%) IP Network Engineer
5 18 (27.69%) Switch Engineer
6 12 (18.46%) Senior
7 9 (13.85%) Cisco Engineer
7 9 (13.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 8 (12.31%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (7.69%) Project Manager
10 3 (4.62%) Architect
10 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Manager
10 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Project Manager
10 3 (4.62%) IT Manager
10 3 (4.62%) IT Project Manager
10 3 (4.62%) Network Architect
11 2 (3.08%) Network Specialist
11 2 (3.08%) Senior Architect
11 2 (3.08%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Jinja
2 2 (3.08%) eBPF
3 1 (1.54%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 23 (35.38%) Data Centre
2 18 (27.69%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.54%) PKI
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) SCADA
4 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Low Latency
2 8 (12.31%) Agile
2 8 (12.31%) DevOps
2 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (9.23%) Change Control
3 6 (9.23%) Project Management
4 5 (7.69%) Change Management
4 5 (7.69%) CI/CD
4 5 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (6.15%) Business Case
5 4 (6.15%) High Availability
5 4 (6.15%) Logistics
5 4 (6.15%) Network Design
5 4 (6.15%) Scrum
5 4 (6.15%) Time Management
5 4 (6.15%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (4.62%) Coaching
6 3 (4.62%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.92%) Python
2 2 (3.08%) C
3 1 (1.54%) Bash
3 1 (1.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (27.69%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (20.00%) CCIE
3 9 (13.85%) CCNP
4 3 (4.62%) CISSP
4 3 (4.62%) Degree
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.08%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.54%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.62%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Hyper-V
1 2 (3.08%) KVM
1 2 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 44 (67.69%) Ansible
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.08%) Nagios
5 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.54%) Grafana
5 1 (1.54%) Icinga
5 1 (1.54%) Observium
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (43.08%) Cisco
2 9 (13.85%) Fortinet
3 8 (12.31%) Microsoft
4 7 (10.77%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.15%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.62%) F5
6 3 (4.62%) Juniper
7 2 (3.08%) Aruba
7 2 (3.08%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.08%) NVIDIA
7 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
7 2 (3.08%) VMware
7 2 (3.08%) Wind River
8 1 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.54%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.54%) Google
8 1 (1.54%) Mellanox
8 1 (1.54%) Zscaler