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 19 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
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 540 479 522
Rank change year-on-year -61 +43 +128
Contract jobs citing Arista 61 50 68
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.35% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 43
10th Percentile £350 £425 £471
25th Percentile £404 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £563 £513
Median % change year-on-year -14.67% +9.76% +2.50%
75th Percentile £556 £675 £554
90th Percentile £670 - £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £438 £513
% change year-on-year +0.57% -14.63% +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 18,193 14,299 19,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.68% 46.42% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,643 8,602 11,971
10th Percentile £300 £275 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £523
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -0.43% -1.42%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 899 407 930
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £12.98
25th Percentile £17.97 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +12.28% -20.24%
75th Percentile £57.63 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.45 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -13.33%

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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 19 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 19 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 48 £490 -12.89% 11
London -44 41 £490 -18.33% 9
Work from Home -30 16 £480 -21.76% 1
UK excluding London -52 13 £440 +0.57% 6
Scotland - 7 £344 - 1
North of England -73 4 £490 +18.79% 1
North West -27 2 £490 +0.51% 1
South East -27 2 £525 -8.70% 3
Yorkshire -57 2 - -

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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 (8.20%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) MS Visio
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) AWS
2 5 (8.20%) Azure
2 5 (8.20%) GCP
3 3 (4.92%) Catchpoint
3 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.28%) IBM Watson
4 2 (3.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.64%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.64%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.64%) IaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.64%) PaaS
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (39.34%) Firewall
2 21 (34.43%) BGP
3 19 (31.15%) WAN
4 17 (27.87%) VPN
5 16 (26.23%) Multicast
5 16 (26.23%) OSPF
6 12 (19.67%) Ethernet VPN
6 12 (19.67%) Network Security
7 11 (18.03%) LAN
8 10 (16.39%) VXLAN
9 9 (14.75%) Cisco Nexus
9 9 (14.75%) InfiniBand
9 9 (14.75%) TCP/IP
9 9 (14.75%) Wireless
10 8 (13.11%) DNS
10 8 (13.11%) Ethernet
10 8 (13.11%) MPLS
10 8 (13.11%) NetScaler
11 6 (9.84%) DHCP
11 6 (9.84%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (8.20%) Git
3 4 (6.56%) GitLab
General
1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 14 (22.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (6.56%) Banking
3 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.56%) Telecoms
4 2 (3.28%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Military
5 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (57.38%) Network Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Automation Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Python Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Switch Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) AWS Engineer
3 8 (13.11%) IP Network Engineer
4 6 (9.84%) Architect
5 5 (8.20%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.20%) Senior
6 4 (6.56%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Core Network Engineer
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) IT Manager
7 3 (4.92%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (4.92%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.92%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Administrator
8 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.28%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.28%) 802.1X
1 2 (3.28%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 27 (44.26%) Data Centre
2 8 (13.11%) Hedge funds
3 4 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (4.92%) Private Cloud
4 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.28%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.64%) CESG
6 1 (1.64%) CMDB
6 1 (1.64%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.64%) SCADA
6 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (14.75%) Linux
2 7 (11.48%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
3 1 (1.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.67%) Observability
2 11 (18.03%) Migration
3 10 (16.39%) Load Balancing
3 10 (16.39%) Low Latency
3 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.75%) AI
4 9 (14.75%) Technical Leadership
5 8 (13.11%) Incident Response
6 7 (11.48%) Network Design
6 7 (11.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (9.84%) Incident Management
7 6 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (9.84%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (9.84%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (8.20%) CI/CD
8 5 (8.20%) Decision-Making
8 5 (8.20%) DevOps
8 5 (8.20%) Network Management
8 5 (8.20%) Project Delivery
8 5 (8.20%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 24 (39.34%) Python
2 1 (1.64%) Bash
2 1 (1.64%) Perl
2 1 (1.64%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (32.79%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (27.87%) CCNP
3 8 (13.11%) CCIE
4 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
5 3 (4.92%) CCNA
6 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.28%) CISSP
6 2 (3.28%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.28%) JNCIA
6 2 (3.28%) JNCIS
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.64%) CCDA
7 1 (1.64%) CCDP
7 1 (1.64%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.64%) OCP
7 1 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) PMO
2 2 (3.28%) NCSC
3 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) NIST
3 1 (1.64%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (14.75%) VMware NSX
2 6 (9.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.20%) vSphere
4 3 (4.92%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.28%) Active Directory
5 2 (3.28%) KVM
Systems Management
1 32 (52.46%) Ansible
2 13 (21.31%) Grafana
2 13 (21.31%) Prometheus
3 9 (14.75%) Terraform
4 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
4 5 (8.20%) Salt
5 2 (3.28%) Istio
6 1 (1.64%) CASB
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.64%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 41 (67.21%) Cisco
2 24 (39.34%) Palo Alto
3 16 (26.23%) F5
4 13 (21.31%) Fortinet
5 12 (19.67%) Aruba
5 12 (19.67%) CheckPoint
6 11 (18.03%) VMware
7 10 (16.39%) Juniper
7 10 (16.39%) ServiceNow
8 8 (13.11%) Splunk
9 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
10 6 (9.84%) BigPanda
11 3 (4.92%) NVIDIA
11 3 (4.92%) Red Hat
11 3 (4.92%) SevOne
11 3 (4.92%) Zscaler
12 2 (3.28%) AppNeta
12 2 (3.28%) Meraki
12 2 (3.28%) NetScout
12 2 (3.28%) Wind River