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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 532 453 529
Rank change year-on-year -79 +76 +57
Contract jobs citing Arista 114 73 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.57% 0.52% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 37 48
10th Percentile £338 £418 £427
25th Percentile £407 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £558
90th Percentile £660 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +12.78% -12.20% +4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £36.63 -
25th Percentile - £37.19 £38.75
Median hourly rate - £38.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.13% -
75th Percentile - £39.69 £41.25
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 20,080 13,989 18,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.58% 47.63% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,626 8,611 11,465
10th Percentile £313 £280 £269
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.72% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -3.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 624 1,139
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.49
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +8.51% -45.35%
75th Percentile £59.56 £55.00 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.94 £22.00
% change year-on-year +30.79% +4.26% -45.00%

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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 June 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 12 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 June 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 -87 101 £550 - 16
London -70 62 £550 - 8
UK excluding London -65 39 £508 +12.78% 11
North of England -54 27 £575 +4.55% 4
Work from Home -37 24 £480 +9.71% 7
North West -26 16 £575 +4.55% 2
North East - 12 £650 - 2
South East -63 7 £413 -2.94% 7
Yorkshire -53 5 - -
Scotland - 5 £440 -
West Midlands -52 3 - -
Midlands -63 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 2 (1.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.63%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (22.81%) AWS
1 26 (22.81%) Azure
2 19 (16.67%) OCI
3 12 (10.53%) SaaS
4 7 (6.14%) GCP
5 4 (3.51%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.63%) Catchpoint
7 2 (1.75%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) IaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.88%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (64.04%) BGP
2 70 (61.40%) Firewall
3 59 (51.75%) WAN
4 47 (41.23%) OSPF
4 47 (41.23%) VXLAN
5 41 (35.96%) Ethernet VPN
6 30 (26.32%) Multicast
7 26 (22.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 25 (21.93%) BIG-IP
8 25 (21.93%) SD-WAN
9 22 (19.30%) VPN
10 19 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
11 16 (14.04%) MPLS
12 13 (11.40%) Network Security
13 11 (9.65%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (9.65%) VLAN
13 11 (9.65%) WLAN
14 10 (8.77%) IOS XR
14 10 (8.77%) LAN
14 10 (8.77%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) GitLab
2 7 (6.14%) Git
3 6 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.75%) JIRA
General
1 23 (20.18%) Finance
2 15 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
3 8 (7.02%) Social Skills
4 7 (6.14%) Banking
4 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.75%) Military
6 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (55.26%) Network Engineer
2 36 (31.58%) Senior
3 20 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (15.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (13.16%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (8.77%) Architect
7 9 (7.89%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (7.89%) Data Network Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Junior
9 3 (2.63%) Junior Network Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (2.63%) Senior Firewall Engineer
10 2 (1.75%) Automation Consultant
10 2 (1.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.51%) Jinja
2 2 (1.75%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.75%) Django
3 1 (0.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 72 (63.16%) Data Centre
2 20 (17.54%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (11.40%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.63%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.88%) CESG
6 1 (0.88%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.02%) Linux
2 7 (6.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) VMS
3 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.70%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (28.07%) Load Balancing
3 31 (27.19%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.05%) Migration
4 24 (21.05%) Zero Trust
5 23 (20.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (19.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (17.54%) Network Design
8 18 (15.79%) Low Latency
9 17 (14.91%) DevOps
9 17 (14.91%) High Availability
10 16 (14.04%) Network Architecture
11 14 (12.28%) Mentoring
12 12 (10.53%) AI
13 11 (9.65%) Incident Management
13 11 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (8.77%) Agile
14 10 (8.77%) Observability
15 8 (7.02%) Incident Response
15 8 (7.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.86%) Python
2 1 (0.88%) Perl
2 1 (0.88%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 40 (35.09%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (31.58%) CCNP
3 13 (11.40%) CCIE
4 12 (10.53%) Security Cleared
5 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.26%) Degree
7 4 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.63%) CCNA
9 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.75%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.75%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.88%) CCDA
10 1 (0.88%) CCDP
10 1 (0.88%) CISM
10 1 (0.88%) GIAC
10 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.88%) OCP
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.75%) NCSC
2 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.88%) NIST
2 1 (0.88%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (6.14%) VMware NSX
2 5 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.39%) vSphere
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.88%) IAG
Systems Management
1 64 (56.14%) Ansible
2 33 (28.95%) Terraform
3 17 (14.91%) Grafana
3 17 (14.91%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.39%) Salt
5 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.75%) Istio
7 1 (0.88%) CASB
7 1 (0.88%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.88%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 78 (68.42%) Cisco
2 57 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 47 (41.23%) F5
4 34 (29.82%) Fortinet
5 28 (24.56%) Aruba
6 16 (14.04%) Juniper
7 11 (9.65%) CheckPoint
8 10 (8.77%) VMware
9 9 (7.89%) Splunk
10 8 (7.02%) Microsoft
11 7 (6.14%) ServiceNow
12 6 (5.26%) BigPanda
13 4 (3.51%) Red Hat
14 3 (2.63%) SevOne
14 3 (2.63%) Wind River
15 2 (1.75%) AppNeta
15 2 (1.75%) Infoblox
15 2 (1.75%) Meraki
15 2 (1.75%) NetScout
15 2 (1.75%) Zscaler