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 11 May 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
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 528 455 521
Rank change year-on-year -73 +66 +83
Contract jobs citing Arista 97 64 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.20% 0.22% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.49% 0.46% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 37 47
10th Percentile £350 £425 £416
25th Percentile £421 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £553
90th Percentile £691 £626 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +12.82% -17.07% +4.59%
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 19,724 13,978 18,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.42% 47.54% 42.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,511 8,753 11,339
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £630
90th Percentile £703 £716 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.01% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 998 569 1,095
10th Percentile £15.29 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.36 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.91% +13.33% -48.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.81 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.05 £23.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +21.93% +6.98% -45.71%

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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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -97 82 £563 +2.27% 28
London -41 57 £600 +9.09% 11
UK excluding London -74 27 £480 +12.82% 20
Work from Home -28 19 £480 -12.33% 13
North of England -57 17 £575 +39.39% 15
North West -35 10 £575 +12.20% 7
Scotland - 7 £344 -
North East - 6 £650 - 6
Yorkshire -52 3 - - 2
South East -55 3 £470 +10.59% 4
West Midlands -61 1 - -
Midlands -66 1 - -

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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 (2.06%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.56%) AWS
1 18 (18.56%) Azure
2 11 (11.34%) OCI
3 7 (7.22%) GCP
3 7 (7.22%) SaaS
4 3 (3.09%) Catchpoint
4 3 (3.09%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.06%) IBM Watson
5 2 (2.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.03%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.03%) IaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.03%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 58 (59.79%) Firewall
2 57 (58.76%) BGP
3 47 (48.45%) WAN
4 39 (40.21%) OSPF
4 39 (40.21%) VXLAN
5 33 (34.02%) Ethernet VPN
6 30 (30.93%) Multicast
7 20 (20.62%) VPN
8 19 (19.59%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 19 (19.59%) SD-WAN
9 18 (18.56%) BIG-IP
10 13 (13.40%) MPLS
10 13 (13.40%) Wi-Fi
11 11 (11.34%) Network Security
11 11 (11.34%) VLAN
12 10 (10.31%) TCP/IP
12 10 (10.31%) Wireless
13 9 (9.28%) LAN
14 8 (8.25%) Ethernet
14 8 (8.25%) IGMP
Development Applications
1 14 (14.43%) GitLab
2 8 (8.25%) Git
3 6 (6.19%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (18.56%) Finance
2 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
3 10 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Banking
5 5 (5.15%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Military
7 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (58.76%) Network Engineer
2 27 (27.84%) Senior
3 14 (14.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (14.43%) Senior Network Engineer
4 12 (12.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (9.28%) Architect
6 8 (8.25%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Data Centre Engineer
6 8 (8.25%) Data Network Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Core Network Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (3.09%) Senior Firewall Engineer
9 2 (2.06%) Administrator
9 2 (2.06%) IT Engineer
9 2 (2.06%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.06%) Senior Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) Jinja
2 2 (2.06%) Django
3 1 (1.03%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.03%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 60 (61.86%) Data Centre
2 12 (12.37%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.22%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.09%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.03%) CESG
6 1 (1.03%) CMDB
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) VMS
3 1 (1.03%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 24 (24.74%) Load Balancing
3 20 (20.62%) CI/CD
3 20 (20.62%) Migration
4 17 (17.53%) Low Latency
5 16 (16.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (16.49%) Network Design
5 16 (16.49%) Zero Trust
6 15 (15.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 12 (12.37%) DevOps
7 12 (12.37%) High Availability
7 12 (12.37%) Mentoring
8 11 (11.34%) AI
8 11 (11.34%) Observability
8 11 (11.34%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (10.31%) Network Architecture
10 9 (9.28%) Incident Management
10 9 (9.28%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (8.25%) Agile
11 8 (8.25%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.27%) Python
2 1 (1.03%) Bash
2 1 (1.03%) Perl
2 1 (1.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 35 (36.08%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (31.96%) CCNP
3 12 (12.37%) CCIE
4 11 (11.34%) Security Cleared
5 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.15%) Degree
7 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (3.09%) CCNA
9 2 (2.06%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.06%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.06%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.03%) CCDA
10 1 (1.03%) CCDP
10 1 (1.03%) CCIP
10 1 (1.03%) CISM
10 1 (1.03%) CISSP
10 1 (1.03%) GIAC
10 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.03%) OCP
10 1 (1.03%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.06%) NCSC
2 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.03%) GDPR
2 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.03%) NIST
2 1 (1.03%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) VMware NSX
2 5 (5.15%) vSphere
3 4 (4.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.03%) IAG
Systems Management
1 50 (51.55%) Ansible
2 23 (23.71%) Terraform
3 18 (18.56%) Grafana
3 18 (18.56%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.15%) Salt
5 3 (3.09%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.06%) Istio
7 1 (1.03%) CASB
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.03%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 67 (69.07%) Cisco
2 49 (50.52%) Palo Alto
3 38 (39.18%) F5
4 28 (28.87%) Fortinet
5 20 (20.62%) Aruba
6 14 (14.43%) Juniper
7 11 (11.34%) CheckPoint
8 9 (9.28%) VMware
9 8 (8.25%) Splunk
10 7 (7.22%) ServiceNow
11 6 (6.19%) BigPanda
12 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
13 3 (3.09%) Red Hat
13 3 (3.09%) SevOne
14 2 (2.06%) AppNeta
14 2 (2.06%) Citrix
14 2 (2.06%) Infoblox
14 2 (2.06%) Meraki
14 2 (2.06%) NetScout
14 2 (2.06%) Zscaler