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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 565 487 515
Rank change year-on-year -78 +28 +90
Contract jobs citing Arista 113 70 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.22% 0.12%
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% 0.46% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 34 31
10th Percentile £338 £450 £213
25th Percentile £427 £491 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +19.68% -10.48%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £650
90th Percentile £663 £663 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £550 £400
% change year-on-year -2.27% +37.50% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £50.40 £36.63 -
25th Percentile £52.50 £37.19 -
Median hourly rate £56.00 £38.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +44.52% - -
75th Percentile £64.88 £39.69 -
90th Percentile £70.20 £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 22,747 15,293 16,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.80% 47.12% 44.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,964 9,367 10,148
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £612 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,253 777 684
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.60 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.90 £25.15 £30.21
Median % change year-on-year +6.96% -16.74% -30.36%
75th Percentile £62.00 £43.25 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.75 £67.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +24.48% -30.00% -25.60%

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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 15 September 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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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Arista over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Arista in the UK

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Top 11 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 15 September 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 -82 108 £550 -4.76% 91
London -85 60 £556 -7.29% 71
UK excluding London -77 39 £538 -2.27% 26
North of England -41 32 £575 +4.55% 6
North West -27 21 £575 +4.55% 3
Work from Home -68 20 £575 +19.17% 19
North East - 12 £650 -
South East - 7 £413 - 11
Yorkshire - 5 £500 - 3
Midlands -44 3 - - 2
West Midlands -51 3 - - 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 2 (1.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (25.66%) AWS
2 26 (23.01%) Azure
3 19 (16.81%) OCI
4 11 (9.73%) SaaS
5 9 (7.96%) GCP
6 3 (2.65%) IBM Watson
6 3 (2.65%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.77%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 80 (70.80%) BGP
2 58 (51.33%) Firewall
3 51 (45.13%) WAN
4 47 (41.59%) OSPF
4 47 (41.59%) VXLAN
5 43 (38.05%) Ethernet VPN
6 32 (28.32%) Multicast
7 28 (24.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 26 (23.01%) BIG-IP
9 20 (17.70%) SD-WAN
9 20 (17.70%) VLAN
10 16 (14.16%) VPN
11 14 (12.39%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (10.62%) WLAN
13 11 (9.73%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (9.73%) DNS
13 11 (9.73%) TCP/IP
14 10 (8.85%) MPLS
15 9 (7.96%) IOS XR
16 8 (7.08%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 18 (15.93%) GitLab
2 8 (7.08%) Git
3 5 (4.42%) JIRA
4 4 (3.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (25.66%) Finance
2 13 (11.50%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (11.50%) Public Sector
3 10 (8.85%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.85%) Telecoms
4 7 (6.19%) Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.77%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.77%) French Language
5 2 (1.77%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.77%) Military
6 1 (0.88%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.88%) Games
6 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 75 (66.37%) Network Engineer
2 52 (46.02%) Senior
3 27 (23.89%) Senior Network Engineer
4 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 18 (15.93%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (9.73%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (8.85%) Consultant
8 9 (7.96%) Network Consultant
9 7 (6.19%) Cisco Engineer
9 7 (6.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Data Centre Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Data Network Engineer
10 6 (5.31%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (5.31%) Senior Network Consultant
11 4 (3.54%) Firewall Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Senior Firewall Engineer
12 3 (2.65%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
12 3 (2.65%) Junior Network Engineer
12 3 (2.65%) Operations Engineer
12 3 (2.65%) Senior Core Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (30.09%) Terraform
2 3 (2.65%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.65%) NETCONF
2 3 (2.65%) REST
2 3 (2.65%) YANG
3 2 (1.77%) eBPF
3 2 (1.77%) YAML
4 1 (0.88%) Django
4 1 (0.88%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 68 (60.18%) Data Centre
2 19 (16.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 14 (12.39%) Cloud Native
4 6 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.77%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (1.77%) IoT
5 2 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Animation
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.08%) Windows
2 4 (3.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (37.17%) Infrastructure as Code
2 28 (24.78%) Migration
3 27 (23.89%) CI/CD
3 27 (23.89%) Load Balancing
4 24 (21.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 22 (19.47%) Zero Trust
6 21 (18.58%) Network Design
7 18 (15.93%) Low Latency
8 15 (13.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 14 (12.39%) High Availability
9 14 (12.39%) Network Architecture
10 13 (11.50%) Validation
11 12 (10.62%) DevOps
12 10 (8.85%) Project Delivery
13 9 (7.96%) Mentoring
13 9 (7.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (7.08%) AI
15 7 (6.19%) Observability
15 7 (6.19%) Procure-to-Pay
15 7 (6.19%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 50 (44.25%) Python
2 2 (1.77%) Go
2 2 (1.77%) Perl
2 2 (1.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.77%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.88%) Bash
3 1 (0.88%) C++
3 1 (0.88%) Java
3 1 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (28.32%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (24.78%) CCNP
3 12 (10.62%) CCIE
3 12 (10.62%) Security Cleared
4 9 (7.96%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.42%) Degree
6 3 (2.65%) CCNA
6 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.88%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.88%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (0.88%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Docker
2 1 (0.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (47.79%) Ansible
2 7 (6.19%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.54%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.65%) Grafana
5 1 (0.88%) Cilium
5 1 (0.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (65.49%) Cisco
2 47 (41.59%) Palo Alto
3 38 (33.63%) F5
4 29 (25.66%) Fortinet
5 28 (24.78%) Aruba
6 12 (10.62%) Juniper
7 6 (5.31%) Microsoft
7 6 (5.31%) Splunk
8 5 (4.42%) VMware
9 3 (2.65%) Google
9 3 (2.65%) IBM
9 3 (2.65%) NetScout
9 3 (2.65%) NVIDIA
9 3 (2.65%) SevOne
10 2 (1.77%) McAfee
10 2 (1.77%) Perforce
11 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.88%) Nokia
11 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.88%) Wind River