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 20 January 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 475 528
Rank change year-on-year -64 +53 +142
Contract jobs citing Arista 47 40 57
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 0.28% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 38
10th Percentile £310 £425 £463
25th Percentile £452 £508 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £563 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +8.43% +0.14%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £595
90th Percentile £670 £697 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £538 £513
% change year-on-year -49.77% +4.88% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 17,123 14,324 19,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 45.93% 45.80% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,055 8,461 12,056
10th Percentile £300 £285 £253
25th Percentile £410 £409 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 423 782
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.62 £13.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.00 £16.64
Median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £35.98
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -23.56% +18.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £61.50 £60.36
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.97 £25.30 £36.25
% change year-on-year -13.17% -30.21% +42.05%

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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 20 January 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 8 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 20 January 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 -53 42 £550 -2.22% 16
London -19 39 £550 -9.17% 9
Work from Home -15 15 £483 -23.05% 10
UK excluding London -52 5 £270 -49.77% 14
Scotland - 3 £270 - 3
North of England -54 2 - - 4
North West -25 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - - 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 5 (10.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (12.77%) MS Visio
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.91%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Azure
3 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.13%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (34.04%) BGP
1 16 (34.04%) VXLAN
2 15 (31.91%) OSPF
3 14 (29.79%) Ethernet VPN
4 12 (25.53%) Firewall
4 12 (25.53%) WAN
5 9 (19.15%) Multicast
6 8 (17.02%) LAN
6 8 (17.02%) VPN
7 7 (14.89%) SD-WAN
7 7 (14.89%) TCP/IP
8 6 (12.77%) DNS
9 5 (10.64%) DHCP
9 5 (10.64%) MPLS
10 4 (8.51%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (8.51%) Network Security
10 4 (8.51%) NX-OS
10 4 (8.51%) VLAN
11 3 (6.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (6.38%) VRRP
Development Applications
1 9 (19.15%) Git
2 5 (10.64%) GitLab
3 3 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (2.13%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (48.94%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.38%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Military
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (70.21%) Network Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) Automation Engineer
2 12 (25.53%) Python Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) IP Network Engineer
3 10 (21.28%) Senior
3 10 (21.28%) Switch Engineer
4 7 (14.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (12.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (10.64%) Project Manager
7 4 (8.51%) Architect
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Manager
8 3 (6.38%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 3 (6.38%) IT Manager
8 3 (6.38%) IT Project Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (4.26%) Network Architect
9 2 (4.26%) Network Manager
9 2 (4.26%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Jinja
2 1 (2.13%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 17 (36.17%) Data Centre
2 10 (21.28%) Hedge funds
3 3 (6.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.26%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.26%) Private Cloud
4 2 (4.26%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) CMDB
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) PKI
5 1 (2.13%) SCADA
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.51%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (19.15%) Migration
2 8 (17.02%) DevOps
3 6 (12.77%) Agile
3 6 (12.77%) Observability
3 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (12.77%) Project Management
4 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
4 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (10.64%) Low Latency
4 5 (10.64%) Network Design
4 5 (10.64%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
5 4 (8.51%) AI
5 4 (8.51%) Logistics
5 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
5 4 (8.51%) Task Automation
5 4 (8.51%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (8.51%) Time Management
6 3 (6.38%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (6.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 23 (48.94%) Python
2 2 (4.26%) Bash
3 1 (2.13%) Go
3 1 (2.13%) Perl
3 1 (2.13%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (17.02%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (12.77%) CCIE
3 5 (10.64%) CCNP
4 4 (8.51%) Degree
5 3 (6.38%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (2.13%) CCNA
7 1 (2.13%) CISSP
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.13%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.38%) PMO
2 1 (2.13%) GDPR
2 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (8.51%) VMware NSX
2 2 (4.26%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.26%) KVM
2 2 (4.26%) vSphere
3 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 29 (61.70%) Ansible
2 7 (14.89%) Terraform
3 5 (10.64%) Kubernetes
4 4 (8.51%) Grafana
4 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.26%) Istio
5 2 (4.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 26 (55.32%) Cisco
2 9 (19.15%) Palo Alto
3 6 (12.77%) Aruba
3 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (12.77%) ServiceNow
4 5 (10.64%) CheckPoint
5 4 (8.51%) F5
5 4 (8.51%) Fortinet
5 4 (8.51%) VMware
6 2 (4.26%) BigPanda
6 2 (4.26%) Juniper
6 2 (4.26%) NVIDIA
6 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
6 2 (4.26%) Splunk
6 2 (4.26%) Wind River
6 2 (4.26%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.13%) Google
7 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
7 1 (2.13%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (2.13%) Mellanox