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 4 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 534 449 527
Rank change year-on-year -85 +78 +62
Contract jobs citing Arista 111 73 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.53% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 38 47
10th Percentile £335 £419 £416
25th Percentile £408 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £553
90th Percentile £662 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +16.67% -12.20% +5.13%
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 19,948 13,741 18,095
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.76% 47.66% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,535 8,490 11,282
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £514
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -1.22% -2.14%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £489 £500
% change year-on-year +1.23% -2.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,030 604 1,114
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.34 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%
75th Percentile £58.75 £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% +4.65% -45.64%

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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 4 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 4 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 -91 98 £550 - 19
London -67 62 £550 - 9
UK excluding London -78 36 £525 +16.67% 13
North of England -54 26 £575 +4.55% 6
Work from Home -36 24 £480 +9.71% 7
North West -17 16 £575 +4.55% 2
North East - 11 £650 - 3
South East -56 5 £415 -2.35% 6
Yorkshire -58 5 - - 1
Scotland - 5 £440 -
West Midlands -59 3 - -
Midlands -61 3 - -

Arista
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 (1.80%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.52%) AWS
1 25 (22.52%) Azure
2 18 (16.22%) OCI
3 11 (9.91%) SaaS
4 7 (6.31%) GCP
5 4 (3.60%) OpenShift
6 3 (2.70%) Catchpoint
7 2 (1.80%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.90%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.90%) IaaS
8 1 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (63.96%) BGP
2 69 (62.16%) Firewall
3 57 (51.35%) WAN
4 46 (41.44%) OSPF
5 45 (40.54%) VXLAN
6 39 (35.14%) Ethernet VPN
7 30 (27.03%) Multicast
8 25 (22.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 24 (21.62%) BIG-IP
9 24 (21.62%) SD-WAN
10 21 (18.92%) VPN
11 18 (16.22%) Wi-Fi
12 15 (13.51%) MPLS
13 13 (11.71%) Network Security
14 11 (9.91%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (9.91%) VLAN
15 10 (9.01%) IOS XR
15 10 (9.01%) TCP/IP
15 10 (9.01%) Wireless
15 10 (9.01%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) GitLab
2 6 (5.41%) Git
2 6 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.90%) JIRA
General
1 23 (20.72%) Finance
2 14 (12.61%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (12.61%) Public Sector
3 7 (6.31%) Banking
3 7 (6.31%) Social Skills
4 5 (4.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (1.80%) Military
6 1 (0.90%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.90%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (56.76%) Network Engineer
2 35 (31.53%) Senior
3 20 (18.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (16.22%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (13.51%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (9.01%) Architect
7 9 (8.11%) Automation Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Data Centre Engineer
7 9 (8.11%) Data Network Engineer
8 6 (5.41%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Core Network Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Junior
9 3 (2.70%) Junior Network Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (2.70%) Senior Firewall Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) Security Engineer
10 2 (1.80%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.60%) Jinja
2 2 (1.80%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.80%) Django
3 1 (0.90%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 71 (63.96%) Data Centre
2 19 (17.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.81%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.70%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.80%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.90%) CESG
6 1 (0.90%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.90%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.21%) Linux
2 7 (6.31%) Unix
3 1 (0.90%) VMS
3 1 (0.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (30.63%) Infrastructure as Code
2 31 (27.93%) Load Balancing
3 29 (26.13%) CI/CD
4 24 (21.62%) Migration
5 23 (20.72%) Zero Trust
6 22 (19.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 21 (18.92%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 19 (17.12%) Network Design
9 18 (16.22%) Low Latency
10 16 (14.41%) DevOps
10 16 (14.41%) High Availability
11 15 (13.51%) Network Architecture
12 14 (12.61%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.81%) AI
14 11 (9.91%) Incident Management
14 11 (9.91%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (9.01%) Observability
16 9 (8.11%) Agile
17 8 (7.21%) Incident Response
17 8 (7.21%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 48 (43.24%) Python
2 1 (0.90%) Perl
2 1 (0.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (35.14%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (31.53%) CCNP
3 13 (11.71%) CCIE
4 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
5 7 (6.31%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.41%) Degree
7 4 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.70%) CCNA
9 2 (1.80%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.80%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.80%) JNCIS
10 1 (0.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.90%) CCDA
10 1 (0.90%) CCDP
10 1 (0.90%) CISM
10 1 (0.90%) CISSP
10 1 (0.90%) GIAC
10 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.90%) OCP
10 1 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.80%) NCSC
2 1 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.90%) GDPR
2 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.90%) NIST
2 1 (0.90%) QA
2 1 (0.90%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (6.31%) VMware NSX
2 5 (4.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.50%) vSphere
3 1 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.90%) IAG
Systems Management
1 62 (55.86%) Ansible
2 32 (28.83%) Terraform
3 17 (15.32%) Grafana
3 17 (15.32%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.50%) Salt
5 4 (3.60%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.80%) Istio
7 1 (0.90%) CASB
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.90%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 77 (69.37%) Cisco
2 56 (50.45%) Palo Alto
3 45 (40.54%) F5
4 33 (29.73%) Fortinet
5 27 (24.32%) Aruba
6 15 (13.51%) Juniper
7 11 (9.91%) CheckPoint
8 10 (9.01%) VMware
9 9 (8.11%) Splunk
10 7 (6.31%) Microsoft
10 7 (6.31%) ServiceNow
11 6 (5.41%) BigPanda
12 4 (3.60%) Red Hat
13 3 (2.70%) SevOne
13 3 (2.70%) Wind River
14 2 (1.80%) AppNeta
14 2 (1.80%) Infoblox
14 2 (1.80%) Meraki
14 2 (1.80%) NetScout
14 2 (1.80%) Zscaler