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 19 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
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 462 529
Rank change year-on-year -55 +67 +59
Contract jobs citing Arista 116 76 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.25% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.54% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 39 50
10th Percentile £340 £421 £350
25th Percentile £425 £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 £558
90th Percentile £650 £652 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +3.54%
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 20,567 14,197 18,573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.70% 47.60% 42.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,899 8,734 11,515
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,054 655 1,156
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.19
25th Percentile £18.90 £17.30 £14.50
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +35.13% +5.67% -45.13%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.85 £59.50
90th Percentile £80.08 £68.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +42.22% - -43.75%

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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 19 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 19 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 -84 103 £550 - 10
London -69 60 £563 - 4
UK excluding London -76 43 £500 +11.11% 8
North of England -46 29 £575 +4.55% 3
Work from Home -35 24 £480 +9.71% 5
North West -22 18 £575 +4.55% 3
North East - 12 £650 -
South East -57 9 £415 -2.35% 5
Yorkshire -57 5 - -
Scotland - 5 £440 -
Midlands -57 3 - -
West Midlands -60 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 1 (0.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (3.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.28%) AWS
2 26 (22.41%) Azure
3 19 (16.38%) OCI
4 12 (10.34%) SaaS
5 8 (6.90%) GCP
6 3 (2.59%) Catchpoint
6 3 (2.59%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.72%) IBM Watson
8 1 (0.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.86%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.86%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.86%) IaaS
8 1 (0.86%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.86%) PaaS
8 1 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 77 (66.38%) BGP
2 72 (62.07%) Firewall
3 60 (51.72%) WAN
4 49 (42.24%) OSPF
5 48 (41.38%) VXLAN
6 42 (36.21%) Ethernet VPN
7 31 (26.72%) Multicast
8 26 (22.41%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 25 (21.55%) BIG-IP
10 24 (20.69%) SD-WAN
11 23 (19.83%) VPN
12 19 (16.38%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (14.66%) MPLS
14 15 (12.93%) Network Security
15 12 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (10.34%) VLAN
15 12 (10.34%) WLAN
16 11 (9.48%) Wireless
17 10 (8.62%) LAN
17 10 (8.62%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 19 (16.38%) GitLab
2 9 (7.76%) Git
3 6 (5.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.59%) JIRA
General
1 24 (20.69%) Finance
2 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 14 (12.07%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 7 (6.03%) Banking
7 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.72%) Military
9 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (56.90%) Network Engineer
2 38 (32.76%) Senior
3 20 (17.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (15.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 16 (13.79%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Architect
6 9 (7.76%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Data Centre Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Data Network Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Automation Consultant
8 3 (2.59%) Consultant
8 3 (2.59%) Core Network Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Junior
8 3 (2.59%) Junior Network Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (2.59%) Network Consultant
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.45%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.45%) Jinja
2 2 (1.72%) Django
3 1 (0.86%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (62.93%) Data Centre
2 20 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 12 (10.34%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.86%) CESG
6 1 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.86%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.03%) Linux
2 6 (5.17%) Unix
3 3 (2.59%) Windows
4 1 (0.86%) VMS
4 1 (0.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (31.90%) Infrastructure as Code
2 32 (27.59%) Load Balancing
3 31 (26.72%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.69%) Migration
4 24 (20.69%) Zero Trust
5 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (18.10%) Network Design
6 21 (18.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 19 (16.38%) Low Latency
8 18 (15.52%) High Availability
9 16 (13.79%) DevOps
9 16 (13.79%) Network Architecture
10 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
11 12 (10.34%) AI
11 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (9.48%) Agile
13 10 (8.62%) Incident Management
13 10 (8.62%) Observability
14 9 (7.76%) Project Delivery
15 7 (6.03%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 53 (45.69%) Python
2 2 (1.72%) Perl
2 2 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (36.21%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (32.76%) CCNP
3 14 (12.07%) CCIE
4 12 (10.34%) Security Cleared
5 7 (6.03%) Degree
5 7 (6.03%) SC Cleared
6 4 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.59%) CCNA
8 2 (1.72%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.72%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.72%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.86%) CCDA
9 1 (0.86%) CCDP
9 1 (0.86%) CISM
9 1 (0.86%) CISSP
9 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.86%) OCP
9 1 (0.86%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.72%) NCSC
2 1 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.86%) GDPR
2 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.86%) NIST
2 1 (0.86%) QA
2 1 (0.86%) RMADS
System Software
1 6 (5.17%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.45%) vSphere
3 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.86%) IAG
Systems Management
1 66 (56.90%) Ansible
2 34 (29.31%) Terraform
3 17 (14.66%) Grafana
3 17 (14.66%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.45%) Salt
5 3 (2.59%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.86%) CASB
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.86%) Fluentd
6 1 (0.86%) Istio
Vendors
1 77 (66.38%) Cisco
2 58 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 46 (39.66%) F5
4 35 (30.17%) Fortinet
5 27 (23.28%) Aruba
6 17 (14.66%) Juniper
7 9 (7.76%) CheckPoint
7 9 (7.76%) Splunk
7 9 (7.76%) VMware
8 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
9 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
10 5 (4.31%) BigPanda
11 3 (2.59%) McAfee
11 3 (2.59%) Red Hat
11 3 (2.59%) SevOne
12 2 (1.72%) Citrix
12 2 (1.72%) IBM
12 2 (1.72%) Meraki
12 2 (1.72%) NetScout
12 2 (1.72%) Wind River