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 17 October 2025, 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 503 597
Rank change year-on-year +5 +94 +115
Contract jobs citing Arista 70 57 37
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.15% 0.077%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.34% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 40 24
10th Percentile £450 £213 £445
25th Percentile £477 £263 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £537
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +9.35% +9.64%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £726
90th Percentile £664 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £515
% change year-on-year +4.76% +1.94% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £36.63 - -
25th Percentile £37.19 - -
Median hourly rate £38.75 - -
75th Percentile £39.69 - -
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 15,885 16,773 21,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.71% 44.76% 44.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,796 9,879 13,926
10th Percentile £280 £290 £263
25th Percentile £405 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 820 570 676
10th Percentile £14.98 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.44 £19.94
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -24.79% +83.18%
75th Percentile £37.63 £64.40 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.29 £30.71 £43.00
% change year-on-year -30.66% -28.59% +104.76%

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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 17 October 2025.

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 9 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 17 October 2025. 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 +16 66 £550 -6.38% 13
London +21 59 £563 -6.25% 6
Work from Home +8 28 £483 -19.58% 12
UK excluding London -15 6 £550 +4.76% 9
South West +20 3 £550 -
North West -16 3 £550 - 2
North of England -23 3 £550 - 4
Midlands - 3 £450 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £450 - 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 (2.86%) OpenStack
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 33 (47.14%) AWS
2 7 (10.00%) Azure
3 3 (4.29%) GCP
4 2 (2.86%) IaaS
4 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.86%) PaaS
4 2 (2.86%) SaaS
4 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.43%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 37 (52.86%) BGP
2 30 (42.86%) OSPF
3 27 (38.57%) Multicast
4 24 (34.29%) Ethernet VPN
5 22 (31.43%) Firewall
6 21 (30.00%) VXLAN
7 9 (12.86%) WAN
8 8 (11.43%) MPLS
9 7 (10.00%) IPsec
9 7 (10.00%) NX-OS
10 6 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
10 6 (8.57%) Software-Defined Networking
10 6 (8.57%) Unicast
11 5 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (7.14%) DNS
11 5 (7.14%) LAN
12 4 (5.71%) EIGRP
12 4 (5.71%) HTTP
12 4 (5.71%) IOS XR
12 4 (5.71%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Git
2 5 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.43%) GitLab
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 41 (58.57%) Finance
2 24 (34.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Military
Job Titles
1 56 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 27 (38.57%) Python Engineer
3 22 (31.43%) Automation Engineer
3 22 (31.43%) AWS Engineer
4 18 (25.71%) IP Network Engineer
4 18 (25.71%) Switch Engineer
5 14 (20.00%) Senior
6 10 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
6 10 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 8 (11.43%) Senior Network Engineer
8 3 (4.29%) Architect
8 3 (4.29%) Network Architect
9 2 (2.86%) Consultant
9 2 (2.86%) IT Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Network Consultant
9 2 (2.86%) Network Specialist
9 2 (2.86%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Cisco Engineer
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
9 2 (2.86%) Senior Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.71%) Jinja
2 2 (2.86%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 25 (35.71%) Data Centre
2 18 (25.71%) Hedge funds
3 4 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.43%) PKI
5 1 (1.43%) SCADA
5 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Low Latency
2 9 (12.86%) Agile
3 8 (11.43%) DevOps
4 7 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (8.57%) Change Control
5 6 (8.57%) Change Management
5 6 (8.57%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (7.14%) CI/CD
6 5 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 5 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (5.71%) Business Case
7 4 (5.71%) Coaching
7 4 (5.71%) High Availability
7 4 (5.71%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.71%) Project Management
7 4 (5.71%) Scrum
8 3 (4.29%) Migration
8 3 (4.29%) Network Design
8 3 (4.29%) Task Automation
8 3 (4.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 42 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (2.86%) C
3 1 (1.43%) Bash
3 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 18 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (18.57%) CCIE
3 9 (12.86%) CCNP
4 3 (4.29%) CISSP
5 2 (2.86%) Degree
5 2 (2.86%) JNCIE
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) CCIE Data Center
6 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.86%) Firmware
1 2 (2.86%) Hyper-V
1 2 (2.86%) KVM
1 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 48 (68.57%) Ansible
2 5 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 5 (7.14%) Terraform
3 3 (4.29%) Nagios
4 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.43%) Icinga
4 1 (1.43%) Observium
Vendors
1 32 (45.71%) Cisco
2 10 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 6 (8.57%) Palo Alto
5 5 (7.14%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.71%) Juniper
7 3 (4.29%) F5
7 3 (4.29%) SolarWinds
8 2 (2.86%) Aruba
8 2 (2.86%) NVIDIA
8 2 (2.86%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.86%) VMware
8 2 (2.86%) Wind River
9 1 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
9 1 (1.43%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (1.43%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (1.43%) Mellanox
9 1 (1.43%) Zscaler