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 3 April 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
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 544 463 519
Rank change year-on-year -81 +56 +89
Contract jobs citing Arista 81 55 65
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.18% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% 0.40% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 35 42
10th Percentile £350 £425 £466
25th Percentile £425 £481 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £538
90th Percentile £765 £650 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £425 £513
% change year-on-year +3.53% -17.07% +5.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
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 19,432 13,698 18,841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.31% 47.11% 42.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,476 8,655 11,765
10th Percentile £313 £294 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £712 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.59% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 485 1,043
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.75 £14.45
Median hourly rate £27.00 £28.60 £22.58
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +26.66% -43.55%
75th Percentile £59.46 £61.25 £56.37
90th Percentile £78.65 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £26.81 £21.50
% change year-on-year -6.76% +24.71% -38.67%

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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 3 April 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 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 3 April 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 -87 68 £513 -6.82% 17
London -47 57 £550 - 9
Work from Home -41 14 £480 -18.30% 16
UK excluding London -100 14 £440 +3.53% 12
Scotland - 7 £344 - 1
North of England -66 5 £490 +18.79% 3
North West -44 3 £490 -4.39% 1
South East -53 2 £525 +5.00% 2
Yorkshire -62 2 - - 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 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.47%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (6.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.58%) AWS
2 8 (9.88%) Azure
2 8 (9.88%) GCP
3 3 (3.70%) Catchpoint
3 3 (3.70%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.47%) IBM Watson
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.23%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.23%) IaaS
5 1 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.23%) PaaS
5 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (53.09%) BGP
2 41 (50.62%) Firewall
3 36 (44.44%) WAN
4 28 (34.57%) OSPF
5 26 (32.10%) Multicast
6 24 (29.63%) VXLAN
7 21 (25.93%) VPN
8 18 (22.22%) Ethernet VPN
9 12 (14.81%) MPLS
9 12 (14.81%) Network Security
10 11 (13.58%) VLAN
11 10 (12.35%) LAN
11 10 (12.35%) SD-WAN
12 9 (11.11%) IGMP
12 9 (11.11%) InfiniBand
12 9 (11.11%) TCP/IP
12 9 (11.11%) Wireless
13 8 (9.88%) DNS
13 8 (9.88%) Ethernet
13 8 (9.88%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Git
2 6 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (4.94%) GitLab
General
1 19 (23.46%) Finance
2 9 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.64%) Banking
4 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Military
6 2 (2.47%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 49 (60.49%) Network Engineer
2 12 (14.81%) Senior
3 10 (12.35%) Architect
3 10 (12.35%) Senior Network Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Data Centre Engineer
5 7 (8.64%) Data Network Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) IP Network Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Switch Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Core Network Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Juniper Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.70%) Project Manager
9 2 (2.47%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.94%) Jinja
2 2 (2.47%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.47%) Django
3 1 (1.23%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 47 (58.02%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.70%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.70%) Private Cloud
3 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.23%) CESG
5 1 (1.23%) CMDB
5 1 (1.23%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.23%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.23%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.23%) SCADA
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.11%) Linux
2 7 (8.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.23%) VMS
3 1 (1.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.99%) Low Latency
2 16 (19.75%) Migration
3 14 (17.28%) Load Balancing
4 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (14.81%) Observability
5 12 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.58%) AI
7 10 (12.35%) CI/CD
7 10 (12.35%) Mentoring
8 9 (11.11%) Agile
8 9 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (9.88%) Incident Response
10 7 (8.64%) DevOps
10 7 (8.64%) Network Design
10 7 (8.64%) Network Monitoring
10 7 (8.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 6 (7.41%) Incident Management
11 6 (7.41%) Network Segmentation
11 6 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (6.17%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (38.27%) Python
2 1 (1.23%) Bash
2 1 (1.23%) Perl
2 1 (1.23%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 32 (39.51%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (33.33%) CCNP
3 13 (16.05%) CCIE
4 6 (7.41%) Degree
5 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
6 4 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.70%) CCNA
8 2 (2.47%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.47%) CISSP
8 2 (2.47%) DV Cleared
8 2 (2.47%) JNCIA
8 2 (2.47%) JNCIS
8 2 (2.47%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.23%) CCDA
9 1 (1.23%) CCDP
9 1 (1.23%) CCIP
9 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.23%) OCP
9 1 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.47%) NCSC
2 1 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.23%) GDPR
2 1 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.23%) NIST
2 1 (1.23%) PMO
2 1 (1.23%) RMADS
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) VMware NSX
2 5 (6.17%) vSphere
3 4 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.23%) IAG
Systems Management
1 39 (48.15%) Ansible
2 19 (23.46%) Grafana
2 19 (23.46%) Prometheus
3 12 (14.81%) Terraform
4 5 (6.17%) Salt
5 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.47%) Istio
7 1 (1.23%) CASB
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.23%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 63 (77.78%) Cisco
2 32 (39.51%) Palo Alto
3 22 (27.16%) F5
3 22 (27.16%) Fortinet
4 14 (17.28%) Juniper
5 12 (14.81%) Aruba
5 12 (14.81%) CheckPoint
6 9 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 9 (11.11%) VMware
7 8 (9.88%) Splunk
8 6 (7.41%) BigPanda
8 6 (7.41%) Microsoft
9 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
9 3 (3.70%) SevOne
9 3 (3.70%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.47%) AppNeta
10 2 (2.47%) Meraki
10 2 (2.47%) NetScout
10 2 (2.47%) NVIDIA
10 2 (2.47%) Wind River