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 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 465 520
Rank change year-on-year -74 +55 +89
Contract jobs citing Arista 122 80 60
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.25% 0.14%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.52% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 40 46
10th Percentile £350 £421 £228
25th Percentile £418 £500 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +12.20% +3.02%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £625
90th Percentile £626 £661 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +10.00% -12.20% +4.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
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 21,743 15,464 18,209
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.29% 47.54% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,516 9,461 11,390
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £728
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,096 756 1,049
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.24 £15.10
Median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £50.67 £61.30
90th Percentile £84.38 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +51.04% -10.00% -19.35%

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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 July 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 17 July 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 -90 110 £525 -8.70% 15
London -80 64 £550 -5.17% 11
UK excluding London -67 43 £495 +10.00% 5
North of England -51 30 £575 +4.55% 3
Work from Home -56 24 £480 +6.67% 6
North West -32 20 £575 +4.55% 2
North East - 12 £650 -
South East -56 9 £415 -2.35% 1
Yorkshire -42 4 - - 1
Scotland - 4 £463 -
Midlands -58 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:

Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.46%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (22.13%) AWS
2 26 (21.31%) Azure
3 19 (15.57%) OCI
4 12 (9.84%) SaaS
5 8 (6.56%) GCP
6 3 (2.46%) Catchpoint
6 3 (2.46%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.64%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.82%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.82%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.82%) IaaS
8 1 (0.82%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 84 (68.85%) BGP
2 76 (62.30%) Firewall
3 58 (47.54%) WAN
4 52 (42.62%) OSPF
5 50 (40.98%) VXLAN
6 44 (36.07%) Ethernet VPN
7 35 (28.69%) Multicast
8 29 (23.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 26 (21.31%) BIG-IP
10 23 (18.85%) SD-WAN
11 21 (17.21%) VPN
12 18 (14.75%) Wi-Fi
13 17 (13.93%) MPLS
14 13 (10.66%) Network Security
14 13 (10.66%) VLAN
15 12 (9.84%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (9.84%) Wireless
15 12 (9.84%) WLAN
16 10 (8.20%) IOS XR
16 10 (8.20%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 18 (14.75%) GitLab
2 10 (8.20%) Git
3 5 (4.10%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (2.46%) JIRA
General
1 26 (21.31%) Finance
2 16 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (12.30%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.02%) Social Skills
5 8 (6.56%) Banking
5 8 (6.56%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.64%) Military
7 1 (0.82%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (0.82%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.82%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (59.02%) Network Engineer
2 39 (31.97%) Senior
3 20 (16.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 18 (14.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 17 (13.93%) Senior Network Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Data Centre Engineer
6 9 (7.38%) Data Network Engineer
7 7 (5.74%) Architect
7 7 (5.74%) Operations Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Cisco Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) Firewall Engineer
8 4 (3.28%) Network Consultant
8 4 (3.28%) Senior Firewall Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Automation Consultant
9 3 (2.46%) Junior Network Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (2.46%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.28%) 802.1X
1 4 (3.28%) Jinja
2 2 (1.64%) Django
3 1 (0.82%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 76 (62.30%) Data Centre
2 19 (15.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.02%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.64%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.82%) CESG
5 1 (0.82%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.82%) IoT
5 1 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.82%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.56%) Linux
2 5 (4.10%) Unix
3 4 (3.28%) Windows
4 1 (0.82%) VMS
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (31.15%) Infrastructure as Code
2 34 (27.87%) Load Balancing
3 32 (26.23%) CI/CD
4 24 (19.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 23 (18.85%) Migration
5 23 (18.85%) Zero Trust
6 21 (17.21%) Low Latency
7 20 (16.39%) Network Design
7 20 (16.39%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 18 (14.75%) High Availability
9 15 (12.30%) DevOps
9 15 (12.30%) Network Architecture
10 12 (9.84%) AI
10 12 (9.84%) Mentoring
11 11 (9.02%) Agile
11 11 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (8.20%) Project Delivery
13 9 (7.38%) Incident Management
13 9 (7.38%) Observability
14 7 (5.74%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (45.08%) Python
2 2 (1.64%) Perl
2 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (34.43%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (31.15%) CCNP
3 14 (11.48%) CCIE
4 12 (9.84%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.74%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.92%) Degree
7 3 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.64%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.64%) CCNA
8 2 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.82%) CCDA
9 1 (0.82%) CCDP
9 1 (0.82%) CISM
9 1 (0.82%) CISSP
9 1 (0.82%) GIAC
9 1 (0.82%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.82%) OCP
9 1 (0.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) NCSC
2 1 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.82%) QA
2 1 (0.82%) RMADS
System Software
1 5 (4.10%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.28%) vSphere
3 2 (1.64%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.82%) Docker
4 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.82%) IAG
Systems Management
1 66 (54.10%) Ansible
2 33 (27.05%) Terraform
3 16 (13.11%) Grafana
3 16 (13.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (2.46%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.46%) Salt
5 1 (0.82%) CASB
5 1 (0.82%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.82%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 78 (63.93%) Cisco
2 58 (47.54%) Palo Alto
3 48 (39.34%) F5
4 36 (29.51%) Fortinet
5 26 (21.31%) Aruba
6 17 (13.93%) Juniper
7 10 (8.20%) VMware
8 9 (7.38%) Splunk
9 7 (5.74%) CheckPoint
9 7 (5.74%) Microsoft
10 5 (4.10%) ServiceNow
11 4 (3.28%) BigPanda
11 4 (3.28%) SevOne
12 3 (2.46%) IBM
12 3 (2.46%) McAfee
12 3 (2.46%) NetScout
13 2 (1.64%) AppNeta
13 2 (1.64%) Citrix
13 2 (1.64%) Meraki
13 2 (1.64%) Red Hat