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 21 December 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
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 531 483 564
Rank change year-on-year -48 +81 +122
Contract jobs citing Arista 55 52 39
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.089%
As % of the Vendors category 0.32% 0.33% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 36 21
10th Percentile £342 £213 £438
25th Percentile £450 £259 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £548 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.48% -8.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £750
90th Percentile £663 £675 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £270 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -48.57% +1.94% +8.42%

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 17,343 15,525 19,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.21% 45.72% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,031 9,252 12,570
10th Percentile £293 £284 £252
25th Percentile £408 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £721 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - +0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 862 460 658
10th Percentile £15.22 £15.60 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.28 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%
75th Percentile £44.01 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.21 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.97 £25.86 £45.21
% change year-on-year -15.06% -42.79% +100.93%

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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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -31 48 £550 +0.36% 6
London +1 45 £550 -1.12% 6
Work from Home -11 22 £483 -19.58% 3
UK excluding London -32 5 £270 -48.57% 5
Scotland - 3 £270 - 3
North West -30 1 - -
North of England -39 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
Midlands - 1 £450 -

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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 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.45%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (7.27%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) GCP
3 3 (5.45%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.64%) IaaS
4 2 (3.64%) PaaS
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.82%) OCI
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (38.18%) BGP
2 20 (36.36%) VXLAN
3 18 (32.73%) Ethernet VPN
3 18 (32.73%) OSPF
4 14 (25.45%) Firewall
5 12 (21.82%) Multicast
6 10 (18.18%) WAN
7 7 (12.73%) DNS
8 6 (10.91%) LAN
8 6 (10.91%) SD-WAN
8 6 (10.91%) TCP/IP
9 5 (9.09%) DHCP
9 5 (9.09%) MPLS
9 5 (9.09%) NX-OS
9 5 (9.09%) VPN
10 4 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (7.27%) Network Security
10 4 (7.27%) VLAN
11 3 (5.45%) Cisco Nexus
11 3 (5.45%) HSRP
Development Applications
1 10 (18.18%) Git
2 4 (7.27%) GitLab
3 3 (5.45%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (54.55%) Finance
2 17 (30.91%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Military
6 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (74.55%) Network Engineer
2 18 (32.73%) Automation Engineer
2 18 (32.73%) Python Engineer
3 15 (27.27%) AWS Engineer
4 14 (25.45%) IP Network Engineer
4 14 (25.45%) Switch Engineer
5 12 (21.82%) Senior
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (9.09%) Project Manager
8 4 (7.27%) Architect
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 3 (5.45%) IT Manager
9 3 (5.45%) IT Project Manager
9 3 (5.45%) Network Architect
10 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.64%) Network Project Manager
10 2 (3.64%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Jinja
2 2 (3.64%) eBPF
3 1 (1.82%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 20 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 14 (25.45%) Hedge funds
3 3 (5.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.64%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.64%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.82%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.82%) SCADA
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.55%) DevOps
1 8 (14.55%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (12.73%) Low Latency
2 7 (12.73%) Network Design
3 6 (10.91%) Agile
3 6 (10.91%) Migration
3 6 (10.91%) Project Management
4 5 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 5 (9.09%) Observability
4 5 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 4 (7.27%) Change Control
5 4 (7.27%) Change Management
5 4 (7.27%) Logistics
5 4 (7.27%) Time Management
6 3 (5.45%) High Availability
6 3 (5.45%) Load Balancing
6 3 (5.45%) Scrum
6 3 (5.45%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 31 (56.36%) Python
2 2 (3.64%) Bash
2 2 (3.64%) C
3 1 (1.82%) Go
3 1 (1.82%) Perl
3 1 (1.82%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (23.64%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (18.18%) CCIE
3 7 (12.73%) CCNP
4 3 (5.45%) CISSP
4 3 (5.45%) Degree
4 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) JNCIE
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (5.45%) VMware NSX
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.64%) KVM
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) Docker
3 1 (1.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (65.45%) Ansible
2 7 (12.73%) Terraform
3 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.45%) Grafana
4 3 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.82%) Istio
5 1 (1.82%) Salt
Vendors
1 27 (49.09%) Cisco
2 9 (16.36%) Palo Alto
3 6 (10.91%) Fortinet
3 6 (10.91%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.09%) F5
4 5 (9.09%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.27%) Aruba
5 4 (7.27%) CheckPoint
6 3 (5.45%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.45%) VMware
6 3 (5.45%) Wind River
7 2 (3.64%) Juniper
7 2 (3.64%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (3.64%) NVIDIA
7 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
8 1 (1.82%) BigPanda
8 1 (1.82%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (1.82%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (1.82%) Google
8 1 (1.82%) Mellanox