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 25 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 520 451 525
Rank change year-on-year -69 +74 +78
Contract jobs citing Arista 116 78 67
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.26% 0.15%
As % of the Vendors category 0.56% 0.55% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 39 52
10th Percentile £340 £419 £350
25th Percentile £413 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +2.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £562
90th Percentile £643 £652 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £450 £513
% change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +4.06%
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 20,809 14,306 18,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.89% 47.50% 42.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,041 8,801 11,540
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,070 662 1,168
10th Percentile £15.55 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.30 £14.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.15%
75th Percentile £60.75 £53.75 £59.66
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 £23.00 £22.58
% change year-on-year +39.13% +1.86% -39.79%

Arista
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

Arista
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

Arista
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Arista over the 6 months to 25 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Arista in the UK

Arista
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

Arista
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 25 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 -96 104 £538 -2.27% 15
London -72 59 £556 -1.11% 7
UK excluding London -82 43 £500 +11.11% 11
North of England -51 30 £575 +4.55% 5
Work from Home -47 24 £480 +9.71% 9
North West -24 19 £575 +4.55% 4
North East - 12 £650 -
South East -55 9 £415 -2.35% 6
Yorkshire -52 5 - - 1
Scotland - 4 £463 -
West Midlands -57 3 - -
Midlands -59 3 - -

Arista
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 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%) IBM Watson
7 2 (1.72%) OpenShift
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 78 (67.24%) BGP
2 73 (62.93%) Firewall
3 60 (51.72%) WAN
4 50 (43.10%) OSPF
5 49 (42.24%) VXLAN
6 43 (37.07%) 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%) Wireless
15 12 (10.34%) WLAN
16 10 (8.62%) IOS XR
16 10 (8.62%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) 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%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (12.93%) Public Sector
3 11 (9.48%) Social Skills
4 8 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.03%) Banking
6 3 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.72%) Military
8 1 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.86%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (57.76%) 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%) Automation Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Data Centre Engineer
6 9 (7.76%) Data Network Engineer
7 8 (6.90%) Architect
8 6 (5.17%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Automation Consultant
9 3 (2.59%) Cisco Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Consultant
9 3 (2.59%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Junior
9 3 (2.59%) Junior Network Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Juniper Engineer
9 3 (2.59%) Network Consultant
9 3 (2.59%) Senior Consultant
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 74 (63.79%) Data Centre
2 20 (17.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (9.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.86%) CESG
5 1 (0.86%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.86%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
5 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 30 (25.86%) CI/CD
4 24 (20.69%) Migration
4 24 (20.69%) Zero Trust
5 23 (19.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 21 (18.10%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 20 (17.24%) Network Design
8 19 (16.38%) Low Latency
9 18 (15.52%) High Availability
10 16 (13.79%) Network Architecture
11 15 (12.93%) DevOps
12 14 (12.07%) Mentoring
13 13 (11.21%) AI
14 12 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (9.48%) Agile
16 10 (8.62%) Incident Management
16 10 (8.62%) Observability
17 9 (7.76%) Project Delivery
18 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%) GIAC
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%) Data Quality
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 5 (4.31%) VMware NSX
2 4 (3.45%) vSphere
3 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.72%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.86%) Hyper-V
5 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 2 (1.72%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.86%) CASB
6 1 (0.86%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.86%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 77 (66.38%) Cisco
2 57 (49.14%) Palo Alto
3 46 (39.66%) F5
4 35 (30.17%) Fortinet
5 27 (23.28%) Aruba
6 17 (14.66%) Juniper
7 10 (8.62%) Splunk
8 9 (7.76%) CheckPoint
8 9 (7.76%) VMware
9 8 (6.90%) Microsoft
10 6 (5.17%) ServiceNow
11 5 (4.31%) BigPanda
12 4 (3.45%) SevOne
13 3 (2.59%) IBM
13 3 (2.59%) McAfee
13 3 (2.59%) NetScout
14 2 (1.72%) AppNeta
14 2 (1.72%) Citrix
14 2 (1.72%) Meraki
14 2 (1.72%) Red Hat