Barracuda Networks Contract Job Trends

Barracuda Networks
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Barracuda Networks products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Barracuda Networks over the 6 months leading up to 23 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 Barracuda Networks.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 587 532 596
Rank change year-on-year -55 +64 +163
Contract jobs citing Barracuda Networks 5 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.014% 0.033% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.029% 0.071% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 9
10th Percentile £76 £150 £368
25th Percentile £127 £213 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% -20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £356 £525 £875
90th Percentile £428 £545 £895
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £225 £325
% change year-on-year - -30.77% -29.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00

All Vendors
UK

Barracuda Networks 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 17,466 15,440 19,589
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.19% 45.73% 45.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,122 9,193 12,424
10th Percentile £293 £285 £250
25th Percentile £408 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £722 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 457 650
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.62 £14.73
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £28.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -15.18% -38.97% +78.45%
75th Percentile £44.40 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.72 £26.13 £45.88
% change year-on-year -16.87% -43.06% +103.91%

Barracuda Networks
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Barracuda Networks relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Barracuda Networks job vacancy trend in the UK

Barracuda Networks
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Barracuda Networks.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Barracuda Networks over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Barracuda Networks in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Barracuda Networks.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Barracuda Networks

Barracuda Networks
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Barracuda Networks within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -41 4 £225 -50.00% 2
UK excluding London -45 4 £225 - 2
East of England - 3 £258 - 1
Work from Home -3 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 £225 -
West Midlands - 1 £225 -

Barracuda Networks
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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Local Government
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) SOC Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) ITSM
1 2 (40.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Server Management
2 1 (20.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Veeam