Riverbed Contracts

Riverbed
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Riverbed products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Riverbed over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 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 Riverbed Technology.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 572 659
Rank change year-on-year +37 +87 +188
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 4 18 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.013% 0.041% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.027% 0.097% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 7
10th Percentile - £516 £480
25th Percentile £413 £550 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £600 £675
Median % change year-on-year -29.17% -11.11% +31.07%
75th Percentile £438 £650 £738
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 -

All Vendors
UK

Riverbed 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 14,890 18,640 24,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.53% 42.88% 43.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,101 11,577 16,146
10th Percentile £280 £271 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £733 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 1,161 648
10th Percentile £14.78 £12.40 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.00 £18.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.55% +83.51%
75th Percentile £53.25 £59.95 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.56 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.31% -23.00% +50.10%

Riverbed
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Riverbed as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Riverbed in the UK

Riverbed
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Riverbed.

Daily rate trend for Riverbed in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Riverbed.

Hourly rate trend for Riverbed in the UK

Riverbed
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Riverbed within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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 +43 3 £425 -29.17% 4
London +34 2 £425 -29.17% 3
UK excluding London +30 2 - - 2
Work from Home +22 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

Riverbed
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Akamai
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
3 2 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) IPsec
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Wireless
4 1 (25.00%) BIG-IP
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
4 1 (25.00%) GLBP
4 1 (25.00%) HSRP
4 1 (25.00%) Multicast
4 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
4 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Minimum Viable Product
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
2 1 (25.00%) The Twelve-Factor App
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) CCDP
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) CA Spectrum
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
1 1 (25.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) F5
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 1 (25.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto