TACACS Contract Job Trends

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs citing TACACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	667	559	520
Rank change year-on-year	-108	-39	+105
Contract jobs citing TACACS	29	15	31
As % of all contract jobs in the UK	0.053%	0.043%	0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category	0.58%	0.38%	0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	11	4	17
10^th Percentile	£325	£191	£359
25^th Percentile	£413	£390	£404
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£500	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+10.00%	+17.65%	-30.16%
75^th Percentile	£703	£505	£538
90^th Percentile	£705	£513	£554
UK excluding London median daily rate	£325	£500	£425
% change year-on-year	-35.00%	+17.65%	-31.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2	0	1
10^th Percentile	£49.24	-	-
25^th Percentile	£50.72	-	-
Median hourly rate	£54.88	-	£38.00
75^th Percentile	£57.47	-	-
90^th Percentile	£58.01	-	-
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£54.88	-	-

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

TACACS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills.

	6 months to 6 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing communications or computer networking skills	5,040	3,929	4,399
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK	9.14%	11.35%	12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted	2,889	2,548	2,532
10^th Percentile	£240	£213	£221
25^th Percentile	£400	£360	£369
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£600	£588	£600
90^th Percentile	£680	£675	£681
UK excluding London median daily rate	£495	£452	£475
% change year-on-year	+9.63%	-4.95%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	440	194	159
10^th Percentile	£14.10	£15.50	£17.95
25^th Percentile	£19.33	£20.00	£26.25
Median hourly rate	£35.74	£34.00	£47.50
Median % change year-on-year	+5.12%	-28.42%	-13.64%
75^th Percentile	£68.75	£65.00	£66.01
90^th Percentile	£96.00	£75.00	£75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£26.72	£42.50	£50.00
% change year-on-year	-37.13%	-15.00%	-11.49%

TACACS Job Vacancy Trend

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

TACACS Daily Rate Trend

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

TACACS Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TACACS over the 6 months to 6 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in the UK

TACACS Hourly Rate Trend

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

TACACS Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TACACS within the UK over the 6 months to 6 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
England	-111	27	£550	+10.00%	5
UK excluding London	-84	14	£325	-35.00%	5
London	-	12	£588	-	1
Midlands	-34	6	-	-
West Midlands	-37	6	-	-
South East	-66	4	£325	-35.00%	2
Work from Home	-79	3	£670	+134.49%	3
East of England	-	2	£325	-
North of England	-	2	-	-	2
North West	-	1	-	-	2
Yorkshire	-	1	-	-

TACACS Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing TACACS also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads citing TACACS.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Cisco	93.1%	27
2	BGP	65.5%	19
2	Python	65.5%	19
4	Ansible	51.7%	15
5	Validation	48.3%	14
6	Cisco Certification	41.4%	12
6	GitHub	41.4%	12
6	JSON	41.4%	12
6	ServiceNow	41.4%	12
6	VMware	41.4%	12
6	VXLAN	41.4%	12
6	YAML	41.4%	12
13	CI/CD	37.9%	11
13	Migration	37.9%	11
13	REST	37.9%	11
13	VMware Infrastructure	37.9%	11
17	API Integration	34.5%	10
17	Change Control	34.5%	10
17	Cisco ISE	34.5%	10
17	Collaborative Working	34.5%	10
17	Ethernet VPN	34.5%	10
17	Git	34.5%	10
17	GitLab	34.5%	10
17	NX-OS	34.5%	10
17	Problem-Solving	34.5%	10
17	Red Hat	34.5%	10
17	Test Automation	34.5%	10
17	VLAN	34.5%	10
29	Docker	31.0%	9
29	VMware NSX	31.0%	9

TACACS Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Communications & Networking

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	BGP	65.5%	19
2	VXLAN	41.4%	12
3	Cisco ISE	34.5%	10
3	Ethernet VPN	34.5%	10
3	NX-OS	34.5%	10
3	VLAN	34.5%	10
7	Firewall	24.1%	7
7	WAN	24.1%	7
9	SNMP	20.7%	6
9	TCP/IP	20.7%	6
11	LAN	17.2%	5
11	Network Security	17.2%	5
11	OSPF	17.2%	5
14	DHCP	13.8%	4
14	DNS	13.8%	4
14	MPLS	13.8%	4
14	SD-WAN	13.8%	4
14	Wi-Fi	13.8%	4
14	Wireless	13.8%	4
20	Cisco Nexus	10.3%	3