TACACS Contract Job Trends

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring TACACS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 525 614
Rank change year-on-year -45 +89 +169
Contract jobs citing TACACS 14 36 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.039% 0.099% 0.017%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.35% 0.81% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 1
10th Percentile £356 £359 -
25th Percentile £369 £404 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -29.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £419 £538 -
90th Percentile £469 £554 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 -
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £20.45 £24.38
25th Percentile - £23.38 £24.63
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.39% +22.92%
75th Percentile - £33.38 £37.53
90th Percentile - £36.15 £52.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - -24.00% +8.70%

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 requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,971 4,436 6,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.02% 12.17% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,578 2,549 3,957
10th Percentile £205 £223 £211
25th Percentile £356 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 169 347
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.16 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.50 £23.10 £22.88
Median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -27.30% +35.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.03 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.51% -14.98% +25.53%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend

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

TACACS job vacancy trend in the UK

TACACS
Daily Rate Trend

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

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 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

TACACS
Top 8 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 29 November 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 -32 14 £413 -2.94% 1
UK excluding London -42 10 £463 +8.82% 1
South East +3 8 - -
Work from Home -1 7 £513 +25.77%
London +18 3 £363 +3.57%
South West +8 1 £513 -6.82%
Yorkshire -37 1 £413 +1.23%
North of England -52 1 £413 +0.30% 1

TACACS
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 6 (42.86%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) AWS
1 6 (42.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) SNMP
2 10 (71.43%) WAN
3 9 (64.29%) BGP
4 8 (57.14%) MPLS
5 7 (50.00%) LAN
5 7 (50.00%) OSPF
5 7 (50.00%) Wireless
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (21.43%) FTP
6 3 (21.43%) SD-WAN
6 3 (21.43%) Spanning Tree
6 3 (21.43%) SSH
6 3 (21.43%) Wireshark
7 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
7 2 (14.29%) Firewall
7 2 (14.29%) IOS XR
7 2 (14.29%) Network Security
7 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (14.29%) VLAN
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (42.86%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.14%) French Language
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Designer
1 6 (42.86%) IP Designer
2 5 (35.71%) Network Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IP Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) NETCONF
1 2 (14.29%) OpenConfig
1 2 (14.29%) RESTCONF
1 2 (14.29%) YANG
2 1 (7.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
1 8 (57.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Validation
2 6 (42.86%) Incident Response
2 6 (42.86%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
3 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 2 (14.29%) ITSM
4 2 (14.29%) Network Design
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.14%) Manual Testing
5 1 (7.14%) Migration
5 1 (7.14%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) CCIE
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (57.14%) JNCIE
2 6 (42.86%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (42.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Ansible
2 6 (42.86%) Terraform
3 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) F5
2 8 (57.14%) Fortinet
2 8 (57.14%) Juniper
3 6 (42.86%) VMware
4 3 (21.43%) Meraki
5 2 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 2 (14.29%) Ciena
5 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
6 1 (7.14%) Aruba
6 1 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (7.14%) SolarWinds