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 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 569 505 613
Rank change year-on-year -64 +108 +171
Contract jobs citing TACACS 15 33 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.042% 0.089% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 0.74% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 2
10th Percentile £208 £359 £601
25th Percentile £369 £404 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £609
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -30.16% -2.25%
75th Percentile £419 £538 £619
90th Percentile £469 £554 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £617
% change year-on-year +8.82% -31.12% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £21.95
25th Percentile - - £24.38
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +52.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile - - £37.02
90th Percentile - - £49.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +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 4,001 4,479 6,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.20% 12.12% 14.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,583 2,584 4,055
10th Percentile £205 £225 £213
25th Percentile £354 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 172 350
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.40 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.59 £22.75
Median hourly rate £35.50 £42.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -16.47% -23.70% +28.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.81
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £56.49
% change year-on-year -12.48% -14.04% +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 23 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 9 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 23 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 -33 13 £413 -2.94% 2
UK excluding London -43 11 £463 +8.82% 2
Work from Home +13 8 £286 -29.88%
South East +1 8 - - 1
London +12 2 £388 +10.71% 1
South West -2 1 £513 -6.82%
Scotland -7 1 - -
Yorkshire -39 1 £413 +1.23%
North of England -45 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 (40.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
1 6 (40.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) BGP
1 11 (73.33%) SNMP
2 10 (66.67%) OSPF
2 10 (66.67%) WAN
3 8 (53.33%) Wireless
4 7 (46.67%) LAN
4 7 (46.67%) MPLS
5 5 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 5 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
6 4 (26.67%) VLAN
7 3 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (20.00%) EIGRP
7 3 (20.00%) FTP
7 3 (20.00%) SSH
7 3 (20.00%) Wireshark
7 3 (20.00%) WLAN
8 2 (13.33%) DHCP
8 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
8 2 (13.33%) Firewall
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) French Language
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Designer
2 6 (40.00%) IP Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IP Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (6.67%) NETCONF
2 1 (6.67%) OpenConfig
2 1 (6.67%) RESTCONF
2 1 (6.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Data Centre
1 7 (46.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (13.33%) Life Science
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (6.67%) CMDB
4 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Validation
2 6 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 6 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 3 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Change Management
4 2 (13.33%) Incident Management
4 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Test Planning
4 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
5 1 (6.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (6.67%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (6.67%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (6.67%) Migration
5 1 (6.67%) Minimum Viable Product
5 1 (6.67%) Network Design
5 1 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 11 (73.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (6.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (46.67%) CCIE
2 7 (46.67%) JNCIE
3 6 (40.00%) AWS Certification
4 2 (13.33%) CCNA
5 1 (6.67%) CCNP
5 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.67%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (46.67%) Ansible
2 6 (40.00%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) VMware
3 7 (46.67%) F5
3 7 (46.67%) Fortinet
3 7 (46.67%) Juniper
4 6 (40.00%) Meraki
5 3 (20.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (13.33%) Ciena
6 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
7 1 (6.67%) Aruba
7 1 (6.67%) CheckPoint
7 1 (6.67%) LogicMonitor
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
7 1 (6.67%) NetScout
7 1 (6.67%) Riverbed
7 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (6.67%) SevOne