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

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 566 515 612
Rank change year-on-year -51 +97 +168
Contract jobs citing TACACS 17 33 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.090% 0.018%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.42% 0.74% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 1
10th Percentile £237 £359 -
25th Percentile £356 £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 £459 £554 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 -
% change year-on-year +8.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £24.38
25th Percentile - - £24.63
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year - +28.81% +22.92%
75th Percentile - - £37.53
90th Percentile - - £52.77
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 4,016 4,435 6,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.14% 12.16% 13.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,597 2,557 3,955
10th Percentile £206 £225 £211
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £610
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 197 171 346
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.26 £17.72
25th Percentile £20.75 £23.59 £22.81
Median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £55.70
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -23.70% +34.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.18
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 26 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 26 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 -30 15 £413 -2.94% 2
UK excluding London -48 12 £463 +8.82% 2
South East -3 9 - - 1
Work from Home +7 8 £286 -29.88%
London +1 3 £363 +3.57% 1
South West -3 1 £513 -6.82%
Scotland -4 1 - -
Yorkshire -43 1 £413 +1.23%
North of England -56 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 (35.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
1 6 (35.29%) OpenShift
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 12 (70.59%) BGP
1 12 (70.59%) SNMP
2 11 (64.71%) WAN
3 10 (58.82%) OSPF
4 8 (47.06%) MPLS
4 8 (47.06%) Wireless
5 7 (41.18%) LAN
6 5 (29.41%) Cisco IOS
6 5 (29.41%) SD-WAN
6 5 (29.41%) Spanning Tree
6 5 (29.41%) VLAN
7 4 (23.53%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (17.65%) EIGRP
8 3 (17.65%) Firewall
8 3 (17.65%) FTP
8 3 (17.65%) Network Security
8 3 (17.65%) SSH
8 3 (17.65%) Wireshark
8 3 (17.65%) WLAN
9 2 (11.76%) DHCP
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.88%) Finance
5 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.88%) French Language
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Network Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Designer
2 6 (35.29%) IP Designer
3 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IP Specialist
4 2 (11.76%) Network Operations Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Voice Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) 802.1X
1 2 (11.76%) NETCONF
1 2 (11.76%) OpenConfig
1 2 (11.76%) RESTCONF
1 2 (11.76%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
1 8 (47.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (23.53%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.76%) Life Science
4 1 (5.88%) CMDB
4 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Validation
2 6 (35.29%) Incident Response
2 6 (35.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (17.65%) Defect Management
3 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Network Design
4 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
4 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
5 1 (5.88%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (5.88%) Cost Reduction
5 1 (5.88%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (5.88%) Minimum Viable Product
5 1 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) Python
2 3 (17.65%) Bash
3 1 (5.88%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (47.06%) CCIE
2 8 (47.06%) JNCIE
3 6 (35.29%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) CCNA
5 1 (5.88%) CCNP
5 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (5.88%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) Ansible
2 6 (35.29%) Terraform
3 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (5.88%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (47.06%) F5
2 8 (47.06%) Fortinet
2 8 (47.06%) Juniper
2 8 (47.06%) VMware
3 6 (35.29%) Meraki
4 3 (17.65%) Palo Alto
4 3 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
5 2 (11.76%) Ciena
5 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.88%) Aruba
6 1 (5.88%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.88%) NetScout
6 1 (5.88%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 1 (5.88%) SevOne