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 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 559 494 583
Rank change year-on-year -65 +89 +160
Contract jobs citing TACACS 26 40 15
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.13% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.66% 0.98% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 8
10th Percentile £356 £353 £425
25th Percentile £400 £398 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -19.05% +61.54%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £556 £583
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +23.53% -22.73% +69.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £20.45 £23.75
25th Percentile - £23.38 £24.44
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 £44.00
% change year-on-year - -56.82% +91.30%

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 3,947 4,069 6,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.42% 12.90% 13.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,588 2,365 3,676
10th Percentile £204 £213 £206
25th Percentile £355 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -3.88%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £468 £475
% change year-on-year -3.74% -1.58% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 140 383
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.16 £16.55
25th Percentile £18.97 £21.46 £22.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £33.75 £52.21
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -35.35% +152.14%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.09 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £74.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.54 £31.79 £56.49
% change year-on-year +27.52% -43.72% +197.32%

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 25 January 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.

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

TACACS
Top 10 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 25 January 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
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -62 24 £513 +20.59% 7
UK excluding London -70 16 £525 +23.53% 7
South East -19 8 - -
Work from Home -22 8 £513 +25.77% 2
London -18 7 £388 -3.13%
North of England -61 4 £469 +11.61% 3
South West - 4 £525 - 4
North West -26 2 £438 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire -54 1 £413 -0.60%
North East - 1 £525 - 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 (23.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (7.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (23.08%) AWS
1 6 (23.08%) OpenShift
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (61.54%) BGP
2 13 (50.00%) MPLS
2 13 (50.00%) SNMP
3 12 (46.15%) WAN
4 11 (42.31%) OSPF
5 9 (34.62%) LAN
5 9 (34.62%) Network Security
6 8 (30.77%) VLAN
6 8 (30.77%) Wireless
7 7 (26.92%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (26.92%) Cisco ISE
8 5 (19.23%) Firewall
8 5 (19.23%) TCP/IP
9 4 (15.38%) SD-WAN
9 4 (15.38%) Spanning Tree
9 4 (15.38%) SSH
9 4 (15.38%) VPN
10 3 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
10 3 (11.54%) Ethernet
10 3 (11.54%) Wireshark
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
4 3 (11.54%) French Language
4 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.69%) Marketing
5 2 (7.69%) Military
6 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Network Engineer
2 6 (23.08%) Designer
2 6 (23.08%) IP Designer
3 3 (11.54%) Network Operations Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Operations Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Security Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Test Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IP Specialist
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Network Consultant
5 1 (3.85%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Voice Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) 802.1X
2 3 (11.54%) LDAP
3 2 (7.69%) NETCONF
3 2 (7.69%) OpenConfig
3 2 (7.69%) RESTCONF
3 2 (7.69%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Centre
1 8 (30.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (19.23%) PKI
3 4 (15.38%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (3.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Validation
2 6 (23.08%) Incident Response
2 6 (23.08%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (11.54%) Defect Management
3 3 (11.54%) ITSM
3 3 (11.54%) Network Design
3 3 (11.54%) RBAC
3 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
4 2 (7.69%) Change Control
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.69%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (7.69%) High Availability
4 2 (7.69%) Migration
4 2 (7.69%) Project Management
4 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (7.69%) SIEM
4 2 (7.69%) Software Testing
4 2 (7.69%) Test Planning
4 2 (7.69%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (11.54%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) Perl
3 1 (3.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) CCIE
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (30.77%) JNCIE
2 6 (23.08%) AWS Certification
3 5 (19.23%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) APMG
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
6 1 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
6 1 (3.85%) GIAC
6 1 (3.85%) GSEC
6 1 (3.85%) JNCIP
6 1 (3.85%) JNCIS
6 1 (3.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (11.54%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (23.08%) VMware NSX
3 3 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) Terraform
3 5 (19.23%) FortiGate
4 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (3.85%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (3.85%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (88.46%) Cisco
2 10 (38.46%) Fortinet
3 9 (34.62%) Juniper
3 9 (34.62%) VMware
4 8 (30.77%) F5
5 6 (23.08%) Palo Alto
6 4 (15.38%) Aruba
7 3 (11.54%) CheckPoint
7 3 (11.54%) Meraki
8 2 (7.69%) Ciena
8 2 (7.69%) ForeScout
8 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
9 1 (3.85%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (3.85%) Nokia
9 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds