TACACS Contracts

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring TACACS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TACACS over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 579 650
Rank change year-on-year +53 +71 +185
Contract jobs citing TACACS 22 6 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.014% 0.058%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.56% 0.11% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 15
10th Percentile £235 £379 £313
25th Percentile - £441 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -13.04% -8.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £613
90th Percentile - - £633
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £350
% change year-on-year - +42.86% -46.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £18.98 £18.50
25th Percentile - £19.69 £50.38
Median hourly rate - £21.25 £78.50
Median % change year-on-year - -72.93% +256.82%
75th Percentile - £22.69 £81.00
90th Percentile - £23.33 £85.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 £51.75
% change year-on-year - -63.29% +135.23%

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 3,941 5,420 7,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.37% 12.52% 12.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 3,193 4,688
10th Percentile £231 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -4.08% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 427 409
10th Percentile £14.54 £13.86 -
25th Percentile £20.81 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +100.00% -22.41%
75th Percentile £60.41 £63.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.45 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.55 £47.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year -33.59% +79.25% +17.78%

TACACS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing TACACS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TACACS.

Daily rate trend for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TACACS over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TACACS.

Hourly rate trend for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Top 8 Contract 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 July 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
Work from Home +44 13 £59 -
England +59 11 £500 - 5
UK excluding London +54 9 £500 -
South East +44 6 £500 -
London +36 3 - - 5
West Midlands - 2 - -
Midlands - 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

TACACS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) BGP
1 18 (81.82%) OSPF
2 14 (63.64%) VLAN
3 9 (40.91%) TCP/IP
4 8 (36.36%) DNS
4 8 (36.36%) IPsec
5 7 (31.82%) Firewall
5 7 (31.82%) Network Security
5 7 (31.82%) VPN
6 6 (27.27%) Spanning Tree
7 5 (22.73%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (22.73%) EIGRP
8 4 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (18.18%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (18.18%) DHCP
8 4 (18.18%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (18.18%) IPv6
8 4 (18.18%) SAN
8 4 (18.18%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) GitLab
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Marketing
2 7 (31.82%) Military
3 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Network Security Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Principal Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Principal Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Principal Security Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Security Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 2 (9.09%) Support Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) YAML
2 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Life Science
1 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) CMDB
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 6 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (22.73%) ITIL
5 4 (18.18%) Change Management
5 4 (18.18%) Migration
5 4 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (18.18%) Runbook
6 2 (9.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Coaching
6 2 (9.09%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (9.09%) Product Backlog
6 2 (9.09%) Product Requirements
6 2 (9.09%) Product Strategy
6 2 (9.09%) Product Vision
6 2 (9.09%) Scrum
6 2 (9.09%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE
4 1 (4.55%) CCIE Security
4 1 (4.55%) CCNP
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Ceph
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) ZABBIX
2 3 (13.64%) Nagios
3 2 (9.09%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (68.18%) Cisco
2 10 (45.45%) Palo Alto
3 8 (36.36%) SolarWinds
4 4 (18.18%) Dell
5 3 (13.64%) Meraki
6 2 (9.09%) Arista
6 2 (9.09%) CheckPoint
6 2 (9.09%) F5
6 2 (9.09%) Juniper
6 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
6 2 (9.09%) Salesforce
6 2 (9.09%) VMware
7 1 (4.55%) NetScout
7 1 (4.55%) Riverbed
7 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
7 1 (4.55%) SevOne