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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 599 494 576
Rank change year-on-year -105 +82 +92
Contract jobs citing TACACS 30 27 10
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.061% 0.094% 0.023%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.63% 0.75% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 6 8
10th Percentile - £242 £425
25th Percentile £400 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -2.44% +36.67%
75th Percentile £556 - £525
90th Percentile £575 - £540
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +7.50% -4.76% +61.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.98
25th Percentile - - £19.69
Median hourly rate - - £21.25
75th Percentile - - £22.69
90th Percentile - - £23.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -75.80%

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 4,738 3,621 5,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.70% 12.64% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,909 2,244 3,253
10th Percentile £263 £213 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -3.20% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £483
% change year-on-year +2.70% -4.15% +1.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 156 414
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.44 £40.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.78% +1.25% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.09 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £30.32 £45.88
% change year-on-year +7.19% -33.91% +154.89%

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 28 May 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 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 28 May 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 -109 27 £525 +5.00% 1
London -57 15 £425 -5.56% 1
UK excluding London -85 12 £538 +7.50% 1
South West - 6 £538 -
North of England - 4 £525 -
North West - 3 £438 -
South East -58 2 - - 1
Work from Home -66 2 £550 +832.84% 1
North East - 1 £525 -

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 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (10.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (60.00%) Network Security
2 16 (53.33%) Cisco ISE
3 15 (50.00%) BGP
4 14 (46.67%) VLAN
5 10 (33.33%) Firewall
5 10 (33.33%) MPLS
6 7 (23.33%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (23.33%) OSPF
6 7 (23.33%) VPN
7 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 6 (20.00%) Wireless
8 5 (16.67%) DHCP
8 5 (16.67%) DNS
8 5 (16.67%) WAN
9 4 (13.33%) SNMP
9 4 (13.33%) VXLAN
10 3 (10.00%) Cisco Wireless
10 3 (10.00%) LAN
11 2 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) French Language
3 3 (10.00%) Marketing
3 3 (10.00%) Military
4 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (30.00%) Security Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Network Operations Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Operations Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) IP Specialist
6 2 (6.67%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Switch Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Firewall Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) LAN Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) LAN/WAN Engineer
7 1 (3.33%) Network Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (30.00%) 802.1X
2 6 (20.00%) LDAP
3 2 (6.67%) NETCONF
3 2 (6.67%) OpenConfig
3 2 (6.67%) RESTCONF
3 2 (6.67%) YANG
4 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) PKI
2 5 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.33%) BYOD
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
1 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Validation
2 8 (26.67%) ITSM
3 6 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (13.33%) Penetration Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Agile
5 3 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (10.00%) Network Design
5 3 (10.00%) RBAC
5 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (6.67%) Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Change Control
6 2 (6.67%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (6.67%) High Availability
6 2 (6.67%) Migration
6 2 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (6.67%) SIEM
6 2 (6.67%) Threat Management
6 2 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) PHP
3 3 (10.00%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (20.00%) CCIE
3 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (16.67%) CCNP
5 4 (13.33%) APMG
5 4 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (13.33%) Degree
5 4 (13.33%) DV Cleared
5 4 (13.33%) GIAC
5 4 (13.33%) SSCP
6 3 (10.00%) CCIE Security
6 3 (10.00%) GSEC
7 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
7 2 (6.67%) JNCIE
8 1 (3.33%) JNCIP
8 1 (3.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (20.00%) NIST
2 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) FortiGate
2 6 (20.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.00%) SCOM
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (3.33%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.33%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) Cisco
2 12 (40.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (23.33%) CheckPoint
3 7 (23.33%) Fortinet
4 6 (20.00%) Aruba
4 6 (20.00%) VMware
5 5 (16.67%) F5
6 3 (10.00%) Juniper
7 2 (6.67%) ForeScout
7 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.33%) Blue Coat
8 1 (3.33%) HP
8 1 (3.33%) Nokia
8 1 (3.33%) Remedy
8 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.33%) Zscaler