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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 547 536 640
Rank change year-on-year -11 +104 +177
Contract jobs citing TACACS 21 23 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.060% 0.022%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.55% 0.50% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 4
10th Percentile £235 £354 -
25th Percentile - £399 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £420 £609
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -30.98% -2.64%
75th Percentile - £525 £626
90th Percentile - £534 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £617
% change year-on-year +17.65% -31.12% -5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £20.45 £20.30
25th Percentile - £23.38 £23.00
Median hourly rate - £28.50 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year - -3.39% +34.09%
75th Percentile - £33.38 £36.51
90th Percentile - £36.15 £37.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% -

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 3,796 4,572 6,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.52% 11.87% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,354 2,662 4,158
10th Percentile £225 £225 £228
25th Percentile £363 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £679 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £453
% change year-on-year -10.00% +10.50% +0.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 254 300
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £16.77
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.37 £22.94
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -14.85% -10.60% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £75.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £57.35 £57.50
% change year-on-year -25.89% -0.26% +27.78%

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
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 18 September 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 7 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 18 September 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
UK excluding London -10 14 £500 +17.65% 1
Work from Home +36 13 £59 -85.53% 2
England +9 13 £500 +17.65% 2
South East +26 11 £500 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (28.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) AWS
1 8 (38.10%) OpenShift
2 3 (14.29%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) GCP
3 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) BGP
1 21 (100.00%) OSPF
2 11 (52.38%) VLAN
3 9 (42.86%) Wireless
4 8 (38.10%) DNS
5 7 (33.33%) SNMP
5 7 (33.33%) WAN
6 6 (28.57%) LAN
6 6 (28.57%) MPLS
6 6 (28.57%) Spanning Tree
6 6 (28.57%) TCP/IP
7 5 (23.81%) EIGRP
8 4 (19.05%) DHCP
8 4 (19.05%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (19.05%) Fibre Channel
8 4 (19.05%) IPv6
8 4 (19.05%) SAN
8 4 (19.05%) VSAN
9 3 (14.29%) Firewall
10 2 (9.52%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Marketing
2 6 (28.57%) Military
3 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Designer
1 6 (28.57%) IP Designer
1 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (9.52%) Product Owner
3 1 (4.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Senior
3 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) YAML
2 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 6 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Life Science
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) CMDB
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 6 (28.57%) Incident Response
2 6 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
2 6 (28.57%) Validation
3 5 (23.81%) ITIL
4 4 (19.05%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Runbook
5 2 (9.52%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 2 (9.52%) Coaching
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (9.52%) Product Backlog
5 2 (9.52%) Product Requirements
5 2 (9.52%) Product Strategy
5 2 (9.52%) Product Vision
5 2 (9.52%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (33.33%) Degree
3 6 (28.57%) AWS Certification
3 6 (28.57%) CCIE
3 6 (28.57%) JNCIE
4 2 (9.52%) CCNA
5 1 (4.76%) CCNP
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 4 (19.05%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 3 (14.29%) Nagios
3 2 (9.52%) Argo
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) Juniper
2 8 (38.10%) VMware
3 7 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 6 (28.57%) F5
4 6 (28.57%) Fortinet
5 4 (19.05%) Dell
5 4 (19.05%) SolarWinds
6 3 (14.29%) Meraki
7 2 (9.52%) Arista
7 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
7 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
7 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
8 1 (4.76%) NetScout
8 1 (4.76%) Riverbed
8 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
8 1 (4.76%) SevOne