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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 555 650
Rank change year-on-year +17 +95 +177
Contract jobs citing TACACS 18 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.054% 0.018% 0.034%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.45% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile £235 £404 £360
25th Percentile - £422 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile - £525 £626
90th Percentile - £538 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £375
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -42.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £80.25
90th Percentile - - £83.13
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 4,027 4,735 6,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.14% 12.13% 12.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,428 2,892 4,413
10th Percentile £235 £220 £230
25th Percentile £373 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £591 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 327 266
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.27 £18.66
Median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £53.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.84% -6.63% +118.71%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +31 10 £59 -85.53% 1
England +25 10 £500 - 12
UK excluding London +1 9 £500 - 6
South East +26 6 £500 - 2
Midlands - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 2
London - 2 - - 6
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 1 (5.56%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) AWS
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) OpenShift
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) GitHub
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) BGP
1 16 (88.89%) OSPF
2 11 (61.11%) VLAN
3 8 (44.44%) DNS
4 6 (33.33%) Spanning Tree
4 6 (33.33%) TCP/IP
5 5 (27.78%) EIGRP
5 5 (27.78%) Firewall
6 4 (22.22%) DHCP
6 4 (22.22%) Ethernet VPN
6 4 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (22.22%) IPsec
6 4 (22.22%) IPv6
6 4 (22.22%) SAN
6 4 (22.22%) VSAN
6 4 (22.22%) Wireless
7 3 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (16.67%) Network Security
7 3 (16.67%) VPN
8 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Marketing
2 6 (33.33%) Military
3 4 (22.22%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
2 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Designer
3 1 (5.56%) IP Designer
3 1 (5.56%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) YAML
2 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Life Science
1 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (22.22%) Runbook
5 2 (11.11%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Coaching
5 2 (11.11%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 2 (11.11%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (11.11%) Product Backlog
5 2 (11.11%) Product Management
5 2 (11.11%) Product Requirements
5 2 (11.11%) Product Strategy
5 2 (11.11%) Product Vision
5 2 (11.11%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
4 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) CCNP
4 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Ceph
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Nagios
2 2 (11.11%) Argo
2 2 (11.11%) ZABBIX
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Cisco
2 7 (38.89%) Palo Alto
3 6 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
5 3 (16.67%) Juniper
5 3 (16.67%) Meraki
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Arista
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.11%) Salesforce
7 1 (5.56%) F5
7 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.56%) NetScout
7 1 (5.56%) Riverbed
7 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.56%) SevOne