Aruba Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Aruba
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Aruba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Aruba over the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Aruba Networks.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 99 93
Rank change year-on-year -34 -6 +78
Contract jobs citing Aruba 3 12 24
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.15% 0.64% 1.25%
As % of the Vendors category 0.27% 1.32% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 21
10th Percentile £338 £466 -
25th Percentile £348 £560 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £580 £375
Median % change year-on-year -34.27% +54.67% -18.48%
75th Percentile £398 £581 £385
90th Percentile £399 £583 £400
England median daily rate £500 £500 £386
% change year-on-year - +29.45% -18.68%

All Vendors
West Midlands

Aruba falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,101 912 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.72% 48.31% 50.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 596 619
10th Percentile £263 £223 £211
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +1.40% +8.11% -6.57%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £588
90th Percentile £653 £713 £682
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 14 20
10th Percentile £16.05 £14.48 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.38 £17.32 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.81 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% +25.27% +39.39%
75th Percentile £36.25 £35.00 £29.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.63 £43.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.16% -21.35% +74.51%

Aruba
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Aruba relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Aruba job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Aruba
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Aruba.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Aruba

Aruba
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Aruba.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Aruba

Aruba
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Aruba within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 November 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
Warwickshire -2 1 - -
Birmingham -13 1 £363 -37.50% 3
Shropshire - 1 £400 -
Aruba
England

Aruba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (33.33%) 5G
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) NaaS
2 1 (33.33%) OSPF
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless Security
2 1 (33.33%) WLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE Routing and Switching
1 1 (33.33%) CCIE Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) CWSP
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) F5
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler