Aruba Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Aruba
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Aruba products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Aruba over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Aruba Networks.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 494 470 559
Rank change year-on-year -24 +89 -163
Permanent jobs citing Aruba 165 80 103
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.23% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.91% 0.56% 0.60%
Number of salaries quoted 93 71 77
10th Percentile £37,800 £30,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,750 £31,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £38,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year +49.35% -17.20% +7.51%
75th Percentile £69,390 £60,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,500 £90,000 £62,500
UK median annual salary £56,400 £40,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +39.26% -22.86% +5.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,226 14,286 17,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 22.58% 41.77% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 11,303 7,323 9,484
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £30,750 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.37% -3.00%
75th Percentile £69,390 £60,000 £63,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £57,500 £51,498 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.66% -6.37% -4.35%

Aruba
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Aruba relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Aruba job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Aruba
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Aruba.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Aruba

Aruba
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Aruba in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Aruba in the UK excluding London

Aruba
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Aruba within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 September 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -9 68 £57,500 +35.29% 17
North of England -18 58 £65,576 +14.04% 12
North West +25 49 £67,500 +17.39% 7
Midlands -29 15 £56,400 +46.49% 8
South West -68 14 £50,000 +61.29% 1
West Midlands -18 10 £56,400 +32.71% 2
North East - 7 £56,538 - 3
East Midlands -35 5 £65,000 +68.83% 6
Scotland +8 4 £50,500 - 2
East of England -26 4 £41,000 +26.15% 6
Wales - 3 £29,000 -
Yorkshire -52 2 £65,576 -22.85% 2
Aruba
UK

Aruba
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 21 (12.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (9.09%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.42%) Apache
3 4 (2.42%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 38 (23.03%) Azure
2 26 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (13.94%) AWS
4 15 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 6 (3.64%) OneDrive
6 2 (1.21%) IaaS
6 2 (1.21%) PaaS
6 2 (1.21%) Rubrik
6 2 (1.21%) Serverless
7 1 (0.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.61%) GCP
7 1 (0.61%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 101 (61.21%) Firewall
2 88 (53.33%) LAN
3 84 (50.91%) WAN
4 78 (47.27%) Wi-Fi
5 67 (40.61%) Wireless
6 51 (30.91%) Cisco Nexus
7 38 (23.03%) Network Security
7 38 (23.03%) VPN
8 33 (20.00%) VLAN
9 26 (15.76%) Internet
9 26 (15.76%) SD-WAN
10 25 (15.15%) Broadband
11 23 (13.94%) WLAN
12 21 (12.73%) DHCP
12 21 (12.73%) DNS
13 14 (8.48%) OSPF
14 12 (7.27%) BGP
14 12 (7.27%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (7.27%) TCP/IP
15 10 (6.06%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.42%) MySQL
3 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (6.06%) Telecoms
4 9 (5.45%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (4.85%) Finance
5 8 (4.85%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (4.24%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.03%) Local Government
9 3 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 67 (40.61%) Senior
2 61 (36.97%) Network Engineer
3 42 (25.45%) Analyst
4 38 (23.03%) Senior Analyst
5 35 (21.21%) Network Analyst
6 33 (20.00%) Senior Network Analyst
7 24 (14.55%) Security Analyst
7 24 (14.55%) Senior Security Analyst
8 23 (13.94%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 23 (13.94%) Senior Cybersecurity Analyst
9 21 (12.73%) Senior Network Engineer
10 19 (11.52%) Network Security Analyst
11 17 (10.30%) Designer
11 17 (10.30%) Network Designer
12 16 (9.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (8.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 12 (7.27%) Consultant
14 12 (7.27%) Network Consultant
15 11 (6.67%) Senior Security Engineer
15 11 (6.67%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.42%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.06%) Security Posture
2 9 (5.45%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.85%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.85%) Operational Technology
3 8 (4.85%) Smartphone
4 7 (4.24%) Driving Licence
5 5 (3.03%) Cyber Security Posture
5 5 (3.03%) IoT
5 5 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.21%) BYOD
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (13.33%) Windows
2 18 (10.91%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.03%) Linux
4 4 (2.42%) Ubuntu
4 4 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.82%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.82%) Windows 7
6 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 43 (26.06%) Vulnerability Management
3 42 (25.45%) Incident Management
4 39 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
5 38 (23.03%) Network Load Balancing
6 37 (22.42%) Data Security
6 37 (22.42%) Penetration Testing
7 33 (20.00%) SIEM
8 31 (18.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 29 (17.58%) Network Design
10 27 (16.36%) Business Continuity
11 26 (15.76%) Security Operations
12 23 (13.94%) BCP
12 23 (13.94%) Business Continuity Planning
12 23 (13.94%) Migration
13 22 (13.33%) Threat Detection
14 21 (12.73%) Mentoring
15 20 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 18 (10.91%) ITIL
17 17 (10.30%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (3.64%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.21%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (21.82%) Cisco Certification
2 29 (17.58%) CCNP
3 20 (12.12%) Degree
4 16 (9.70%) Security Cleared
5 15 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 14 (8.48%) CCNA
7 12 (7.27%) DBS Check
8 4 (2.42%) Azure Certification
8 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.82%) CCIE
10 2 (1.21%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.61%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.21%) GDPR
4 1 (0.61%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (15.15%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 7 (4.24%) vSphere
5 4 (2.42%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.61%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.61%) Firmware
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.61%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (4.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.03%) SCCM
3 4 (2.42%) WSUS
4 2 (1.21%) Ansible
4 2 (1.21%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.21%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 120 (72.73%) Cisco
2 63 (38.18%) Palo Alto
3 51 (30.91%) Fortinet
4 41 (24.85%) Qualys
5 36 (21.82%) Microsoft
6 35 (21.21%) Juniper
7 21 (12.73%) HP
8 19 (11.52%) VMware
9 10 (6.06%) Veeam
10 8 (4.85%) Draytek
11 6 (3.64%) CheckPoint
11 6 (3.64%) Dell
11 6 (3.64%) Meraki
11 6 (3.64%) SonicWALL
12 5 (3.03%) Datto
12 5 (3.03%) WatchGuard
13 4 (2.42%) ConnectWise
13 4 (2.42%) Ruckus Wireless
13 4 (2.42%) ServiceNow
13 4 (2.42%) Ubiquiti