Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring TACACS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited TACACS over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 672 877 948
Rank change year-on-year +205 +71 +220
Permanent jobs citing TACACS 12 8 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.008% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.059% 0.24%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 23
10th Percentile £53,750 - -
25th Percentile £60,625 £77,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £90,000 £80,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +33.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 - £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 - £37,500
% change year-on-year - - +7.14%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing TACACS.

Salary trend for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing TACACS over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TACACS within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England - 12 £90,000 - 6
Work from Home +180 7 £90,000 +12.50% 14
London - 7 £90,000 - 2
UK excluding London - 5 £60,000 - 3
North of England - 2 £60,000 -
North West - 2 £60,000 -
South East - 1 £49,479 -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £65,000 - 2

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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
2 1 (8.33%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) BGP
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco ISE
1 10 (83.33%) Firewall
1 10 (83.33%) OSPF
1 10 (83.33%) Wireless
2 9 (75.00%) LAN
3 8 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (66.67%) WAN
4 7 (58.33%) BIG-IP
4 7 (58.33%) Cisco IOS
4 7 (58.33%) SD-WAN
4 7 (58.33%) WLAN
5 4 (33.33%) VPN
5 4 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (25.00%) Network Security
7 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (16.67%) MPLS
7 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (16.67%) VoIP
8 1 (8.33%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (58.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
3 6 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Automation Engineer
3 6 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Architect
4 3 (25.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
5 2 (16.67%) Security Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior
6 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Specialist
6 1 (8.33%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Task Automation
2 5 (41.67%) High Availability
3 4 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Network Management
5 2 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) TOGAF
5 2 (16.67%) Zero Trust
6 1 (8.33%) Business Continuity
6 1 (8.33%) Change Management
6 1 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Network Design
6 1 (8.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) CCNP
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (50.00%) CCIE
3 2 (16.67%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Cisco
2 9 (75.00%) Palo Alto
3 8 (66.67%) F5
4 6 (50.00%) LogicMonitor
5 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 4 (33.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (8.33%) Aruba
7 1 (8.33%) Avaya
7 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
7 1 (8.33%) Meraki