Riverbed Contract Job Trends

Riverbed
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Riverbed products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Riverbed over the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, 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 Riverbed Technology.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 548 545
Rank change year-on-year -119 -3 +72
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 5 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.006% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% 0.013% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £475 - £650
90th Percentile £513 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +18.75%

All Vendors
UK

Riverbed 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,804 15,574 16,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.85% 47.21% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,992 9,525 10,215
10th Percentile £313 £275 £289
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,252 784 693
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.69 £14.18
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.36 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.34 £25.15 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.71% -18.87% -27.06%
75th Percentile £63.26 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.14 £21.28 £30.00
% change year-on-year +22.84% -29.07% -25.00%

Riverbed
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Riverbed relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Riverbed job vacancy trend in the UK

Riverbed
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Riverbed.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Riverbed

Riverbed
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Riverbed.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Riverbed

Riverbed
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Riverbed within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -115 5 £450 - 3
London -75 4 £450 - 2
UK excluding London -115 1 £525 - 2
South West - 1 £525 - 1

Riverbed
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) BGP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 4 (80.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) MPLS
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) Wireless
General
1 4 (80.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (20.00%) SCOM
2 1 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 4 (80.00%) Aruba
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) F5
2 4 (80.00%) Fortinet
2 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) BMC
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Tanium
3 1 (20.00%) Tripwire