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 27 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 Riverbed Technology.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 575 547 584
Rank change year-on-year -28 +37 +203
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 2 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.030% 0.035%
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% 0.067% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 2
10th Percentile - - £275
25th Percentile - £550 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £338
Median % change year-on-year - +77.78% -38.64%
75th Percentile - £650 £379
90th Percentile - - £398
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -27.27%

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 17,146 16,529 20,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.47% 45.05% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,814 9,727 13,173
10th Percentile £288 £291 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £718 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 530 671
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.36 £19.59 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +72.95%
75th Percentile £43.23 £63.45 £64.08
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.41 £27.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.52% -38.20% +97.78%

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 3 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 27 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
England -24 1 - - 4
UK excluding London -43 1 - - 3
Scotland - 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) TACACS
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) Nexthink
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds