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 24 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 674 557 551
Rank change year-on-year -117 -6 +64
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 6 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.006% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.026% 0.013% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £365 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile £475 - £650
90th Percentile £506 - -
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 22,905 15,664 16,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.72% 47.52% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,978 9,611 10,062
10th Percentile £310 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £615 £613 £625
90th Percentile £704 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,303 808 647
10th Percentile £13.97 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.69 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -20.16% -28.18%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.20 £64.25
90th Percentile £78.71 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.75 £21.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year +21.18% -29.17% -29.41%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Riverbed over the 6 months to 24 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Riverbed in the UK

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 24 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 -119 6 £450 - 2
London -80 5 £450 - 1
UK excluding London -99 1 £525 - 1
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Monis
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) BGP
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 4 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) MPLS
1 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
2 3 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Legal
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) WAN Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Break/Fix
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (16.67%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
1 5 (83.33%) SolarWinds
2 4 (66.67%) Aruba
2 4 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 4 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Apple
4 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
4 1 (16.67%) BMC
4 1 (16.67%) FactSet
4 1 (16.67%) Reuters
4 1 (16.67%) Tanium
4 1 (16.67%) Tripwire