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 22 October 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
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 562 540 605
Rank change year-on-year -22 +65 +201
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 2 18 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.048% 0.053%
As % of the Vendors category 0.013% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 11 3
10th Percentile - - £288
25th Percentile - £550 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -25.58%
75th Percentile - £650 £455
90th Percentile - - £482
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £400
% change year-on-year - +18.75% -21.18%

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 15,949 16,695 21,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.62% 44.80% 45.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,866 9,833 13,801
10th Percentile £278 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 555 673
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.85 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%
75th Percentile £37.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.15
% change year-on-year -29.00% -28.83% +98.49%

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 22 October 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
London +3 1 - - 1
England -13 1 - - 4
UK excluding London -23 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
1 1 (50.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler