TACACS Contracts

Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for TACACS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TACACS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 646 817
Rank change year-on-year +76 +171 -118
Contract jobs citing TACACS 9 38 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.067% 0.027%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.17% 0.53% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 21 15
10th Percentile £413 - £395
25th Percentile £463 £313 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £570
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.21% +26.67%
75th Percentile £525 £600 £650
90th Percentile - £626 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £325 £610
% change year-on-year +53.85% -46.72% +16.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £18.98 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £19.69 £76.38 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £78.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -72.93% +256.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £22.69 £81.00 £26.63
90th Percentile £23.33 £85.05 £28.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £78.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -75.80% +256.82% -2.22%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

TACACS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,169 9,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.59% 12.72% 11.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,630 6,422
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £720 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 444 363
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.34 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.16% -29.48% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.85 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TACACS.

Daily rate trend for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TACACS over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TACACS.

Hourly rate trend for TACACS in the UK

TACACS
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TACACS within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 +71 9 £500 +33.33% 4
London +98 7 £500 -16.67% 1
Work from Home +101 2 - - 14
UK excluding London +29 2 £500 +53.85% 4
South East +6 2 £500 - 3

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 5 (55.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) AWS
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
1 5 (55.56%) OCI
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) BGP
1 9 (100.00%) Firewall
1 9 (100.00%) IPsec
1 9 (100.00%) MPLS
1 9 (100.00%) OSPF
2 8 (88.89%) DNS
2 8 (88.89%) EIGRP
2 8 (88.89%) LAN
3 7 (77.78%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (77.78%) Wireless
4 6 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (66.67%) DHCP
4 6 (66.67%) VLAN
5 5 (55.56%) HSRP
5 5 (55.56%) IPv4
5 5 (55.56%) IPv6
5 5 (55.56%) VXLAN
6 4 (44.44%) WAN
7 3 (33.33%) Ethernet
7 3 (33.33%) SNMP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (66.67%) Senior
2 6 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Network Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) IoT
1 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
1 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 3 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (22.22%) Process Management
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Adaptive Security
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
3 1 (11.11%) Communications Security
3 1 (11.11%) Information Management
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
3 1 (11.11%) Network Design
3 1 (11.11%) Order Management
3 1 (11.11%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (11.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (88.89%) CCNA
2 8 (88.89%) CCNP
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Certification
3 5 (55.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 5 (55.56%) Azure Certification
4 2 (22.22%) BC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (22.22%) CCDP
4 2 (22.22%) CCIP
4 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (66.67%) SolarWinds Orion
2 5 (55.56%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (66.67%) F5
2 6 (66.67%) Palo Alto
2 6 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 5 (55.56%) CheckPoint
3 5 (55.56%) Google
3 5 (55.56%) Infoblox
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 3 (33.33%) Juniper
5 2 (22.22%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (11.11%) ADVA
6 1 (11.11%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
6 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 1 (11.11%) Nokia
6 1 (11.11%) Zscaler