Internet Contracts in the UK excluding London

Internet
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Internet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Internet over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 257 275
Rank change year-on-year -37 +18 -50
Contract jobs citing Internet 105 188 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.51% 0.82% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.19% 5.32% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 126 199
10th Percentile £181 £149 £165
25th Percentile £228 £225 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +9.42%
75th Percentile £569 £533 £550
90th Percentile £775 £600 £651
UK median daily rate £481 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 14
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.70 £12.70
25th Percentile £13.00 £14.00 £15.31
Median hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.32% -8.64% +55.77%
75th Percentile £54.31 £23.00 £26.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £32.50 £48.30
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £19.00 £28.50
% change year-on-year +23.68% -33.33% +103.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Internet 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,292 3,534 4,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 15.51% 13.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,212 2,720
10th Percentile £205 £210 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% +5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 301 240
10th Percentile £13.25 - £13.43
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.10
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.61
90th Percentile £71.01 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
% change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the UK excluding London

Internet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internet in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Internet in the UK excluding London

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the UK excluding London

Internet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internet in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the UK excluding London

Internet
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Internet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Internet in the UK excluding London

Internet
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Midlands +33 28 £630 +32.63% 63
South East -15 28 £488 -2.50% 43
West Midlands +23 20 £750 +50.00% 33
Scotland +16 16 £189 +7.86% 14
North of England +9 14 £325 -16.13% 74
South West -13 12 £475 +11.76% 35
East Midlands +18 8 £250 -33.33% 30
North West +7 8 £475 +35.71% 35
Yorkshire +13 6 £325 -35.00% 32
Northern Ireland +1 3 £563 +155.68% 7
East of England -2 3 £215 -59.81% 35
Wales +21 1 £325 -6.47% 6
Internet
UK

Internet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.86%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.95%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Spatial
3 1 (0.95%) Smallworld
Applications
1 9 (8.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.90%) Adobe XD
3 2 (1.90%) InVision
3 2 (1.90%) Sketch
4 1 (0.95%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.95%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.95%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (3.81%) Azure
3 2 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.90%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (1.90%) Figma
3 2 (1.90%) OneDrive
3 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
4 1 (0.95%) AWS
4 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (0.95%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.95%) Google Workspace
4 1 (0.95%) IaaS
4 1 (0.95%) PaaS
4 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.00%) MPLS
1 21 (20.00%) WAN
2 19 (18.10%) LAN
3 18 (17.14%) Firewall
4 13 (12.38%) VPN
5 10 (9.52%) WLAN
6 9 (8.57%) DNS
6 9 (8.57%) SD-WAN
7 8 (7.62%) Ethernet
8 7 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
8 7 (6.67%) Network Security
8 7 (6.67%) VoIP
8 7 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (5.71%) PBX
9 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
10 5 (4.76%) ADSL
10 5 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
10 5 (4.76%) DHCP
10 5 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.90%) GIS
1 2 (1.90%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.95%) OLAP
2 1 (0.95%) Power BI
2 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.95%) Spatial Data
2 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (3.81%) JIRA
2 1 (0.95%) Git
2 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.95%) TestComplete
2 1 (0.95%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (31.43%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Telecoms
3 18 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (15.24%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.57%) Finance
6 6 (5.71%) Legal
7 4 (3.81%) Automotive
7 4 (3.81%) Banking
7 4 (3.81%) Electronics
7 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.86%) Italian Language
8 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.90%) Law
9 2 (1.90%) Marketing
9 2 (1.90%) Military
9 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Advertising
10 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.95%) German Language
Job Titles
1 12 (11.43%) Architect
1 12 (11.43%) Network Engineer
2 9 (8.57%) Support Engineer
3 8 (7.62%) Analyst
4 7 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 7 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 6 (5.71%) IT Support
5 6 (5.71%) Network Architect
5 6 (5.71%) Support Officer
6 5 (4.76%) Administrator
6 5 (4.76%) Desktop Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (4.76%) Technical Support
6 5 (4.76%) Technical Support Officer
7 4 (3.81%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Service Analyst
7 4 (3.81%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) Web Services
2 3 (2.86%) Blazor
2 3 (2.86%) OpenGL
2 3 (2.86%) WebRTC
3 2 (1.90%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.95%) .NET
4 1 (0.95%) J2EE
4 1 (0.95%) OpenLayers
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.62%) IoT
3 4 (3.81%) Device Driver
3 4 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.81%) PCIe
3 4 (3.81%) Verilog
3 4 (3.81%) VHDL
4 3 (2.86%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.86%) CMDB
4 3 (2.86%) CUDA
4 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.86%) e-Learning
4 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.90%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.90%) iPad
5 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.90%) Tandem
6 1 (0.95%) CCTV
6 1 (0.95%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.95%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 25 (23.81%) Windows
2 9 (8.57%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.76%) Linux
4 4 (3.81%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.81%) VxWorks
5 3 (2.86%) Unix
5 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.95%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (20.00%) Agile
3 14 (13.33%) Customer Service
4 12 (11.43%) ITIL
4 12 (11.43%) Validation
5 11 (10.48%) Configuration Management
5 11 (10.48%) Migration
6 10 (9.52%) Network Architecture
6 10 (9.52%) Programme Management
6 10 (9.52%) Project Delivery
6 10 (9.52%) Project Management
7 9 (8.57%) Service Delivery
7 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (7.62%) Analytics
8 8 (7.62%) E-Commerce
8 8 (7.62%) Software Engineering
9 7 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
9 7 (6.67%) PRINCE2
9 7 (6.67%) Time Management
10 6 (5.71%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.81%) C
1 4 (3.81%) C#
1 4 (3.81%) Embedded C
1 4 (3.81%) JavaScript
2 3 (2.86%) C++
2 3 (2.86%) Embedded C++
2 3 (2.86%) SQL
3 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.90%) Python
4 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 19 (18.10%) Degree
4 7 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (5.71%) BC Cleared
5 6 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.71%) CCIE
6 5 (4.76%) CCIE Data Center
6 5 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (1.90%) CCNP
8 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) CCDP
9 1 (0.95%) CCIP
9 1 (0.95%) CCNA
9 1 (0.95%) CISM
9 1 (0.95%) CISSP
9 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.95%) ISEB
9 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.71%) SLA
2 5 (4.76%) QA
3 4 (3.81%) MISRA
3 4 (3.81%) MISRA C
4 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (1.90%) GDPR
5 2 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.90%) WCAG
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
6 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.95%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) NEBOSH
6 1 (0.95%) NIST
6 1 (0.95%) RMADS
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.76%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (3.81%) Firmware
4 2 (1.90%) vSphere
5 1 (0.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (1.90%) Terraform
2 1 (0.95%) Ansible
2 1 (0.95%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Cisco
2 15 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.48%) VMware
4 9 (8.57%) Palo Alto
5 5 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 5 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 5 (4.76%) Juniper
5 5 (4.76%) Openreach
5 5 (4.76%) Symantec
5 5 (4.76%) Zscaler
6 4 (3.81%) Atlassian
6 4 (3.81%) Intel
7 3 (2.86%) Autodesk
7 3 (2.86%) BT
7 3 (2.86%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.86%) NVIDIA
7 3 (2.86%) Oracle
8 2 (1.90%) Extreme Networks
8 2 (1.90%) Meraki
8 2 (1.90%) Virgin Media