Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Akamai skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Akamai over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 678 776
Rank change year-on-year +128 +98 -143
Contract jobs citing Akamai 36 44 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.073% 0.062%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.20% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 20 27
10th Percentile £325 £506 £418
25th Percentile £463 £521 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.54% +9.14% +4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £735 £641 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -4.19% -4.44% +8.38%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Akamai is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,085 22,141 34,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.28% 36.88% 38.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,005 15,984 24,853
10th Percentile £300 £325 £354
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -2.20% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 360 431
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.06 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £61.60 £76.20 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £24.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -26.17% +28.00% -3.85%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +123 33 £525 -12.54% 11
UK excluding London +77 18 £515 -4.19% 5
North of England +43 17 £515 -10.43% 2
Yorkshire +38 17 £515 -10.43% 2
London +107 15 £550 -10.24% 6
Work from Home +112 14 £525 -14.63% 8
Scotland - 1 - -

Akamai
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Apache
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Solr
2 2 (5.56%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Cloudflare
2 16 (44.44%) Azure
3 10 (27.78%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) IaaS
6 2 (5.56%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 15 (41.67%) DNS
2 14 (38.89%) Firewall
3 7 (19.44%) Network Security
4 5 (13.89%) Wireshark
5 3 (8.33%) DHCP
5 3 (8.33%) HTTP
5 3 (8.33%) Internet
6 2 (5.56%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (8.33%) Hadoop
1 3 (8.33%) MySQL
1 3 (8.33%) Redis
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 12 (33.33%) Retail
2 3 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Security Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Network Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Project Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Site Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) LDAP
2 3 (8.33%) gRPC
2 3 (8.33%) Kafka
2 3 (8.33%) WebSockets
3 1 (2.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.11%) Fat Client
3 4 (11.11%) Thin Client
4 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (5.56%) Replication
6 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
1 3 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) RAD
2 11 (30.56%) DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (19.44%) OWASP
5 6 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (13.89%) Load Balancing
7 4 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 3 (8.33%) Agile
8 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security
8 3 (8.33%) High Availability
8 3 (8.33%) Information Security
8 3 (8.33%) Kanban
8 3 (8.33%) Microservices
8 3 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (8.33%) RASP
8 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (8.33%) Scrum
8 3 (8.33%) Server Virtualisation
8 3 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
8 3 (8.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (13.89%) Go
3 3 (8.33%) Java
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (8.33%) Ruby
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 2 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.56%) CCNP
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) PowerDNS
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
1 4 (11.11%) Progress Chef
1 4 (11.11%) Puppet
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (61.11%) F5
2 5 (13.89%) AlgoSec
2 5 (13.89%) ForeScout
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) BT
3 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.33%) Adobe
4 3 (8.33%) Imperva
4 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.33%) SAP
5 2 (5.56%) New Relic
5 2 (5.56%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.78%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.78%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) Zscaler