Internet Contract Job Trends in Central London

Internet
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 120 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +16
Contract jobs citing Internet 16 5 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.63% 0.26% 0.67%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 9.41% 2.50% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 9
10th Percentile £419 £210 -
25th Percentile £481 £225 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.65% -13.33% -22.58%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £530
90th Percentile £660 - £620
London median daily rate £475 £408 £500
% change year-on-year +16.56% -18.50% -6.98%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 170 200 249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.67% 10.53% 10.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 136 170
10th Percentile £238 £250 £212
25th Percentile £408 £392 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £541 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +20.28% -18.18%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £600
90th Percentile £738 £743 £746
London median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile £19.93 - -
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £26.11 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +81.48% -51.53%
75th Percentile - £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £49.44 - -
London median hourly rate £25.63 £38.75 £23.80
% change year-on-year -33.86% +62.82% -34.38%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Internet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Internet job vacancy trend in Central London

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Internet

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in Central London over the 6 months to 6 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in Central London

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Internet

Internet
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 6 June 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
City of London -2 12 £521 +33.65% 22
Internet
London

Internet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (6.25%) Confluence
1 1 (6.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (12.50%) GCP
1 2 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (43.75%) VPN
2 6 (37.50%) Firewall
3 5 (31.25%) WAN
4 4 (25.00%) Network Security
4 4 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (18.75%) LAN
5 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (12.50%) DNS
7 1 (6.25%) BIG-IP
7 1 (6.25%) Broadband
7 1 (6.25%) DHCP
7 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (6.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (6.25%) Intranet
7 1 (6.25%) SNMP
7 1 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) RDBMS
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Artifactory
2 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Banking
2 2 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
3 1 (6.25%) Front Office
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Developer
4 1 (6.25%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Governance Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Junior
4 1 (6.25%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) pytest
2 1 (6.25%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.25%) ADO.NET
2 1 (6.25%) Ajax
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XML
2 1 (6.25%) XSL
2 1 (6.25%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 2 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
1 6 (37.50%) Validation
2 5 (31.25%) AI
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
3 4 (25.00%) Data Science
3 4 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 4 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 4 (25.00%) LLM
3 4 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (25.00%) MLOps
3 4 (25.00%) OOP
3 4 (25.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 4 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Observability
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Use Case
5 2 (12.50%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) C#
2 1 (6.25%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) CCIE
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) GRC
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Istio
2 1 (6.25%) logstash
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) F5
3 2 (12.50%) Aruba
3 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) Juniper
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Zscaler
4 1 (6.25%) Alias
4 1 (6.25%) Bloomberg
4 1 (6.25%) Blue Coat
4 1 (6.25%) BT
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) Citrix
4 1 (6.25%) Infoblox
4 1 (6.25%) ION Trading
4 1 (6.25%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Reuters
4 1 (6.25%) Sitecore