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 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 127 117
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Internet 10 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.42% 0.20% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.62% 1.84% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile £495 £520 -
25th Percentile £513 £523 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £548 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% +12.41% -7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £592 £621
90th Percentile £675 £627 £808
London median daily rate £425 £446 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.83% -18.18%

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 151 217 252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 6.28% 10.77% 10.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 148 175
10th Percentile £270 £263 £213
25th Percentile £425 £442 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £539 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +19.72% -18.18%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £599
90th Percentile £738 £726 £742
London median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.30% - -10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 4
10th Percentile £20.38 - -
25th Percentile £24.31 - £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.79 - £16.22
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.79%
75th Percentile £26.11 - £18.93
90th Percentile £32.53 - -
London median hourly rate £25.79 £43.75 £22.75
% change year-on-year -41.05% +92.31% -50.54%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -6 9 £538 -1.92% 10
West End of London - 1 - -
City of Westminster - 1 - - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (20.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (10.00%) Broadband
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (10.00%) GCP Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Governance Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (10.00%) Attestation
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (10.00%) Edge Computing
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (10.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (10.00%) Runbook
3 1 (10.00%) SIEM
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (10.00%) User Journey Map
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GRC
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (10.00%) logstash
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Okta
4 2 (20.00%) Aruba
4 2 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (10.00%) BT