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 3 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 109 135
Rank change year-on-year -11 +26 +33
Contract jobs citing Internet 7 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.38% 0.86% 0.53%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.02% 7.60% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 11
10th Percentile £210 £358 £263
25th Percentile £225 £445 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% -7.69%
75th Percentile £464 £578 £594
90th Percentile £508 £625 £638
London median daily rate £500 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -5.66% +11.58% -13.04%

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 174 263 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.36% 11.31% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 168 189
10th Percentile £265 £311 £223
25th Percentile £413 £429 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £664 £638 £606
90th Percentile £738 £738 £695
London median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 3
10th Percentile £21.96 - £19.39
25th Percentile £24.18 £31.25 £20.09
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +44.44% +7.14%
75th Percentile £41.99 £33.75 £50.63
90th Percentile £56.54 - £66.75
London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £28.63
% change year-on-year -32.48% +30.13% +16.84%

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 3 November 2025.

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 3 November 2025. 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 0 7 £390 -25.71% 42
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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (14.29%) Intranet
3 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) NAS
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Help Desk Support
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (14.29%) Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Cybercrime
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Mac OS X
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
1 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (14.29%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) Open Source
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Server Management
2 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CEH
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) GREM
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (14.29%) MCSA
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MOS
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) CASB
2 1 (14.29%) Packer
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) yum
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) Avaya
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Okta
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Polycom
2 1 (14.29%) Wyse
2 1 (14.29%) Zscaler