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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 115 147
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 +14
Contract jobs citing Internet 6 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.31% 0.65% 0.50%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.02% 6.70% 5.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 12
10th Percentile £210 £347 £273
25th Percentile £225 £445 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% -13.88%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £581
90th Percentile - £723 £636
London median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% -12.53%

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 199 224 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.20% 9.66% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 136 206
10th Percentile £258 £261 £200
25th Percentile £372 £418 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £664 £625 £623
90th Percentile £746 £745 £688
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Internet 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +4 6 £390 -25.71% 32
Internet
London

Internet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud9 IDE
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Intranet
2 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Law
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Desktop Support
1 2 (33.33%) Voice Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Help Desk Support
2 1 (16.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (16.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (16.67%) Cybercrime
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS X
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) Auto-Scaling
2 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) CRM
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (16.67%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Open Source
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Server Management
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCNA
1 1 (16.67%) CEH
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) CompTIA CySA+
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) GIAC
1 1 (16.67%) GREM
1 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (16.67%) MCSA
1 1 (16.67%) MCSE
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MOS
1 1 (16.67%) OSCP
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Packer
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
1 1 (16.67%) yum
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) BT
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Apple
3 1 (16.67%) Avaya
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Polycom
3 1 (16.67%) Wyse