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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 117 134
Rank change year-on-year -7 +17 +39
Contract jobs citing Internet 7 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.35% 0.84% 0.43%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.87% 7.66% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 8
10th Percentile £449 £364 £315
25th Percentile £490 £506 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £536 £438
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +22.57% -5.41%
75th Percentile £556 £586 £489
90th Percentile - £625 £612
London median daily rate £506 £530 £475
% change year-on-year -4.48% +11.58% -13.64%

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 181 261 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.16% 10.90% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 171 189
10th Percentile £285 £263 £262
25th Percentile £413 £432 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +0.96% -2.58%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £606
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.55% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £23.35 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% +1.05%
75th Percentile £36.81 £33.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £54.73 - £61.38
London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £26.50
% change year-on-year -32.48% +40.57% +6.00%

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
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 December 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 -1 6 £531 -3.06% 18
West End of London +9 1 - - 1
City of Westminster +1 1 - - 4
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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Akamai
4 1 (14.29%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Network Security
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Architect
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
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Transformation Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) WAN Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Cybercrime
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
2 1 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
2 1 (14.29%) Edge Computing
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (14.29%) Malware Reverse Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Observability
2 1 (14.29%) Offensive Security
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CEH
2 1 (14.29%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) GIAC
2 1 (14.29%) GREM
2 1 (14.29%) OSCP
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) CASB
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Okta
1 3 (42.86%) Zscaler
2 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) F5
3 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle