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 22 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 111 126
Rank change year-on-year -9 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing Internet 9 13 11
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.42% 0.62% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.52% 5.73% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 4
10th Percentile £446 £330 £481
25th Percentile £483 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £541
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -0.92% +8.25%
75th Percentile £556 £572 £605
90th Percentile £584 £630 £669
London median daily rate £425 £525 £502
% change year-on-year -19.05% +4.69% -8.82%

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 163 227 268
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 7.65% 10.89% 10.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 158 179
10th Percentile £209 £257 £240
25th Percentile £413 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £528 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.66% +11.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £701 £716
London median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £20.69 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £12.75
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +71.69% -8.57%
75th Percentile £26.11 £33.75 -
90th Percentile £30.39 - £54.07
London median hourly rate £25.31 £33.75 £24.75
% change year-on-year -25.01% +36.36% -3.73%

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 22 February 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 22 February 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 -5 8 £525 -4.20% 20
West End of London +6 1 - - 1
City of Westminster +5 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 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Akamai
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (11.11%) Cloudflare
3 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Network Security
2 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Broadband
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (11.11%) HTTPS
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) GCP Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Governance Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Firewall Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Transformation Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (11.11%) Project Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) logstash
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Zscaler
2 3 (33.33%) Okta
3 2 (22.22%) Google
3 2 (22.22%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Aruba
4 1 (11.11%) BT
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle