Internet Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Internet
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 110 138
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 +38
Contract jobs citing Internet 7 15 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.71% 0.39%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.38% 6.61% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 7
10th Percentile £210 £444 £234
25th Percentile £225 £478 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% -13.88%
75th Percentile £464 £625 £603
90th Percentile £576 £640 £675
Central London median daily rate £390 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -25.71% +16.67% -7.69%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 160 227 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.45% 10.71% 9.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 138 169
10th Percentile £258 £341 £263
25th Percentile £406 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £625
90th Percentile £738 £742 £700
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.89 - £26.38
25th Percentile £21.96 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +134.94%
75th Percentile £45.41 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £57.51 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +132.14%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Internet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Internet job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Internet

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in the City of London over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the City of London

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Internet

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Internet
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Akamai
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud9 IDE
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
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%) VPN
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%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SSH
3 1 (14.29%) SSL
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
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
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 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
2 1 (14.29%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Symfony
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%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (14.29%) Immutable Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (14.29%) Offensive Security
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%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Python
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%) Citrix
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%) BT
2 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) F5
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Polycom
2 1 (14.29%) Wyse