Internet Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Internet
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 63 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +15
Contract jobs citing Internet 3 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% 0.66% 0.47%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.84% 5.56% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £432 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 - £275
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.43%
75th Percentile £438 - £438
90th Percentile £440 - £528
England median daily rate £506 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.20 -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £27.10 £21.25
% change year-on-year -40.96% +27.53% -37.04%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 62 90 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.41% 11.90% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 43 77
10th Percentile £146 £172 £213
25th Percentile £157 £235 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £475 £594 £538
90th Percentile £500 £704 £600
England median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 8
10th Percentile £17.32 £20.86 £10.76
25th Percentile £21.91 £21.70 £13.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% +15.14% +3.70%
75th Percentile - £24.74 £54.00
90th Percentile - £25.08 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.87% +1.79% +36.12%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Internet job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Internet

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Internet

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
Northamptonshire -10 2 £435 - 5
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
Internet
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DMZ
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Gradle
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Adaptive Web Design
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Microservices
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNP
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco
1 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
1 1 (33.33%) Zscaler