Internet Contracts in the East Midlands

Internet
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 60 65
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +16
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Internet 3 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.39% 0.79% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.55% 6.38% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £430 - -
25th Percentile £432 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £250 £575
Median % change year-on-year +74.12% -56.52% +76.92%
75th Percentile £438 - £588
90th Percentile £440 - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.20 -
England median hourly rate £14.20 £23.80 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.34% +25.26% -40.16%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 66 94 111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.57% 12.37% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 53 75
10th Percentile £156 £210 £198
25th Percentile £221 £363 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +9.78% +7.16%
75th Percentile £492 £588 £565
90th Percentile £626 £652 £700
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 8
10th Percentile - - £10.76
25th Percentile - £12.75 £17.69
Median hourly rate £13.81 £19.24 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% -8.40% -2.33%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.15 £54.00
90th Percentile - £28.72 -
England median hourly rate £42.00 £54.94 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.55% -2.75% +43.01%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Internet 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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DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire -16 2 £435 +74.12% 6
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 1
Internet
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

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