Internet Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Internet
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England 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 100 72 107
Rank change year-on-year -28 +35 +12
Contract jobs citing Internet 2 21 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.15% 1.45% 0.55%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.93% 8.17% 2.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile £386 £409 £319
25th Percentile £403 £516 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £563 £535
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +5.14% +54.51%
75th Percentile £491 £600 £700
90th Percentile £504 - £835
England median daily rate £506 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -4.48% +6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £16.75
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +291.89% +52.70%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £20.25
90th Percentile - - -
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 214 257 343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.77% 17.80% 18.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 121 202
10th Percentile £188 £213 £203
25th Percentile £309 £280 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
England median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 48 59
10th Percentile £14.99 £18.89 £19.54
25th Percentile £16.30 £25.03 £61.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £58.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -10.00% +30.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 -
90th Percentile £84.27 - £73.75
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 of England

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

Internet job vacancy trend in the East of England

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Internet
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Bedfordshire -6 1 £500 - 9
Hertfordshire -7 1 £400 -31.91% 21
Internet
England

Internet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Contingency Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Zscaler