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 7 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 81 109
Rank change year-on-year -28 +28 -1
Contract jobs citing Internet 7 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.31% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.61% 0.88% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £425 £215
Median % change year-on-year - +97.67% -60.37%
75th Percentile - £438 £233
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £448 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -0.56% -2.70% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £10.42
England median hourly rate £24.50 £14.20 £21.00
% change year-on-year +72.54% -32.38% -19.23%

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 268 226 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 11.97% 23.79% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 126 140
10th Percentile £196 £225 £197
25th Percentile £313 £325 £259
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +18.75% -15.79%
75th Percentile £538 £556 £495
90th Percentile £575 £625 £576
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 53 103
10th Percentile £17.12 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £21.25 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £61.76 £39.32 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +57.06% +83.22% -59.12%
75th Percentile £69.38 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £87.50 -
England median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%

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 7 May 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
Bedfordshire - 4 - - 2
Norfolk - 2 - - 1
Hertfordshire -26 1 - - 8
Internet
England

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) GCP
1 2 (28.57%) IaaS
1 2 (28.57%) PaaS
1 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Architect
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (14.29%) IoT Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (28.57%) Web Conferencing
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Android
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
1 2 (28.57%) Mac OS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Service Catalogue
1 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) API Development
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) PHP
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware