Akamai Contract Job Trends in England

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 529 474 528
Rank change year-on-year -55 +54 +141
Contract jobs citing Akamai 37 15 29
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.11% 0.058% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.28% 0.16% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 9 26
10th Percentile £350 £495 £375
25th Percentile £420 £525 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +3.29% -11.25%
75th Percentile £631 £620 £655
90th Percentile £685 £675 £701
UK median daily rate £480 £600 £533
% change year-on-year -20.00% +12.68% -8.39%

All Cloud Computing Skills
England

Akamai falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,018 9,667 12,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.64% 37.45% 32.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,988 6,472 9,007
10th Percentile £306 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 143 308
10th Percentile £14.80 £15.60 £14.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.55% +25.00% -12.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.15 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £27.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +34.55% +24.15% -11.40%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in England

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akamai.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akamai

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in England over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in England

Akamai
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akamai.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Akamai

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the England region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
London -27 16 £575 +4.55%
North of England - 9 £425 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £425 - 1
West Midlands -45 5 £464 -23.98%
Midlands -52 5 £464 -23.98%
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - -
Akamai
UK

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (5.41%) CMS
1 2 (5.41%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 26 (70.27%) AWS
2 20 (54.05%) GCP
3 16 (43.24%) Azure
4 5 (13.51%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.81%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.81%) Cloudflare
5 4 (10.81%) Fastly
5 4 (10.81%) Route 53
5 4 (10.81%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.70%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.70%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.70%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 19 (51.35%) Firewall
2 9 (24.32%) Wireshark
3 7 (18.92%) DNS
4 4 (10.81%) HTTPS
5 3 (8.11%) DHCP
5 3 (8.11%) HTTP
5 3 (8.11%) Network Security
6 2 (5.41%) LAN
6 2 (5.41%) NetScaler
6 2 (5.41%) SD-WAN
6 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.41%) WAN
7 1 (2.70%) BGP
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.70%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (2.70%) Internet
7 1 (2.70%) OSPF
7 1 (2.70%) SSL
7 1 (2.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) MongoDB
1 4 (10.81%) MySQL
2 2 (5.41%) Metadata
2 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.70%) Big Data
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) GitLab
2 4 (10.81%) CircleCI
2 4 (10.81%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.11%) Finance
5 2 (5.41%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (13.51%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Security Architect
3 3 (8.11%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Specialist
4 2 (5.41%) Site Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.70%) Application Security Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (2.70%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (2.70%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.81%) Kafka
2 3 (8.11%) JSON
2 3 (8.11%) REST
2 3 (8.11%) XML
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) FIDO
4 1 (2.70%) HTML
4 1 (2.70%) Node.js
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.70%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.70%) RESTful
4 1 (2.70%) SAML
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Security Posture
2 6 (16.22%) Cloud Native
3 5 (13.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (10.81%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (10.81%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.41%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.70%) IoT
6 1 (2.70%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.70%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.70%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (2.70%) SCADA
6 1 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.11%) Linux
1 3 (8.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
3 12 (32.43%) Application Security
4 10 (27.03%) OWASP
4 10 (27.03%) Test Automation
5 9 (24.32%) DevSecOps
5 9 (24.32%) Ethical Hacking
5 9 (24.32%) Observability
6 8 (21.62%) DevOps
6 8 (21.62%) Security Testing
7 7 (18.92%) Containerisation
8 6 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (13.51%) Migration
9 5 (13.51%) SDLC
9 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (10.81%) High Availability
10 4 (10.81%) Security Operations
10 4 (10.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (10.81%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) Python
2 5 (13.51%) Bash
3 4 (10.81%) Go
4 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.11%) SQL
5 2 (5.41%) C#
5 2 (5.41%) Java
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) CEH
2 3 (8.11%) GIAC
2 3 (8.11%) GWAPT
3 2 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (5.41%) CISSP
3 2 (5.41%) Degree
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.70%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CCSP
4 1 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.70%) CISM
4 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.70%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.41%) JSP 440
1 2 (5.41%) NCSC
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.70%) NIST
2 1 (2.70%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Docker
2 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) Terraform
2 10 (27.03%) Kubernetes
3 8 (21.62%) CSIRT
4 7 (18.92%) Ansible
5 4 (10.81%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.70%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.70%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 17 (45.95%) F5
2 14 (37.84%) Splunk
3 5 (13.51%) Imperva
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco
4 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.81%) Zscaler
5 3 (8.11%) Fortinet
5 3 (8.11%) Infoblox
6 2 (5.41%) Citrix
6 2 (5.41%) Meraki
6 2 (5.41%) Nokia
6 2 (5.41%) Okta
6 2 (5.41%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.41%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.70%) Juniper
7 1 (2.70%) Oracle
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.70%) Tenable