Akamai Contracts in England

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Akamai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akamai over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 464 524 599
Rank change year-on-year +60 +75 +139
Contract jobs citing Akamai 32 29 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.078% 0.078%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 21 26
10th Percentile - £425 £475
25th Percentile £463 £483 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -1.32%
75th Percentile £603 £669 £638
90th Percentile £675 £825 £681
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.11%

All Cloud 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 9,590 12,039 17,146
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.59% 32.42% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,480 8,596 12,581
10th Percentile £311 £306 £321
25th Percentile £413 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 328 289
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.33 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +52.81%
75th Percentile £38.75 £43.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai in England

Akamai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Akamai in England.

Daily rate trend for Akamai in England

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in England over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in England

Akamai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Akamai in England.

Hourly rate trend for Akamai in England

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 30 June 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
London +60 18 £550 -33.33% 45
South East - 6 £475 - 5
South West - 5 £575 - 2
East of England +25 1 - - 3
North of England -5 1 - - 7
North West - 1 - - 6
Akamai
UK

Akamai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) AWS
2 7 (21.88%) Azure
3 4 (12.50%) Cloudflare
3 4 (12.50%) Datadog
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub
5 2 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (6.25%) GCP
5 2 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.25%) Nutanix
5 2 (6.25%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.13%) Fastly
6 1 (3.13%) npm
6 1 (3.13%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) Firewall
2 16 (50.00%) Network Security
3 7 (21.88%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (18.75%) BGP
4 6 (18.75%) OSPF
4 6 (18.75%) SNMP
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (15.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (15.63%) HTTP
5 5 (15.63%) HTTPS
5 5 (15.63%) VPN
6 4 (12.50%) Wireshark
7 3 (9.38%) DNS
7 3 (9.38%) SD-WAN
7 3 (9.38%) TCP/IP
7 3 (9.38%) WAN
8 2 (6.25%) DHCP
8 2 (6.25%) IPsec
8 2 (6.25%) SSL
8 2 (6.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.13%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 4 (12.50%) Banking
2 4 (12.50%) Legal
3 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Retail
4 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.13%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Network Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (18.75%) Security Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Senior
4 4 (12.50%) Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 4 (12.50%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) SailPoint
2 3 (9.38%) 802.1X
2 3 (9.38%) OAuth
3 2 (6.25%) Node.js
4 1 (3.13%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.13%) HTML
4 1 (3.13%) Kafka
4 1 (3.13%) OpenID
4 1 (3.13%) PlayReady
4 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) SAML
4 1 (3.13%) VCL
4 1 (3.13%) Widevine
4 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.50%) Security Posture
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.25%) PKI
4 1 (3.13%) FMCG
4 1 (3.13%) MPEG
4 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.13%) Video on Demand
4 1 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
1 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 7 (21.88%) Cloud Security
2 7 (21.88%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (18.75%) Agile
3 6 (18.75%) Application Security
3 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
3 6 (18.75%) DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
4 4 (12.50%) Analytics
4 4 (12.50%) Artefact Management
4 4 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 4 (12.50%) Data Security
4 4 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 4 (12.50%) Forensic Analysis
4 4 (12.50%) High Availability
4 4 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
4 4 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (6.25%) Python
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) CEH
1 3 (9.38%) CISSP
2 2 (6.25%) DV Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) CCDP
3 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) GRC
2 2 (6.25%) QA
3 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 5 (15.63%) FortiGate
3 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.25%) Ansible
4 2 (6.25%) Kustomize
4 2 (6.25%) Packer
5 1 (3.13%) Grafana
5 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (31.25%) F5
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco
2 8 (25.00%) Imperva
2 8 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (21.88%) Palo Alto
4 6 (18.75%) Juniper
4 6 (18.75%) SolarWinds
5 4 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 4 (12.50%) Google
5 4 (12.50%) Qualys
6 2 (6.25%) Dell KACE
6 2 (6.25%) Meraki
6 2 (6.25%) Splunk
6 2 (6.25%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (3.13%) Arista
7 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
7 1 (3.13%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.13%) Riverbed
7 1 (3.13%) Zscaler