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 25 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 573 452 528
Rank change year-on-year -121 +76 +73
Contract jobs citing Akamai 33 32 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.076% 0.13% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.22% 0.34% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 23
10th Percentile £328 - £425
25th Percentile £416 £463 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £669
90th Percentile £593 £675 £798
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +2.33%

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 15,223 9,508 12,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 35.06% 37.88% 32.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,307 6,455 8,632
10th Percentile £325 £310 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £716 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.14% -4.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 241 339
10th Percentile £16.62 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.20 £17.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £43.09 £25.15 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.34% +14.32% -31.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £40.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £83.60 £67.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £28.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +32.74% +28.41% -37.14%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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
North of England -59 16 £425 -
London -72 15 £575 +4.55% 1
Yorkshire - 10 £338 -
North West -34 6 £555 -
South West -47 2 - -
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 3 (9.09%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (48.48%) GCP
2 13 (39.39%) AWS
3 9 (27.27%) Datadog
3 9 (27.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 8 (24.24%) Fastly
5 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (18.18%) Azure
5 6 (18.18%) GitHub
5 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
6 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
6 1 (3.03%) Route 53
6 1 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (60.61%) DNS
2 14 (42.42%) Network Security
3 8 (24.24%) HTTP
4 6 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 3 (9.09%) SSL
6 2 (6.06%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) MongoDB
2 6 (18.18%) Redis
3 2 (6.06%) Metadata
4 1 (3.03%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Burp Suite
2 2 (6.06%) Snyk
3 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Banking
3 1 (3.03%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 9 (27.27%) Security Specialist
3 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Site Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) Technical Security Specialist
4 7 (21.21%) Technical Specialist
5 6 (18.18%) Application Security Specialist
5 6 (18.18%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (9.09%) Architect
6 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.21%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 19 (57.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 6 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.12%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (9.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 11 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 11 (33.33%) Migration
3 9 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (27.27%) Incident Response
3 9 (27.27%) Observability
3 9 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (24.24%) Bot Management
4 8 (24.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (21.21%) DDoS Mitigation
5 7 (21.21%) DevOps
5 7 (21.21%) OWASP
5 7 (21.21%) SIEM
6 6 (18.18%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.12%) Containerisation
8 3 (9.09%) Application Security
8 3 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (9.09%) Runbook
8 3 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) Python
2 9 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.21%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (6.06%) CEH
1 2 (6.06%) CISA
1 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (6.06%) CISM
1 2 (6.06%) CISSP
1 2 (6.06%) CRISC
1 2 (6.06%) GIAC
1 2 (6.06%) GPEN
1 2 (6.06%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (6.06%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) Grafana
1 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 9 (27.27%) Terraform
2 7 (21.21%) Ansible
2 7 (21.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (6.06%) Qualys
2 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk