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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 501 518
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +179
Contract jobs citing Akamai 46 12 39
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.15% 0.041% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.11% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 7 21
10th Percentile £419 £478 £325
25th Percentile £460 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% -6.25% -0.08%
75th Percentile £616 £591 £650
90th Percentile £675 £608 £713
UK median daily rate £494 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -14.13% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.30
25th Percentile - - £67.75
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £69.25
90th Percentile - - £69.70
UK median hourly rate - - £68.50

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 11,874 10,731 13,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.19% 36.59% 34.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,152 7,170 9,641
10th Percentile £305 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £638
90th Percentile £710 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 138 251
10th Percentile £14.95 £17.31 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.94 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year -14.99% +33.12% +3.29%
75th Percentile £55.00 £54.69 £53.50
90th Percentile £75.33 £69.71 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £29.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -9.31% +16.00% +11.11%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 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 +17 21 £550 +4.76% 2
West Midlands -28 10 £483 -20.82%
Midlands -30 10 £483 -20.82%
Yorkshire - 8 £638 -
North of England - 8 £638 -
South East - 1 - - 3
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 (4.35%) CMS
1 2 (4.35%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 31 (67.39%) AWS
2 24 (52.17%) GCP
3 16 (34.78%) Azure
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (8.70%) Cloudflare
5 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.52%) Fastly
5 3 (6.52%) Route 53
5 3 (6.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.35%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.35%) VULTR
7 1 (2.17%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.17%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub
7 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 30 (65.22%) Firewall
2 21 (45.65%) Wireshark
3 7 (15.22%) Cisco ISE
3 7 (15.22%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (15.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (13.04%) BGP
4 6 (13.04%) OSPF
4 6 (13.04%) SNMP
5 5 (10.87%) DNS
6 4 (8.70%) HTTPS
7 3 (6.52%) DHCP
7 3 (6.52%) HTTP
8 2 (4.35%) LAN
8 2 (4.35%) NetScaler
8 2 (4.35%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.35%) VLAN
8 2 (4.35%) WAN
9 1 (2.17%) Network Security
9 1 (2.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.52%) MySQL
2 2 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.17%) Big Data
3 1 (2.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) GitLab
2 3 (6.52%) CircleCI
2 3 (6.52%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (47.83%) Social Skills
2 15 (32.61%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.17%) Banking
4 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Network Engineer
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (8.70%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 4 (8.70%) Consultant
2 4 (8.70%) Juniper Engineer
3 3 (6.52%) Security Engineer
3 3 (6.52%) Senior
4 2 (4.35%) Architect
4 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Designer
4 2 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (4.35%) Network Consultant
4 2 (4.35%) Network Designer
4 2 (4.35%) Security Consultant
4 2 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.17%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (2.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.17%) Senior Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.52%) JSON
1 3 (6.52%) Kafka
1 3 (6.52%) REST
1 3 (6.52%) XML
2 2 (4.35%) .NET
2 2 (4.35%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.17%) FIDO
3 1 (2.17%) HTML
3 1 (2.17%) Node.js
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth
3 1 (2.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.17%) RESTful
3 1 (2.17%) SAML
3 1 (2.17%) Spring
3 1 (2.17%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.17%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (39.13%) Security Posture
2 6 (13.04%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.52%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (6.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 3 (6.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.17%) IoT
5 1 (2.17%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.17%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.17%) SCADA
5 1 (2.17%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.52%) Linux
1 3 (6.52%) Windows
2 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Application Security
2 18 (39.13%) DevSecOps
2 18 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 16 (34.78%) Ethical Hacking
4 15 (32.61%) Test Automation
5 13 (28.26%) OWASP
6 12 (26.09%) Security Testing
7 10 (21.74%) DevOps
8 9 (19.57%) High Availability
9 7 (15.22%) Reverse Engineering
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Deployment
10 6 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (13.04%) Network Segmentation
10 6 (13.04%) Observability
11 5 (10.87%) Incident Response
11 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
11 5 (10.87%) SDLC
11 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (10.87%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) Python
2 4 (8.70%) Bash
3 3 (6.52%) Go
3 3 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.52%) SQL
4 2 (4.35%) C#
4 2 (4.35%) Java
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) CEH
2 3 (6.52%) GIAC
2 3 (6.52%) GWAPT
2 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.35%) CISSP
3 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CCSP
4 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.17%) CISM
4 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.17%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.35%) JSP 440
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.17%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.17%) NIST
3 1 (2.17%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (8.70%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Snort
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (32.61%) CSIRT
2 11 (23.91%) Terraform
3 7 (15.22%) FortiGate
3 7 (15.22%) Kubernetes
4 6 (13.04%) Ansible
5 3 (6.52%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.17%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.17%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) F5
2 21 (45.65%) Splunk
3 11 (23.91%) Cisco
4 8 (17.39%) Fortinet
5 7 (15.22%) Juniper
6 6 (13.04%) Imperva
6 6 (13.04%) SolarWinds
7 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
7 4 (8.70%) Zscaler
8 3 (6.52%) Infoblox
9 2 (4.35%) ArcSight
9 2 (4.35%) Citrix
9 2 (4.35%) Meraki
9 2 (4.35%) Nokia
9 2 (4.35%) Okta
9 2 (4.35%) Sitecore
10 1 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (2.17%) CyberArk
10 1 (2.17%) Palo Alto
10 1 (2.17%) Red Hat