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 11 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 472 527
Rank change year-on-year -36 +55 +147
Contract jobs citing Akamai 42 13 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.050% 0.069%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.33% 0.13% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 24
10th Percentile £350 £495 £355
25th Percentile £421 £525 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +0.92% -9.24%
75th Percentile £606 £620 £669
90th Percentile £670 £675 £702
UK median daily rate £488 £600 £545
% change year-on-year -18.75% +10.09% -8.21%

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 12,793 9,716 12,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.77% 37.49% 33.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,847 6,481 9,111
10th Percentile £305 £313 £275
25th Percentile £406 £420 £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 344 141 299
10th Percentile £14.45 £15.44 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.98 £21.05 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.50 £22.15
Median % change year-on-year +30.91% +24.15% -11.40%
75th Percentile £58.99 £47.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.43 £22.50
% change year-on-year +30.21% +21.89% -10.00%

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 11 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 11 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 -25 16 £575 +4.55%
West Midlands -40 10 £483 -20.82%
Midlands -49 10 £483 -20.82%
North of England - 9 £575 - 1
Yorkshire - 8 £575 - 1
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 (4.76%) CMS
1 2 (4.76%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 32 (76.19%) AWS
2 25 (59.52%) GCP
3 16 (38.10%) Azure
4 5 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.52%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.52%) Cloudflare
5 4 (9.52%) Fastly
5 4 (9.52%) Route 53
5 4 (9.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (2.38%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub
7 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.38%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 24 (57.14%) Firewall
2 15 (35.71%) Wireshark
3 6 (14.29%) DNS
4 4 (9.52%) HTTPS
5 3 (7.14%) DHCP
5 3 (7.14%) HTTP
6 2 (4.76%) LAN
6 2 (4.76%) NetScaler
6 2 (4.76%) Network Security
6 2 (4.76%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.76%) WAN
7 1 (2.38%) BGP
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (2.38%) Internet
7 1 (2.38%) OSPF
7 1 (2.38%) SSL
7 1 (2.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.52%) MySQL
2 2 (4.76%) Metadata
2 2 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.38%) Big Data
3 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) GitLab
2 4 (9.52%) CircleCI
2 4 (9.52%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.14%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (11.90%) Architect
2 4 (9.52%) Security Architect
3 3 (7.14%) Consultant
3 3 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (4.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Site Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.38%) Applications Architect
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Developer
5 1 (2.38%) Security Specialist
5 1 (2.38%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (2.38%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) JSON
2 3 (7.14%) REST
2 3 (7.14%) XML
3 2 (4.76%) .NET
4 1 (2.38%) FIDO
4 1 (2.38%) HTML
4 1 (2.38%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth
4 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.38%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
4 1 (2.38%) SAML
4 1 (2.38%) Spring
4 1 (2.38%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.38%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 17 (40.48%) Security Posture
2 6 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.52%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (9.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (9.52%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.76%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.38%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Media Streaming
5 1 (2.38%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.38%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (2.38%) SCADA
5 1 (2.38%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (45.24%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (42.86%) Application Security
2 18 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 16 (38.10%) Test Automation
4 15 (35.71%) DevSecOps
4 15 (35.71%) Ethical Hacking
5 13 (30.95%) OWASP
6 12 (28.57%) Security Testing
7 9 (21.43%) DevOps
7 9 (21.43%) Observability
8 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (14.29%) Reverse Engineering
10 5 (11.90%) SDLC
10 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (9.52%) High Availability
11 4 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.43%) Python
2 5 (11.90%) Bash
3 4 (9.52%) Go
4 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.14%) SQL
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) Java
6 1 (2.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) CEH
2 3 (7.14%) GIAC
2 3 (7.14%) GWAPT
3 2 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.76%) CISSP
3 2 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCSP
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CISM
4 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.38%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.76%) JSP 440
1 2 (4.76%) NCSC
2 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.38%) NIST
2 1 (2.38%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (16.67%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (33.33%) CSIRT
1 14 (33.33%) Terraform
2 10 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 7 (16.67%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.38%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 23 (54.76%) F5
2 20 (47.62%) Splunk
3 5 (11.90%) Imperva
3 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 4 (9.52%) Cisco
4 4 (9.52%) Zscaler
5 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 3 (7.14%) Infoblox
6 2 (4.76%) Citrix
6 2 (4.76%) Meraki
6 2 (4.76%) Nokia
6 2 (4.76%) Okta
6 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.76%) Sitecore
7 1 (2.38%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.38%) CrowdStrike
7 1 (2.38%) Juniper
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.38%) Tenable