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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 517 472 536
Rank change year-on-year -45 +64 +142
Contract jobs citing Akamai 43 13 23
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.13% 0.049% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 21
10th Percentile £391 £478 £325
25th Percentile £425 £519 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% -5.39%
75th Percentile £606 £648 £669
90th Percentile £670 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £488 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% -4.17%

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 12,417 9,792 12,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.85% 37.01% 33.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,624 6,490 9,147
10th Percentile £304 £313 £272
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £738 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 136 289
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.41 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.50 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +18.46% -3.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £44.71 £48.75
90th Percentile £77.35 £68.75 £66.11
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £27.35 £23.24
% change year-on-year +18.83% +17.69% +0.39%

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 28 January 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 28 January 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 -19 16 £575 -14.81% 1
West Midlands -28 10 £483 -20.82%
Midlands -40 10 £483 -20.82%
North of England - 10 £575 -
Yorkshire - 9 £575 -
North West - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 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 (4.65%) CMS
1 2 (4.65%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (79.07%) AWS
2 25 (58.14%) GCP
3 16 (37.21%) Azure
4 5 (11.63%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (9.30%) Amazon S3
5 4 (9.30%) Cloudflare
5 4 (9.30%) Fastly
5 4 (9.30%) Route 53
5 4 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.65%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (4.65%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.65%) VULTR
7 1 (2.33%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.33%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (55.81%) Firewall
2 16 (37.21%) Wireshark
3 5 (11.63%) DNS
4 4 (9.30%) HTTPS
5 3 (6.98%) DHCP
5 3 (6.98%) HTTP
6 2 (4.65%) LAN
6 2 (4.65%) NetScaler
6 2 (4.65%) Network Security
6 2 (4.65%) SD-WAN
6 2 (4.65%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.65%) WAN
7 1 (2.33%) BGP
7 1 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (2.33%) Internet
7 1 (2.33%) OSPF
7 1 (2.33%) SSL
7 1 (2.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.30%) MongoDB
1 4 (9.30%) MySQL
2 2 (4.65%) Metadata
2 2 (4.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.33%) Big Data
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (11.63%) GitLab
2 4 (9.30%) CircleCI
2 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (51.16%) Social Skills
2 14 (32.56%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.98%) Finance
5 1 (2.33%) Banking
5 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (11.63%) Architect
2 4 (9.30%) Security Architect
3 3 (6.98%) Consultant
3 3 (6.98%) Senior
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Network Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Site Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (4.65%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (2.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 1 (2.33%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (2.33%) Java Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (2.33%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) Kafka
2 3 (6.98%) JSON
2 3 (6.98%) REST
2 3 (6.98%) XML
3 2 (4.65%) .NET
3 2 (4.65%) Regular Expression
4 1 (2.33%) FIDO
4 1 (2.33%) HTML
4 1 (2.33%) Node.js
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth
4 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.33%) RESTful
4 1 (2.33%) SAML
4 1 (2.33%) Spring
4 1 (2.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.33%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (41.86%) Security Posture
2 5 (11.63%) Cloud Native
3 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.98%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (6.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.33%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.33%) IoT
6 1 (2.33%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.33%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.33%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (2.33%) SCADA
6 1 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.98%) Linux
1 3 (6.98%) Windows
2 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Application Security
1 19 (44.19%) CI/CD
1 19 (44.19%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (39.53%) DevSecOps
2 17 (39.53%) Test Automation
3 16 (37.21%) Ethical Hacking
4 13 (30.23%) OWASP
5 12 (27.91%) Security Testing
6 10 (23.26%) DevOps
7 9 (20.93%) Observability
8 7 (16.28%) Reverse Engineering
9 6 (13.95%) Containerisation
9 6 (13.95%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (13.95%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (11.63%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (11.63%) Incident Response
10 5 (11.63%) SDLC
10 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (11.63%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) Python
2 5 (11.63%) Bash
3 4 (9.30%) Go
4 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.98%) SQL
5 2 (4.65%) C#
5 2 (4.65%) Java
6 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) CEH
2 3 (6.98%) GIAC
2 3 (6.98%) GWAPT
3 2 (4.65%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.65%) CISSP
3 2 (4.65%) Degree
3 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (2.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CCSP
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.33%) CISM
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.65%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (4.65%) JSP 440
2 2 (4.65%) NCSC
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (2.33%) NIST
3 1 (2.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (16.28%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Snort
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 15 (34.88%) CSIRT
2 13 (30.23%) Terraform
3 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
4 7 (16.28%) Ansible
5 4 (9.30%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.33%) Red Hat Satellite
6 1 (2.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 25 (58.14%) F5
2 22 (51.16%) Splunk
3 6 (13.95%) Imperva
4 5 (11.63%) Cisco
4 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
5 4 (9.30%) Zscaler
6 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
6 3 (6.98%) Infoblox
7 2 (4.65%) ArcSight
7 2 (4.65%) Citrix
7 2 (4.65%) Meraki
7 2 (4.65%) Nokia
7 2 (4.65%) Okta
7 2 (4.65%) Salesforce
7 2 (4.65%) Sitecore
8 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.33%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (2.33%) Oracle
8 1 (2.33%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.33%) Tenable