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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 589 465 509
Rank change year-on-year -124 +44 +56
Contract jobs citing Akamai 33 39 14
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.072% 0.14% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.38% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 7
10th Percentile £417 £433 £343
25th Percentile £500 £463 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £675
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -24.81% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £863
90th Percentile £595 £631 £920
UK median daily rate £550 £520 £675
% change year-on-year +5.77% -22.96% +25.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £66.66 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.66 - -

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 15,971 10,257 11,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.93% 37.19% 33.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,675 6,951 7,933
10th Percentile £325 £310 £313
25th Percentile £425 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 548 272 218
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.13 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.11 £26.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.04% +4.00% -22.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.75 £54.69
90th Percentile £83.36 £67.23 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.38 £27.88 £25.00
% change year-on-year +23.30% +11.52% -28.57%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 -75 16 £575 +11.65% 2
North of England -70 13 £446 -22.52%
North West -46 7 £555 -
Yorkshire -41 6 £325 -43.48%
South West -46 2 - -
South East -75 2 £500 +5.26% 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 7 (21.21%) Confluence
2 1 (3.03%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 13 (39.39%) GCP
2 12 (36.36%) AWS
3 11 (33.33%) Datadog
4 8 (24.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (21.21%) Azure
5 7 (21.21%) Fastly
6 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (18.18%) GitHub
6 6 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.03%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.03%) IaaS
7 1 (3.03%) Kong
7 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 19 (57.58%) DNS
2 14 (42.42%) Network Security
3 12 (36.36%) HTTP
4 8 (24.24%) TCP/IP
5 5 (15.15%) SSL
6 2 (6.06%) Firewall
7 1 (3.03%) Internet
7 1 (3.03%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 6 (18.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) Burp Suite
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Snyk
General
1 5 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
3 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Banking
4 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (42.42%) Security Engineer
2 8 (24.24%) Security Specialist
3 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Site Engineer
4 6 (18.18%) Technical Security Specialist
4 6 (18.18%) Technical Specialist
5 5 (15.15%) Application Security Specialist
5 5 (15.15%) Applications Specialist
6 3 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Architect
8 1 (3.03%) Design Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Network Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Product Owner
8 1 (3.03%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (6.06%) REST
3 1 (3.03%) JWT
3 1 (3.03%) OpenID
3 1 (3.03%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 20 (60.61%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (21.21%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (21.21%) Onboarding
3 5 (15.15%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.03%) PKI
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 11 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 10 (30.30%) Bot Management
3 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (27.27%) DDoS Mitigation
4 9 (27.27%) Migration
4 9 (27.27%) OWASP
4 9 (27.27%) SIEM
5 8 (24.24%) DevOps
6 7 (21.21%) DevSecOps
6 7 (21.21%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (21.21%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (18.18%) Application Security
7 6 (18.18%) Observability
7 6 (18.18%) Runbook
8 5 (15.15%) Dashboard Development
8 5 (15.15%) Threat Detection
9 3 (9.09%) Performance Optimisation
9 3 (9.09%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (24.24%) JavaScript
3 6 (18.18%) Bash
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) CEH
2 2 (6.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (6.06%) CISA
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (6.06%) CISM
2 2 (6.06%) CISSP
2 2 (6.06%) CRISC
2 2 (6.06%) GIAC
2 2 (6.06%) GPEN
2 2 (6.06%) OSCP
3 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) SANS
3 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) NIST
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 11 (33.33%) Grafana
2 7 (21.21%) Terraform
3 6 (18.18%) Ansible
3 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
4 1 (3.03%) Network Intrusion Detection System
4 1 (3.03%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Qualys
2 2 (6.06%) Cisco
2 2 (6.06%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (3.03%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.03%) F5
3 1 (3.03%) ForgeRock
3 1 (3.03%) IBM
3 1 (3.03%) Intel
3 1 (3.03%) Okta
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Ping Identity