Internet Contract Job Trends in England

Internet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 484 374 324
Rank change year-on-year -110 -50 -20
Contract jobs citing Internet 158 128 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.46% 0.66%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.67% 3.89% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 76 122
10th Percentile £269 £343 £219
25th Percentile £404 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £583 £607
90th Percentile £659 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 13
10th Percentile £11.46 - £20.65
25th Percentile £12.95 £14.20 £23.10
Median hourly rate £14.85 £16.00 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% -33.88% +13.88%
75th Percentile £17.59 £44.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £34.64 £46.55 £51.15
UK median hourly rate £14.85 £16.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year -7.19% -32.77% +12.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,304 3,293 3,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.33% 11.86% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 2,057 2,306
10th Percentile £250 £230 £242
25th Percentile £400 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £508
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.45% +1.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +5.04% -4.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 376 165 218
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.28 £14.47
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.00 £22.84
Median hourly rate £35.52 £41.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% -27.64% +1.52%
75th Percentile £69.63 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £43.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -31.40% -14.85% -10.60%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Internet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Internet job vacancy trend in England

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Internet

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in England

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Internet

Internet
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Internet in England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Internet in England

Internet
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 Internet within the England region over the 6 months to 16 September 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 -55 103 £500 +5.26% 678
North of England -75 19 £455 -9.00% 107
Midlands -44 17 £481 +8.98% 60
West Midlands -50 16 £481 -14.44% 34
South East -73 12 £550 +4.76% 115
North West -48 10 £401 -15.58% 58
Yorkshire -40 9 £475 -9.52% 40
South West -42 5 £388 -11.93% 46
East of England -20 3 £535 +33.75% 29
North East - 2 - - 10
Internet
UK

Internet
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 13 (8.23%) IIS
2 5 (3.16%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (1.27%) Eikon
2 1 (0.63%) Maximo
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (22.78%) Azure
2 26 (16.46%) AWS
3 19 (12.03%) GCP
4 10 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.70%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (3.80%) GitHub
7 6 (3.80%) IaaS
7 6 (3.80%) SaaS
8 5 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.53%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (2.53%) Google App Engine
9 4 (2.53%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (2.53%) PaaS
10 3 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 36 (22.78%) Firewall
2 31 (19.62%) Network Security
3 23 (14.56%) WAN
4 22 (13.92%) VPN
5 19 (12.03%) DNS
6 17 (10.76%) TCP/IP
7 16 (10.13%) SD-WAN
8 15 (9.49%) BGP
8 15 (9.49%) LAN
8 15 (9.49%) Wireless
9 14 (8.86%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (7.59%) OSPF
11 10 (6.33%) DHCP
11 10 (6.33%) MPLS
12 9 (5.70%) HTTP
12 9 (5.70%) SSL
13 6 (3.80%) 5G
14 5 (3.16%) DMZ
14 5 (3.16%) Multicast
14 5 (3.16%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.86%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.96%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.90%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.90%) GIS
3 3 (1.90%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.27%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.63%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) Parquet
5 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Trino
Development Applications
1 10 (6.33%) JIRA
2 4 (2.53%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.90%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.90%) GitLab
3 3 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.27%) Git
4 2 (1.27%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.63%) Gatling
5 1 (0.63%) JUnit
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.63%) Selenium
5 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.63%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.63%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (25.95%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.66%) Finance
3 10 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.70%) Banking
5 7 (4.43%) Retail
5 7 (4.43%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.53%) Front Office
6 4 (2.53%) Italian Language
6 4 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (2.53%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.90%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.27%) Military
8 2 (1.27%) Publishing
9 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.63%) Law
9 1 (0.63%) Legal
9 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (17.72%) Network Engineer
2 22 (13.92%) Senior
3 19 (12.03%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.49%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (8.23%) Architect
6 13 (8.23%) C# Developer
6 13 (8.23%) Developer
7 12 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.96%) Analyst
8 11 (6.96%) Lead
9 10 (6.33%) IT Engineer
10 8 (5.06%) Network Security Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) IT Support
11 7 (4.43%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (4.43%) Junior
12 6 (3.80%) Technical Engineer
12 6 (3.80%) Technical Support
12 6 (3.80%) Technical Support Engineer
13 5 (3.16%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.76%) Terraform
2 16 (10.13%) .NET
3 14 (8.86%) pytest
4 13 (8.23%) .NET Framework
5 11 (6.96%) WinForms
5 11 (6.96%) WPF
6 8 (5.06%) 802.1X
7 5 (3.16%) REST
8 4 (2.53%) SAML
9 3 (1.90%) Kafka
9 3 (1.90%) RxJava
9 3 (1.90%) Vert.x
10 2 (1.27%) ADO.NET
10 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.27%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (1.27%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.27%) Flask
10 2 (1.27%) JSON
10 2 (1.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.96%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.06%) IoT
3 7 (4.43%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.43%) Management Information System
3 7 (4.43%) Operational Technology
3 7 (4.43%) Security Posture
4 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.80%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (3.16%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.53%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.90%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.90%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.27%) CMDB
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Social Media
8 2 (1.27%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.63%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 38 (24.05%) Windows
2 14 (8.86%) Mac OS
3 11 (6.96%) Linux
4 8 (5.06%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.16%) Android
5 5 (3.16%) Unix
6 4 (2.53%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (20.25%) AI
2 30 (18.99%) CI/CD
3 28 (17.72%) DevOps
4 22 (13.92%) Generative AI
4 22 (13.92%) Validation
5 21 (13.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (12.66%) Agile
6 20 (12.66%) Software Engineering
7 19 (12.03%) Cybersecurity
8 18 (11.39%) LLM
8 18 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (11.39%) Zero Trust
9 17 (10.76%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (10.76%) Machine Learning
10 16 (10.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (10.13%) Migration
10 16 (10.13%) Unit Testing
11 15 (9.49%) Cloud Security
11 15 (9.49%) Design Patterns
11 15 (9.49%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 33 (20.89%) Python
2 21 (13.29%) SQL
3 15 (9.49%) C#
4 13 (8.23%) PL/SQL
5 12 (7.59%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.96%) T-SQL
6 11 (6.96%) VB
6 11 (6.96%) VBA
7 10 (6.33%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.70%) Java
9 4 (2.53%) C
10 3 (1.90%) Bash
10 3 (1.90%) Groovy
11 2 (1.27%) Bicep
11 2 (1.27%) C++
11 2 (1.27%) Perl
11 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (14.56%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.03%) Degree
3 17 (10.76%) SC Cleared
4 16 (10.13%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.86%) CCNP
6 11 (6.96%) CCIE
7 10 (6.33%) CISSP
8 7 (4.43%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.80%) CISM
10 5 (3.16%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.16%) OSCP
11 4 (2.53%) CCNA
11 4 (2.53%) CEH
12 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.90%) CREST Certified
12 3 (1.90%) GPEN
12 3 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.90%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.03%) QA
2 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.16%) NIST
3 2 (1.27%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.27%) GRC
3 2 (1.27%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.27%) NCSC
3 2 (1.27%) SLA
3 2 (1.27%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (10.76%) Active Directory
1 17 (10.76%) Docker
2 2 (1.27%) Firmware
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.63%) Squid
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (17.09%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.59%) Ansible
3 6 (3.80%) FortiGate
3 6 (3.80%) SCCM
4 5 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.53%) Grafana
6 2 (1.27%) CASB
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.63%) Control-M
7 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.63%) Istio
7 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.63%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.63%) systemd
Vendors
1 29 (18.35%) Cisco
1 29 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.39%) Citrix
2 18 (11.39%) Zscaler
3 14 (8.86%) Oracle
4 10 (6.33%) Google
4 10 (6.33%) Splunk
5 8 (5.06%) Aruba
6 7 (4.43%) Apple
6 7 (4.43%) F5
6 7 (4.43%) Fortinet
6 7 (4.43%) Palo Alto
7 6 (3.80%) Samsung
7 6 (3.80%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.16%) Bloomberg
8 5 (3.16%) CheckPoint
8 5 (3.16%) Ekahau
9 4 (2.53%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.53%) IBM
9 4 (2.53%) Qualys