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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 446 345 313
Rank change year-on-year -101 -32 -3
Contract jobs citing Internet 142 122 232
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.51% 0.63%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.58% 3.93% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 78 128
10th Percentile £275 £259 £205
25th Percentile £402 £385 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £442 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.45% -9.32% -7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £703 £653 £758
UK median daily rate £500 £427 £475
% change year-on-year +17.10% -10.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 38
10th Percentile £14.85 - £11.72
25th Percentile £17.63 - £13.06
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -32.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £36.50 £22.84 £41.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £50.25 £55.58
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.76% -36.89% +18.42%

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 3,972 3,108 4,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.53% 13.07% 13.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,465 1,947 2,893
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £486 £490
% change year-on-year +2.83% -0.77% -4.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 114 386
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £39.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.05% -0.85% +131.45%
75th Percentile £65.66 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.35 £70.33
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -27.60% - +116.22%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -63 67 £460 +6.30% 150
North of England -49 33 £550 +15.79% 68
Midlands -64 17 £413 -9.99% 40
West Midlands -56 14 £413 -17.13% 20
North West -36 13 £476 +22.71% 36
South East -71 13 £425 +6.25% 55
North East - 12 - - 9
Yorkshire -45 10 £575 +9.52% 25
East of England -25 7 - - 27
South West -30 4 £400 -23.08% 27
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 (9.15%) IIS
2 4 (2.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.70%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.70%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (11.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.11%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.41%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.70%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.70%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (19.01%) Azure
2 13 (9.15%) AWS
3 11 (7.75%) Entra ID
4 10 (7.04%) GCP
5 9 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (6.34%) SaaS
6 8 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.23%) IaaS
7 6 (4.23%) PaaS
8 4 (2.82%) GitHub
9 3 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.11%) Canva
9 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.11%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.41%) AWS IoT
10 2 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (1.41%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.01%) WAN
2 26 (18.31%) Firewall
3 23 (16.20%) SD-WAN
4 22 (15.49%) DNS
5 21 (14.79%) Network Security
6 19 (13.38%) LAN
7 15 (10.56%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (9.86%) DHCP
8 14 (9.86%) SSL
9 13 (9.15%) TCP/IP
10 12 (8.45%) MPLS
10 12 (8.45%) VPN
10 12 (8.45%) Wireless
11 11 (7.75%) BGP
12 9 (6.34%) OSPF
13 8 (5.63%) 5G
14 6 (4.23%) WLAN
15 5 (3.52%) VLAN
16 4 (2.82%) Cisco ISE
16 4 (2.82%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.45%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.11%) GIS
3 3 (2.11%) Power BI
4 2 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (9.15%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.11%) GitLab
3 2 (1.41%) Artifactory
3 2 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.70%) Gatling
4 1 (0.70%) Git
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (21.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.38%) Telecoms
3 16 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (9.15%) Finance
5 11 (7.75%) Banking
6 7 (4.93%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.23%) Marketing
8 4 (2.82%) Legal
9 3 (2.11%) Billing
10 2 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.41%) Law
10 2 (1.41%) Military
10 2 (1.41%) Publishing
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Norwegian Language
11 1 (0.70%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 22 (15.49%) Network Engineer
2 13 (9.15%) Architect
2 13 (9.15%) Developer
2 13 (9.15%) Support Engineer
3 12 (8.45%) C# Developer
4 11 (7.75%) Senior
5 10 (7.04%) Sales Manager
5 10 (7.04%) Security Engineer
6 8 (5.63%) Applications Developer
6 8 (5.63%) C# Application Developer
7 7 (4.93%) IT Engineer
7 7 (4.93%) IT Support
7 7 (4.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Analyst
8 6 (4.23%) Marketing Manager
9 5 (3.52%) 1st Line Support
9 5 (3.52%) Junior
9 5 (3.52%) Support Technician
9 5 (3.52%) Technical Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.56%) .NET
2 12 (8.45%) .NET Framework
2 12 (8.45%) WinForms
2 12 (8.45%) WPF
3 3 (2.11%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.11%) SAML
4 2 (1.41%) JSON
4 2 (1.41%) pytest
4 2 (1.41%) Web Services
4 2 (1.41%) YAML
5 1 (0.70%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.70%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.70%) CSS
5 1 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.70%) HTML
5 1 (0.70%) Kafka
5 1 (0.70%) Playwright
5 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.70%) vLLM
5 1 (0.70%) WebSphere MQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.27%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (4.93%) Cloud Security Posture
3 7 (4.93%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.93%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (4.23%) IoT
5 5 (3.52%) Social Media
6 3 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.11%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.11%) Graphic Design
6 3 (2.11%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.11%) PKI
6 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.11%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.11%) Wiki
7 2 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.41%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.42%) Windows
2 6 (4.23%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.52%) Android
3 5 (3.52%) Linux
4 4 (2.82%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.11%) Unix
6 2 (1.41%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.41%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.20%) Disaster Recovery
2 19 (13.38%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (11.27%) DevOps
4 15 (10.56%) Agile
5 14 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
6 13 (9.15%) ITIL
7 12 (8.45%) Data Analysis
7 12 (8.45%) User Experience
8 11 (7.75%) CI/CD
8 11 (7.75%) Cloud Security
8 11 (7.75%) Validation
9 10 (7.04%) Affiliate Network
9 10 (7.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (7.04%) Project Management
10 9 (6.34%) Change Management
10 9 (6.34%) Roadmaps
10 9 (6.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (5.63%) Observability
11 8 (5.63%) Service Delivery
11 8 (5.63%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.27%) SQL
2 14 (9.86%) C#
3 12 (8.45%) PL/SQL
3 12 (8.45%) T-SQL
3 12 (8.45%) VB
3 12 (8.45%) VBA
4 9 (6.34%) Python
5 5 (3.52%) Java
5 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 4 (2.82%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.11%) Bash
7 3 (2.11%) C
8 2 (1.41%) Bicep
8 2 (1.41%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
9 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (21.13%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.20%) SC Cleared
3 14 (9.86%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (7.04%) CCIE
4 10 (7.04%) CCNP
5 7 (4.93%) Azure Certification
5 7 (4.93%) Degree
6 3 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.11%) CCNA
6 3 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.41%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.41%) BC Cleared
7 2 (1.41%) CCIE Wireless
7 2 (1.41%) CWDP
7 2 (1.41%) CWNA
7 2 (1.41%) CWNE
7 2 (1.41%) CWSP
7 2 (1.41%) JNCIE
7 2 (1.41%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.56%) QA
2 3 (2.11%) GRC
3 2 (1.41%) NCSC
3 2 (1.41%) NIST
3 2 (1.41%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.70%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.70%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (10.56%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.52%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.82%) Docker
4 3 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.41%) Firmware
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.70%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.70%) Squid
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (5.63%) Terraform
2 7 (4.93%) CASB
2 7 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (3.52%) Ansible
5 3 (2.11%) Grafana
5 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.41%) SCCM
7 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.70%) Istio
7 1 (0.70%) logstash
7 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.70%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Cisco
2 17 (11.97%) Citrix
2 17 (11.97%) Zscaler
3 16 (11.27%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.86%) ServiceNow
5 12 (8.45%) Aruba
5 12 (8.45%) Oracle
6 8 (5.63%) Google
7 7 (4.93%) F5
7 7 (4.93%) Palo Alto
8 6 (4.23%) Ekahau
9 5 (3.52%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.52%) CrowdStrike
9 5 (3.52%) Fortinet
9 5 (3.52%) Juniper
9 5 (3.52%) VMware
10 4 (2.82%) Netskope
11 3 (2.11%) CyberArk
11 3 (2.11%) Meraki
11 3 (2.11%) Splunk