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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 358 327
Rank change year-on-year -81 -31 -23
Contract jobs citing Internet 158 121 227
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.90% 3.79% 4.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 75 127
10th Percentile £259 £255 £250
25th Percentile £401 £378 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £423 £488
Median % change year-on-year +18.20% -13.23% -3.47%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £598
90th Percentile £678 £653 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £408 £481
% change year-on-year +22.76% -15.32% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 37
10th Percentile £14.85 - £11.54
25th Percentile £17.63 - £13.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -32.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £36.50 £22.84 £41.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £50.25 £49.95
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £22.50
% change year-on-year +26.76% -36.89% -

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 4,050 3,191 4,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.90% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,505 1,986 2,858
10th Percentile £253 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £691
UK median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 274 130 393
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.64 £13.57
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £17.69
Median hourly rate £29.52 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% -6.25% +117.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.43 £72.82
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.78% +6.88% +110.53%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 -46 81 £488 +19.63% 138
North of England -42 35 £550 +18.92% 211
Midlands -50 17 £406 -8.00% 128
West Midlands -47 15 £406 -14.47% 56
North West -32 14 £550 +22.22% 85
South East -70 14 £468 +16.88% 228
North East - 12 - - 48
Yorkshire -47 11 £550 +4.76% 80
East of England -23 7 - - 166
South West -26 3 - - 93
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 11 (6.96%) IIS
2 3 (1.90%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.63%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (9.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.63%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.63%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 35 (22.15%) Azure
2 20 (12.66%) AWS
3 14 (8.86%) GCP
4 13 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 9 (5.70%) SaaS
7 8 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.80%) GitHub
8 6 (3.80%) IaaS
8 6 (3.80%) PaaS
9 5 (3.16%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.90%) Azure AKS
10 3 (1.90%) Canva
10 3 (1.90%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.90%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.27%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (1.27%) AWS IoT
11 2 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 2 (1.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 31 (19.62%) Firewall
2 28 (17.72%) WAN
3 26 (16.46%) Network Security
4 25 (15.82%) DNS
5 23 (14.56%) SD-WAN
6 20 (12.66%) LAN
7 19 (12.03%) VPN
8 17 (10.76%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (10.13%) DHCP
10 15 (9.49%) SSL
10 15 (9.49%) Wireless
11 14 (8.86%) BGP
12 13 (8.23%) MPLS
12 13 (8.23%) TCP/IP
13 12 (7.59%) OSPF
14 9 (5.70%) 5G
15 7 (4.43%) WLAN
16 5 (3.16%) HTTP
16 5 (3.16%) VLAN
17 4 (2.53%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.33%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.90%) GIS
3 3 (1.90%) Power BI
4 2 (1.27%) Couchbase
4 2 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.27%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.63%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (6.96%) JIRA
2 3 (1.90%) Artifactory
2 3 (1.90%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (1.90%) GitLab
3 2 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.63%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.63%) Gatling
4 1 (0.63%) Git
4 1 (0.63%) Maven
4 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.63%) TeamCity
General
1 35 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.39%) Telecoms
3 17 (10.76%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (10.76%) Finance
4 11 (6.96%) Banking
5 6 (3.80%) Marketing
5 6 (3.80%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.53%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.53%) Legal
7 3 (1.90%) Billing
8 2 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Front Office
8 2 (1.27%) Law
8 2 (1.27%) Military
8 2 (1.27%) Publishing
8 2 (1.27%) Retail
9 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.63%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.63%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 27 (17.09%) Network Engineer
2 18 (11.39%) Senior
3 17 (10.76%) Architect
4 13 (8.23%) Support Engineer
5 12 (7.59%) Developer
6 11 (6.96%) C# Developer
6 11 (6.96%) Security Engineer
7 10 (6.33%) Sales Manager
8 8 (5.06%) Analyst
9 7 (4.43%) IT Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) IT Support
9 7 (4.43%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (4.43%) Lead
9 7 (4.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 6 (3.80%) Applications Developer
10 6 (3.80%) C# Application Developer
10 6 (3.80%) Junior
10 6 (3.80%) Marketing Manager
11 5 (3.16%) Network Security Engineer
11 5 (3.16%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.86%) .NET
2 11 (6.96%) .NET Framework
3 10 (6.33%) WinForms
3 10 (6.33%) WPF
4 8 (5.06%) 802.1X
5 7 (4.43%) pytest
6 3 (1.90%) Kafka
6 3 (1.90%) SAML
6 3 (1.90%) Web Services
7 2 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.27%) JSON
7 2 (1.27%) RxJava
7 2 (1.27%) Vert.x
7 2 (1.27%) YAML
8 1 (0.63%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.63%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (0.63%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.63%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.63%) Playwright
8 1 (0.63%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 15 (9.49%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.33%) Security Posture
3 8 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.43%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (4.43%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.80%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.80%) IoT
6 5 (3.16%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.16%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.16%) Social Media
7 4 (2.53%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.90%) Graphic Design
8 3 (1.90%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.90%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (1.27%) CMDB
9 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.27%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 31 (19.62%) Windows
2 8 (5.06%) Linux
3 6 (3.80%) Mac OS
4 5 (3.16%) Android
5 4 (2.53%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.53%) Unix
6 3 (1.90%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.27%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.56%) DevOps
2 21 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 18 (11.39%) Agile
3 18 (11.39%) CI/CD
3 18 (11.39%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (10.76%) Validation
5 16 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
6 15 (9.49%) Cloud Security
6 15 (9.49%) Zero Trust
7 14 (8.86%) ITIL
8 13 (8.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (8.23%) Roadmaps
8 13 (8.23%) SIEM
8 13 (8.23%) User Experience
9 11 (6.96%) AI
9 11 (6.96%) Observability
9 11 (6.96%) Software Engineering
10 10 (6.33%) Change Management
10 10 (6.33%) Data Analysis
10 10 (6.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.66%) Python
2 17 (10.76%) SQL
3 13 (8.23%) C#
4 12 (7.59%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.96%) PL/SQL
6 10 (6.33%) T-SQL
6 10 (6.33%) VB
6 10 (6.33%) VBA
7 7 (4.43%) Java
8 5 (3.16%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.53%) Bicep
10 3 (1.90%) Bash
10 3 (1.90%) C
11 2 (1.27%) C++
11 2 (1.27%) Groovy
11 2 (1.27%) Perl
11 2 (1.27%) VBScript
12 1 (0.63%) PHP
12 1 (0.63%) Scala
12 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 17 (10.76%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (8.86%) CCNP
5 13 (8.23%) CCIE
6 10 (6.33%) Degree
7 7 (4.43%) Azure Certification
8 5 (3.16%) CISSP
9 4 (2.53%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.90%) CCIE Wireless
10 3 (1.90%) CCNA
10 3 (1.90%) CWDP
10 3 (1.90%) CWNA
10 3 (1.90%) CWNE
10 3 (1.90%) CWSP
10 3 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.27%) JNCIE
11 2 (1.27%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.86%) QA
2 4 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.53%) 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
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (10.76%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.06%) Docker
3 5 (3.16%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.27%) Firmware
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.63%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.63%) Squid
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (8.23%) Kubernetes
1 13 (8.23%) Terraform
2 9 (5.70%) Ansible
3 7 (4.43%) CASB
4 5 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.90%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.90%) Grafana
5 3 (1.90%) SCCM
6 2 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.63%) Istio
7 1 (0.63%) logstash
7 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (19.62%) Cisco
2 24 (15.19%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.03%) Zscaler
4 16 (10.13%) Citrix
5 14 (8.86%) ServiceNow
6 12 (7.59%) Aruba
7 11 (6.96%) Oracle
8 10 (6.33%) Google
9 9 (5.70%) Fortinet
9 9 (5.70%) Splunk
10 8 (5.06%) F5
11 7 (4.43%) CrowdStrike
11 7 (4.43%) Ekahau
11 7 (4.43%) Palo Alto
12 6 (3.80%) CheckPoint
13 5 (3.16%) Juniper
14 4 (2.53%) Netskope
14 4 (2.53%) VMware
15 3 (1.90%) Arista
15 3 (1.90%) Okta
933 Internet jobs in England