Internet Contracts in England

Internet
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 311 316
Rank change year-on-year -52 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Internet 130 244 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.49% 0.65% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.86% 5.06% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 137 262
10th Percentile £273 £243 £253
25th Percentile £385 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £593 £625 £625
90th Percentile £653 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £425 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 36 20
10th Percentile - £12.64 £12.95
25th Percentile - £13.81 £14.01
Median hourly rate £14.20 £21.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.71% -3.33% -20.70%
75th Percentile £44.75 £41.25 £30.31
90th Percentile £49.75 £51.75 £38.29
UK median hourly rate £14.20 £23.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -39.96% +5.11% -18.18%

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 3,368 4,826 6,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.70% 12.95% 12.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,079 2,874 3,961
10th Percentile £235 £213 £240
25th Percentile £363 £360 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £502
% change year-on-year -4.00% -0.30% +0.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 392 378
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.87 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.30 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £81.35 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £45.00 £22.26
% change year-on-year -5.56% +102.16% -23.40%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Internet in England

Internet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internet in England.

Daily rate trend for Internet in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internet in England.

Hourly rate trend for Internet in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Internet in England over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Internet in England

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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 5 July 2025. 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 -34 70 £408 -18.50% 1,819
South East +42 29 £400 -17.95% 301
North of England 0 13 £475 +46.15% 356
North West +5 9 £475 - 175
Midlands -7 9 £435 -12.94% 210
West Midlands -3 7 £330 -47.20% 127
Yorkshire -2 4 £488 +50.00% 150
East of England +24 3 £413 +77.42% 142
East Midlands -2 2 £435 +74.12% 83
South West +23 1 £440 -12.00% 112
Internet
UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 16 (12.31%) SharePoint
2 12 (9.23%) IIS
3 5 (3.85%) Confluence
3 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (3.08%) Apache
4 4 (3.08%) CMS
4 4 (3.08%) Drupal
4 4 (3.08%) WordPress
5 3 (2.31%) Moodle
6 2 (1.54%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.77%) Facebook Platform
7 1 (0.77%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 20 (15.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (14.62%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.31%) AutoCAD
4 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.31%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (18.46%) Azure
2 19 (14.62%) AWS
3 18 (13.85%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.92%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (6.92%) Power Platform
5 8 (6.15%) Amazon EKS
5 8 (6.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (5.38%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.08%) GCP
8 2 (1.54%) Cloud9 IDE
8 2 (1.54%) IaaS
8 2 (1.54%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.77%) Akamai
9 1 (0.77%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.77%) Figma
9 1 (0.77%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.77%) PaaS
9 1 (0.77%) SaaS
9 1 (0.77%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 41 (31.54%) Firewall
2 24 (18.46%) TCP/IP
2 24 (18.46%) VPN
3 22 (16.92%) WAN
4 20 (15.38%) Network Security
4 20 (15.38%) Wireless
5 19 (14.62%) LAN
6 17 (13.08%) DNS
7 16 (12.31%) MPLS
8 14 (10.77%) HTTP
9 13 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (9.23%) SD-WAN
11 11 (8.46%) BGP
11 11 (8.46%) IPsec
11 11 (8.46%) OSPF
12 6 (4.62%) Cisco IOS
12 6 (4.62%) DWDM
12 6 (4.62%) SSH
12 6 (4.62%) SSL
13 5 (3.85%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.23%) Oracle Database
3 9 (6.92%) Power BI
4 8 (6.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 8 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (5.38%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.08%) MySQL
7 3 (2.31%) Big Data
8 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.54%) DB2
8 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
8 2 (1.54%) Tableau
9 1 (0.77%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.77%) GIS
9 1 (0.77%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.77%) Metadata
9 1 (0.77%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.77%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.92%) Git
3 6 (4.62%) JIRA
4 4 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.54%) Gradle
5 2 (1.54%) Maven
5 2 (1.54%) MSI
5 2 (1.54%) Selenium
6 1 (0.77%) Appium
6 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.77%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.77%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 14 (10.77%) Finance
3 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.15%) Banking
6 5 (3.85%) Legal
7 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Marketing
7 3 (2.31%) Military
7 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.54%) Law
8 2 (1.54%) Local Government
8 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.54%) Retail
8 2 (1.54%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.77%) Automotive
9 1 (0.77%) Back Office
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.92%) Network Engineer
2 18 (13.85%) Senior
3 14 (10.77%) Developer
4 12 (9.23%) C# Developer
4 12 (9.23%) C# WCF Developer
4 12 (9.23%) C# WPF Developer
4 12 (9.23%) WCF Developer
4 12 (9.23%) WPF Developer
5 9 (6.92%) Cisco Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 8 (6.15%) Architect
6 8 (6.15%) IT Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Analyst
7 7 (5.38%) Help Desk Support
7 7 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (5.38%) IT Services Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Service Manager
7 7 (5.38%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.23%) .NET
1 12 (9.23%) .NET Framework
1 12 (9.23%) WCF
1 12 (9.23%) WinForms
1 12 (9.23%) WPF
2 11 (8.46%) HTML
3 8 (6.15%) Elastic Stack
4 6 (4.62%) Web Services
5 5 (3.85%) 802.1X
5 5 (3.85%) LDAP
5 5 (3.85%) SOAP
6 4 (3.08%) Ajax
6 4 (3.08%) AngularJS
6 4 (3.08%) CodeIgniter
6 4 (3.08%) CSS
6 4 (3.08%) jQuery
6 4 (3.08%) LAMP
7 3 (2.31%) XML
8 2 (1.54%) SAML
8 2 (1.54%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.23%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.69%) IoT
3 9 (6.92%) Video Conferencing
4 6 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.85%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.08%) Legacy Code
6 4 (3.08%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.31%) Digital Signage
7 3 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (2.31%) VLE
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.54%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.54%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 2 (1.54%) Online Banking
8 2 (1.54%) PMI
8 2 (1.54%) SCADA
8 2 (1.54%) Social Media
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.46%) Windows
2 19 (14.62%) Linux
3 8 (6.15%) Unix
4 5 (3.85%) Windows Server
5 4 (3.08%) Android
6 3 (2.31%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.54%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.77%) AIX
8 1 (0.77%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.77%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
1 20 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (11.54%) Data Analysis
2 15 (11.54%) Migration
2 15 (11.54%) Roadmaps
3 14 (10.77%) Agile
4 13 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (8.46%) Project Delivery
5 11 (8.46%) Server Management
6 10 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 10 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
6 10 (7.69%) Network Design
6 10 (7.69%) Time Management
7 9 (6.92%) Analytics
7 9 (6.92%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (6.92%) Configuration Management
7 9 (6.92%) DevOps
7 9 (6.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (6.92%) Penetration Testing
8 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.08%) SQL
2 12 (9.23%) C#
2 12 (9.23%) PL/SQL
2 12 (9.23%) T-SQL
2 12 (9.23%) VB
2 12 (9.23%) VBA
3 11 (8.46%) Java
3 11 (8.46%) Python
4 4 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 4 (3.08%) Perl
4 4 (3.08%) PHP
4 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.54%) Bash
5 2 (1.54%) C
5 2 (1.54%) C++
5 2 (1.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (16.92%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (15.38%) Degree
3 19 (14.62%) Security Cleared
4 18 (13.85%) SC Cleared
5 15 (11.54%) CCNP
6 10 (7.69%) CCNA
7 7 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.08%) CCIE
8 4 (3.08%) JNCIA
9 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.54%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.54%) CCDP
10 2 (1.54%) MCP
10 2 (1.54%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.77%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.77%) MCSA
11 1 (0.77%) MCSE
11 1 (0.77%) MOS
11 1 (0.77%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 4 (3.08%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.08%) WCAG
3 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.31%) SLA
4 2 (1.54%) NCSC
5 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (9.23%) Docker
2 11 (8.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.77%) Firmware
4 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.77%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.77%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.77%) vSphere
4 1 (0.77%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Ansible
2 11 (8.46%) Terraform
3 10 (7.69%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 8 (6.15%) Grafana
5 8 (6.15%) Progress Chef
5 8 (6.15%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.15%) Puppet
6 4 (3.08%) SCCM
7 2 (1.54%) CASB
7 2 (1.54%) NetBackup
8 1 (0.77%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.77%) Packer
8 1 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.77%) yum
Vendors
1 36 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 32 (24.62%) Cisco
3 19 (14.62%) Citrix
4 16 (12.31%) Palo Alto
5 12 (9.23%) Oracle
6 11 (8.46%) Zscaler
7 10 (7.69%) Aruba
8 9 (6.92%) Red Hat
9 8 (6.15%) Juniper
10 7 (5.38%) Fortinet
11 6 (4.62%) Splunk
12 5 (3.85%) Arista
12 5 (3.85%) F5
12 5 (3.85%) VMware
13 4 (3.08%) CheckPoint
13 4 (3.08%) Meraki
13 4 (3.08%) Zend
14 3 (2.31%) Apple
14 3 (2.31%) McAfee
15 2 (1.54%) BT