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 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 387 331
Rank change year-on-year -75 -56 -21
Contract jobs citing Internet 166 131 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.84% 3.96% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 78 119
10th Percentile £276 £325 £224
25th Percentile £404 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £582 £616
90th Percentile £662 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £536 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +12.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 13
10th Percentile £11.46 - £20.65
25th Percentile £13.45 £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 £17.88 £44.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £48.65 £46.55 £51.15
UK median hourly rate £14.85 £15.67 £23.80
% change year-on-year -5.20% -34.18% +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 4,318 3,308 3,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.35% 11.92% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,580 2,063 2,342
10th Percentile £250 £235 £248
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -3.92% +2.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £676 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £503
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.48% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 166 228
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.47
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.25 £22.66
Median hourly rate £32.50 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -21.16% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.47 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.81 £77.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.72 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -17.48% -8.83%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -54 105 £500 +5.26% 415
North of England -64 23 £475 - 74
Midlands -44 18 £450 -1.81% 53
West Midlands -45 17 £450 -13.25% 30
South East -67 13 £550 +4.76% 87
Yorkshire -31 12 £538 +2.38% 32
North West -59 11 £401 -15.58% 34
South West -38 5 £388 -11.93% 33
East of England -19 3 £535 +33.75% 27
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 (7.83%) IIS
2 5 (3.01%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (8.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (1.20%) Eikon
2 1 (0.60%) Maximo
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.08%) Azure
2 25 (15.06%) AWS
3 19 (11.45%) GCP
4 11 (6.63%) SaaS
5 10 (6.02%) Entra ID
5 10 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (3.61%) GitHub
7 6 (3.61%) IaaS
8 5 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (2.41%) Google App Engine
9 4 (2.41%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (2.41%) PaaS
10 3 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.81%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 37 (22.29%) Firewall
2 32 (19.28%) Network Security
3 26 (15.66%) WAN
4 23 (13.86%) VPN
5 19 (11.45%) SD-WAN
6 18 (10.84%) DNS
7 16 (9.64%) BGP
7 16 (9.64%) LAN
7 16 (9.64%) SSL
7 16 (9.64%) TCP/IP
8 15 (9.04%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (9.04%) Wireless
9 13 (7.83%) OSPF
10 11 (6.63%) MPLS
11 9 (5.42%) DHCP
11 9 (5.42%) HTTP
12 7 (4.22%) 5G
13 6 (3.61%) WLAN
14 5 (3.01%) Multicast
15 4 (2.41%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.63%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.81%) Couchbase
3 3 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
3 3 (1.81%) GIS
3 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
3 3 (1.81%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.20%) Power BI
4 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.60%) Apache Iceberg
5 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.60%) Parquet
5 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.60%) Trino
Development Applications
1 10 (6.02%) JIRA
2 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.81%) GitLab
3 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.20%) Git
4 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.60%) Gatling
5 1 (0.60%) JUnit
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.60%) Selenium
5 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 40 (24.10%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.65%) Finance
3 11 (6.63%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.42%) Banking
5 8 (4.82%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.22%) Retail
7 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.41%) Front Office
8 4 (2.41%) Italian Language
8 4 (2.41%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Military
10 2 (1.20%) Publishing
11 1 (0.60%) Billing
11 1 (0.60%) Law
11 1 (0.60%) Legal
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (16.87%) Network Engineer
2 22 (13.25%) Senior
3 19 (11.45%) Security Engineer
3 19 (11.45%) Support Engineer
4 14 (8.43%) Architect
4 14 (8.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (7.83%) Analyst
5 13 (7.83%) C# Developer
5 13 (7.83%) Developer
6 12 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) Lead
8 10 (6.02%) IT Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Network Security Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) IT Support
10 7 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Junior
11 6 (3.61%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.61%) Technical Support Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.24%) Terraform
2 16 (9.64%) .NET
3 14 (8.43%) pytest
4 13 (7.83%) .NET Framework
5 11 (6.63%) WinForms
5 11 (6.63%) WPF
6 8 (4.82%) 802.1X
7 5 (3.01%) REST
8 4 (2.41%) SAML
9 3 (1.81%) Kafka
9 3 (1.81%) RxJava
9 3 (1.81%) Vert.x
10 2 (1.20%) ADO.NET
10 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET
10 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (1.20%) FastAPI
10 2 (1.20%) Flask
10 2 (1.20%) JSON
10 2 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.23%) Security Posture
2 11 (6.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.22%) IoT
4 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.61%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.01%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.20%) CMDB
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 38 (22.89%) Windows
2 14 (8.43%) Mac OS
3 11 (6.63%) Linux
4 8 (4.82%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.01%) Android
5 5 (3.01%) Unix
6 4 (2.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.81%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.20%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.28%) AI
2 30 (18.07%) CI/CD
3 28 (16.87%) DevOps
4 24 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (13.25%) Generative AI
5 22 (13.25%) Validation
6 21 (12.65%) Cloud Security
7 20 (12.05%) Agile
7 20 (12.05%) Software Engineering
7 20 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (11.45%) Zero Trust
9 18 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (10.84%) LLM
10 17 (10.24%) Machine Learning
10 17 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (9.64%) Migration
11 16 (9.64%) SIEM
11 16 (9.64%) Unit Testing
12 15 (9.04%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 33 (19.88%) Python
2 21 (12.65%) SQL
3 15 (9.04%) C#
4 13 (7.83%) PL/SQL
5 12 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.63%) T-SQL
6 11 (6.63%) VB
6 11 (6.63%) VBA
7 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
8 9 (5.42%) Java
9 4 (2.41%) C
10 3 (1.81%) Bash
10 3 (1.81%) Groovy
11 2 (1.20%) Bicep
11 2 (1.20%) C++
11 2 (1.20%) Perl
11 2 (1.20%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.20%) VBScript
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.45%) Degree
4 16 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.43%) CCNP
6 12 (7.23%) CCIE
7 10 (6.02%) CISSP
8 7 (4.22%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.61%) CISM
10 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.01%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.01%) OSCP
11 4 (2.41%) CEH
12 3 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.81%) CCNA
12 3 (1.81%) CREST Certified
12 3 (1.81%) GPEN
12 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.81%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.45%) QA
2 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.01%) NIST
3 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.20%) GRC
3 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.20%) NCSC
3 2 (1.20%) SLA
3 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.60%) GDPR
4 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (10.24%) Active Directory
1 17 (10.24%) Docker
2 2 (1.20%) Firmware
2 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.60%) ProxySG
3 1 (0.60%) Squid
3 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (16.27%) Kubernetes
2 12 (7.23%) Ansible
3 9 (5.42%) CASB
4 6 (3.61%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.61%) SCCM
4 6 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.41%) Grafana
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.60%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.60%) Control-M
7 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.60%) Istio
7 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.60%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.60%) systemd
Vendors
1 30 (18.07%) Cisco
2 28 (16.87%) Microsoft
3 24 (14.46%) Zscaler
4 18 (10.84%) Citrix
5 14 (8.43%) Oracle
6 11 (6.63%) ServiceNow
7 10 (6.02%) Google
7 10 (6.02%) Splunk
8 9 (5.42%) Aruba
8 9 (5.42%) Palo Alto
9 8 (4.82%) F5
10 7 (4.22%) Apple
10 7 (4.22%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (4.22%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.61%) Ekahau
11 6 (3.61%) Samsung
12 5 (3.01%) Bloomberg
12 5 (3.01%) CheckPoint
13 4 (2.41%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.41%) Qualys