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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 472 398 311
Rank change year-on-year -74 -87 -9
Contract jobs citing Internet 160 131 234
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.47% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.68% 3.99% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 78 128
10th Percentile £277 £346 £229
25th Percentile £404 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £651 £653 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 13
10th Percentile £11.46 £15.11 £21.62
25th Percentile £14.15 £15.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -46.67% +41.18%
75th Percentile £23.75 £44.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £47.45 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +9.38% -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 4,348 3,282 3,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.34% 11.75% 12.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,563 2,076 2,243
10th Percentile £258 £224 £243
25th Percentile £400 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 387 169 173
10th Percentile £16.01 £15.50 £16.30
25th Percentile £21.33 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £43.50 £37.50 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% -34.61% +1.52%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £92.51 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £42.50 £51.00
% change year-on-year -22.94% -16.67% -9.72%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -53 104 £500 - 529
North of England -74 19 £475 - 110
Midlands -48 18 £563 +12.04% 55
West Midlands -35 17 £563 -1.62% 31
South East -61 13 £550 +4.76% 112
Yorkshire -34 11 £479 -1.74% 41
North West -55 8 £399 -16.11% 60
South West -32 5 £500 +13.64% 60
East of England -24 3 £535 +33.75% 31
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 (8.13%) IIS
2 6 (3.75%) Confluence
3 3 (1.88%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.25%) Apache
4 2 (1.25%) IBM HTTP Server
4 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.25%) nginx
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 2 (1.25%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.25%) WebLogic
4 2 (1.25%) WebLogic Portal
4 2 (1.25%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (1.25%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 15 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.25%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (1.25%) Eikon
2 1 (0.63%) Maximo
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.13%) Azure
2 26 (16.25%) AWS
3 19 (11.88%) GCP
4 11 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.63%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 6 (3.75%) GitHub
7 6 (3.75%) IaaS
7 6 (3.75%) SaaS
8 5 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.50%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (2.50%) Google App Engine
9 4 (2.50%) Google Compute Engine
9 4 (2.50%) PaaS
10 3 (1.88%) Akamai
10 3 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.88%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 35 (21.88%) Firewall
2 28 (17.50%) Network Security
3 23 (14.38%) VPN
4 20 (12.50%) WAN
5 19 (11.88%) DNS
5 19 (11.88%) TCP/IP
6 16 (10.00%) LAN
7 14 (8.75%) SD-WAN
7 14 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (8.13%) BGP
8 13 (8.13%) Wireless
9 12 (7.50%) HTTP
10 11 (6.88%) OSPF
11 10 (6.25%) DHCP
12 9 (5.63%) SSL
13 8 (5.00%) MPLS
14 6 (3.75%) 5G
15 5 (3.13%) DMZ
15 5 (3.13%) Multicast
15 5 (3.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.75%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.88%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.88%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.88%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.88%) GIS
4 3 (1.88%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.25%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (1.25%) Parquet
5 2 (1.25%) Power BI
5 2 (1.25%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.25%) Trino
6 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (5.00%) JIRA
2 4 (2.50%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.88%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.88%) GitLab
3 3 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.25%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.25%) Git
4 2 (1.25%) 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 46 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.13%) Finance
3 11 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.63%) Banking
5 7 (4.38%) Retail
6 6 (3.75%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.13%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.50%) Front Office
8 4 (2.50%) Italian Language
8 4 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.25%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.25%) Marketing
10 2 (1.25%) Publishing
11 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.63%) Games
11 1 (0.63%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (16.25%) Network Engineer
2 22 (13.75%) Senior
3 20 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.38%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.75%) Developer
5 14 (8.75%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (8.13%) Architect
6 13 (8.13%) C# Developer
7 12 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Analyst
9 10 (6.25%) Lead
10 9 (5.63%) IT Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Junior
11 7 (4.38%) Network Security Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) IT Support
12 6 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Technical Engineer
12 6 (3.75%) Technical Support
12 6 (3.75%) Technical Support Engineer
13 5 (3.13%) 1st Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.25%) Terraform
2 16 (10.00%) .NET
3 14 (8.75%) pytest
4 13 (8.13%) .NET Framework
5 11 (6.88%) WinForms
5 11 (6.88%) WPF
6 9 (5.63%) 802.1X
7 6 (3.75%) REST
8 4 (2.50%) SAML
9 3 (1.88%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.88%) Flask
9 3 (1.88%) Kafka
9 3 (1.88%) Node.js
9 3 (1.88%) RxJava
9 3 (1.88%) Vert.x
10 2 (1.25%) AngularJS
10 2 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web Forms
10 2 (1.25%) Azure Blueprints
10 2 (1.25%) React
10 2 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.50%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 8 (5.00%) IoT
3 8 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 7 (4.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.38%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.75%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.13%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.50%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.88%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.88%) Social Media
9 2 (1.25%) CMDB
9 2 (1.25%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (24.38%) Windows
2 14 (8.75%) Mac OS
3 12 (7.50%) Linux
4 7 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 6 (3.75%) Android
6 5 (3.13%) Apple iOS
6 5 (3.13%) Unix
7 3 (1.88%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.25%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (20.63%) AI
2 31 (19.38%) CI/CD
3 28 (17.50%) DevOps
4 23 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (13.75%) Agile
5 22 (13.75%) Generative AI
5 22 (13.75%) Validation
6 20 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 20 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 19 (11.88%) LLM
8 18 (11.25%) Disaster Recovery
8 18 (11.25%) Machine Learning
8 18 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (11.25%) Zero Trust
9 17 (10.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (10.63%) Migration
10 16 (10.00%) Unit Testing
11 15 (9.38%) Design Patterns
11 15 (9.38%) Observability
11 15 (9.38%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 34 (21.25%) Python
2 22 (13.75%) SQL
3 15 (9.38%) C#
4 13 (8.13%) JavaScript
4 13 (8.13%) PL/SQL
5 12 (7.50%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.88%) T-SQL
6 11 (6.88%) VB
6 11 (6.88%) VBA
7 9 (5.63%) Java
8 4 (2.50%) C
9 3 (1.88%) Bash
9 3 (1.88%) Groovy
9 3 (1.88%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.25%) Bicep
10 2 (1.25%) C++
10 2 (1.25%) Perl
10 2 (1.25%) VBScript
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (14.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (10.63%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.00%) Degree
4 15 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (8.13%) CCNP
6 12 (7.50%) CISSP
7 11 (6.88%) CCIE
8 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared
9 6 (3.75%) CISM
10 5 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 5 (3.13%) Azure Certification
10 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.13%) OSCP
11 4 (2.50%) CEH
12 3 (1.88%) CCIE Wireless
12 3 (1.88%) CWNA
12 3 (1.88%) CWNE
12 3 (1.88%) CWSP
12 3 (1.88%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.88%) QA
2 5 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.13%) NIST
3 4 (2.50%) SLA
4 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.25%) GRC
4 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.25%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) NCSC
5 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (11.25%) Active Directory
1 18 (11.25%) Docker
2 2 (1.25%) Firmware
2 2 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.63%) Squid
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (17.50%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.88%) Ansible
3 8 (5.00%) SCCM
4 6 (3.75%) FortiGate
5 5 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.50%) Grafana
7 2 (1.25%) CASB
7 2 (1.25%) systemd
8 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.63%) Control-M
8 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.63%) Istio
8 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.63%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 31 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 25 (15.63%) Cisco
3 18 (11.25%) Citrix
3 18 (11.25%) Zscaler
4 16 (10.00%) Oracle
5 10 (6.25%) Google
6 8 (5.00%) Aruba
6 8 (5.00%) Splunk
7 7 (4.38%) Apple
7 7 (4.38%) Fortinet
7 7 (4.38%) Palo Alto
8 6 (3.75%) F5
8 6 (3.75%) IBM
8 6 (3.75%) Samsung
9 5 (3.13%) Bloomberg
9 5 (3.13%) CheckPoint
9 5 (3.13%) Ekahau
9 5 (3.13%) Qualys
10 3 (1.88%) Infoblox
10 3 (1.88%) Reuters