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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 355 329
Rank change year-on-year -94 -26 -15
Contract jobs citing Internet 142 123 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.51% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.73% 3.89% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 75 116
10th Percentile £287 £255 £205
25th Percentile £402 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £614
90th Percentile £713 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.39% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 39
10th Percentile £17.85 - £11.91
25th Percentile £18.00 - £13.13
Median hourly rate £24.50 £14.20 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.54% -32.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £39.44 £15.53 £41.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £28.28 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £14.20 £23.50
% change year-on-year +49.65% -39.57% +17.50%

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 3,802 3,162 4,824
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 13.11% 13.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,372 1,963 2,903
10th Percentile £250 £220 £208
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.49%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £490
% change year-on-year +1.54% -0.51% -4.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 117 391
10th Percentile £16.52 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £15.44 £16.58
Median hourly rate £41.94 £30.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.32% -24.20% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £34.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.51% -13.75% +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 13 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 13 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 13 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 £435 -5.95% 104
North of England -50 35 £550 +15.79% 62
Midlands -45 17 £413 -17.13% 34
North West -30 14 £550 +41.94% 32
West Midlands -51 14 £413 -17.13% 15
South East -67 13 £425 +6.25% 45
North East - 12 - - 8
Yorkshire -43 11 £575 -8.00% 23
East of England -24 7 - - 27
South West -33 2 £400 -23.08% 24
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 3 (2.11%) Confluence
3 1 (0.70%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.70%) Smallworld
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 29 (20.42%) Azure
2 15 (10.56%) AWS
3 12 (8.45%) Entra ID
3 12 (8.45%) GCP
4 9 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (6.34%) SaaS
5 7 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.23%) IaaS
6 6 (4.23%) PaaS
7 3 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.11%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (2.11%) Canva
7 3 (2.11%) GitHub
7 3 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.41%) AWS IoT
8 2 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.41%) OCI
8 2 (1.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.54%) WAN
2 30 (21.13%) Firewall
3 27 (19.01%) SD-WAN
4 25 (17.61%) Network Security
5 24 (16.90%) LAN
6 22 (15.49%) DNS
7 18 (12.68%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (10.56%) DHCP
8 15 (10.56%) Wireless
9 14 (9.86%) MPLS
9 14 (9.86%) SSL
9 14 (9.86%) VPN
10 12 (8.45%) TCP/IP
11 11 (7.75%) BGP
12 9 (6.34%) OSPF
13 8 (5.63%) 5G
13 8 (5.63%) WLAN
14 6 (4.23%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (3.52%) VLAN
16 4 (2.82%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.45%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.41%) Power BI
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.70%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.70%) GIS
4 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (8.45%) JIRA
2 3 (2.11%) Browser DevTools
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%) GitLab
4 1 (0.70%) Maven
4 1 (0.70%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (21.13%) Social Skills
2 19 (13.38%) Telecoms
3 18 (12.68%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.27%) Finance
5 12 (8.45%) Public Sector
6 10 (7.04%) Banking
7 6 (4.23%) Marketing
8 4 (2.82%) Legal
9 3 (2.11%) Billing
9 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.11%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.41%) Law
10 2 (1.41%) Local Government
10 2 (1.41%) Military
11 1 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.70%) Norwegian Language
11 1 (0.70%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 24 (16.90%) Network Engineer
2 15 (10.56%) Architect
3 13 (9.15%) Developer
4 12 (8.45%) C# Developer
4 12 (8.45%) Support Engineer
5 11 (7.75%) Senior
6 10 (7.04%) Sales Manager
6 10 (7.04%) Security Engineer
7 8 (5.63%) Applications Developer
7 8 (5.63%) C# Application Developer
8 7 (4.93%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.93%) IT Support
8 7 (4.93%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (4.23%) Marketing Manager
9 6 (4.23%) Network Architect
10 5 (3.52%) Analyst
10 5 (3.52%) Project Manager
10 5 (3.52%) Technical Architect
11 4 (2.82%) Junior
11 4 (2.82%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.86%) .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%) Web Services
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%) JSON
5 1 (0.70%) Kafka
5 1 (0.70%) Playwright
5 1 (0.70%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.70%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) 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%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.11%) Graphic Design
6 3 (2.11%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.11%) PKI
6 3 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.11%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.11%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (2.11%) Wiki
7 2 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.41%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (19.72%) Windows
2 6 (4.23%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.52%) Android
4 4 (2.82%) Apple iOS
4 4 (2.82%) Linux
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 21 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (9.86%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (9.15%) Agile
4 13 (9.15%) Change Management
4 13 (9.15%) DevOps
4 13 (9.15%) ITIL
4 13 (9.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (8.45%) Data Analysis
5 12 (8.45%) Project Management
5 12 (8.45%) User Experience
6 11 (7.75%) Cloud Security
6 11 (7.75%) Roadmaps
6 11 (7.75%) Zero Trust
7 10 (7.04%) Affiliate Network
8 9 (6.34%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (6.34%) Validation
9 8 (5.63%) CI/CD
9 8 (5.63%) Migration
9 8 (5.63%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.56%) 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 7 (4.93%) Python
5 5 (3.52%) Java
5 5 (3.52%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.11%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.41%) Bash
7 2 (1.41%) Bicep
7 2 (1.41%) C
7 2 (1.41%) C++
8 1 (0.70%) PHP
8 1 (0.70%) Scala
8 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (22.54%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.56%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (7.75%) CCIE
4 11 (7.75%) 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
2 3 (2.11%) 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 2 (1.41%) Docker
3 2 (1.41%) Firmware
3 2 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.70%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.70%) Squid
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.93%) CASB
1 7 (4.93%) Terraform
2 6 (4.23%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (2.82%) Ansible
3 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.41%) Grafana
5 2 (1.41%) SCCM
6 1 (0.70%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.70%) logstash
6 1 (0.70%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.70%) Puppet
6 1 (0.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (23.94%) Cisco
2 19 (13.38%) Zscaler
3 17 (11.97%) Citrix
3 17 (11.97%) Microsoft
4 14 (9.86%) ServiceNow
5 13 (9.15%) Aruba
6 12 (8.45%) Oracle
7 11 (7.75%) Palo Alto
8 8 (5.63%) Google
9 7 (4.93%) F5
9 7 (4.93%) Juniper
10 6 (4.23%) Ekahau
10 6 (4.23%) Meraki
11 5 (3.52%) CheckPoint
11 5 (3.52%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (3.52%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.82%) Netskope
12 4 (2.82%) VMware
13 3 (2.11%) Broadcom
13 3 (2.11%) CyberArk