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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 389 318 299
Rank change year-on-year -71 -19 +17
Contract jobs citing Internet 126 216 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.46% 0.66% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.86% 5.53% 5.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 121 230
10th Percentile £343 £219 £250
25th Percentile £404 £363 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £583 £613 £619
90th Percentile £653 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 13 22
10th Percentile - £20.65 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.20 £23.10 £14.70
Median hourly rate £16.00 £24.20 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.88% +13.88% -46.88%
75th Percentile £44.75 £43.75 £28.06
90th Percentile £47.45 £51.15 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £23.80 £21.25
% change year-on-year -32.77% +12.00% -32.81%

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 3,264 3,905 5,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.85% 12.01% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,036 2,283 3,637
10th Percentile £233 £248 £225
25th Percentile £363 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +2.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £619
90th Percentile £688 £689 £713
UK median daily rate £477 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -5.45% +0.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 220 281
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.53 £16.75
25th Percentile £24.75 £23.01 £23.09
Median hourly rate £41.48 £57.35 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -27.68% +1.52% +34.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £78.50 £75.00 £76.10
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -17.48% -8.83% +36.90%

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
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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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 -26 69 £475 -9.52% 292
South East +20 17 £525 +10.53% 172
Midlands -10 17 £442 -41.12% 121
North of England -23 17 £500 +25.00% 167
West Midlands -7 14 £563 -25.00% 79
North West -8 13 £475 +18.75% 96
Yorkshire -27 4 £525 -8.70% 57
East Midlands -7 3 £435 +74.12% 40
South West +8 1 £440 +10.00% 48
East of England -4 1 £400 +60.00% 87
Internet
UK

Internet
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 10 (7.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (7.14%) IIS
3 6 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (2.38%) Moodle
5 1 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
5 1 (0.79%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.79%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 13 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.38%) AutoCAD
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.67%) Azure
2 15 (11.90%) AWS
3 10 (7.94%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 9 (7.14%) SaaS
5 7 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (3.17%) GCP
7 4 (3.17%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.38%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.38%) IaaS
9 2 (1.59%) Cloud9 IDE
9 2 (1.59%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.59%) PaaS
10 1 (0.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.79%) Figma
10 1 (0.79%) GitHub
10 1 (0.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 27 (21.43%) Firewall
2 25 (19.84%) TCP/IP
3 20 (15.87%) DNS
4 16 (12.70%) Network Security
5 15 (11.90%) WAN
6 14 (11.11%) LAN
7 11 (8.73%) HTTP
7 11 (8.73%) SMTP
7 11 (8.73%) VPN
8 10 (7.94%) Wireless
9 9 (7.14%) SD-WAN
9 9 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (6.35%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (5.56%) MPLS
12 6 (4.76%) DKIM
12 6 (4.76%) DMARC
12 6 (4.76%) IPsec
12 6 (4.76%) SSH
13 5 (3.97%) BGP
13 5 (3.97%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.14%) Oracle Database
3 6 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.59%) Big Data
5 2 (1.59%) DB2
5 2 (1.59%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.59%) Power BI
5 2 (1.59%) Tableau
6 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.79%) GIS
6 1 (0.79%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.79%) Metadata
6 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.79%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 9 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.97%) Git
3 3 (2.38%) Selenium
4 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.59%) Gradle
4 2 (1.59%) JIRA
4 2 (1.59%) Maven
4 2 (1.59%) MSI
5 1 (0.79%) Appium
5 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.79%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.79%) Postman
General
1 52 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 17 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (7.94%) Finance
4 8 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.56%) Banking
6 5 (3.97%) Law
7 3 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.38%) Legal
8 2 (1.59%) Back Office
8 2 (1.59%) Local Government
8 2 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.59%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (0.79%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Digital Economy
9 1 (0.79%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Marketing
9 1 (0.79%) Military
9 1 (0.79%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.90%) Architect
3 13 (10.32%) Developer
4 11 (8.73%) Analyst
5 9 (7.14%) C# Developer
5 9 (7.14%) C# WCF Developer
5 9 (7.14%) C# WPF Developer
5 9 (7.14%) WCF Developer
5 9 (7.14%) WPF Developer
6 8 (6.35%) Senior
7 7 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.56%) Support Technician
8 6 (4.76%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 6 (4.76%) Consultant
8 6 (4.76%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Junior
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (3.97%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (8.73%) .NET
2 10 (7.94%) .NET Framework
3 9 (7.14%) WCF
3 9 (7.14%) WinForms
3 9 (7.14%) WPF
4 8 (6.35%) HTML
5 6 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (3.97%) LDAP
7 3 (2.38%) React
7 3 (2.38%) SAML
8 2 (1.59%) ADO
8 2 (1.59%) CSS
8 2 (1.59%) JSON
8 2 (1.59%) Node.js
8 2 (1.59%) RESTful
8 2 (1.59%) Spring
8 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.59%) Symfony
8 2 (1.59%) Web Services
8 2 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.73%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.56%) IoT
2 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.97%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.17%) Cybercrime
5 4 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.17%) Mobile App
5 4 (3.17%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.38%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.38%) Digital Signage
6 3 (2.38%) SCADA
6 3 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.38%) VLE
7 2 (1.59%) CMDB
7 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.59%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.59%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.79%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 20 (15.87%) Windows
2 19 (15.08%) Linux
3 7 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.97%) Unix
5 4 (3.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.59%) Android
6 2 (1.59%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.59%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.59%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.79%) AIX
7 1 (0.79%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (12.70%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 13 (10.32%) Data Analysis
4 13 (10.32%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (9.52%) Agile
5 12 (9.52%) Migration
6 11 (8.73%) Validation
7 10 (7.94%) Computer Science
7 10 (7.94%) Project Delivery
7 10 (7.94%) User Experience
8 9 (7.14%) Incident Response
9 8 (6.35%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (6.35%) DevOps
9 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (6.35%) ITIL
9 8 (6.35%) SIEM
9 8 (6.35%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (5.56%) Asset Management
10 7 (5.56%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (14.29%) SQL
2 10 (7.94%) C#
2 10 (7.94%) T-SQL
3 9 (7.14%) Java
3 9 (7.14%) PL/SQL
3 9 (7.14%) Python
3 9 (7.14%) VB
3 9 (7.14%) VBA
4 4 (3.17%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.59%) C
5 2 (1.59%) C++
5 2 (1.59%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.79%) Bash
6 1 (0.79%) Perl
6 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (15.08%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (15.08%) SC Cleared
3 17 (13.49%) Degree
4 15 (11.90%) CCNP
5 9 (7.14%) CCNA
6 7 (5.56%) JNCIA
7 6 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (3.17%) CEH
8 4 (3.17%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (3.17%) GIAC
8 4 (3.17%) GREM
8 4 (3.17%) OSCP
9 3 (2.38%) CCDA
9 3 (2.38%) CCDP
9 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.59%) Azure Certification
10 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.79%) CCSA
11 1 (0.79%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.32%) QA
2 5 (3.97%) WCAG
3 4 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.38%) SLA
5 1 (0.79%) NCSC
5 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.94%) Docker
3 8 (6.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.76%) Dovecot
4 6 (4.76%) Postfix
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.79%) Firmware
6 1 (0.79%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.79%) vSphere
6 1 (0.79%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (7.14%) SCCM
2 8 (6.35%) Ansible
2 8 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 8 (6.35%) Terraform
3 6 (4.76%) Grafana
3 6 (4.76%) Progress Chef
3 6 (4.76%) Prometheus
3 6 (4.76%) Puppet
4 4 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.59%) CASB
5 2 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.79%) EnCase
6 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.79%) FTK
6 1 (0.79%) Packer
6 1 (0.79%) yum
Vendors
1 24 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (18.25%) Cisco
3 14 (11.11%) Citrix
3 14 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 13 (10.32%) Red Hat
4 13 (10.32%) Zscaler
5 10 (7.94%) Oracle
6 9 (7.14%) VMware
7 8 (6.35%) Juniper
8 6 (4.76%) Broadcom
9 5 (3.97%) Fortinet
10 4 (3.17%) Aruba
10 4 (3.17%) Meraki
10 4 (3.17%) Splunk
11 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
12 2 (1.59%) BT
12 2 (1.59%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.59%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.59%) IBM
13 1 (0.79%) SAP