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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 379 310
Rank change year-on-year -84 -69 +5
Contract jobs citing Internet 167 139 214
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.37% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.88% 4.13% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 88 123
10th Percentile £225 £325 £214
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £589 £622
90th Percentile £670 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £536 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +15.95% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 20
10th Percentile £11.46 - £18.05
25th Percentile £14.85 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £14.20 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -40.34% +25.26%
75th Percentile £33.56 £44.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £42.38 £46.55 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £14.20 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -36.89% +18.42%

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 4,304 3,367 4,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.42% 12.22% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,596 2,091 2,476
10th Percentile £263 £245 £243
25th Percentile £400 £374 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £613
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 340 168 266
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.00 £55.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% -22.86% -1.32%
75th Percentile £65.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.78% -7.50% -11.49%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 98 £500 +6.67% 277
North of England -65 24 £500 - 53
Midlands -51 20 £413 -6.59% 31
West Midlands -56 19 £413 -13.16% 22
South East -73 19 £510 -0.49% 41
Yorkshire -29 13 £550 +4.76% 29
North West -51 11 £401 -15.58% 23
South West -40 5 £388 -11.93% 25
East of England -23 3 £535 +29.70% 9
North East - 2 - - 3
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 12 (7.19%) IIS
2 4 (2.40%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.60%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (8.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.20%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.60%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.60%) MicroStation
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 37 (22.16%) Azure
2 26 (15.57%) AWS
3 20 (11.98%) GCP
4 13 (7.78%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.78%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.99%) SaaS
6 9 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.19%) GitHub
7 7 (4.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (3.59%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.59%) IaaS
9 5 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (2.99%) PaaS
10 4 (2.40%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.40%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.40%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.80%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.20%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (1.20%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 35 (20.96%) Firewall
2 30 (17.96%) Network Security
3 28 (16.77%) WAN
4 23 (13.77%) DNS
4 23 (13.77%) SD-WAN
4 23 (13.77%) VPN
5 19 (11.38%) LAN
6 17 (10.18%) SSL
7 16 (9.58%) BGP
7 16 (9.58%) TCP/IP
7 16 (9.58%) Wi-Fi
7 16 (9.58%) Wireless
8 13 (7.78%) MPLS
8 13 (7.78%) OSPF
9 12 (7.19%) DHCP
10 9 (5.39%) 5G
11 7 (4.19%) HTTP
11 7 (4.19%) WLAN
12 5 (2.99%) Multicast
12 5 (2.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.78%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.99%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.40%) GIS
4 3 (1.80%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.80%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.80%) Power BI
5 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (7.78%) JIRA
2 4 (2.40%) Artifactory
2 4 (2.40%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.80%) GitLab
3 3 (1.80%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.60%) Gatling
5 1 (0.60%) Git
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 42 (25.15%) Social Skills
2 25 (14.97%) Finance
3 15 (8.98%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.59%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.19%) Banking
5 7 (4.19%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.59%) Retail
7 5 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.40%) Front Office
8 4 (2.40%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.80%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.80%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Billing
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%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (16.17%) Network Engineer
2 24 (14.37%) Senior
3 21 (12.57%) Support Engineer
4 15 (8.98%) Architect
4 15 (8.98%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Analyst
7 12 (7.19%) C# Developer
7 12 (7.19%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Developer
7 12 (7.19%) IT Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) Lead
9 9 (5.39%) IT Support
9 9 (5.39%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Junior
11 6 (3.59%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.59%) Technical Support Engineer
12 5 (2.99%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.78%) Terraform
2 15 (8.98%) .NET
3 14 (8.38%) pytest
4 12 (7.19%) .NET Framework
5 10 (5.99%) 802.1X
5 10 (5.99%) WinForms
5 10 (5.99%) WPF
6 5 (2.99%) SAML
7 3 (1.80%) Kafka
7 3 (1.80%) REST
7 3 (1.80%) RxJava
7 3 (1.80%) Vert.x
7 3 (1.80%) Web Services
8 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
8 2 (1.20%) JSON
8 2 (1.20%) XML
8 2 (1.20%) XSL
8 2 (1.20%) XSLT
8 2 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.59%) Data Centre
1 11 (6.59%) Security Posture
2 8 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.19%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.19%) IoT
4 6 (3.59%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.59%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (3.59%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.59%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.99%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.80%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (23.95%) Windows
2 14 (8.38%) Mac OS
3 9 (5.39%) Linux
3 9 (5.39%) Windows 10
4 5 (2.99%) Android
4 5 (2.99%) Unix
5 4 (2.40%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.20%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.16%) DevOps
2 30 (17.96%) AI
2 30 (17.96%) CI/CD
3 25 (14.97%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (13.17%) Agile
4 22 (13.17%) Generative AI
4 22 (13.17%) Validation
5 21 (12.57%) Cloud Security
6 20 (11.98%) ITIL
7 19 (11.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (11.38%) Software Engineering
7 19 (11.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (11.38%) Zero Trust
8 18 (10.78%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (10.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (9.58%) LLM
10 16 (9.58%) Machine Learning
10 16 (9.58%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (9.58%) Unit Testing
11 14 (8.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.56%) Python
2 20 (11.98%) SQL
3 13 (7.78%) C#
3 13 (7.78%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.19%) PL/SQL
5 10 (5.99%) T-SQL
5 10 (5.99%) VB
5 10 (5.99%) VBA
6 9 (5.39%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.79%) Java
8 4 (2.40%) Bicep
9 3 (1.80%) Bash
9 3 (1.80%) C
9 3 (1.80%) Groovy
10 2 (1.20%) C++
10 2 (1.20%) Perl
10 2 (1.20%) VBScript
11 1 (0.60%) Scala
11 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (19.16%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.97%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.38%) Degree
4 17 (10.18%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (8.98%) CCNP
6 13 (7.78%) CCIE
7 10 (5.99%) CISSP
8 8 (4.79%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.59%) CISM
9 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
10 5 (2.99%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.40%) CEH
11 4 (2.40%) OSCP
11 4 (2.40%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.80%) CCNA
12 3 (1.80%) CWNA
12 3 (1.80%) CWSP
12 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.18%) QA
2 5 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.99%) NIST
3 3 (1.80%) NCSC
3 3 (1.80%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.58%) Docker
3 2 (1.20%) Firmware
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.60%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (15.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.59%) Ansible
3 8 (4.79%) CASB
4 6 (3.59%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.59%) SCCM
4 6 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.40%) Grafana
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.60%) AirWatch
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
Vendors
1 32 (19.16%) Cisco
2 31 (18.56%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.57%) Zscaler
4 18 (10.78%) Citrix
5 13 (7.78%) Oracle
6 11 (6.59%) Google
6 11 (6.59%) ServiceNow
7 10 (5.99%) Aruba
7 10 (5.99%) Splunk
8 8 (4.79%) F5
8 8 (4.79%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.19%) Apple
9 7 (4.19%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (4.19%) Ekahau
10 6 (3.59%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.59%) Samsung
11 5 (2.99%) Bloomberg
11 5 (2.99%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.40%) CyberArk
12 4 (2.40%) Netskope