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 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 305 311
Rank change year-on-year -86 +6 +37
Contract jobs citing Internet 149 214 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.47% 0.74% 0.72%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.36% 5.80% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 115 177
10th Percentile £390 £265 £205
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £581 £588 £625
90th Percentile £700 £738 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £475
% change year-on-year - +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 27
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.80 £18.69
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.64 £19.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +73.47% +6.52%
75th Percentile £16.50 £49.75 £60.88
90th Percentile £44.75 £62.75 £66.98
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £23.35 £24.50
% change year-on-year -31.48% -4.69% +23.24%

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 3,415 3,691 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.81% 12.82% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,211 2,165 3,209
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £684 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 112 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £18.61
25th Percentile £20.26 £21.28 £23.07
Median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +26.38%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.98
90th Percentile £75.50 £73.75 £76.24
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -14.29% -38.04% +37.68%

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 24 December 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 24 December 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 24 December 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 -69 64 £513 -2.84% 168
North of England -35 36 £538 +13.16% 232
North West -17 20 £700 +75.00% 116
Midlands -37 18 £563 +15.92% 131
West Midlands -15 16 £563 +8.07% 79
South East -16 14 £525 +5.00% 179
Yorkshire -36 13 £488 -18.75% 94
East of England -28 6 £450 -21.74% 97
North East -5 3 - - 31
South West -21 2 £400 -15.34% 69
East Midlands -21 1 - - 49
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 10 (6.71%) IIS
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.01%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.04%) Chatbot
3 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.15%) Azure
2 17 (11.41%) Entra ID
3 14 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (8.72%) SaaS
5 11 (7.38%) AWS
6 9 (6.04%) GCP
7 6 (4.03%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.36%) GitHub
9 3 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (2.01%) OCI
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.34%) IaaS
10 2 (1.34%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.34%) PaaS
11 1 (0.67%) Akamai
11 1 (0.67%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.81%) Firewall
2 26 (17.45%) DNS
3 22 (14.77%) Network Security
3 22 (14.77%) WAN
4 18 (12.08%) TCP/IP
5 16 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (10.07%) LAN
7 13 (8.72%) VPN
8 11 (7.38%) SD-WAN
9 9 (6.04%) Wireless
10 8 (5.37%) MPLS
10 8 (5.37%) SMTP
11 7 (4.70%) Intranet
12 6 (4.03%) DKIM
12 6 (4.03%) DMARC
12 6 (4.03%) Intrusion Detection
13 5 (3.36%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (3.36%) DHCP
13 5 (3.36%) SSL
13 5 (3.36%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.04%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.68%) MySQL
3 4 (2.68%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.68%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.68%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.67%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.67%) Power BI
5 1 (0.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.36%) JIRA
3 4 (2.68%) PyCharm
4 2 (1.34%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.34%) Selenium
5 1 (0.67%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.67%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.67%) GCC
5 1 (0.67%) GitLab
5 1 (0.67%) MSI
5 1 (0.67%) NUnit
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (39.60%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.42%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.40%) Finance
4 10 (6.71%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.04%) Banking
6 8 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.03%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.36%) Law
9 4 (2.68%) Legal
9 4 (2.68%) Local Government
10 2 (1.34%) Back Office
10 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.34%) Marketing
10 2 (1.34%) Military
10 2 (1.34%) Wholesale Banking
11 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.67%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (14.09%) Architect
2 17 (11.41%) Network Engineer
3 13 (8.72%) Analyst
3 13 (8.72%) Developer
3 13 (8.72%) Senior
4 11 (7.38%) Support Technician
5 9 (6.04%) C# Developer
6 8 (5.37%) Network Architect
7 7 (4.70%) C# WCF Developer
7 7 (4.70%) C# WPF Developer
7 7 (4.70%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.70%) WCF Developer
7 7 (4.70%) WPF Developer
8 6 (4.03%) 1st Line Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) 1st Line Technical Support
8 6 (4.03%) Junior Support Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Junior Support Technician
8 6 (4.03%) Junior Technical Engineer
8 6 (4.03%) Junior Technical Support
8 6 (4.03%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.40%) .NET
2 12 (8.05%) .NET Framework
3 10 (6.71%) WPF
4 9 (6.04%) WinForms
5 7 (4.70%) WCF
6 5 (3.36%) SAML
7 4 (2.68%) NumPy
7 4 (2.68%) Pandas
7 4 (2.68%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.01%) CSS
8 3 (2.01%) HTML
8 3 (2.01%) OAuth
8 3 (2.01%) OpenID
9 2 (1.34%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.34%) ADO
9 2 (1.34%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.34%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
9 2 (1.34%) OAuth2
9 2 (1.34%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.42%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.70%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.03%) PKI
3 6 (4.03%) Security Posture
4 5 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.36%) IoT
4 5 (3.36%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.36%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.36%) Operational Technology
4 5 (3.36%) RIA
4 5 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (3.36%) W3C
5 4 (2.68%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.68%) Cybercrime
5 4 (2.68%) Online Banking
5 4 (2.68%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.79%) Windows
2 12 (8.05%) Linux
3 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.34%) Unix
5 2 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.67%) Android
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.67%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (15.44%) Agile
2 21 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (12.08%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (10.74%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (10.74%) User Experience
5 14 (9.40%) Zero Trust
6 13 (8.72%) Data Analysis
6 13 (8.72%) Roadmaps
7 12 (8.05%) AI
7 12 (8.05%) Migration
7 12 (8.05%) Network Architecture
7 12 (8.05%) Validation
8 11 (7.38%) DevOps
8 11 (7.38%) Incident Response
8 11 (7.38%) SIEM
8 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (6.71%) Computer Science
9 10 (6.71%) Information Security
9 10 (6.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (6.04%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (11.41%) SQL
2 15 (10.07%) Python
3 13 (8.72%) C#
4 11 (7.38%) T-SQL
5 10 (6.71%) PL/SQL
6 9 (6.04%) PowerShell
6 9 (6.04%) VB
6 9 (6.04%) VBA
7 4 (2.68%) Java
7 4 (2.68%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) C
8 1 (0.67%) C++
8 1 (0.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.67%) PHP
8 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 33 (22.15%) Security Cleared
2 26 (17.45%) Degree
3 20 (13.42%) SC Cleared
4 17 (11.41%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (9.40%) CCNP
6 5 (3.36%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.36%) OSCP
7 4 (2.68%) CCIE
7 4 (2.68%) CEH
7 4 (2.68%) CISSP
7 4 (2.68%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (2.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.68%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.68%) GIAC
7 4 (2.68%) GREM
7 4 (2.68%) JNCIA
8 3 (2.01%) CCDA
8 3 (2.01%) CCDP
8 3 (2.01%) CCNA
8 3 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.40%) QA
2 7 (4.70%) WCAG
3 5 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.01%) SLA
5 2 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.34%) GDPR
5 2 (1.34%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
5 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 2 (1.34%) ISO17020
5 2 (1.34%) NCSC
5 2 (1.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.67%) GRC
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (13.42%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.03%) Dovecot
3 6 (4.03%) Postfix
4 2 (1.34%) Docker
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (8.05%) SCCM
2 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.03%) Terraform
4 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
4 4 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (2.01%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) QRadar
6 2 (1.34%) Grafana
6 2 (1.34%) Nessus
6 2 (1.34%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.34%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.34%) Puppet
7 1 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.67%) CASB
7 1 (0.67%) EnCase
7 1 (0.67%) FTK
7 1 (0.67%) Nmap
Vendors
1 30 (20.13%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.77%) Cisco
3 20 (13.42%) Zscaler
4 16 (10.74%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.05%) Oracle
6 11 (7.38%) Citrix
7 9 (6.04%) Juniper
7 9 (6.04%) VMware
8 8 (5.37%) Google
8 8 (5.37%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.70%) Aruba
9 7 (4.70%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.70%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.03%) Broadcom
11 5 (3.36%) Meraki
12 4 (2.68%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.68%) Okta
12 4 (2.68%) Splunk
13 3 (2.01%) F5
14 2 (1.34%) SolarWinds