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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 449 367 334
Rank change year-on-year -82 -33 -39
Contract jobs citing Internet 159 136 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.50% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.73% 3.94% 4.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 84 120
10th Percentile £225 £306 £231
25th Percentile £401 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £589 £625
90th Percentile £670 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £494
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.86% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 30
10th Percentile £14.85 - £13.00
25th Percentile £16.93 - £14.06
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -34.71% +11.54%
75th Percentile £29.16 £44.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £49.75 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.00
% change year-on-year +26.76% -32.38% +5.00%

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 4,260 3,449 4,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.49% 12.58% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 2,138 2,780
10th Percentile £250 £237 £220
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 309 159 357
10th Percentile £16.03 £14.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.83 £16.86
Median hourly rate £26.72 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.27% +10.00% -9.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -45.26% +18.75% -11.11%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -48 95 £500 +10.50% 124
North of England -66 24 £488 +2.63% 44
Midlands -33 19 £413 -5.24% 23
West Midlands -51 17 £413 +25.00% 11
South East -81 17 £500 -2.44% 47
Yorkshire -45 12 £525 - 22
North West -47 11 £401 -15.58% 18
South West -33 4 £175 -60.23% 10
North East - 3 - - 5
East of England -16 2 - - 12
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 (8.18%) IIS
2 3 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.63%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.66%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.89%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.63%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.63%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.63%) Eikon
2 1 (0.63%) Maximo
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (23.27%) Azure
2 22 (13.84%) AWS
3 15 (9.43%) GCP
3 15 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.81%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.66%) SaaS
6 7 (4.40%) GitHub
6 7 (4.40%) IaaS
7 6 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.77%) PaaS
8 5 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.89%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.89%) Canva
9 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.26%) AWS IoT
10 2 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.26%) Cloud Functions
10 2 (1.26%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 35 (22.01%) Firewall
2 30 (18.87%) Network Security
3 29 (18.24%) WAN
4 28 (17.61%) DNS
5 25 (15.72%) SD-WAN
6 23 (14.47%) VPN
7 20 (12.58%) LAN
8 18 (11.32%) DHCP
8 18 (11.32%) Wi-Fi
9 16 (10.06%) SSL
10 15 (9.43%) BGP
10 15 (9.43%) TCP/IP
10 15 (9.43%) Wireless
11 13 (8.18%) MPLS
11 13 (8.18%) OSPF
12 9 (5.66%) 5G
13 7 (4.40%) WLAN
14 6 (3.77%) HTTP
15 5 (3.14%) VLAN
16 4 (2.52%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.92%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.52%) GIS
4 3 (1.89%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.89%) Power BI
5 2 (1.26%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.55%) JIRA
2 4 (2.52%) Artifactory
2 4 (2.52%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.89%) GitLab
3 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.63%) Gatling
5 1 (0.63%) Git
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
General
1 38 (23.90%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.84%) Finance
3 17 (10.69%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.92%) Banking
5 9 (5.66%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.52%) Financial Institution
7 4 (2.52%) Retail
8 3 (1.89%) Billing
8 3 (1.89%) Front Office
8 3 (1.89%) Legal
8 3 (1.89%) Marketing
9 2 (1.26%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Law
9 2 (1.26%) Military
9 2 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Publishing
10 1 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.63%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (18.24%) Network Engineer
2 22 (13.84%) Senior
3 19 (11.95%) Support Engineer
4 13 (8.18%) C# Developer
4 13 (8.18%) Developer
4 13 (8.18%) Security Engineer
5 12 (7.55%) Architect
6 11 (6.92%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 10 (6.29%) IT Engineer
7 10 (6.29%) IT Support
7 10 (6.29%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (5.66%) Analyst
9 8 (5.03%) Lead
10 7 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Junior
10 7 (4.40%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.77%) Technical Support Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.43%) .NET
2 13 (8.18%) .NET Framework
3 11 (6.92%) pytest
3 11 (6.92%) WinForms
3 11 (6.92%) WPF
4 9 (5.66%) 802.1X
5 4 (2.52%) Kafka
5 4 (2.52%) SAML
6 3 (1.89%) RxJava
6 3 (1.89%) Vert.x
6 3 (1.89%) Web Services
7 2 (1.26%) ADO.NET
7 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.26%) JSON
7 2 (1.26%) REST
7 2 (1.26%) XML
7 2 (1.26%) XSL
7 2 (1.26%) XSLT
7 2 (1.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.55%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.92%) Security Posture
3 9 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.40%) Cloud Native
5 7 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
5 7 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (4.40%) IoT
6 5 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.14%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.89%) Graphic Design
7 3 (1.89%) Social Media
7 3 (1.89%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.26%) CMDB
8 2 (1.26%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.26%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.90%) Windows
2 11 (6.92%) Mac OS
3 9 (5.66%) Linux
4 6 (3.77%) Android
4 6 (3.77%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.14%) Unix
6 4 (2.52%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.26%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (18.24%) DevOps
2 25 (15.72%) CI/CD
3 22 (13.84%) Agile
4 21 (13.21%) Disaster Recovery
5 19 (11.95%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (11.95%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (11.95%) Validation
6 18 (11.32%) AI
7 17 (10.69%) Cloud Security
8 16 (10.06%) ITIL
8 16 (10.06%) Software Engineering
8 16 (10.06%) Zero Trust
9 15 (9.43%) Generative AI
9 15 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (9.43%) SIEM
10 13 (8.18%) Observability
10 13 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 13 (8.18%) Unit Testing
10 13 (8.18%) User Experience
11 12 (7.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (16.35%) Python
2 20 (12.58%) SQL
3 14 (8.81%) C#
4 13 (8.18%) PL/SQL
4 13 (8.18%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.92%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.92%) VB
5 11 (6.92%) VBA
6 8 (5.03%) Java
7 6 (3.77%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.52%) Bicep
9 3 (1.89%) Bash
9 3 (1.89%) C
9 3 (1.89%) Groovy
10 2 (1.26%) C++
10 2 (1.26%) Perl
10 2 (1.26%) VBScript
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (8.81%) CCNP
4 14 (8.81%) Degree
5 13 (8.18%) CCIE
6 8 (5.03%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.40%) CISSP
8 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
8 4 (2.52%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.89%) CCNA
9 3 (1.89%) CISM
9 3 (1.89%) CWDP
9 3 (1.89%) CWNA
9 3 (1.89%) CWNE
9 3 (1.89%) CWSP
9 3 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.43%) QA
2 4 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.52%) NIST
3 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.26%) GRC
3 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
3 2 (1.26%) NCSC
3 2 (1.26%) SLA
3 2 (1.26%) SOC 2
4 1 (0.63%) GDPR
4 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.63%) PMO
System Software
1 22 (13.84%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.18%) Docker
3 5 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.26%) Firmware
4 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.63%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.63%) Squid
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (13.21%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.06%) Terraform
3 10 (6.29%) Ansible
4 8 (5.03%) CASB
5 7 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (3.14%) FortiGate
6 5 (3.14%) SCCM
7 4 (2.52%) Grafana
8 2 (1.26%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
9 1 (0.63%) Istio
9 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.63%) logstash
9 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (20.13%) Cisco
2 29 (18.24%) Microsoft
3 22 (13.84%) Zscaler
4 19 (11.95%) Citrix
5 14 (8.81%) ServiceNow
6 13 (8.18%) Oracle
7 12 (7.55%) Aruba
8 9 (5.66%) F5
8 9 (5.66%) Fortinet
8 9 (5.66%) Google
8 9 (5.66%) Splunk
9 7 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (4.40%) Ekahau
9 7 (4.40%) Palo Alto
10 6 (3.77%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.52%) Apple
11 4 (2.52%) Juniper
11 4 (2.52%) Netskope
12 3 (1.89%) Arista
12 3 (1.89%) Okta