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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 310 306
Rank change year-on-year -89 -4 +35
Contract jobs citing Internet 143 189 255
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.69% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.25% 5.40% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 101 167
10th Percentile £375 £250 £205
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £502
Median % change year-on-year - +4.69% -4.48%
75th Percentile £581 £578 £625
90th Percentile £653 £675 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 29
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.34 £12.97
25th Percentile £15.44 £23.10 £19.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +100.00% -7.61%
75th Percentile £16.50 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £24.98 £61.75 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £22.88
% change year-on-year -28.89% -1.64% +15.07%

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 3,366 3,500 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.64% 12.80% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,178 2,045 3,127
10th Percentile £205 £220 £207
25th Percentile £358 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £686 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 103 312
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.93
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.24 £24.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -38.04% +120.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.50 £73.25 £75.63
UK median hourly rate £36.75 £32.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +13.08% -42.47% +125.96%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -66 58 £513 -2.84% 94
North of England -33 37 £538 +13.16% 81
North West -15 19 £700 +75.00% 38
Midlands -33 18 £563 +8.07% 35
West Midlands -25 16 £563 -5.90% 17
South East -26 12 £525 - 64
Yorkshire -49 11 £525 -12.50% 32
North East -6 7 - - 21
East of England -31 7 £450 -21.74% 32
South West -17 2 £400 -5.88% 30
East Midlands -30 1 - - 18
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 (6.99%) IIS
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.80%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.40%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.29%) Chatbot
3 6 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 30 (20.98%) Azure
2 14 (9.79%) Entra ID
3 13 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (9.09%) SaaS
4 10 (6.99%) AWS
5 9 (6.29%) GCP
6 6 (4.20%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.50%) GitHub
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.10%) OCI
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.40%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.40%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.70%) Akamai
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.70%) IaaS
10 1 (0.70%) PaaS
10 1 (0.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 29 (20.28%) Firewall
2 24 (16.78%) DNS
3 21 (14.69%) Network Security
3 21 (14.69%) WAN
4 17 (11.89%) TCP/IP
5 16 (11.19%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (10.49%) LAN
7 12 (8.39%) VPN
8 10 (6.99%) SD-WAN
9 8 (5.59%) SMTP
9 8 (5.59%) Wireless
10 7 (4.90%) Intranet
10 7 (4.90%) MPLS
11 6 (4.20%) DKIM
11 6 (4.20%) DMARC
12 5 (3.50%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.50%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (3.50%) Unified Communications
13 4 (2.80%) DHCP
13 4 (2.80%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.29%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.80%) MySQL
3 4 (2.80%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.80%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
5 1 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (4.90%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.80%) JIRA
2 4 (2.80%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) GCC
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) MSI
3 1 (0.70%) NUnit
3 1 (0.70%) Selenium
3 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.59%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.79%) Finance
4 10 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.99%) Telecoms
5 8 (5.59%) Banking
5 8 (5.59%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.50%) Law
8 4 (2.80%) Legal
9 3 (2.10%) Local Government
10 2 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.40%) Marketing
10 2 (1.40%) Military
11 1 (0.70%) Back Office
11 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.70%) Electronics
11 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.70%) Publishing
11 1 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (14.69%) Architect
2 16 (11.19%) Network Engineer
3 13 (9.09%) Analyst
3 13 (9.09%) Developer
3 13 (9.09%) Senior
4 10 (6.99%) Support Technician
5 9 (6.29%) C# Developer
6 7 (4.90%) C# WCF Developer
6 7 (4.90%) C# WPF Developer
6 7 (4.90%) Network Architect
6 7 (4.90%) Sales Manager
6 7 (4.90%) WCF Developer
6 7 (4.90%) WPF Developer
7 6 (4.20%) IT Support
7 6 (4.20%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.50%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (3.50%) IT Support Technician
8 5 (3.50%) Junior
8 5 (3.50%) Technical Architect
8 5 (3.50%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.79%) .NET
2 12 (8.39%) .NET Framework
3 10 (6.99%) WPF
4 9 (6.29%) WinForms
5 7 (4.90%) WCF
6 4 (2.80%) NumPy
6 4 (2.80%) Pandas
6 4 (2.80%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.10%) CSS
7 3 (2.10%) HTML
7 3 (2.10%) OAuth
7 3 (2.10%) OpenID
7 3 (2.10%) SAML
8 2 (1.40%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.40%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.40%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.40%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.40%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.20%) Security Posture
2 6 (4.20%) Virtual Team
3 5 (3.50%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.50%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.50%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.50%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.50%) PKI
3 5 (3.50%) RIA
3 5 (3.50%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (3.50%) W3C
4 4 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.80%) Cybercrime
4 4 (2.80%) Online Banking
4 4 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.10%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.10%) IoT
5 3 (2.10%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.18%) Windows
2 11 (7.69%) Linux
3 6 (4.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.70%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.70%) Unix
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (13.99%) Agile
2 18 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (11.19%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (9.79%) User Experience
6 13 (9.09%) Zero Trust
7 12 (8.39%) AI
7 12 (8.39%) Data Analysis
7 12 (8.39%) Validation
8 11 (7.69%) DevOps
8 11 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (6.99%) Incident Response
9 10 (6.99%) Information Security
9 10 (6.99%) Migration
9 10 (6.99%) Network Architecture
9 10 (6.99%) SIEM
10 9 (6.29%) Conversational UI
10 9 (6.29%) Customer Service
10 9 (6.29%) Risk Management
10 9 (6.29%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.49%) SQL
2 13 (9.09%) C#
2 13 (9.09%) Python
3 11 (7.69%) T-SQL
4 10 (6.99%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.29%) VB
5 9 (6.29%) VBA
6 8 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.80%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.40%) Java
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (21.68%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.48%) Degree
3 18 (12.59%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.79%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.69%) CCNP
6 5 (3.50%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.50%) OSCP
7 4 (2.80%) CCIE
7 4 (2.80%) CEH
7 4 (2.80%) CISSP
7 4 (2.80%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.80%) GIAC
7 4 (2.80%) GREM
8 3 (2.10%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.40%) CCDA
9 2 (1.40%) CCDP
9 2 (1.40%) CCNA
9 2 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.09%) QA
2 7 (4.90%) WCAG
3 5 (3.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.40%) GDPR
4 2 (1.40%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
4 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (1.40%) ISO17020
4 2 (1.40%) NCSC
4 2 (1.40%) NIST
4 2 (1.40%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) GRC
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (12.59%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.20%) Dovecot
3 6 (4.20%) Postfix
4 2 (1.40%) Docker
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (7.69%) SCCM
2 10 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.20%) Terraform
4 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.10%) Ansible
5 3 (2.10%) QRadar
5 3 (2.10%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.40%) Grafana
6 2 (1.40%) Nessus
6 2 (1.40%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.40%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.70%) CASB
7 1 (0.70%) EnCase
7 1 (0.70%) FTK
7 1 (0.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 29 (20.28%) Microsoft
2 20 (13.99%) Cisco
3 17 (11.89%) Zscaler
4 15 (10.49%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.39%) Oracle
6 10 (6.99%) Citrix
7 9 (6.29%) VMware
8 8 (5.59%) Google
8 8 (5.59%) Juniper
8 8 (5.59%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.90%) Aruba
9 7 (4.90%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.90%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.20%) Broadcom
11 5 (3.50%) Meraki
12 4 (2.80%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.80%) Okta
13 3 (2.10%) F5
13 3 (2.10%) Splunk
14 2 (1.40%) SolarWinds