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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 442 370 334
Rank change year-on-year -72 -36 -35
Contract jobs citing Internet 150 118 230
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.49% 0.62%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.71% 3.76% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 72 127
10th Percentile £264 £250 £220
25th Percentile £403 £384 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £424 £488
Median % change year-on-year +12.03% -13.03% -4.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £595
90th Percentile £688 £653 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £408 £475
% change year-on-year +22.70% -14.21% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 40
10th Percentile £14.85 - £12.10
25th Percentile £17.63 - £13.19
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -32.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £36.50 £22.84 £41.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £50.25 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £23.50
% change year-on-year +26.76% -39.57% +23.68%

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 4,044 3,135 4,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.59% 12.97% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,502 1,961 2,882
10th Percentile £263 £220 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £495
% change year-on-year +4.17% -3.03% -3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 123 387
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.30 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.30 £16.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% - +136.20%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.95 £70.90
UK median hourly rate £28.96 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year -32.26% +6.88% +120.75%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 6 June 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 -56 76 £475 +16.56% 141
North of England -50 33 £550 +41.94% 62
Midlands -47 18 £406 -8.00% 36
West Midlands -50 15 £406 -14.47% 16
North West -36 13 £550 +83.33% 28
South East -77 12 £419 +4.69% 61
North East - 12 - - 10
Yorkshire -55 10 £575 +9.52% 26
East of England -22 7 - - 28
South West -23 3 - - 28
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 (8.00%) IIS
2 4 (2.67%) Confluence
3 1 (0.67%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.67%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (10.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (2.00%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.67%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.67%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 31 (20.67%) Azure
2 17 (11.33%) AWS
3 14 (9.33%) GCP
4 12 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 10 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (6.00%) SaaS
7 8 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (4.00%) IaaS
8 6 (4.00%) PaaS
9 5 (3.33%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.33%) GitHub
10 4 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.00%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.00%) Canva
11 3 (2.00%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.33%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (1.33%) AWS IoT
12 2 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (1.33%) Cohesity
12 2 (1.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 30 (20.00%) Firewall
2 28 (18.67%) WAN
3 24 (16.00%) Network Security
3 24 (16.00%) SD-WAN
4 22 (14.67%) DNS
5 20 (13.33%) LAN
6 17 (11.33%) Wi-Fi
7 15 (10.00%) DHCP
7 15 (10.00%) VPN
8 14 (9.33%) SSL
8 14 (9.33%) Wireless
9 13 (8.67%) MPLS
10 12 (8.00%) BGP
11 11 (7.33%) TCP/IP
12 10 (6.67%) OSPF
13 9 (6.00%) 5G
14 7 (4.67%) WLAN
15 5 (3.33%) VLAN
16 4 (2.67%) Ethernet
16 4 (2.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (8.67%) SQL Server
2 11 (7.33%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.00%) GIS
3 3 (2.00%) Power BI
4 2 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.67%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (2.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (2.00%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (2.00%) GitLab
3 2 (1.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.67%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.67%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.67%) Gatling
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) Maven
4 1 (0.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.67%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.67%) Telecoms
3 17 (11.33%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.67%) Finance
5 12 (8.00%) Banking
6 6 (4.00%) Marketing
6 6 (4.00%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.67%) Legal
8 3 (2.00%) Billing
8 3 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.33%) Law
9 2 (1.33%) Military
9 2 (1.33%) Publishing
10 1 (0.67%) Front Office
10 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.67%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (17.33%) Network Engineer
2 15 (10.00%) Architect
2 15 (10.00%) Senior
3 13 (8.67%) Developer
3 13 (8.67%) Support Engineer
4 12 (8.00%) C# Developer
5 10 (6.67%) Sales Manager
5 10 (6.67%) Security Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) Analyst
6 7 (4.67%) Applications Developer
6 7 (4.67%) C# Application Developer
6 7 (4.67%) IT Engineer
6 7 (4.67%) IT Support
6 7 (4.67%) IT Support Engineer
7 6 (4.00%) Junior
7 6 (4.00%) Lead
7 6 (4.00%) Marketing Manager
8 5 (3.33%) Network Architect
8 5 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (3.33%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (10.00%) .NET
2 12 (8.00%) .NET Framework
3 11 (7.33%) WinForms
3 11 (7.33%) WPF
4 5 (3.33%) 802.1X
5 4 (2.67%) pytest
6 3 (2.00%) SAML
6 3 (2.00%) Web Services
7 2 (1.33%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.33%) JSON
7 2 (1.33%) Kafka
7 2 (1.33%) YAML
8 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.67%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 1 (0.67%) AWS CDK
8 1 (0.67%) Playwright
8 1 (0.67%) REST
8 1 (0.67%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.67%) Vert.x
8 1 (0.67%) vLLM
Miscellaneous
1 16 (10.67%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.00%) Security Posture
3 8 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.67%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (4.67%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (4.00%) IoT
6 5 (3.33%) Cloud Native
6 5 (3.33%) Social Media
7 4 (2.67%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.67%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.00%) Graphic Design
8 3 (2.00%) Operational Technology
8 3 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.00%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (2.00%) Wiki
9 2 (1.33%) CMDB
9 2 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 30 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (4.67%) Linux
3 6 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 5 (3.33%) Android
5 4 (2.67%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.67%) Unix
6 3 (2.00%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.33%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.33%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (14.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 20 (13.33%) DevOps
3 19 (12.67%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (10.67%) Agile
4 16 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (9.33%) CI/CD
5 14 (9.33%) Validation
6 13 (8.67%) Cloud Security
6 13 (8.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (8.67%) ITIL
6 13 (8.67%) User Experience
7 12 (8.00%) Roadmaps
7 12 (8.00%) Zero Trust
8 11 (7.33%) Data Analysis
8 11 (7.33%) SIEM
8 11 (7.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (6.67%) Affiliate Network
10 9 (6.00%) Change Management
10 9 (6.00%) Observability
11 8 (5.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.67%) SQL
2 15 (10.00%) Python
3 14 (9.33%) C#
4 12 (8.00%) PL/SQL
5 11 (7.33%) T-SQL
5 11 (7.33%) VB
5 11 (7.33%) VBA
6 8 (5.33%) PowerShell
7 6 (4.00%) Java
8 5 (3.33%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.67%) Bicep
10 3 (2.00%) Bash
10 3 (2.00%) C
11 2 (1.33%) C++
12 1 (0.67%) Groovy
12 1 (0.67%) Perl
12 1 (0.67%) PHP
12 1 (0.67%) Scala
12 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (18.67%) Security Cleared
2 22 (14.67%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (8.00%) CCIE
4 12 (8.00%) CCNP
5 9 (6.00%) Degree
6 7 (4.67%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.67%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.00%) CCIE Wireless
8 3 (2.00%) CCNA
8 3 (2.00%) CISSP
8 3 (2.00%) CWDP
8 3 (2.00%) CWNA
8 3 (2.00%) CWNE
8 3 (2.00%) CWSP
8 3 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (1.33%) ISSAP
9 2 (1.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.00%) QA
2 4 (2.67%) NIST
3 3 (2.00%) GRC
3 3 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.33%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.33%) NCSC
4 2 (1.33%) SLA
4 2 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.67%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.67%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.67%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.33%) Docker
2 5 (3.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.33%) Firmware
5 1 (0.67%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.67%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.67%) Squid
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (8.00%) Terraform
2 9 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (4.67%) Ansible
3 7 (4.67%) CASB
4 5 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.33%) Grafana
5 2 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.33%) SCCM
6 1 (0.67%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.67%) Istio
6 1 (0.67%) logstash
6 1 (0.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (20.67%) Cisco
2 19 (12.67%) Microsoft
3 17 (11.33%) Zscaler
4 16 (10.67%) Citrix
5 14 (9.33%) ServiceNow
6 13 (8.67%) Aruba
7 12 (8.00%) Oracle
8 10 (6.67%) Google
9 8 (5.33%) F5
10 7 (4.67%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (4.67%) Ekahau
10 7 (4.67%) Fortinet
10 7 (4.67%) Palo Alto
11 6 (4.00%) CheckPoint
11 6 (4.00%) Splunk
12 5 (3.33%) Juniper
13 4 (2.67%) Netskope
13 4 (2.67%) VMware
14 3 (2.00%) Okta
14 3 (2.00%) Tenable