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 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 298 311
Rank change year-on-year -86 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Internet 149 221 283
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.71% 0.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.35% 5.79% 5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 117 192
10th Percentile £363 £243 £213
25th Percentile £404 £385 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £730 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -1.87% +12.63% -9.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £15.25 £21.72 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £23.63 £19.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +73.47% +11.36%
75th Percentile £16.50 £49.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £44.75 £58.35 £62.13
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £23.80 £24.50
% change year-on-year -32.77% -2.86% +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 3,422 3,815 5,503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.13% 12.25% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,205 2,205 3,419
10th Percentile £206 £234 £210
25th Percentile £358 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £608 £608
90th Percentile £680 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 136 328
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.83 £18.82
25th Percentile £20.56 £23.47 £23.07
Median hourly rate £31.39 £48.56 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -35.37% -14.04% +27.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -20.00% -24.65% +35.90%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -39 75 £500 -5.21% 217
North of England -35 30 £500 +2.51% 160
North West -8 17 £588 +46.88% 93
Midlands -17 17 £563 +136.84% 116
South East -4 16 £525 - 177
West Midlands -25 16 £563 +63.64% 77
Yorkshire -44 13 £488 -18.75% 55
East of England -36 2 £450 -20.00% 74
East Midlands -16 1 - - 39
South West -16 1 - - 52
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 9 (6.04%) IIS
2 8 (5.37%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (5.37%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.01%) Moodle
4 2 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.04%) Chatbot
2 9 (6.04%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.34%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
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 31 (20.81%) Azure
2 16 (10.74%) Entra ID
3 15 (10.07%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (8.72%) SaaS
5 10 (6.71%) AWS
6 6 (4.03%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.36%) GCP
7 5 (3.36%) GitHub
8 3 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.01%) OCI
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.34%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.34%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.34%) IaaS
9 2 (1.34%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.34%) PaaS
10 1 (0.67%) AWS Direct Connect
10 1 (0.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 31 (20.81%) Firewall
2 25 (16.78%) DNS
2 25 (16.78%) TCP/IP
3 22 (14.77%) Network Security
4 20 (13.42%) WAN
5 15 (10.07%) LAN
5 15 (10.07%) Wi-Fi
6 12 (8.05%) VPN
7 11 (7.38%) SMTP
8 9 (6.04%) SD-WAN
8 9 (6.04%) Wireless
9 8 (5.37%) Intranet
9 8 (5.37%) Intrusion Detection
10 7 (4.70%) HTTP
10 7 (4.70%) MPLS
11 6 (4.03%) DKIM
11 6 (4.03%) DMARC
12 5 (3.36%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.36%) DHCP
12 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%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.67%) GIS
5 1 (0.67%) Power BI
5 1 (0.67%) Spatial Data
5 1 (0.67%) Tableau
5 1 (0.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (4.70%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.68%) PyCharm
3 3 (2.01%) JIRA
3 3 (2.01%) MSI
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%) NUnit
5 1 (0.67%) Postman
5 1 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 65 (43.62%) Social Skills
2 20 (13.42%) Public Sector
3 13 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (8.72%) Finance
4 8 (5.37%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (4.70%) Banking
6 6 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (3.36%) Law
8 4 (2.68%) Legal
8 4 (2.68%) Local Government
9 2 (1.34%) Back Office
9 2 (1.34%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.34%) Marketing
9 2 (1.34%) Military
9 2 (1.34%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.34%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.67%) Electronics
10 1 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (12.08%) Network Engineer
2 16 (10.74%) Architect
3 15 (10.07%) Support Technician
4 14 (9.40%) Analyst
5 13 (8.72%) Developer
6 12 (8.05%) Senior
6 12 (8.05%) Support Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) 1st Line Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) 1st Line Support
7 10 (6.71%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) 1st Line Support Technician
7 10 (6.71%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 10 (6.71%) Junior Support Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Junior Support Technician
7 10 (6.71%) Junior Technical Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Junior Technical Support
7 10 (6.71%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Technical Engineer
7 10 (6.71%) Technical Support
7 10 (6.71%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.72%) .NET
2 12 (8.05%) .NET Framework
3 10 (6.71%) WPF
4 9 (6.04%) WCF
4 9 (6.04%) WinForms
5 6 (4.03%) HTML
6 5 (3.36%) SAML
7 4 (2.68%) LDAP
7 4 (2.68%) NumPy
7 4 (2.68%) Pandas
7 4 (2.68%) TensorFlow
8 3 (2.01%) CSS
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
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.77%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.70%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (4.70%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.03%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.03%) Mobile App
3 6 (4.03%) Security Posture
3 6 (4.03%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (3.36%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (3.36%) IoT
4 5 (3.36%) Low-Code
4 5 (3.36%) PKI
4 5 (3.36%) RIA
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%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.01%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (18.79%) Windows
2 12 (8.05%) Linux
3 6 (4.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.01%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.34%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.34%) Mac OS X
5 2 (1.34%) Unix
6 1 (0.67%) Android
6 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.67%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.67%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Embedded Compact
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (18.12%) Agile
2 21 (14.09%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (10.74%) User Experience
4 15 (10.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (8.72%) Data Analysis
5 13 (8.72%) Roadmaps
5 13 (8.72%) SIEM
5 13 (8.72%) Zero Trust
6 12 (8.05%) AI
6 12 (8.05%) Incident Response
7 11 (7.38%) Migration
7 11 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (6.71%) Computer Science
8 10 (6.71%) DevOps
8 10 (6.71%) Network Architecture
8 10 (6.71%) Server Management
9 9 (6.04%) Change Management
9 9 (6.04%) Conversational UI
9 9 (6.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.74%) SQL
2 14 (9.40%) Python
3 12 (8.05%) 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%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (20.81%) Security Cleared
2 27 (18.12%) Degree
3 19 (12.75%) SC Cleared
4 18 (12.08%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (10.07%) CCNP
6 5 (3.36%) OSCP
7 4 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.68%) CCNA
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%) CCIE
8 3 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (10.07%) QA
2 10 (6.71%) WCAG
3 8 (5.37%) 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
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.67%) NIST
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 3 (2.01%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.34%) Docker
5 2 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (8.72%) SCCM
2 10 (6.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.03%) Terraform
4 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.01%) Ansible
5 3 (2.01%) QRadar
5 3 (2.01%) Single Sign-On
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 34 (22.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (14.77%) Cisco
2 22 (14.77%) Zscaler
3 17 (11.41%) Palo Alto
4 12 (8.05%) Oracle
5 11 (7.38%) Citrix
6 8 (5.37%) Juniper
6 8 (5.37%) Red Hat
6 8 (5.37%) VMware
7 6 (4.03%) Aruba
7 6 (4.03%) Broadcom
7 6 (4.03%) Fortinet
7 6 (4.03%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.68%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.68%) Google
8 4 (2.68%) Meraki
8 4 (2.68%) Okta
8 4 (2.68%) Splunk
9 3 (2.01%) F5
10 2 (1.34%) Avaya