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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 386 321
Rank change year-on-year -85 -65 -14
Contract jobs citing Internet 166 132 213
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.47% 0.65%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.83% 3.96% 5.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 79 117
10th Percentile £274 £329 £223
25th Percentile £404 £404 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £613
90th Percentile £664 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
10th Percentile £11.46 - £20.65
25th Percentile £13.80 £14.20 £23.10
Median hourly rate £16.18 £16.00 £24.20
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -33.88% +13.88%
75th Percentile £23.03 £44.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £45.51 £46.55 £51.15
UK median hourly rate £16.18 £15.67 £23.80
% change year-on-year +3.26% -34.18% +18.26%

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 4,339 3,334 3,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.37% 12.00% 12.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,600 2,074 2,329
10th Percentile £250 £238 £243
25th Percentile £400 £367 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £491 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -2.77% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 168 231
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.75 £21.69
Median hourly rate £30.00 £41.23 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -28.12% +1.52%
75th Percentile £67.48 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £76.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year -38.49% -17.48% -8.83%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -45 103 £500 +5.26% 237
North of England -65 23 £475 - 64
Midlands -55 18 £450 -1.81% 45
West Midlands -42 17 £450 -13.25% 23
South East -68 15 £550 +4.76% 77
Yorkshire -36 12 £538 +2.38% 28
North West -57 11 £401 -15.58% 30
South West -38 5 £388 -11.93% 27
East of England -27 3 £535 +29.70% 24
North East - 2 - - 8
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 (7.83%) IIS
2 5 (3.01%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.60%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.60%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.60%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.60%) MicroStation
4 1 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (1.20%) Eikon
2 1 (0.60%) Maximo
2 1 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (21.08%) Azure
2 25 (15.06%) AWS
3 19 (11.45%) GCP
4 11 (6.63%) Entra ID
4 11 (6.63%) SaaS
5 10 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (4.22%) GitHub
6 7 (4.22%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 7 (4.22%) IaaS
7 6 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (3.61%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.01%) PaaS
9 4 (2.41%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (2.41%) Cloud Functions
9 4 (2.41%) Google App Engine
9 4 (2.41%) Google Compute Engine
10 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.20%) GitHub Copilot
11 2 (1.20%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (1.20%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 39 (23.49%) Firewall
2 32 (19.28%) Network Security
3 25 (15.06%) WAN
4 23 (13.86%) VPN
5 19 (11.45%) DNS
6 18 (10.84%) SD-WAN
7 16 (9.64%) LAN
7 16 (9.64%) SSL
7 16 (9.64%) TCP/IP
7 16 (9.64%) Wireless
8 15 (9.04%) BGP
8 15 (9.04%) Wi-Fi
9 12 (7.23%) OSPF
10 10 (6.02%) MPLS
11 9 (5.42%) DHCP
11 9 (5.42%) HTTP
12 7 (4.22%) 5G
13 6 (3.61%) WLAN
14 5 (3.01%) Multicast
15 4 (2.41%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.63%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.41%) GIS
4 3 (1.81%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.81%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.81%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.20%) Power BI
5 2 (1.20%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.20%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.60%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (6.63%) JIRA
2 4 (2.41%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.81%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.81%) GitLab
3 3 (1.81%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.20%) Git
4 2 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.60%) Gatling
5 1 (0.60%) Maven
5 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 41 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.65%) Finance
3 12 (7.23%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (5.42%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.82%) Banking
6 7 (4.22%) Retail
7 5 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.01%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.41%) Front Office
8 4 (2.41%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.81%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.20%) Legal
10 2 (1.20%) Military
10 2 (1.20%) Publishing
11 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.60%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.60%) Norwegian Language
11 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (16.87%) Network Engineer
2 23 (13.86%) Senior
3 19 (11.45%) Security Engineer
3 19 (11.45%) Support Engineer
4 14 (8.43%) Architect
4 14 (8.43%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 13 (7.83%) Analyst
5 13 (7.83%) C# Developer
5 13 (7.83%) Developer
6 12 (7.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 11 (6.63%) Lead
8 10 (6.02%) IT Engineer
9 9 (5.42%) Network Security Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) IT Support
10 7 (4.22%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Junior
11 6 (3.61%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.61%) Technical Support Engineer
12 5 (3.01%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.24%) Terraform
2 16 (9.64%) .NET
3 14 (8.43%) pytest
4 13 (7.83%) .NET Framework
5 11 (6.63%) WinForms
5 11 (6.63%) WPF
6 8 (4.82%) 802.1X
7 4 (2.41%) REST
7 4 (2.41%) SAML
8 3 (1.81%) Kafka
8 3 (1.81%) RxJava
8 3 (1.81%) Vert.x
9 2 (1.20%) ADO.NET
9 2 (1.20%) Ajax
9 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.20%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (1.20%) JSON
9 2 (1.20%) SOAP
9 2 (1.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.23%) Security Posture
2 11 (6.63%) Data Centre
3 7 (4.22%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.22%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.22%) IoT
4 6 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.61%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (3.61%) Cyber Defence
4 6 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 5 (3.01%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.01%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.41%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.20%) PKI
8 2 (1.20%) Social Media
8 2 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.49%) Windows
2 14 (8.43%) Mac OS
3 10 (6.02%) Linux
4 8 (4.82%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.01%) Android
5 5 (3.01%) Unix
6 4 (2.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.81%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.20%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (18.67%) AI
2 29 (17.47%) CI/CD
2 29 (17.47%) DevOps
3 24 (14.46%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (13.25%) Generative AI
4 22 (13.25%) Validation
5 21 (12.65%) Agile
5 21 (12.65%) Cloud Security
6 19 (11.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (11.45%) Software Engineering
6 19 (11.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (11.45%) Zero Trust
7 17 (10.24%) LLM
7 17 (10.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (9.64%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (9.64%) ITIL
8 16 (9.64%) Machine Learning
8 16 (9.64%) Migration
8 16 (9.64%) SIEM
8 16 (9.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.28%) Python
2 19 (11.45%) SQL
3 14 (8.43%) C#
4 13 (7.83%) PL/SQL
5 12 (7.23%) PowerShell
6 11 (6.63%) T-SQL
6 11 (6.63%) VB
6 11 (6.63%) VBA
7 10 (6.02%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.82%) Java
9 4 (2.41%) C
10 3 (1.81%) Bash
10 3 (1.81%) Bicep
10 3 (1.81%) Groovy
11 2 (1.20%) C++
11 2 (1.20%) Perl
11 2 (1.20%) VBScript
12 1 (0.60%) Scala
12 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (17.47%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.25%) SC Cleared
3 19 (11.45%) Degree
4 16 (9.64%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (8.43%) CCNP
6 12 (7.23%) CCIE
7 10 (6.02%) CISSP
8 6 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.61%) CISM
8 6 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 5 (3.01%) AWS Certification
9 5 (3.01%) OSCP
10 4 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.41%) CEH
11 3 (1.81%) BC Cleared
11 3 (1.81%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.81%) GPEN
11 3 (1.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.81%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (11.45%) QA
2 5 (3.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (3.01%) NIST
3 3 (1.81%) SLA
4 2 (1.20%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.20%) GRC
4 2 (1.20%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.20%) NCSC
4 2 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.60%) GDPR
5 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (10.24%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.64%) Docker
3 2 (1.20%) Firmware
3 2 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.60%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.60%) Squid
4 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (15.66%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.63%) Ansible
3 9 (5.42%) CASB
4 6 (3.61%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.61%) SCCM
4 6 (3.61%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.41%) Grafana
6 2 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.60%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.60%) Control-M
7 1 (0.60%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.60%) Istio
7 1 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.60%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 31 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 30 (18.07%) Cisco
3 24 (14.46%) Zscaler
4 18 (10.84%) Citrix
5 14 (8.43%) Oracle
6 11 (6.63%) ServiceNow
7 10 (6.02%) Google
7 10 (6.02%) Splunk
8 9 (5.42%) Palo Alto
9 8 (4.82%) Aruba
9 8 (4.82%) F5
10 7 (4.22%) Apple
10 7 (4.22%) CrowdStrike
10 7 (4.22%) Fortinet
11 6 (3.61%) Ekahau
11 6 (3.61%) Samsung
12 5 (3.01%) Bloomberg
12 5 (3.01%) CheckPoint
13 4 (2.41%) CyberArk
13 4 (2.41%) Qualys