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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 361 311
Rank change year-on-year -102 -50 -12
Contract jobs citing Internet 164 137 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.80% 4.06% 5.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 89 119
10th Percentile £225 £329 £218
25th Percentile £404 £385 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £582 £625
90th Percentile £670 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £524 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +13.24% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 20
10th Percentile £11.80 - £18.05
25th Percentile £14.85 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.88 £14.20 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.88% -40.34% +25.26%
75th Percentile £29.16 £44.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £42.38 £49.25 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £17.88 £14.20 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.88% -36.89% +18.42%

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 4,318 3,375 4,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.46% 12.23% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,611 2,088 2,554
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £400 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £505
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.57% +1.00%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £613
90th Percentile £688 £680 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 170 278
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.24
25th Percentile £19.38 £25.15 £20.69
Median hourly rate £26.72 £43.75 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -38.93% -20.27% -0.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £46.25 £49.50
% change year-on-year -43.78% -6.57% -10.00%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -53 96 £500 +8.11% 198
North of England -49 24 £488 -2.50% 65
Midlands -54 20 £413 -6.59% 36
West Midlands -52 19 £413 -13.16% 17
South East -57 19 £510 -0.49% 70
Yorkshire -32 12 £525 - 28
North West -37 12 £401 -15.58% 31
South West -35 4 £175 -60.23% 20
East of England -18 3 £535 +29.70% 19
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 12 (7.32%) IIS
2 3 (1.83%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.61%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.22%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.61%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.61%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 1 (0.61%) Eikon
1 1 (0.61%) Maximo
1 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.56%) Azure
2 24 (14.63%) AWS
3 19 (11.59%) GCP
4 13 (7.93%) Entra ID
5 12 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (5.49%) SaaS
7 7 (4.27%) GitHub
7 7 (4.27%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (4.27%) IaaS
8 6 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.66%) PaaS
9 5 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
10 4 (2.44%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.44%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.44%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.83%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.83%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.22%) AWS Control Tower
12 2 (1.22%) AWS IoT
Communications & Networking
1 33 (20.12%) Firewall
2 28 (17.07%) Network Security
2 28 (17.07%) WAN
3 25 (15.24%) DNS
4 23 (14.02%) SD-WAN
5 22 (13.41%) VPN
6 19 (11.59%) LAN
7 17 (10.37%) SSL
8 16 (9.76%) TCP/IP
8 16 (9.76%) Wireless
9 15 (9.15%) BGP
9 15 (9.15%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (8.54%) DHCP
11 13 (7.93%) MPLS
11 13 (7.93%) OSPF
12 9 (5.49%) 5G
13 7 (4.27%) HTTP
13 7 (4.27%) WLAN
14 5 (3.05%) VLAN
15 4 (2.44%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (7.93%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.10%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.44%) GIS
4 3 (1.83%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.83%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.83%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.83%) Power BI
5 2 (1.22%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.22%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.32%) JIRA
2 4 (2.44%) Artifactory
2 4 (2.44%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.83%) GitLab
3 3 (1.83%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.22%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.22%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.61%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.61%) Gatling
5 1 (0.61%) Git
5 1 (0.61%) Maven
5 1 (0.61%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 40 (24.39%) Social Skills
2 22 (13.41%) Finance
3 14 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.71%) Telecoms
5 7 (4.27%) Banking
5 7 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (3.05%) Retail
7 4 (2.44%) Italian Language
8 3 (1.83%) Financial Institution
8 3 (1.83%) Front Office
8 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 2 (1.22%) Billing
9 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.22%) Military
9 2 (1.22%) Publishing
10 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (16.46%) Network Engineer
2 25 (15.24%) Senior
3 21 (12.80%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.15%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.54%) Architect
5 14 (8.54%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Analyst
6 12 (7.32%) C# Developer
6 12 (7.32%) Cloud Engineer
6 12 (7.32%) Developer
6 12 (7.32%) IT Engineer
7 10 (6.10%) Lead
8 9 (5.49%) IT Support
8 9 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (4.27%) Junior
10 6 (3.66%) Network Security Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Technical Engineer
10 6 (3.66%) Technical Support
10 6 (3.66%) Technical Support Engineer
11 5 (3.05%) 1st Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.98%) Terraform
2 14 (8.54%) .NET
2 14 (8.54%) pytest
3 12 (7.32%) .NET Framework
4 10 (6.10%) 802.1X
4 10 (6.10%) WinForms
4 10 (6.10%) WPF
5 4 (2.44%) SAML
6 3 (1.83%) Kafka
6 3 (1.83%) REST
6 3 (1.83%) RxJava
6 3 (1.83%) Vert.x
6 3 (1.83%) Web Services
7 2 (1.22%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (1.22%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.22%) JSON
7 2 (1.22%) XML
7 2 (1.22%) XSL
7 2 (1.22%) XSLT
7 2 (1.22%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.71%) Security Posture
2 10 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.27%) IoT
5 6 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.66%) Cloud Security Posture
5 6 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.66%) Operational Technology
5 6 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.05%) Cyber Defence
7 4 (2.44%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (1.22%) CMDB
9 2 (1.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (1.22%) PKI
9 2 (1.22%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.78%) Windows
2 13 (7.93%) Mac OS
3 9 (5.49%) Linux
4 8 (4.88%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.05%) Android
5 5 (3.05%) Unix
6 4 (2.44%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.83%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.22%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.51%) DevOps
2 30 (18.29%) CI/CD
3 29 (17.68%) AI
4 24 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (13.41%) Validation
6 21 (12.80%) Agile
6 21 (12.80%) Cloud Security
6 21 (12.80%) Generative AI
7 20 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (12.20%) ITIL
8 19 (11.59%) Software Engineering
9 17 (10.37%) Infrastructure as Code
9 17 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (10.37%) Zero Trust
10 16 (9.76%) LLM
10 16 (9.76%) Machine Learning
10 16 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 16 (9.76%) Unit Testing
11 15 (9.15%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (8.54%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 30 (18.29%) Python
2 20 (12.20%) SQL
3 13 (7.93%) C#
3 13 (7.93%) PowerShell
4 12 (7.32%) PL/SQL
5 10 (6.10%) T-SQL
5 10 (6.10%) VB
5 10 (6.10%) VBA
6 8 (4.88%) Java
6 8 (4.88%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.44%) Bicep
8 3 (1.83%) Bash
8 3 (1.83%) C
8 3 (1.83%) Groovy
9 2 (1.22%) C++
9 2 (1.22%) Perl
9 2 (1.22%) VBScript
10 1 (0.61%) Scala
10 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (19.51%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.98%) Degree
4 17 (10.37%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (9.15%) CCNP
6 13 (7.93%) CCIE
7 10 (6.10%) CISSP
8 8 (4.88%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.66%) CISM
9 6 (3.66%) DV Cleared
10 4 (2.44%) AWS Certification
10 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (2.44%) CEH
10 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (2.44%) OSCP
10 4 (2.44%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.83%) CCNA
11 3 (1.83%) CWNA
11 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (10.37%) QA
2 4 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.44%) NIST
3 3 (1.83%) NCSC
3 3 (1.83%) SLA
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.22%) GRC
4 2 (1.22%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.22%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (12.80%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.76%) Docker
3 2 (1.22%) Firmware
3 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.61%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.61%) Squid
4 1 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.10%) Ansible
3 8 (4.88%) CASB
4 6 (3.66%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (3.05%) SCCM
6 4 (2.44%) Grafana
7 2 (1.22%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.61%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
8 1 (0.61%) Istio
8 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.61%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (18.29%) Cisco
1 30 (18.29%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.80%) Zscaler
3 17 (10.37%) Citrix
4 12 (7.32%) Oracle
5 11 (6.71%) Google
5 11 (6.71%) ServiceNow
6 10 (6.10%) Aruba
6 10 (6.10%) Splunk
7 8 (4.88%) F5
7 8 (4.88%) Fortinet
8 7 (4.27%) CrowdStrike
8 7 (4.27%) Ekahau
9 6 (3.66%) Apple
9 6 (3.66%) Palo Alto
10 5 (3.05%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.05%) Samsung
11 4 (2.44%) Netskope
12 3 (1.83%) Arista
12 3 (1.83%) Okta