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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 461 370 332
Rank change year-on-year -91 -38 -26
Contract jobs citing Internet 159 136 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.35% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.77% 3.97% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 86 116
10th Percentile £225 £318 £228
25th Percentile £401 £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 £510 £469 £500
% change year-on-year +8.80% -6.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 24
10th Percentile £14.85 - £13.08
25th Percentile £16.93 - £14.19
Median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -32.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £29.16 £44.75 £31.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £49.75 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £14.20 £21.00
% change year-on-year +26.76% -32.38% -16.00%

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 4,218 3,423 4,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.41% 12.45% 12.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,566 2,130 2,651
10th Percentile £263 £235 £225
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% -0.45% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 163 306
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.26
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £18.09
Median hourly rate £26.72 £45.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.62% -10.89% +1.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £87.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.22 £48.75 £45.44
% change year-on-year -46.22% +7.28% -9.12%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -40 95 £500 +6.67% 136
North of England -65 23 £488 +2.63% 74
Midlands -56 19 £413 -9.99% 32
South East -74 18 £505 -3.81% 54
West Midlands -56 17 £413 -20.48% 16
North West -47 12 £401 -15.58% 43
Yorkshire -38 11 £525 - 24
South West -35 4 £175 -60.23% 21
East of England -18 2 - - 14
North East - 2 - - 9
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 (8.18%) IIS
2 3 (1.89%) Confluence
3 1 (0.63%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.63%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.63%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.26%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.26%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.26%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.63%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.63%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 2 (1.26%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.63%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.63%) Eikon
2 1 (0.63%) Maximo
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 39 (24.53%) Azure
2 24 (15.09%) AWS
3 17 (10.69%) GCP
4 14 (8.81%) Entra ID
4 14 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (5.66%) SaaS
6 7 (4.40%) GitHub
6 7 (4.40%) IaaS
7 6 (3.77%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (3.77%) PaaS
8 5 (3.14%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (3.14%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (1.89%) Azure AKS
9 3 (1.89%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.26%) AWS Control Tower
10 2 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.26%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 35 (22.01%) Firewall
2 30 (18.87%) Network Security
3 28 (17.61%) WAN
4 27 (16.98%) DNS
5 25 (15.72%) SD-WAN
6 23 (14.47%) VPN
7 19 (11.95%) LAN
8 17 (10.69%) DHCP
8 17 (10.69%) SSL
8 17 (10.69%) Wi-Fi
9 15 (9.43%) TCP/IP
9 15 (9.43%) Wireless
10 14 (8.81%) BGP
11 12 (7.55%) MPLS
11 12 (7.55%) OSPF
12 9 (5.66%) 5G
13 7 (4.40%) WLAN
14 6 (3.77%) HTTP
15 5 (3.14%) VLAN
16 4 (2.52%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.81%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.92%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.52%) GIS
4 3 (1.89%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.89%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.89%) Power BI
5 2 (1.26%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.26%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.55%) JIRA
2 4 (2.52%) Artifactory
2 4 (2.52%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.89%) GitLab
3 3 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.26%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.26%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.63%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.63%) Gatling
5 1 (0.63%) Git
5 1 (0.63%) Maven
5 1 (0.63%) SoapUI
General
1 39 (24.53%) Social Skills
2 21 (13.21%) Finance
3 16 (10.06%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.29%) Banking
5 8 (5.03%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (2.52%) Retail
8 3 (1.89%) Front Office
8 3 (1.89%) Legal
8 3 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.26%) Billing
9 2 (1.26%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.26%) Italian Language
9 2 (1.26%) Law
9 2 (1.26%) Marketing
9 2 (1.26%) Military
9 2 (1.26%) Publishing
10 1 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.63%) Norwegian Language
Job Titles
1 29 (18.24%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.09%) Senior
3 19 (11.95%) Support Engineer
4 14 (8.81%) Security Engineer
5 13 (8.18%) Architect
5 13 (8.18%) C# Developer
5 13 (8.18%) Developer
5 13 (8.18%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 11 (6.92%) IT Engineer
7 10 (6.29%) IT Support
7 10 (6.29%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (6.29%) Lead
8 9 (5.66%) Analyst
9 8 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
10 7 (4.40%) Junior
10 7 (4.40%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.77%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.77%) Technical Support Engineer
12 5 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.43%) .NET
2 13 (8.18%) .NET Framework
2 13 (8.18%) pytest
3 11 (6.92%) WinForms
3 11 (6.92%) WPF
4 10 (6.29%) 802.1X
5 4 (2.52%) SAML
6 3 (1.89%) Kafka
6 3 (1.89%) RxJava
6 3 (1.89%) Vert.x
6 3 (1.89%) Web Services
7 2 (1.26%) ADO.NET
7 2 (1.26%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 2 (1.26%) Azure Blueprints
7 2 (1.26%) JSON
7 2 (1.26%) REST
7 2 (1.26%) XML
7 2 (1.26%) XSL
7 2 (1.26%) XSLT
7 2 (1.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.92%) Data Centre
1 11 (6.92%) Security Posture
2 9 (5.66%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (5.03%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.40%) Cloud Security Posture
4 7 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (4.40%) IoT
5 6 (3.77%) Cloud Native
5 6 (3.77%) Operational Technology
6 5 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.14%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.89%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (1.89%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.26%) AI Agents
8 2 (1.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.26%) Graphic Design
8 2 (1.26%) PKI
8 2 (1.26%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.26%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 38 (23.90%) Windows
2 11 (6.92%) Mac OS
3 9 (5.66%) Linux
4 6 (3.77%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.14%) Android
5 5 (3.14%) Unix
6 4 (2.52%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.89%) Windows Server
8 2 (1.26%) Alpine Linux
8 2 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.50%) DevOps
2 27 (16.98%) CI/CD
3 23 (14.47%) AI
3 23 (14.47%) Validation
4 22 (13.84%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (12.58%) Disaster Recovery
6 19 (11.95%) Agile
6 19 (11.95%) Cloud Security
7 18 (11.32%) Generative AI
7 18 (11.32%) Software Engineering
7 18 (11.32%) Zero Trust
8 17 (10.69%) ITIL
9 16 (10.06%) Problem-Solving
10 15 (9.43%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (9.43%) LLM
10 15 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 15 (9.43%) Unit Testing
11 14 (8.81%) SIEM
12 13 (8.18%) Machine Learning
12 13 (8.18%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.61%) Python
2 20 (12.58%) SQL
3 14 (8.81%) C#
4 13 (8.18%) PL/SQL
4 13 (8.18%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.92%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.92%) VB
5 11 (6.92%) VBA
6 8 (5.03%) Java
7 7 (4.40%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.52%) Bicep
9 3 (1.89%) Bash
9 3 (1.89%) C
9 3 (1.89%) Groovy
10 2 (1.26%) C++
10 2 (1.26%) Perl
10 2 (1.26%) VBScript
11 1 (0.63%) Scala
11 1 (0.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 29 (18.24%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (10.06%) Cisco Certification
4 14 (8.81%) CCNP
4 14 (8.81%) Degree
5 13 (8.18%) CCIE
6 8 (5.03%) Azure Certification
6 8 (5.03%) CISSP
7 4 (2.52%) AWS Certification
7 4 (2.52%) CISM
7 4 (2.52%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.52%) OSCP
8 3 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.89%) CCNA
8 3 (1.89%) CREST Certified
8 3 (1.89%) CWDP
8 3 (1.89%) GPEN
8 3 (1.89%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.89%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.43%) QA
2 4 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.52%) NIST
3 3 (1.89%) NCSC
4 2 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.26%) GRC
4 2 (1.26%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.26%) SLA
4 2 (1.26%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.63%) GDPR
5 1 (0.63%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.63%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 22 (13.84%) Active Directory
2 15 (9.43%) Docker
3 5 (3.14%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.26%) Firmware
4 2 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.63%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.63%) Squid
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 16 (10.06%) Terraform
3 10 (6.29%) Ansible
4 8 (5.03%) CASB
5 7 (4.40%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (3.77%) FortiGate
7 5 (3.14%) SCCM
8 4 (2.52%) Grafana
9 2 (1.26%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.63%) AirWatch
10 1 (0.63%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.63%) Istio
10 1 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 31 (19.50%) Cisco
2 29 (18.24%) Microsoft
3 23 (14.47%) Zscaler
4 19 (11.95%) Citrix
5 13 (8.18%) Oracle
5 13 (8.18%) ServiceNow
6 12 (7.55%) Aruba
7 9 (5.66%) Fortinet
7 9 (5.66%) Google
7 9 (5.66%) Splunk
8 8 (5.03%) F5
9 7 (4.40%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (4.40%) Ekahau
10 6 (3.77%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.14%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.52%) Apple
12 4 (2.52%) Juniper
12 4 (2.52%) Netskope
13 3 (1.89%) Arista
13 3 (1.89%) Okta