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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 443 356 325
Rank change year-on-year -87 -31 +1
Contract jobs citing Internet 140 126 225
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.64% 3.94% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 77 116
10th Percentile £224 £258 £205
25th Percentile £402 £385 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -2.70% -11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £691 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £446 £463
% change year-on-year +12.16% -3.51% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 40
10th Percentile £17.85 - £12.10
25th Percentile £18.00 - £13.19
Median hourly rate £24.50 £14.20 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.54% -32.38% -19.23%
75th Percentile £39.44 £19.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £42.38 £44.75 £65.15
UK median hourly rate £21.25 £14.20 £23.65
% change year-on-year +49.65% -39.96% +5.11%

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 3,850 3,197 4,912
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.47% 13.10% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,412 1,981 2,966
10th Percentile £250 £220 £206
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year - +1.01% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £495 £488 £495
% change year-on-year +1.54% -1.52% -4.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 125 395
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £13.50
25th Percentile £21.33 £16.26 £16.93
Median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -18.75% +116.22%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £81.01 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.54 £36.57 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.85% -8.57% +112.54%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -52 64 £425 -4.76% 112
North of England -37 35 £550 +15.79% 59
Midlands -61 17 £413 -17.13% 43
North West -37 14 £550 +41.94% 23
West Midlands -50 14 £413 -17.13% 23
South East -64 14 £425 +6.25% 52
North East - 12 - - 11
Yorkshire -49 11 £575 -8.00% 27
East of England -29 7 - - 26
South West -36 2 £400 -23.08% 23
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 (9.29%) IIS
2 3 (2.14%) Confluence
3 1 (0.71%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.71%) Smallworld
Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.14%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.71%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.71%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (20.71%) Azure
2 13 (9.29%) AWS
3 12 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 11 (7.86%) GCP
5 10 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (5.71%) SaaS
7 6 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (4.29%) IaaS
7 6 (4.29%) PaaS
8 3 (2.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.14%) Canva
8 3 (2.14%) GitHub
8 3 (2.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.43%) AWS IoT
9 2 (1.43%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (1.43%) OCI
10 1 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (22.86%) WAN
2 28 (20.00%) Firewall
2 28 (20.00%) Network Security
2 28 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 24 (17.14%) DNS
4 23 (16.43%) LAN
5 17 (12.14%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (10.71%) DHCP
7 14 (10.00%) MPLS
7 14 (10.00%) SSL
7 14 (10.00%) VPN
7 14 (10.00%) Wireless
8 11 (7.86%) BGP
9 9 (6.43%) OSPF
9 9 (6.43%) TCP/IP
10 8 (5.71%) 5G
10 8 (5.71%) WLAN
11 6 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
11 6 (4.29%) VLAN
12 4 (2.86%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.71%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.71%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.71%) GIS
3 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (8.57%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Browser DevTools
3 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.71%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.71%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.71%) Gatling
4 1 (0.71%) Maven
4 1 (0.71%) SoapUI
General
1 28 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 18 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.43%) Finance
5 14 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 9 (6.43%) Banking
7 7 (5.00%) Marketing
8 4 (2.86%) Legal
9 3 (2.14%) Billing
9 3 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.14%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.43%) Law
10 2 (1.43%) Local Government
10 2 (1.43%) Military
11 1 (0.71%) Electronics
11 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 23 (16.43%) Network Engineer
2 15 (10.71%) Architect
3 13 (9.29%) Developer
4 12 (8.57%) C# Developer
5 11 (7.86%) Senior
6 10 (7.14%) Sales Manager
6 10 (7.14%) Security Engineer
7 9 (6.43%) Support Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Applications Developer
8 8 (5.71%) C# Application Developer
9 7 (5.00%) Analyst
9 7 (5.00%) IT Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) IT Support
9 7 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 7 (5.00%) Network Architect
10 6 (4.29%) Marketing Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 5 (3.57%) Technical Architect
12 4 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
12 4 (2.86%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) .NET
2 12 (8.57%) .NET Framework
2 12 (8.57%) WinForms
2 12 (8.57%) WPF
3 3 (2.14%) 802.1X
3 3 (2.14%) SAML
4 2 (1.43%) Web Services
5 1 (0.71%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.71%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.71%) CSS
5 1 (0.71%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.71%) HTML
5 1 (0.71%) Kafka
5 1 (0.71%) Playwright
5 1 (0.71%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 7 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (5.00%) IoT
3 7 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (3.57%) Social Media
6 4 (2.86%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.14%) Graphic Design
7 3 (2.14%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.14%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.14%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (2.14%) Wiki
8 2 (1.43%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.43%) PKI
8 2 (1.43%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 28 (20.00%) Windows
2 7 (5.00%) Mac OS
3 5 (3.57%) Android
4 4 (2.86%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.14%) Linux
5 3 (2.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.43%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.43%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
2 22 (15.71%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (9.29%) Change Management
4 13 (9.29%) ITIL
4 13 (9.29%) Project Management
4 13 (9.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 12 (8.57%) Data Analysis
5 12 (8.57%) Roadmaps
5 12 (8.57%) User Experience
6 11 (7.86%) Cloud Security
6 11 (7.86%) DevOps
6 11 (7.86%) Zero Trust
7 10 (7.14%) Affiliate Network
7 10 (7.14%) Agile
8 9 (6.43%) Migration
9 8 (5.71%) Network Architecture
9 8 (5.71%) Runbook
9 8 (5.71%) Service Delivery
9 8 (5.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.71%) SQL
2 13 (9.29%) C#
3 12 (8.57%) PL/SQL
3 12 (8.57%) T-SQL
3 12 (8.57%) VB
3 12 (8.57%) VBA
4 6 (4.29%) Python
5 5 (3.57%) Java
6 4 (2.86%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.14%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.43%) Bicep
8 2 (1.43%) C
8 2 (1.43%) C++
9 1 (0.71%) PHP
9 1 (0.71%) Scala
9 1 (0.71%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (7.86%) CCIE
4 11 (7.86%) CCNP
5 8 (5.71%) Degree
6 7 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.14%) CCNA
7 3 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (1.43%) BC Cleared
8 2 (1.43%) CCIE Wireless
8 2 (1.43%) CWDP
8 2 (1.43%) CWNA
8 2 (1.43%) CWNE
8 2 (1.43%) CWSP
8 2 (1.43%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.43%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.71%) CCSAM
9 1 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (2.14%) NCSC
3 2 (1.43%) GRC
3 2 (1.43%) SLA
4 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.43%) Docker
3 2 (1.43%) Firmware
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.71%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.71%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (5.00%) CASB
2 6 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (3.57%) Terraform
4 3 (2.14%) Ansible
4 3 (2.14%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.43%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.43%) SCCM
6 1 (0.71%) Grafana
6 1 (0.71%) HAProxy
6 1 (0.71%) logstash
6 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.71%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.71%) Puppet
6 1 (0.71%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (23.57%) Cisco
2 19 (13.57%) Zscaler
3 18 (12.86%) Microsoft
4 17 (12.14%) Citrix
5 14 (10.00%) ServiceNow
6 13 (9.29%) Aruba
7 12 (8.57%) Oracle
8 10 (7.14%) Palo Alto
9 7 (5.00%) F5
9 7 (5.00%) Google
9 7 (5.00%) Juniper
9 7 (5.00%) Meraki
10 6 (4.29%) Ekahau
11 5 (3.57%) CheckPoint
11 5 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
11 5 (3.57%) Fortinet
12 4 (2.86%) Netskope
13 3 (2.14%) Broadcom
13 3 (2.14%) BT
13 3 (2.14%) Salesforce