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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 314 312
Rank change year-on-year -92 -2 +36
Contract jobs citing Internet 142 193 259
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.45% 0.69% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.20% 5.41% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 102 170
10th Percentile £375 £252 £205
25th Percentile £404 £389 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year - +4.84% -4.62%
75th Percentile £581 £585 £625
90th Percentile £653 £686 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 29
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.34 £12.97
25th Percentile £15.44 £23.10 £19.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +100.00% -7.61%
75th Percentile £16.50 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £24.98 £61.75 £65.76
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £22.88
% change year-on-year -28.89% -1.64% +15.07%

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 3,384 3,565 5,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.68% 12.80% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,196 2,083 3,164
10th Percentile £205 £220 £206
25th Percentile £356 £375 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £678 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 105 315
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £18.71
25th Percentile £20.04 £20.30 £23.81
Median hourly rate £36.75 £35.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -38.04% +50.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.98
90th Percentile £76.25 £72.75 £75.93
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year +2.86% -38.04% +68.63%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -68 58 £513 -2.84% 93
North of England -22 36 £538 +13.16% 115
North West -20 19 £700 +75.00% 49
Midlands -30 18 £563 +8.07% 50
West Midlands -26 16 £563 -5.90% 30
South East -21 12 £525 - 74
Yorkshire -49 11 £525 -12.50% 53
East of England -29 7 £450 -21.74% 36
North East -2 6 - - 23
South West -25 2 £400 -15.34% 27
East Midlands -25 1 - - 19
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 10 (7.04%) IIS
2 7 (4.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.82%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.34%) Chatbot
3 6 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.13%) Azure
2 14 (9.86%) Entra ID
3 13 (9.15%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (9.15%) SaaS
4 10 (7.04%) AWS
5 9 (6.34%) GCP
6 6 (4.23%) Power Platform
7 5 (3.52%) GitHub
8 3 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (2.11%) OCI
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.41%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.41%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.70%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.70%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.70%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 29 (20.42%) Firewall
2 24 (16.90%) DNS
3 21 (14.79%) Network Security
3 21 (14.79%) WAN
4 17 (11.97%) TCP/IP
5 16 (11.27%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (10.56%) LAN
7 12 (8.45%) VPN
8 10 (7.04%) SD-WAN
9 8 (5.63%) SMTP
9 8 (5.63%) Wireless
10 7 (4.93%) Intranet
10 7 (4.93%) MPLS
11 6 (4.23%) DKIM
11 6 (4.23%) DMARC
12 5 (3.52%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.52%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (3.52%) Unified Communications
13 4 (2.82%) DHCP
13 4 (2.82%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.45%) SQL Server
2 9 (6.34%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.82%) MySQL
3 4 (2.82%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.82%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.70%) Power BI
5 1 (0.70%) Tableau
5 1 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (4.93%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.82%) JIRA
2 4 (2.82%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.70%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.70%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.70%) GCC
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) MSI
3 1 (0.70%) NUnit
3 1 (0.70%) Selenium
3 1 (0.70%) SonarQube
General
1 55 (38.73%) Social Skills
2 18 (12.68%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.86%) Finance
4 10 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (6.34%) Telecoms
6 8 (5.63%) Banking
6 8 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.52%) Law
9 4 (2.82%) Legal
10 3 (2.11%) Local Government
11 2 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.41%) Marketing
11 2 (1.41%) Military
12 1 (0.70%) Back Office
12 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.70%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.70%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.70%) Publishing
12 1 (0.70%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (14.79%) Architect
2 16 (11.27%) Network Engineer
3 13 (9.15%) Analyst
3 13 (9.15%) Developer
3 13 (9.15%) Senior
4 10 (7.04%) Support Technician
5 9 (6.34%) C# Developer
6 7 (4.93%) C# WCF Developer
6 7 (4.93%) C# WPF Developer
6 7 (4.93%) Network Architect
6 7 (4.93%) WCF Developer
6 7 (4.93%) WPF Developer
7 6 (4.23%) IT Support
7 6 (4.23%) Sales Manager
7 6 (4.23%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (3.52%) IT Support Technician
8 5 (3.52%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (3.52%) Technical Support
8 5 (3.52%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (9.86%) .NET
2 12 (8.45%) .NET Framework
3 10 (7.04%) WPF
4 9 (6.34%) WinForms
5 7 (4.93%) WCF
6 4 (2.82%) NumPy
6 4 (2.82%) Pandas
6 4 (2.82%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.11%) CSS
7 3 (2.11%) HTML
7 3 (2.11%) OAuth
7 3 (2.11%) OpenID
7 3 (2.11%) SAML
8 2 (1.41%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.41%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.41%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.41%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.41%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.41%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.70%) .NET Compact Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.23%) Security Posture
2 6 (4.23%) Virtual Team
3 5 (3.52%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.52%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.52%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.52%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.52%) PKI
3 5 (3.52%) RIA
3 5 (3.52%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (3.52%) W3C
4 4 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.82%) Cybercrime
4 4 (2.82%) Online Banking
4 4 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.82%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.11%) IoT
5 3 (2.11%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 26 (18.31%) Windows
2 11 (7.75%) Linux
3 6 (4.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.41%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) Kali Linux
6 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.70%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.70%) Unix
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (14.08%) Agile
2 18 (12.68%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (11.97%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (11.27%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (9.86%) User Experience
6 13 (9.15%) Zero Trust
7 12 (8.45%) AI
7 12 (8.45%) Data Analysis
7 12 (8.45%) Validation
8 11 (7.75%) DevOps
8 11 (7.75%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (7.04%) Incident Response
9 10 (7.04%) Information Security
9 10 (7.04%) Migration
9 10 (7.04%) Network Architecture
9 10 (7.04%) SIEM
10 9 (6.34%) Change Management
10 9 (6.34%) Computer Science
10 9 (6.34%) Customer Service
10 9 (6.34%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (10.56%) SQL
2 13 (9.15%) C#
2 13 (9.15%) Python
3 11 (7.75%) T-SQL
4 10 (7.04%) PL/SQL
5 9 (6.34%) VB
5 9 (6.34%) VBA
6 8 (5.63%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.82%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.41%) Java
9 1 (0.70%) C
9 1 (0.70%) C++
9 1 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.70%) PHP
9 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (21.83%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.61%) Degree
3 18 (12.68%) SC Cleared
4 14 (9.86%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (7.75%) CCNP
6 5 (3.52%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.52%) OSCP
7 4 (2.82%) CCIE
7 4 (2.82%) CEH
7 4 (2.82%) CISSP
7 4 (2.82%) CompTIA CySA+
7 4 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.82%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.82%) GIAC
7 4 (2.82%) GREM
8 3 (2.11%) JNCIA
9 2 (1.41%) CCDA
9 2 (1.41%) CCDP
9 2 (1.41%) CCNA
9 2 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.15%) QA
2 7 (4.93%) WCAG
3 5 (3.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.41%) GDPR
4 2 (1.41%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
4 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (1.41%) ISO17020
4 2 (1.41%) NCSC
4 2 (1.41%) NIST
4 2 (1.41%) SLA
5 1 (0.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.70%) GRC
5 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (12.68%) Active Directory
2 8 (5.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.23%) Dovecot
3 6 (4.23%) Postfix
4 2 (1.41%) Docker
5 1 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (7.75%) SCCM
2 10 (7.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.23%) Terraform
4 4 (2.82%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.11%) Ansible
5 3 (2.11%) QRadar
5 3 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.41%) Grafana
6 2 (1.41%) Nessus
6 2 (1.41%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.41%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.41%) Puppet
7 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.70%) CASB
7 1 (0.70%) EnCase
7 1 (0.70%) FTK
7 1 (0.70%) Nmap
Vendors
1 29 (20.42%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.08%) Cisco
3 17 (11.97%) Zscaler
4 15 (10.56%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.45%) Oracle
6 10 (7.04%) Citrix
7 9 (6.34%) VMware
8 8 (5.63%) Google
8 8 (5.63%) Juniper
8 8 (5.63%) Red Hat
9 7 (4.93%) Aruba
9 7 (4.93%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.93%) ServiceNow
10 6 (4.23%) Broadcom
11 5 (3.52%) Meraki
12 4 (2.82%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.82%) Okta
13 3 (2.11%) F5
13 3 (2.11%) Splunk
14 2 (1.41%) Nokia