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 19 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 297 303
Rank change year-on-year -86 +6 +25
Contract jobs citing Internet 136 238 313
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.48% 0.75% 0.76%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.14% 6.14% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 132 219
10th Percentile £363 £258 £213
25th Percentile £404 £409 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £535 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £625
90th Percentile £646 £720 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £535 £475
% change year-on-year -6.54% +12.63% -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 25
10th Percentile £15.45 £21.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £23.63 £19.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £27.10 £21.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.96% +27.53% -0.65%
75th Percentile £44.75 £45.00 £27.50
90th Percentile £46.55 £51.45 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £23.80 £21.25
% change year-on-year -32.77% +12.00% +6.89%

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 3,286 3,874 5,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.68% 12.17% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,100 2,229 3,559
10th Percentile £214 £240 £220
25th Percentile £360 £384 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% - -1.96%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £613
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 145 311
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.79 £17.30
25th Percentile £20.00 £26.25 £23.00
Median hourly rate £33.39 £55.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -39.30% -2.64% +37.68%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £48.56 £56.45
% change year-on-year -29.98% -13.97% +42.63%

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025.

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 19 October 2025. 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 -39 72 £481 -10.05% 267
North of England -35 23 £500 +5.26% 193
Midlands -10 19 £442 +85.94% 93
West Midlands -3 16 £563 +136.84% 56
North West -11 15 £475 - 92
South East +2 11 £525 +5.00% 184
Yorkshire -30 8 £525 -8.70% 74
East Midlands -13 3 £435 - 35
South West -5 2 £440 -9.74% 42
East of England -26 2 £450 -20.00% 87
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 8 (5.88%) IIS
1 8 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.21%) Moodle
4 2 (1.47%) Confluence
5 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.74%) IBM HTTP Server
5 1 (0.74%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (5.15%) Chatbot
4 5 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.21%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Internet Expenses
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.74%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (19.12%) Azure
2 14 (10.29%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (8.82%) AWS
3 12 (8.82%) Entra ID
3 12 (8.82%) SaaS
4 7 (5.15%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.94%) GCP
6 3 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (2.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.21%) GitHub
6 3 (2.21%) IaaS
7 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.47%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.47%) PaaS
8 1 (0.74%) Akamai
8 1 (0.74%) Cloud9 IDE
8 1 (0.74%) Figma
8 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.85%) TCP/IP
2 25 (18.38%) Firewall
3 22 (16.18%) DNS
4 15 (11.03%) Network Security
5 14 (10.29%) WAN
6 13 (9.56%) SMTP
7 12 (8.82%) LAN
8 11 (8.09%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (7.35%) VPN
10 9 (6.62%) HTTP
11 8 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
12 6 (4.41%) DKIM
12 6 (4.41%) DMARC
12 6 (4.41%) SD-WAN
12 6 (4.41%) SSH
13 5 (3.68%) MPLS
13 5 (3.68%) Unified Communications
14 4 (2.94%) BGP
14 4 (2.94%) Intranet
14 4 (2.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 5 (3.68%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.21%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.47%) Big Data
5 2 (1.47%) DB2
5 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.47%) MySQL
5 2 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.47%) Power BI
5 2 (1.47%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.47%) Tableau
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.74%) Metadata
6 1 (0.74%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 8 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.68%) Git
3 4 (2.94%) JIRA
4 3 (2.21%) MSI
5 2 (1.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.47%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.47%) Gradle
5 2 (1.47%) Maven
5 2 (1.47%) PyCharm
5 2 (1.47%) Selenium
6 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.74%) Fiddler
6 1 (0.74%) GCC
6 1 (0.74%) GitLab
6 1 (0.74%) NUnit
6 1 (0.74%) Postman
6 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 59 (43.38%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (8.09%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.35%) Finance
5 7 (5.15%) Banking
6 5 (3.68%) Law
6 5 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.21%) Legal
9 2 (1.47%) Back Office
9 2 (1.47%) Local Government
9 2 (1.47%) Military
9 2 (1.47%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.74%) Marketing
10 1 (0.74%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (11.76%) Network Engineer
2 15 (11.03%) Architect
3 13 (9.56%) Developer
3 13 (9.56%) Support Technician
4 11 (8.09%) Analyst
4 11 (8.09%) Senior
5 10 (7.35%) Support Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) 1st Line Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
6 8 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Technician
6 8 (5.88%) 1st Line Technical Support
6 8 (5.88%) C# Developer
6 8 (5.88%) Junior
6 8 (5.88%) Junior Support Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Junior Technical Support Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Technical Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) Technical Support
6 8 (5.88%) Technical Support Engineer
6 8 (5.88%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.82%) .NET
2 11 (8.09%) .NET Framework
3 9 (6.62%) HTML
3 9 (6.62%) WPF
4 8 (5.88%) WCF
4 8 (5.88%) WinForms
5 6 (4.41%) LDAP
6 4 (2.94%) SAML
7 3 (2.21%) CSS
7 3 (2.21%) React
7 3 (2.21%) RESTful
8 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.47%) Node.js
8 2 (1.47%) NumPy
8 2 (1.47%) OAuth
8 2 (1.47%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.47%) OpenID
8 2 (1.47%) Pandas
8 2 (1.47%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.47%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.03%) Data Centre
2 9 (6.62%) Mobile App
3 8 (5.88%) Virtual Team
4 7 (5.15%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.41%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (4.41%) IoT
5 6 (4.41%) RIA
5 6 (4.41%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (4.41%) W3C
6 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.68%) Low-Code
7 4 (2.94%) Cybercrime
7 4 (2.94%) Online Banking
7 4 (2.94%) PKI
7 4 (2.94%) Security Posture
7 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (2.21%) Cyberattack
8 3 (2.21%) SCADA
8 3 (2.21%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.38%) Windows
2 15 (11.03%) Linux
3 7 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (3.68%) Unix
5 3 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.47%) Android
6 2 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.47%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.74%) AIX
7 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.74%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Embedded Compact
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (16.18%) Agile
2 19 (13.97%) User Experience
3 18 (13.24%) Cybersecurity
4 16 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (9.56%) Roadmaps
6 12 (8.82%) Data Analysis
6 12 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 12 (8.82%) Incident Response
7 11 (8.09%) Migration
7 11 (8.09%) SIEM
8 10 (7.35%) Computer Science
8 10 (7.35%) Design Patterns
8 10 (7.35%) Network Design
9 9 (6.62%) AI
9 9 (6.62%) ITIL
9 9 (6.62%) Microservices
9 9 (6.62%) Server Management
9 9 (6.62%) Software Engineering
10 8 (5.88%) DevOps
10 8 (5.88%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.50%) SQL
2 12 (8.82%) Python
3 11 (8.09%) C#
4 10 (7.35%) T-SQL
5 9 (6.62%) Java
5 9 (6.62%) PL/SQL
6 8 (5.88%) VB
6 8 (5.88%) VBA
7 6 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.21%) C
9 3 (2.21%) C++
10 2 (1.47%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.74%) Bash
11 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) Degree
2 25 (18.38%) Security Cleared
3 17 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (11.03%) SC Cleared
5 14 (10.29%) CCNP
6 6 (4.41%) CCNA
7 5 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (3.68%) JNCIA
8 4 (2.94%) CEH
8 4 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.94%) GIAC
8 4 (2.94%) GREM
8 4 (2.94%) OSCP
9 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
9 3 (2.21%) CCDA
9 3 (2.21%) CCDP
9 3 (2.21%) CISSP
9 3 (2.21%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CCNA CyberOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) QA
2 11 (8.09%) WCAG
3 9 (6.62%) Accessibility
4 4 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 4 (2.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
5 1 (0.74%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.74%) ISO17020
5 1 (0.74%) NCSC
5 1 (0.74%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (13.97%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.41%) Docker
3 6 (4.41%) Dovecot
3 6 (4.41%) Postfix
4 3 (2.21%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.74%) Firmware
6 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.74%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (9.56%) SCCM
2 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (4.41%) Terraform
4 5 (3.68%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.94%) Ansible
6 2 (1.47%) Grafana
6 2 (1.47%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.47%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.47%) Puppet
6 2 (1.47%) QRadar
6 2 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.74%) CASB
7 1 (0.74%) EnCase
7 1 (0.74%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.74%) FTK
7 1 (0.74%) Packer
7 1 (0.74%) yum
Vendors
1 33 (24.26%) Microsoft
2 22 (16.18%) Cisco
3 18 (13.24%) Zscaler
4 14 (10.29%) Palo Alto
5 11 (8.09%) Citrix
5 11 (8.09%) Oracle
6 9 (6.62%) Red Hat
7 8 (5.88%) VMware
8 7 (5.15%) Juniper
9 6 (4.41%) Broadcom
9 6 (4.41%) Fortinet
9 6 (4.41%) ServiceNow
10 5 (3.68%) Aruba
10 5 (3.68%) CheckPoint
10 5 (3.68%) Splunk
11 3 (2.21%) F5
11 3 (2.21%) Google
12 2 (1.47%) Dynatrace
12 2 (1.47%) IBM
12 2 (1.47%) Meraki