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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 375 320
Rank change year-on-year -101 -55 -15
Contract jobs citing Internet 165 140 212
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.36% 0.50% 0.64%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.81% 4.14% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 90 122
10th Percentile £247 £332 £213
25th Percentile £404 £389 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £584 £623
90th Percentile £670 £653 £775
UK median daily rate £535 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +15.68% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 20
10th Percentile £11.46 - £18.05
25th Percentile £14.85 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £14.20 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -40.34% +25.26%
75th Percentile £33.56 £44.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £42.38 £46.55 £51.75
UK median hourly rate £17.75 £14.20 £22.50
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 4,330 3,385 4,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.43% 12.20% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,612 2,101 2,503
10th Percentile £263 £250 £243
25th Percentile £401 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -2.09% +0.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £614
90th Percentile £680 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.57% -3.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 344 168 273
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.18
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £21.37
Median hourly rate £28.52 £43.00 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -33.67% -21.64% -2.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £84.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £26.14 £46.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year -43.48% -7.50% -11.49%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -67 98 £500 +6.67% 79
North of England -53 23 £488 -2.50% 58
Midlands -44 20 £413 -6.59% 38
West Midlands -48 19 £413 -13.16% 17
South East -69 19 £510 -0.49% 68
Yorkshire -31 12 £525 - 26
North West -44 11 £401 -15.58% 25
South West -37 4 £175 -60.23% 25
East of England -17 3 £535 +29.70% 20
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 (7.88%) IIS
2 3 (1.82%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.61%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.21%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.61%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.61%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Bloomberg TOMS
1 2 (1.21%) Eikon
2 1 (0.61%) Maximo
2 1 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 37 (22.42%) Azure
2 26 (15.76%) AWS
3 20 (12.12%) GCP
4 13 (7.88%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (6.06%) SaaS
6 9 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (4.24%) GitHub
7 7 (4.24%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 6 (3.64%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (3.64%) IaaS
9 5 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (3.03%) PaaS
10 4 (2.42%) Cloud Functions
10 4 (2.42%) Google App Engine
10 4 (2.42%) Google Compute Engine
11 3 (1.82%) Azure AKS
11 3 (1.82%) Power Platform
12 2 (1.21%) AWS IoT
12 2 (1.21%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 34 (20.61%) Firewall
2 29 (17.58%) Network Security
3 28 (16.97%) WAN
4 23 (13.94%) DNS
4 23 (13.94%) SD-WAN
5 22 (13.33%) VPN
6 19 (11.52%) LAN
7 17 (10.30%) SSL
8 16 (9.70%) BGP
8 16 (9.70%) TCP/IP
8 16 (9.70%) Wireless
9 15 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (7.88%) MPLS
10 13 (7.88%) OSPF
11 12 (7.27%) DHCP
12 9 (5.45%) 5G
13 7 (4.24%) HTTP
13 7 (4.24%) WLAN
14 5 (3.03%) Multicast
14 5 (3.03%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.48%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.42%) GIS
4 3 (1.82%) Couchbase
4 3 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (1.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.82%) Power BI
5 2 (1.21%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.21%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.61%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (7.27%) JIRA
2 4 (2.42%) Artifactory
2 4 (2.42%) Browser DevTools
3 3 (1.82%) GitLab
3 3 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.21%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.21%) 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 41 (24.85%) Social Skills
2 24 (14.55%) Finance
3 14 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.85%) Banking
6 7 (4.24%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (3.03%) Retail
8 4 (2.42%) Front Office
8 4 (2.42%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.82%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.82%) Legal
10 2 (1.21%) Billing
10 2 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.21%) Military
10 2 (1.21%) Publishing
11 1 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (16.36%) Network Engineer
2 24 (14.55%) Senior
3 20 (12.12%) Support Engineer
4 15 (9.09%) Architect
4 15 (9.09%) Security Engineer
5 14 (8.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 13 (7.88%) Analyst
6 13 (7.88%) C# Developer
6 13 (7.88%) Developer
7 12 (7.27%) Cloud Engineer
8 11 (6.67%) IT Engineer
8 11 (6.67%) Lead
9 8 (4.85%) IT Support
9 8 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Junior
11 6 (3.64%) Network Security Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Support
11 6 (3.64%) Technical Support Engineer
12 5 (3.03%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (10.91%) Terraform
2 15 (9.09%) .NET
3 14 (8.48%) pytest
4 13 (7.88%) .NET Framework
5 11 (6.67%) WinForms
5 11 (6.67%) WPF
6 10 (6.06%) 802.1X
7 4 (2.42%) SAML
8 3 (1.82%) Kafka
8 3 (1.82%) REST
8 3 (1.82%) RxJava
8 3 (1.82%) Vert.x
8 3 (1.82%) Web Services
9 2 (1.21%) ASP.NET Web Forms
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Blueprints
9 2 (1.21%) JSON
9 2 (1.21%) XML
9 2 (1.21%) XSL
9 2 (1.21%) XSLT
9 2 (1.21%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 11 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 8 (4.85%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (4.24%) IoT
4 6 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 6 (3.64%) Cloud Security Posture
4 6 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.64%) Operational Technology
5 5 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.42%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.82%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.21%) CMDB
8 2 (1.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (1.21%) PKI
8 2 (1.21%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.21%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 39 (23.64%) Windows
2 13 (7.88%) Mac OS
3 9 (5.45%) Linux
4 8 (4.85%) Windows 10
5 5 (3.03%) Android
5 5 (3.03%) Unix
6 4 (2.42%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.21%) Alpine Linux
7 2 (1.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.21%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.21%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (19.39%) DevOps
2 30 (18.18%) AI
2 30 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 25 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
4 22 (13.33%) Generative AI
4 22 (13.33%) Validation
5 21 (12.73%) Agile
5 21 (12.73%) Cloud Security
6 20 (12.12%) Disaster Recovery
7 19 (11.52%) ITIL
7 19 (11.52%) Software Engineering
7 19 (11.52%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 18 (10.91%) Zero Trust
9 16 (9.70%) LLM
9 16 (9.70%) Machine Learning
9 16 (9.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 16 (9.70%) Unit Testing
10 15 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (8.48%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 31 (18.79%) Python
2 21 (12.73%) SQL
3 14 (8.48%) C#
4 13 (7.88%) PL/SQL
4 13 (7.88%) PowerShell
5 11 (6.67%) T-SQL
5 11 (6.67%) VB
5 11 (6.67%) VBA
6 9 (5.45%) JavaScript
7 8 (4.85%) Java
8 4 (2.42%) Bicep
9 3 (1.82%) Bash
9 3 (1.82%) C
9 3 (1.82%) Groovy
10 2 (1.21%) C++
10 2 (1.21%) Perl
10 2 (1.21%) VBScript
11 1 (0.61%) Scala
11 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 32 (19.39%) Security Cleared
2 25 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 18 (10.91%) Degree
4 17 (10.30%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (9.09%) CCNP
6 13 (7.88%) CCIE
7 10 (6.06%) CISSP
8 8 (4.85%) Azure Certification
9 6 (3.64%) CISM
9 6 (3.64%) DV Cleared
10 5 (3.03%) AWS Certification
11 4 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (2.42%) CEH
11 4 (2.42%) OSCP
11 4 (2.42%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.82%) CCNA
12 3 (1.82%) CWNA
12 3 (1.82%) CWSP
12 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (10.91%) QA
2 4 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.42%) NIST
3 3 (1.82%) NCSC
3 3 (1.82%) SLA
4 2 (1.21%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.21%) GRC
4 2 (1.21%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.21%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.61%) GDPR
5 1 (0.61%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.61%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 19 (11.52%) Active Directory
2 16 (9.70%) Docker
3 2 (1.21%) Firmware
3 2 (1.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.61%) Hyper-V
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 (15.76%) Kubernetes
2 11 (6.67%) Ansible
3 8 (4.85%) CASB
4 6 (3.64%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.64%) SCCM
4 6 (3.64%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (2.42%) Grafana
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.61%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.61%) HAProxy
7 1 (0.61%) Istio
7 1 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 31 (18.79%) Cisco
2 30 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 21 (12.73%) Zscaler
4 19 (11.52%) Citrix
5 14 (8.48%) Oracle
6 11 (6.67%) Google
6 11 (6.67%) ServiceNow
7 10 (6.06%) Aruba
7 10 (6.06%) Splunk
8 8 (4.85%) F5
8 8 (4.85%) Fortinet
9 7 (4.24%) CrowdStrike
9 7 (4.24%) Ekahau
10 6 (3.64%) Apple
10 6 (3.64%) Palo Alto
11 5 (3.03%) Bloomberg
11 5 (3.03%) CheckPoint
11 5 (3.03%) Samsung
12 4 (2.42%) Netskope
13 3 (1.82%) Okta