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

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 311 310
Rank change year-on-year -94 -1 +35
Contract jobs citing Internet 136 183 264
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.68% 0.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.03% 5.33% 5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 98 164
10th Percentile £364 £217 £205
25th Percentile £404 £385 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £481
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £603
90th Percentile £695 £688 £708
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 36
10th Percentile £15.25 £20.34 £11.71
25th Percentile £15.50 £23.10 £19.99
Median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.35% +77.08% +6.67%
75th Percentile £16.50 £43.75 £59.06
90th Percentile £38.15 £61.75 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £33.35 £24.75
% change year-on-year -52.02% +34.75% +24.50%

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 3,373 3,435 5,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.39% 12.82% 14.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,188 1,986 3,202
10th Percentile £204 £220 £206
25th Percentile £353 £365 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £680 £687 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 155 106 348
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.00 £21.46 £23.53
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +150.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.25
90th Percentile £74.26 £70.63 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% -36.36% +161.90%

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 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 23 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 23 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 -73 55 £463 -11.90% 89
North of England -32 39 £538 +13.16% 105
North West -17 19 £625 +177.78% 43
Midlands -45 14 £409 -21.47% 45
West Midlands -39 12 £409 -31.62% 15
Yorkshire -46 11 £344 -42.71% 48
North East -4 9 - - 25
South East -30 9 £413 -17.50% 101
East of England -33 7 £450 -21.74% 60
South West -21 2 £400 -23.08% 42
East Midlands -32 1 - - 30
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 11 (8.09%) IIS
2 5 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.47%) Confluence
3 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (6.62%) Chatbot
3 6 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 30 (22.06%) Azure
2 12 (8.82%) Entra ID
3 11 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.35%) AWS
5 9 (6.62%) GCP
6 7 (5.15%) SaaS
7 6 (4.41%) Power Platform
8 5 (3.68%) GitHub
9 3 (2.21%) OCI
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (0.74%) IaaS
10 1 (0.74%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.74%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (20.59%) Firewall
2 24 (17.65%) WAN
3 21 (15.44%) Network Security
4 18 (13.24%) DNS
4 18 (13.24%) Wi-Fi
5 17 (12.50%) LAN
6 16 (11.76%) TCP/IP
7 13 (9.56%) SD-WAN
8 12 (8.82%) VPN
9 10 (7.35%) Wireless
10 7 (5.15%) MPLS
11 6 (4.41%) Intranet
11 6 (4.41%) WLAN
12 5 (3.68%) BGP
12 5 (3.68%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (3.68%) DHCP
12 5 (3.68%) Intrusion Detection
12 5 (3.68%) Unified Communications
13 4 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (2.94%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.35%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.94%) MySQL
3 4 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 4 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 4 (2.94%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.74%) Power BI
4 1 (0.74%) Tableau
4 1 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (4.41%) Jenkins
2 4 (2.94%) JIRA
2 4 (2.94%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.74%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.74%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.74%) GCC
3 1 (0.74%) GitLab
3 1 (0.74%) MSI
3 1 (0.74%) NUnit
3 1 (0.74%) SonarQube
General
1 47 (34.56%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.03%) Public Sector
3 14 (10.29%) Finance
4 12 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (8.82%) Telecoms
5 9 (6.62%) Banking
6 8 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (4.41%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (3.68%) Law
8 5 (3.68%) Legal
8 5 (3.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.47%) Local Government
9 2 (1.47%) Military
10 1 (0.74%) Electronics
10 1 (0.74%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.74%) Publishing
10 1 (0.74%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 18 (13.24%) Architect
2 15 (11.03%) Network Engineer
3 14 (10.29%) Developer
4 13 (9.56%) Senior
5 11 (8.09%) Analyst
6 10 (7.35%) C# Developer
6 10 (7.35%) Support Technician
7 9 (6.62%) Sales Manager
8 8 (5.88%) Network Architect
9 6 (4.41%) C# WCF Developer
9 6 (4.41%) C# WPF Developer
9 6 (4.41%) WCF Developer
9 6 (4.41%) WPF Developer
10 5 (3.68%) 1st Line Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) 1st Line Technical Support
10 5 (3.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Junior Support Technician
10 5 (3.68%) Junior Technical Engineer
10 5 (3.68%) Junior Technical Support
10 5 (3.68%) Service Desk Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.29%) .NET
2 13 (9.56%) .NET Framework
3 11 (8.09%) WPF
4 10 (7.35%) WinForms
5 6 (4.41%) WCF
6 4 (2.94%) NumPy
6 4 (2.94%) Pandas
6 4 (2.94%) TensorFlow
7 3 (2.21%) AngularJS
7 3 (2.21%) CSS
7 3 (2.21%) HTML
7 3 (2.21%) OAuth
7 3 (2.21%) OpenID
7 3 (2.21%) SAML
8 2 (1.47%) .NET Core
8 2 (1.47%) ASP.NET
8 2 (1.47%) OAuth2
8 2 (1.47%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
9 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 18 (13.24%) Data Centre
2 6 (4.41%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (4.41%) Security Posture
2 6 (4.41%) Virtual Team
3 5 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (3.68%) Low-Code
3 5 (3.68%) Mobile App
3 5 (3.68%) PKI
3 5 (3.68%) RIA
3 5 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (3.68%) W3C
4 4 (2.94%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.94%) Cybercrime
4 4 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (2.94%) Online Banking
4 4 (2.94%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.21%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.38%) Windows
2 4 (2.94%) Linux
3 2 (1.47%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.47%) Windows Server
3 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.74%) Android
4 1 (0.74%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.74%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.74%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (13.97%) Agile
1 19 (13.97%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (10.29%) User Experience
4 14 (10.29%) Zero Trust
5 12 (8.82%) AI
5 12 (8.82%) Data Analysis
5 12 (8.82%) Migration
6 11 (8.09%) Network Architecture
6 11 (8.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (7.35%) Change Management
7 10 (7.35%) DevOps
7 10 (7.35%) Incident Response
7 10 (7.35%) Information Security
7 10 (7.35%) SIEM
8 9 (6.62%) Computer Science
8 9 (6.62%) Conversational UI
8 9 (6.62%) Customer Service
8 9 (6.62%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.03%) SQL
2 14 (10.29%) C#
3 12 (8.82%) Python
3 12 (8.82%) T-SQL
4 11 (8.09%) PL/SQL
5 10 (7.35%) VB
5 10 (7.35%) VBA
6 7 (5.15%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.94%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.47%) Java
9 1 (0.74%) C
9 1 (0.74%) C++
9 1 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.74%) PHP
9 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.74%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) Degree
2 25 (18.38%) Security Cleared
3 15 (11.03%) Cisco Certification
4 12 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 11 (8.09%) CCNP
6 7 (5.15%) CCIE
7 5 (3.68%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.68%) OSCP
8 4 (2.94%) CEH
8 4 (2.94%) CISSP
8 4 (2.94%) CompTIA CySA+
8 4 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.94%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.94%) GIAC
8 4 (2.94%) GREM
9 2 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.74%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CCSP
10 1 (0.74%) Check Point Certification
10 1 (0.74%) CWSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.56%) QA
2 7 (5.15%) WCAG
3 5 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.47%) GDPR
4 2 (1.47%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
4 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (1.47%) ISO17020
4 2 (1.47%) NCSC
4 2 (1.47%) NIST
4 2 (1.47%) SLA
5 1 (0.74%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.74%) GRC
5 1 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.74%) Docker
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.74%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (6.62%) SCCM
3 5 (3.68%) Terraform
4 3 (2.21%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.21%) QRadar
4 3 (2.21%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.47%) Ansible
5 2 (1.47%) Nessus
6 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.74%) CASB
6 1 (0.74%) EnCase
6 1 (0.74%) FTK
6 1 (0.74%) Grafana
6 1 (0.74%) Nmap
6 1 (0.74%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.74%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.74%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (14.71%) Cisco
3 16 (11.76%) Zscaler
4 15 (11.03%) Palo Alto
5 12 (8.82%) Oracle
6 11 (8.09%) Citrix
7 9 (6.62%) Aruba
7 9 (6.62%) Google
8 8 (5.88%) ServiceNow
9 7 (5.15%) Fortinet
10 5 (3.68%) Juniper
10 5 (3.68%) Meraki
11 4 (2.94%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.94%) Okta
12 3 (2.21%) F5
12 3 (2.21%) SAP
12 3 (2.21%) Splunk
12 3 (2.21%) VMware
13 2 (1.47%) NVIDIA
13 2 (1.47%) SolarWinds