Akamai Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Akamai Technologies, Inc
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +55
Contract jobs citing Akamai 5 0 20
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.66% - 2.33%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.52% - 6.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 20
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £313 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £545
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.15%
75th Percentile £350 - £669
90th Percentile - - £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £338 - £545
% change year-on-year - - -16.15%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Leeds

Akamai falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 328 206 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 43.16% 45.98% 34.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 133 209
10th Percentile £313 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £600
90th Percentile £622 £725 £675
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 1
10th Percentile - £28.86 -
25th Percentile - £33.73 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £65.71 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.31% +5.98% -7.46%
75th Percentile £74.00 £100.66 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -72.22%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Akamai relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Akamai job vacancy trend in Leeds

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Akamai.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Akamai

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GCP
2 2 (40.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Application Security Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Security Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Security Specialist
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cyber Defence
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform