Akamai Contract Job Trends in London

Akamai Technologies, Inc
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 346 385
Rank change year-on-year -53 +39 +100
Contract jobs citing Akamai 8 9 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.046% 0.071% 0.061%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.11% 0.17% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £377 £520 £212
25th Percentile £429 £538 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +57.14% -42.88%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £575
90th Percentile £650 £675 £653
England median daily rate £431 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -21.64% +6.80% -13.26%

All Cloud Computing Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,505 5,404 6,721
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.34% 42.67% 37.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,164 3,747 4,931
10th Percentile £350 £356 £331
25th Percentile £425 £438 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 52 77
10th Percentile £18.71 £22.27 £17.47
25th Percentile £25.42 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%
75th Percentile £52.56 £54.13 £40.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.13 £61.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +69.81% +27.59% -24.47%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in London

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Akamai

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in London over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in London

Akamai
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Akamai.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Akamai

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the London region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
West London - 1 £300 -
Central London - 1 £430 -
Akamai
England

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (12.50%) CMS
1 1 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (50.00%) Fastly
3 4 (50.00%) Route 53
3 4 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
5 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (25.00%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 4 (50.00%) GitLab
1 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Senior
1 2 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Spring
2 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (12.50%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (12.50%) Media Streaming
3 1 (12.50%) Over-the-Top Content
3 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
1 7 (87.50%) Observability
2 6 (75.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (37.50%) Microservices
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
6 2 (25.00%) DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) Edge Computing
6 2 (25.00%) Identity Management
6 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 1 (12.50%) Agile
7 1 (12.50%) Content Management
7 1 (12.50%) DRM
7 1 (12.50%) Event-Driven
7 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
7 1 (12.50%) TDD
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Bash
1 4 (50.00%) Go
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
3 4 (50.00%) Ansible
3 4 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Splunk
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (12.50%) Sitecore