Internet Contracts in London

Internet
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 256 288
Rank change year-on-year -33 +32 +1
Contract jobs citing Internet 64 136 216
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.51% 0.76% 0.80%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.87% 7.91% 8.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 71 159
10th Percentile £375 £205 £325
25th Percentile £385 £336 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £600 £606 £650
90th Percentile £653 £750 £700
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 24 5
10th Percentile £41.75 £16.13 £35.62
25th Percentile £42.50 £20.50 £36.54
Median hourly rate £45.00 £31.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.16% -32.61% +31.43%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £48.25 £58.75 £69.00
England median hourly rate £14.20 £21.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -32.38% -22.94% -0.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Internet in London

Internet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internet in London.

Daily rate trend for Internet in London

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in London

Internet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internet in London.

Hourly rate trend for Internet in London

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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 Internet within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London -5 5 £549 +12.51% 12
West London +13 2 £388 - 8
South London - 2 £600 - 1
East London +10 1 £480 -11.11% 2
Internet
England

Internet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (17.19%) IIS
2 3 (4.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.56%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (18.75%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) Azure
3 7 (10.94%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (10.94%) Amazon EKS
3 7 (10.94%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (6.25%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (3.13%) Cloud9 IDE
6 2 (3.13%) Mimecast
6 2 (3.13%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.56%) Figma
7 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Firewall
2 15 (23.44%) DNS
3 14 (21.88%) WAN
4 13 (20.31%) VPN
5 12 (18.75%) Wireless
6 10 (15.63%) BGP
6 10 (15.63%) LAN
7 9 (14.06%) MPLS
7 9 (14.06%) OSPF
7 9 (14.06%) TCP/IP
8 7 (10.94%) HTTP
8 7 (10.94%) IPsec
8 7 (10.94%) Network Security
9 5 (7.81%) DHCP
9 5 (7.81%) EIGRP
9 5 (7.81%) Multicast
10 4 (6.25%) VLAN
10 4 (6.25%) VoIP
11 3 (4.69%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (4.69%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (17.19%) Oracle Database
1 11 (17.19%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon Aurora
2 7 (10.94%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (9.38%) FileMaker
4 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.56%) Metadata
4 1 (1.56%) Power BI
4 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
2 2 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Appium
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
General
1 16 (25.00%) Finance
2 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Marketing
5 5 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Legal
7 3 (4.69%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
8 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Electronics
8 2 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Automotive
9 1 (1.56%) Dutch Language
9 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Local Government
9 1 (1.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 12 (18.75%) Developer
1 12 (18.75%) Network Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) C# Developer
2 11 (17.19%) C# WCF Developer
2 11 (17.19%) C# WPF Developer
2 11 (17.19%) WCF Developer
2 11 (17.19%) WPF Developer
3 9 (14.06%) Support Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps
7 5 (7.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Network Security Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Security Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.19%) .NET
1 11 (17.19%) .NET Framework
1 11 (17.19%) WCF
1 11 (17.19%) WinForms
1 11 (17.19%) WPF
2 7 (10.94%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (3.13%) 802.1X
3 2 (3.13%) Symfony
4 1 (1.56%) CSS
4 1 (1.56%) HTML
4 1 (1.56%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.56%) REST
4 1 (1.56%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.81%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.69%) IoT
3 2 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.13%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.13%) NHS
3 2 (3.13%) Social Media
4 1 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (1.56%) Life Science
4 1 (1.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.00%) Windows
2 10 (15.63%) Apple iOS
2 10 (15.63%) Linux
3 5 (7.81%) Mac OS X
4 3 (4.69%) Android
4 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.88%) Data Analysis
2 13 (20.31%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.06%) Deployment Automation
4 9 (14.06%) DevOps
4 9 (14.06%) Visual Effects
5 7 (10.94%) Configuration Management
5 7 (10.94%) Containerisation
5 7 (10.94%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (10.94%) Cost Management
5 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (9.38%) Migration
7 5 (7.81%) Computer Science
7 5 (7.81%) Network Design
7 5 (7.81%) Storage Management
7 5 (7.81%) Time Management
8 4 (6.25%) High Availability
8 4 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (6.25%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) SQL
2 11 (17.19%) C#
2 11 (17.19%) PL/SQL
2 11 (17.19%) T-SQL
2 11 (17.19%) VB
2 11 (17.19%) VBA
3 9 (14.06%) Python
4 3 (4.69%) Perl
4 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.56%) Bash
5 1 (1.56%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (17.19%) Degree
3 8 (12.50%) CCNP
4 7 (10.94%) CCNA
4 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.25%) CCIE
5 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.13%) JNCIA
7 1 (1.56%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.19%) QA
2 5 (7.81%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) DICOM
3 2 (3.13%) HL7
4 1 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (10.94%) Docker
2 4 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (18.75%) Ansible
2 11 (17.19%) Terraform
3 7 (10.94%) Grafana
3 7 (10.94%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.94%) Progress Chef
3 7 (10.94%) Prometheus
3 7 (10.94%) Puppet
4 2 (3.13%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.13%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Cisco
2 14 (21.88%) Citrix
3 13 (20.31%) Oracle
4 9 (14.06%) Fortinet
5 7 (10.94%) CheckPoint
5 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
6 6 (9.38%) Arista
6 6 (9.38%) Meraki
6 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
7 5 (7.81%) Aruba
7 5 (7.81%) F5
8 4 (6.25%) Juniper
8 4 (6.25%) Microsoft
9 3 (4.69%) Infoblox
9 3 (4.69%) Zscaler
10 2 (3.13%) Extreme Networks
10 2 (3.13%) Instagram
10 2 (3.13%) Proofpoint
10 2 (3.13%) Pure Storage
10 2 (3.13%) SolarWinds