Akamai Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Akamai Technologies, Inc
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 100 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Akamai 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.14% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £416 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £555 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 566 424 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 40.46% 41.49% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 319 484
10th Percentile £323 £325 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £572 £575 £550
90th Percentile £638 £690 £650
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £488
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 1 19
10th Percentile £20.59 - £17.43
25th Percentile £45.00 - £20.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £29.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.62% +11.54% -60.00%
75th Percentile £81.00 - £72.50
90th Percentile £95.00 - £79.50
North West median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.61
% change year-on-year +117.39% +63.26% -64.47%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in Manchester

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Akamai

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Bot Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform