Akamai Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Akamai Technologies, Inc
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 - 167
Rank change year-on-year - - +71
Contract jobs citing Akamai 7 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.15% - 0.36%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% - 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 14
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £563 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.04%
75th Percentile - - £673
90th Percentile - - £702
England median daily rate £575 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% -5.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,810 1,131 1,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.58% 33.84% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,305 752 1,161
10th Percentile £220 £275 £260
25th Percentile £360 £390 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £625 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 20 52
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.58
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.40 £17.72
Median hourly rate £43.84 £35.00 £29.31
Median % change year-on-year +25.26% +19.43% +17.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.00 £97.18 £72.58
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.67% -0.32%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in the North of England

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Akamai.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Akamai

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the North of England

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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
Yorkshire - 7 £700 - 6
Akamai
England

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Cloudflare
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 3 (42.86%) HTTPS
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JSON
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Application Security
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Detection
4 3 (42.86%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (42.86%) OWASP
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CEH
1 3 (42.86%) GIAC
1 3 (42.86%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (57.14%) Imperva
3 3 (42.86%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco