Internet Contracts in the North of England

Internet
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 154 175 186
Rank change year-on-year +21 +11 +13
Contract jobs citing Internet 12 10 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.36% 0.21% 0.58%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 1.67% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 22
10th Percentile - £194 £214
25th Percentile £208 £252 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £300 £488
Median % change year-on-year +58.33% -38.46% +20.37%
75th Percentile £488 £338 £544
90th Percentile £605 £373 £695
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.31
25th Percentile - - £22.54
Median hourly rate - - £27.50
75th Percentile - - £31.88
90th Percentile - - £33.75
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
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internet in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Internet in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internet in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the North of England

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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 Internet within the North of England 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
North West +22 9 £388 +47.62% 52
Yorkshire +5 3 £625 +92.31% 33
Internet
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (58.33%) Firewall
1 7 (58.33%) WAN
2 6 (50.00%) LAN
2 6 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (50.00%) Wireless
3 4 (33.33%) Network Security
4 3 (25.00%) DWDM
4 3 (25.00%) iSCSI
4 3 (25.00%) MPLS
4 3 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (25.00%) VPN
5 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
5 2 (16.67%) SD-WAN
5 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (8.33%) Multicast
6 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
6 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
6 1 (8.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
1 2 (16.67%) Legal
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Support
3 2 (16.67%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (8.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Voice Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Voice Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) IVR
2 2 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (8.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (8.33%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 3 (25.00%) Android
2 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 4 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 3 (25.00%) BCP
3 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (25.00%) Information Security
3 3 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Experience
4 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Network Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Network Design
4 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
5 1 (8.33%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
5 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 1 (8.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Perl
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCIE
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (25.00%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (8.33%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) CASB
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Cisco
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Apple
3 2 (16.67%) Aruba
3 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 2 (16.67%) HP
3 2 (16.67%) Zscaler
4 1 (8.33%) Arista
4 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
4 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
4 1 (8.33%) Citrix
4 1 (8.33%) McAfee
4 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk