Akamai Contract Job Trends in the North West

Akamai Technologies, Inc
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 154 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Akamai 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.21% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £424 - -
25th Percentile £435 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £593 - -
England median daily rate £468 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -18.70% +9.52% -12.54%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 949 699 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 33.70% 33.77% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 501 697
10th Percentile £220 £238 £268
25th Percentile £359 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £551
90th Percentile £633 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 11 80
10th Percentile £16.20 £21.05 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.62 £22.61 £16.06
Median hourly rate £62.50 £28.75 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% +63.26% -64.47%
75th Percentile £77.50 £30.63 £30.81
90th Percentile £91.50 £77.50 £71.87
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +45.45% +28.69% -14.52%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in the North West

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in the North West over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the North West

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Cheshire - 4 £559 - 4
Manchester - 2 £433 - 1
Akamai
England

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (83.33%) Azure
1 5 (83.33%) GCP
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 5 (83.33%) HTTP
3 3 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 5 (83.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Defence
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Bot Management
1 5 (83.33%) Incident Response
1 5 (83.33%) OWASP
2 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 4 (66.67%) DDoS Mitigation
2 4 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (66.67%) SIEM
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (50.00%) Threat Analysis
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (33.33%) Security Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform