Internet Contracts in the North West

Internet
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 123 131
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 +50
Contract jobs citing Internet 9 10 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.41% 0.37% 0.68%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.76% 2.99% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 9
10th Percentile £272 £240 £247
25th Percentile £413 £275 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +23.08% -23.53%
75th Percentile £516 £500 £363
90th Percentile £645 £578 £590
England median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.25% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £27.13
25th Percentile - - £28.44
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year - +12.00% +68.92%
75th Percentile - - £33.44
90th Percentile - - £34.38
England median hourly rate £14.20 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -34.71% -3.33% -21.05%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 326 334 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 15.02% 12.24% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 232 289
10th Percentile £182 £210 £288
25th Percentile £325 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -1.07%
75th Percentile £538 £669 £566
90th Percentile £638 £825 £638
England median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 13
10th Percentile £27.70 £19.12 £15.72
25th Percentile £34.78 £24.25 £15.75
Median hourly rate £47.37 £45.88 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year +3.25% +172.12% -12.42%
75th Percentile £59.17 £49.88 £28.75
90th Percentile £65.76 £51.91 £45.26
England median hourly rate £41.00 £41.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -1.20% +50.91% +9.81%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Internet in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in the North West over the 6 months to 12 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the North West

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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 Internet within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
Cheshire -7 5 £538 +138.89% 17
Manchester +12 3 £475 -2.56% 52
Merseyside +3 1 £215 -21.82% 15
Internet
England

Internet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 6 (66.67%) Network Security
3 4 (44.44%) WAN
3 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (44.44%) Wireless
4 3 (33.33%) DWDM
4 3 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (33.33%) LAN
4 3 (33.33%) MPLS
4 3 (33.33%) VPN
5 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
5 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
5 2 (22.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (11.11%) ATM
6 1 (11.11%) BGP
6 1 (11.11%) DMZ
6 1 (11.11%) DNS
6 1 (11.11%) L2TP
6 1 (11.11%) OSPF
6 1 (11.11%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cisco Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Business Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) CMDB
1 1 (11.11%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Network Design
2 3 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 3 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 3 (33.33%) SIEM
3 2 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 1 (11.11%) Architectural Design
4 1 (11.11%) Architecture Roadmap
4 1 (11.11%) B2B
4 1 (11.11%) BCP
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Product Management
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
4 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNP
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCIE
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 3 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 2 (22.22%) Aruba
3 2 (22.22%) HP
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Apple
4 1 (11.11%) Arista
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) McAfee
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk