Akamai Contract Job Trends in Scotland

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Akamai 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.22% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £539
% change year-on-year +2.33% -0.23% -4.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 842 599 683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.57% 35.46% 35.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 480 398 452
10th Percentile £313 £311 £200
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £538
90th Percentile £650 £600 £614
UK median daily rate £518 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 13
10th Percentile - £16.21 £15.38
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.90 £16.50
Median hourly rate £15.81 £21.22 £18.38
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +15.48% -68.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £25.06 £24.18
90th Percentile £62.70 £27.05 -
UK median hourly rate £35.71 £27.50 £22.33
% change year-on-year +29.85% +23.18% -36.21%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in Scotland

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Akamai

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Glasgow - 4 £300 - 2
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Akamai
UK

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) Cloudflare
1 5 (100.00%) Kong
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon MSK
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 3 (60.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (60.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Bitbucket
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth
1 5 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 5 (100.00%) OpenID
1 5 (100.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 5 (100.00%) React
1 5 (100.00%) SAML
2 3 (60.00%) gRPC
2 3 (60.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (60.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (60.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) GitOps
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
2 3 (60.00%) Low Latency
2 3 (60.00%) Observability
2 3 (60.00%) Runbook
2 3 (60.00%) SIEM
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Argo
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 5 (100.00%) ForgeRock
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk