Akamai Contract Job Trends in the South East

Akamai Technologies, Inc
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 169 - 212
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Akamai 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.082% - 0.018%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% - 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £500 £563 £615
% change year-on-year -11.11% -8.54% +6.96%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,177 1,201 1,548
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.17% 28.19% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 813 1,105
10th Percentile £204 £263 £206
25th Percentile £363 £403 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +4.48%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £636
90th Percentile £651 £663 £700
England median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 23 49
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.66 £16.25
25th Percentile £14.75 £21.88 £19.25
Median hourly rate £17.47 £42.50 £23.95
Median % change year-on-year -58.90% +77.45% +14.81%
75th Percentile £22.63 £60.83 £51.58
90th Percentile £38.38 £64.73 £70.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% +27.27% +22.22%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in the South East

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Akamai.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Akamai

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 October 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
Surrey - 2 £500 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Akamai
England

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Datadog
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (33.33%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Security Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Imperva
1 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (66.67%) Qualys