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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 155 - 208
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Akamai 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.15% - 0.018%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.49% - 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £564 - -
England median daily rate £515 £713 £600
% change year-on-year -27.72% +18.75% +5.26%

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 1,030 1,180 1,607
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 29.92% 25.84% 28.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 815 1,149
10th Percentile £204 £303 £206
25th Percentile £359 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -2.38% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £638
90th Percentile £650 £672 £706
England median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 22 54
10th Percentile £14.75 £17.77 £16.43
25th Percentile £14.94 £19.66 £19.81
Median hourly rate £18.82 £40.50 £27.83
Median % change year-on-year -53.53% +45.53% +32.52%
75th Percentile £29.50 £60.44 £60.78
90th Percentile £46.82 £64.73 £74.10
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.75 £33.00
% change year-on-year -19.69% -0.76% +53.49%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai 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 16 September 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 - 4 £500 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Akamai
England

Akamai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Datadog
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
2 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 3 (60.00%) Security Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) BCP
4 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Observability
4 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (60.00%) Imperva
2 3 (60.00%) Qualys
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Dell KACE
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Ubiquiti