Internet Contracts in the South East

Internet
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 177 169
Rank change year-on-year +46 -8 +18
Contract jobs citing Internet 28 28 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.93% 0.50% 0.91%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.46% 2.23% 5.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 31
10th Percentile £250 £204 £188
25th Percentile £259 £205 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -15.00%
75th Percentile £516 £494 £525
90th Percentile £644 £595 £556
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile - - £15.81
25th Percentile - - £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.20 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% -35.00% -45.58%
75th Percentile - £17.88 £25.50
90th Percentile £16.32 £22.13 £30.75
England median hourly rate £14.20 £21.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -32.38% -22.94% -0.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internet in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Internet in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internet in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the South East

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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 Internet within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Thames Valley +39 12 £400 -15.79% 36
Hampshire +33 12 £458 +123.24% 7
Buckinghamshire - 8 £400 - 5
Berkshire +22 3 £250 -47.37% 27
East Sussex - 2 £625 - 8
Surrey +14 1 £450 -21.05% 10
Kent +7 1 £250 +138.10% 2
Oxfordshire +2 1 - - 12
Internet
England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (14.29%) Apache
2 4 (14.29%) CMS
2 4 (14.29%) Confluence
2 4 (14.29%) Drupal
2 4 (14.29%) WordPress
3 1 (3.57%) IIS
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (25.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (7.14%) AWS
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (64.29%) Firewall
2 10 (35.71%) Network Security
3 9 (32.14%) VPN
4 8 (28.57%) Wireless
5 5 (17.86%) MPLS
6 4 (14.29%) LAN
6 4 (14.29%) WAN
6 4 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (10.71%) BGP
7 3 (10.71%) OSPF
8 2 (7.14%) EIGRP
8 2 (7.14%) IPsec
8 2 (7.14%) SD-WAN
8 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
8 2 (7.14%) Unified Communications
9 1 (3.57%) IP Telephony
9 1 (3.57%) NAS
9 1 (3.57%) NetScaler
9 1 (3.57%) Skype
9 1 (3.57%) xDSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
2 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
1 4 (14.29%) Git
1 4 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 12 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 3 (10.71%) Military
4 2 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.57%) Legal
5 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 7 (25.00%) IT Services Manager
1 7 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 6 (21.43%) Help Desk Agent
2 6 (21.43%) Help Desk Support
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
3 5 (17.86%) Senior IT Manager
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Manager
3 5 (17.86%) Senior Service Manager
4 4 (14.29%) Network Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) PHP Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Support
6 1 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Developer
6 1 (3.57%) Fibre Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.57%) IT Analyst
6 1 (3.57%) Network Services Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Ajax
1 4 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 4 (14.29%) CodeIgniter
1 4 (14.29%) CSS
1 4 (14.29%) HTML
1 4 (14.29%) jQuery
1 4 (14.29%) LAMP
1 4 (14.29%) SOAP
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (14.29%) Legacy Code
3 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.57%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.57%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (3.57%) IoT
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) Linux
1 4 (14.29%) Unix
2 3 (10.71%) Windows
3 1 (3.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Analytics
2 8 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 7 (25.00%) Security Monitoring
4 6 (21.43%) Case Management
4 6 (21.43%) Contract Management
4 6 (21.43%) Server Management
4 6 (21.43%) Time Management
5 5 (17.86%) Antivirus Management
5 5 (17.86%) Storage Management
6 4 (14.29%) Agile
6 4 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 4 (14.29%) Kanban
6 4 (14.29%) Scrum
6 4 (14.29%) Secure Coding
6 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Java
1 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 4 (14.29%) PHP
2 1 (3.57%) C#
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) CCNP
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
4 2 (7.14%) MCP
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) BC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.57%) CCDP
5 1 (3.57%) CCIE
5 1 (3.57%) CCIP
5 1 (3.57%) CCNA
5 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) vSphere
2 1 (3.57%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Cisco
3 4 (14.29%) Zend
4 3 (10.71%) Aruba
4 3 (10.71%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.57%) ADVA
5 1 (3.57%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (3.57%) Citrix
5 1 (3.57%) F5
5 1 (3.57%) Juniper
5 1 (3.57%) Meraki
5 1 (3.57%) Openreach
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) VMware