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 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 172 163
Rank change year-on-year +31 -9 +24
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Internet 20 16 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.57% 0.34% 0.77%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.38% 1.77% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 23
10th Percentile £364 £209 £209
25th Percentile £377 £277 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £463 £350
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% +32.14% -33.33%
75th Percentile £547 £497 £520
90th Percentile £553 £544 £622
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 8
10th Percentile - - £13.70
25th Percentile - £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £14.20 £19.00 £16.51
Median % change year-on-year -25.26% +15.06% -31.20%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £21.00
90th Percentile - - £25.50
England median hourly rate £14.20 £23.80 £19.00
% change year-on-year -40.34% +25.26% -40.16%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 591 904 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 16.75% 18.94% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 481 619
10th Percentile £220 £254 £208
25th Percentile £358 £400 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +8.70% -
75th Percentile £589 £608 £580
90th Percentile £638 £670 £678
England median daily rate £492 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -2.57% +1.00% -0.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 99 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £25.55 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.63 £51.06 £21.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.35 £58.20
Median % change year-on-year -4.10% -1.46% +29.34%
75th Percentile £70.16 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £75.05 £75.67
England median hourly rate £42.50 £55.75 £56.49
% change year-on-year -23.76% -1.32% +43.01%

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

Internet
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in the South East over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the South East

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Internet

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DemandTrendContract 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 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +6 14 £525 +16.67% 73
Buckinghamshire +11 8 £400 - 21
Hampshire +20 5 £444 -22.83% 23
Berkshire +13 5 £538 +19.44% 46
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 9
East Sussex - 1 - - 3
Internet
England

Internet
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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 7 (35.00%) Wireless
3 5 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (15.00%) LAN
4 3 (15.00%) MPLS
4 3 (15.00%) Network Security
4 3 (15.00%) WAN
5 2 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.00%) DNS
6 1 (5.00%) Intranet
6 1 (5.00%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (5.00%) IP Telephony
6 1 (5.00%) IPv6
6 1 (5.00%) NAS
6 1 (5.00%) NetScaler
6 1 (5.00%) SAN
6 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
6 1 (5.00%) Skype
6 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications
6 1 (5.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) MSI
General
1 11 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Help Desk Agent
1 6 (30.00%) Help Desk Support
1 6 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support
3 2 (10.00%) Juniper Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Fibre Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Network Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (30.00%) Migration
2 6 (30.00%) Time Management
3 5 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Application Discovery
4 2 (10.00%) Application Packaging
4 2 (10.00%) Change Management
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.00%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 2 (10.00%) Network Design
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) JNCIA
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) CCDA
2 3 (15.00%) CCDP
2 3 (15.00%) CCNA
2 3 (15.00%) CCNP
2 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 1 (5.00%) MCP
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.00%) vSphere
2 1 (5.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (35.00%) Cisco
3 4 (20.00%) Juniper
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) F5
5 1 (5.00%) Meraki
5 1 (5.00%) Openreach
5 1 (5.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) WatchGuard
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler