Internet Contract Job Trends in the South West

Internet
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Internet skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 120 135
Rank change year-on-year +13 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Internet 1 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% 0.57% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.41% 3.76% 4.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 14
10th Percentile - £194 £250
25th Percentile - £330 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £400 £588
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -31.91% +20.51%
75th Percentile - £675 £625
90th Percentile - £775 £693
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.06
25th Percentile - - £19.84
Median hourly rate - - £25.75
75th Percentile - - £38.85
90th Percentile - - £57.94
England median hourly rate £16.00 £24.20 £21.25
% change year-on-year -33.88% +13.88% -40.14%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 245 399 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.60% 15.09% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 240 273
10th Percentile £213 £337 £221
25th Percentile £317 £456 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £630
90th Percentile £649 £672 £700
England median daily rate £490 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -4.03% +2.12% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 28 58
10th Percentile £26.70 £11.75 £40.85
25th Percentile £40.07 £15.00 £48.32
Median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +15.06% -5.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.06 £65.98
90th Percentile - £78.00 £72.62
England median hourly rate £41.50 £57.35 £56.49
% change year-on-year -27.64% +1.52% +34.26%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Wiltshire +15 1 £440 -20.00% 4
Internet
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Firmware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware