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

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 119 138
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +3
Contract jobs citing Internet 2 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.10% 0.64% 0.54%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% 4.51% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 9
10th Percentile - £224 £229
25th Percentile - £383 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £488 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile - £700 £675
90th Percentile - £775 £720
England median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £16.12
25th Percentile - - £22.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £67.40
England median hourly rate £16.00 £27.10 £21.25
% change year-on-year -40.96% +27.53% -15.00%

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 259 355 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.98% 14.12% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 207 266
10th Percentile £225 £335 £229
25th Percentile £283 £445 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £650
90th Percentile £675 £675 £716
England median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 22 71
10th Percentile £26.70 £11.83 £46.25
25th Percentile £40.07 £64.06 £48.32
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -13.08% +15.06% -5.60%
75th Percentile £64.63 £73.44 £65.98
90th Percentile £64.85 £75.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £57.38 £56.49
% change year-on-year -40.74% +1.57% +36.12%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Internet job vacancy trend 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 16 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
Wiltshire +8 1 £440 -20.00% 5
Dorset - 1 - - 5
Internet
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Compact Framework
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Contactless
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Embedded Compact
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Android Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Development
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Xamarin