Internet Contracts in the South West

Internet
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 143 127
Rank change year-on-year +23 -16 -9
Contract jobs citing Internet 1 14 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.055% 0.43% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.37% 2.51% 5.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 23
10th Percentile - £185 £200
25th Percentile - £372 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile - £700 £613
90th Percentile - £775 £645
England median daily rate £442 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -11.68% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £22.73
25th Percentile - - £23.06
Median hourly rate - £70.66 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year - +174.41% -42.13%
75th Percentile - - £28.06
90th Percentile - - £28.18
England median hourly rate £14.20 £21.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -34.71% -3.33% -20.70%

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 267 558 534
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 14.59% 17.07% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 357 342
10th Percentile £235 £308 £248
25th Percentile £366 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +2.38% +11.94%
75th Percentile £623 £640 £625
90th Percentile £671 £688 £725
England median daily rate £492 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -1.60% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 45 80
10th Percentile £13.09 £12.60 -
25th Percentile £14.85 £15.75 £9.80
Median hourly rate £17.79 £56.49 £13.37
Median % change year-on-year -68.51% +322.59% -75.25%
75th Percentile £41.40 £71.25 £63.55
90th Percentile £55.56 £75.00 £80.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £45.88 £22.00
% change year-on-year -18.27% +108.55% -12.00%

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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Internet in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the South West

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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 5 July 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 +32 1 £440 +95.56% 15
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