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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 106 140
Rank change year-on-year -29 +34 +9
Contract jobs citing Internet 2 12 13
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.072% 0.68% 0.42%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.84% 4.26% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 7
10th Percentile - £380 £184
25th Percentile £375 £413 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +4.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £425 £556 £569
90th Percentile - £740 £645
England median daily rate £475 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -9.52% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £64.95
25th Percentile - - £68.62
Median hourly rate - - £70.66
75th Percentile - - £75.50
90th Percentile - - £84.20
England median hourly rate £16.00 £45.00 £21.25
% change year-on-year -64.44% +111.76% -7.61%

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 239 282 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.62% 15.90% 15.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 195 293
10th Percentile £263 £300 £268
25th Percentile £413 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -0.93% +9.92%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
England median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 50
10th Percentile £12.43 £12.15 £40.00
25th Percentile £15.62 £12.50 £47.27
Median hourly rate £41.52 £75.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -44.64% +32.77% +476.43%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £70.66
90th Percentile £68.20 - £76.25
England median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.91% -23.71% +130.78%

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 24 February 2026. 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
Bristol -20 1 £400 -23.08% 7
Dorset - 1 - - 4
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
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
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Trainer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
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%) Blog
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%) Embedded Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Microservices
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OWASP
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
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%) Web Design
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%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Xamarin