Akamai Contracts in the UK excluding London

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Akamai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akamai over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 381 437
Rank change year-on-year +53 +56 +62
Contract jobs citing Akamai 11 18 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.087% 0.042%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.27% 0.33% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 6
10th Percentile £463 £425 £503
25th Percentile £494 £483 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £515 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.65% -4.19% -4.44%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £648
90th Percentile £608 £669 £681
UK median daily rate £575 £528 £608
% change year-on-year +9.00% -13.20% +8.53%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

Akamai falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,099 5,425 7,981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.04% 26.14% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,902 3,831 5,919
10th Percentile £240 £213 £240
25th Percentile £388 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -2.20% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 159 260 226
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.00 £16.62
Median hourly rate £21.46 £17.71 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -28.09% +31.31%
75th Percentile £33.45 £26.50 £64.88
90th Percentile £69.25 £61.51 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai in the UK excluding London

Akamai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Akamai in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Akamai in the UK excluding London

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the UK excluding London

Akamai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Akamai in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Akamai in the UK excluding London

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East - 4 £475 - 2
South West - 3 £575 - 2
Midlands - 2 £610 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £610 -
North of England +7 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 4
Akamai
UK

Akamai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Cloudflare
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Datadog
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
3 1 (9.09%) Route 53
3 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) Network Security
3 3 (27.27%) VPN
4 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
4 2 (18.18%) WAN
5 1 (9.09%) BGP
5 1 (9.09%) DHCP
5 1 (9.09%) DMVPN
5 1 (9.09%) DNS
5 1 (9.09%) DWDM
5 1 (9.09%) HTTP
5 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
5 1 (9.09%) IGRP
5 1 (9.09%) Internet
5 1 (9.09%) LAN
5 1 (9.09%) MPLS
5 1 (9.09%) OSPF
5 1 (9.09%) SNMP
5 1 (9.09%) SSL
5 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Financial Institution
4 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Security Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Security Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Architect
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Web Applications Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) 802.1X
1 2 (18.18%) SailPoint
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) OAuth
2 1 (9.09%) OpenID
2 1 (9.09%) SAML
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (9.09%) FMCG
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
1 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
1 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
2 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (18.18%) Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) Artefact Management
3 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Data Security
3 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) OWASP
3 2 (18.18%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (18.18%) Security Operations
3 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CEH
1 2 (18.18%) CISSP
1 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) GIAC
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CCDP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GRC
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) Imperva
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 3 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (18.18%) Qualys
5 1 (9.09%) Arista
5 1 (9.09%) Blue Coat
5 1 (9.09%) Citrix
5 1 (9.09%) Dell KACE
5 1 (9.09%) Juniper
5 1 (9.09%) Meraki
5 1 (9.09%) Riverbed
5 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 1 (9.09%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (9.09%) Zscaler