Anycast Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Anycast
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Anycast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Anycast 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.042% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Anycast 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,391 2,243 3,613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.57% 16.78% 17.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,548 1,321 2,082
10th Percentile £193 £185 £205
25th Percentile £313 £300 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.32% -1.58% +1.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £659 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £480 £500 £485
% change year-on-year -4.00% +3.09% -6.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 109 310
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.42 £14.27
25th Percentile £16.93 £21.00 £20.87
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.08 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.94% -37.84% +164.41%
75th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £43.12
% change year-on-year -2.86% -18.82% +123.39%

Anycast
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Anycast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Anycast job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Anycast
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Anycast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Anycast

Anycast
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 Anycast within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Midlands - 1 £550 -
West Midlands - 1 £550 -
Anycast
UK

Anycast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon GuardDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Macie
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudTrail
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) CloudFront
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Route 53
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) DMVPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPsec
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) AppScan
1 1 (100.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (100.00%) Metasploit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (100.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Kali Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Lisp
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) COBIT
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) Nessus
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) BeyondTrust
1 1 (100.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (100.00%) LogRhythm
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Tenable
1 1 (100.00%) Veracode