Akamai Contract Job Trends

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 505 542
Rank change year-on-year -127 +37 +70
Contract jobs citing Akamai 34 48 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.15% 0.055%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.39% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 10
10th Percentile - £446 £544
25th Percentile £425 £463 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +20.93%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £791
90th Percentile - £655 £905
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £525 £563
% change year-on-year -16.67% -6.67% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £66.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.66 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,762 12,268 13,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.66% 37.53% 34.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,441 8,169 8,927
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 607 300 201
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.86 £18.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.16 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year +11.45% -5.55% -11.79%
75th Percentile £67.77 £52.81 £61.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £19.27 £30.00
% change year-on-year +55.68% -35.77% +11.11%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Akamai relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Akamai job vacancy trend in the UK

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akamai.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akamai

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akamai.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Akamai

Akamai
Top 8 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 September 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
England -139 25 £550 +6.80% 25
London -83 19 £563 +9.22% 15
UK excluding London -114 15 £438 -16.67% 9
Work from Home -67 10 £550 +4.76% 7
Scotland -14 9 £425 -28.57% 1
South East -55 4 £550 +10.00% 4
North West -51 2 - - 3
North of England -81 2 - - 3

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (20.59%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 15 (44.12%) AWS
2 12 (35.29%) Kong
3 11 (32.35%) Datadog
4 8 (23.53%) Cloudflare
5 7 (20.59%) Amazon EKS
5 7 (20.59%) Fastly
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (14.71%) Amazon MSK
7 5 (14.71%) CloudFront
7 5 (14.71%) Serverless
8 4 (11.76%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (8.82%) Azure
10 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (2.94%) GCP
10 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (44.12%) HTTP
2 11 (32.35%) DNS
3 7 (20.59%) Firewall
4 6 (17.65%) Network Security
5 5 (14.71%) SSL
5 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
6 2 (5.88%) Internet
7 1 (2.94%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
2 6 (17.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Bitbucket
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.88%) JIRA
2 2 (5.88%) Snyk
3 1 (2.94%) Git
General
1 6 (17.65%) Finance
2 5 (14.71%) Banking
3 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Security Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) Site Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Security Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Design Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Developer
7 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Product Owner
7 1 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.94%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (38.24%) Kafka
2 11 (32.35%) React
3 8 (23.53%) OpenID
4 7 (20.59%) OAuth
4 7 (20.59%) OAuth2
4 7 (20.59%) OpenTelemetry
4 7 (20.59%) Terraform
5 6 (17.65%) SAML
6 5 (14.71%) gRPC
6 5 (14.71%) REST
6 5 (14.71%) WebSockets
7 4 (11.76%) JSON
7 4 (11.76%) JSON Schema
7 4 (11.76%) Next.js
7 4 (11.76%) OpenAPI
7 4 (11.76%) Swagger
8 1 (2.94%) JWT
8 1 (2.94%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 14 (41.18%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (32.35%) Onboarding
3 7 (20.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 5 (14.71%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (11.76%) Algorithms
5 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
5 4 (11.76%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.94%) PKI
7 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) CI/CD
2 14 (41.18%) Platform Engineering
3 11 (32.35%) GitOps
3 11 (32.35%) Observability
3 11 (32.35%) Runbook
4 10 (29.41%) Incident Response
4 10 (29.41%) SIEM
5 9 (26.47%) Cybersecurity
5 9 (26.47%) Dashboard Development
6 8 (23.53%) DevOps
7 7 (20.59%) OWASP
7 7 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (17.65%) Application Security
8 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (17.65%) Validation
9 5 (14.71%) Bot Management
9 5 (14.71%) DDoS Mitigation
9 5 (14.71%) Low Latency
9 5 (14.71%) Threat Detection
9 5 (14.71%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) TypeScript
2 10 (29.41%) Python
3 8 (23.53%) Go
4 6 (17.65%) Bash
5 4 (11.76%) Java
5 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.82%) CEH
4 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (5.88%) CISA
4 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.88%) CISM
4 2 (5.88%) CISSP
4 2 (5.88%) CRISC
4 2 (5.88%) GIAC
4 2 (5.88%) GPEN
4 2 (5.88%) OSCP
5 1 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.94%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.94%) SANS
5 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) NIST
2 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (32.35%) Grafana
3 7 (20.59%) Argo
4 6 (17.65%) Ansible
4 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Istio
5 1 (2.94%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Dynatrace
1 7 (20.59%) ForgeRock
1 7 (20.59%) Qualys
1 7 (20.59%) Splunk
2 2 (5.88%) Cisco
2 2 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) BiZZdesign
3 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.94%) F5
3 1 (2.94%) IBM
3 1 (2.94%) Intel
3 1 (2.94%) Okta
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle
3 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity