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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 504 555
Rank change year-on-year -64 +51 +157
Contract jobs citing Akamai 40 16 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.052% 0.076%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.14% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 10 29
10th Percentile £313 £504 £325
25th Percentile £413 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +9.52% -9.68%
75th Percentile £588 £661 £613
90th Percentile £650 £708 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £610 £545
% change year-on-year -29.10% +11.93% -5.22%

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 15,739 11,536 14,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.79% 37.70% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,797 7,823 10,482
10th Percentile £313 £313 £285
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £635
90th Percentile £700 £731 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 181 342
10th Percentile £15.30 £16.75 £14.14
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.46 £16.06
Median hourly rate £39.75 £27.35 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +45.34% +27.45% -14.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £43.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £80.76 £75.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £24.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year +86.10% +30.70% -11.90%

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 28 February 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 10 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 28 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
England -66 37 £468 -18.70% 5
UK excluding London -79 17 £433 -29.10% 5
London -31 14 £575 +4.55%
North of England - 14 £433 - 5
Work from Home -14 8 £568 +0.89% 4
Yorkshire - 8 £350 - 1
North West - 6 £555 - 4
West Midlands -49 2 - -
Midlands -55 2 - -
South East - 1 - -

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 2 (5.00%) CMS
1 2 (5.00%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 26 (65.00%) AWS
2 25 (62.50%) GCP
3 17 (42.50%) Azure
4 5 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (10.00%) Amazon S3
5 4 (10.00%) Fastly
5 4 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 4 (10.00%) Route 53
5 4 (10.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (7.50%) Cloudflare
7 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.50%) AWS IoT
8 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub
8 1 (2.50%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) DNS
1 15 (37.50%) Firewall
2 8 (20.00%) Wireshark
3 7 (17.50%) HTTP
4 6 (15.00%) Network Security
5 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.50%) DHCP
6 3 (7.50%) HTTPS
7 2 (5.00%) LAN
7 2 (5.00%) NetScaler
7 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
7 2 (5.00%) WAN
8 1 (2.50%) Internet
8 1 (2.50%) SSL
8 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) Metadata
2 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) GitLab
2 4 (10.00%) CircleCI
2 4 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.00%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Security Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Architect
2 5 (12.50%) Security Specialist
2 5 (12.50%) Senior
3 4 (10.00%) Application Security Specialist
3 4 (10.00%) Applications Specialist
3 4 (10.00%) Consultant
3 4 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Technical Security Specialist
3 4 (10.00%) Technical Specialist
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Specialist
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Security Consultant
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (5.00%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) JSON
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) XML
3 1 (2.50%) FIDO
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) Node.js
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth
3 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) SAML
3 1 (2.50%) Spring
3 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.50%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 13 (32.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (22.50%) Security Posture
3 5 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.00%) Cyber Defence
4 4 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.50%) IoT
6 1 (2.50%) Media Streaming
6 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (2.50%) SCADA
6 1 (2.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 17 (42.50%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (32.50%) OWASP
4 12 (30.00%) DevSecOps
5 10 (25.00%) Application Security
6 9 (22.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (22.50%) Observability
6 9 (22.50%) Test Automation
7 8 (20.00%) Ethical Hacking
7 8 (20.00%) Migration
7 8 (20.00%) Security Testing
8 7 (17.50%) Containerisation
8 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (17.50%) DevOps
8 7 (17.50%) Incident Response
9 6 (15.00%) Bot Management
9 6 (15.00%) Zero Trust
10 5 (12.50%) Continuous Deployment
10 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (12.50%) DDoS Mitigation
Programming Languages
1 14 (35.00%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) Bash
2 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 4 (10.00%) Go
4 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.00%) C#
5 2 (5.00%) Java
5 2 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) CEH
2 2 (5.00%) CISSP
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) GIAC
2 2 (5.00%) GWAPT
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CCSP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CISM
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.00%) JSP 440
1 2 (5.00%) NCSC
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (2.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
2 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) Terraform
2 10 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 7 (17.50%) Ansible
3 7 (17.50%) CSIRT
4 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (2.50%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Splunk
2 12 (30.00%) F5
3 4 (10.00%) Zscaler
4 3 (7.50%) Imperva
4 3 (7.50%) Infoblox
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.00%) Cisco
5 2 (5.00%) Citrix
5 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.00%) Meraki
5 2 (5.00%) Nokia
5 2 (5.00%) Okta
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.00%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.50%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.50%) Oracle
6 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.50%) Tenable