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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 499 539
Rank change year-on-year -114 +40 +113
Contract jobs citing Akamai 32 23 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.065% 0.079% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.21% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 24
10th Percentile £313 £463 £425
25th Percentile £397 £525 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -17.78% +5.50% -8.21%
75th Percentile £588 £653 £627
90th Percentile - £675 £780
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -22.73% +6.80% -4.19%

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 17,531 11,016 13,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.69% 37.84% 32.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 7,505 9,896
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.30% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £608 £619 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +3.16% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 560 257 346
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.96 £28.00 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +30.48% -41.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.50 £40.75
90th Percentile £81.03 £71.75 £69.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.12 £21.28 £17.80
% change year-on-year +74.44% +19.55% -34.92%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -107 30 £498 -13.43%
UK excluding London -91 18 £425 -22.73% 1
North of England -62 16 £425 -
London -71 12 £575 -8.00%
Yorkshire - 10 £338 -
North West -38 6 £555 -
Work from Home -54 5 £550 +4.76%
South West -32 2 - -

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 3 (9.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) GCP
2 12 (37.50%) AWS
3 10 (31.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 7 (21.88%) Azure
5 6 (18.75%) Datadog
5 6 (18.75%) Fastly
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub
6 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
7 2 (6.25%) Route 53
7 2 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (3.13%) Cloudflare
8 1 (3.13%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) DNS
2 16 (50.00%) Network Security
3 8 (25.00%) HTTP
4 6 (18.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (9.38%) Firewall
5 3 (9.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) MongoDB
2 3 (9.38%) Redis
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata
3 2 (6.25%) MySQL
4 1 (3.13%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.25%) CircleCI
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
General
1 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Security Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Security Specialist
2 8 (25.00%) Technical Security Specialist
2 8 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
3 7 (21.88%) Application Security Specialist
3 7 (21.88%) Applications Specialist
4 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Site Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (9.38%) Security Architect
6 3 (9.38%) Senior
7 2 (6.25%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Java Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.63%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) RESTful
2 1 (3.13%) Spring
2 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.13%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 21 (65.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (15.63%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
4 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Media Streaming
6 1 (3.13%) Over-the-Top Content
6 1 (3.13%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) CI/CD
2 12 (37.50%) Migration
3 9 (28.13%) Bot Management
3 9 (28.13%) Incident Response
3 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
5 7 (21.88%) Observability
5 7 (21.88%) SIEM
6 6 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
6 6 (18.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
7 5 (15.63%) DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) OWASP
8 4 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 3 (9.38%) Application Security
9 3 (9.38%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 11 (34.38%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 6 (18.75%) Grafana
3 5 (15.63%) Ansible
3 5 (15.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Salesforce
1 2 (6.25%) Splunk
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft