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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 509 551 583
Rank change year-on-year +42 +32 +189
Contract jobs citing Akamai 56 22 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.059% 0.095%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.44% 0.17% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 27
10th Percentile £420 £544 £450
25th Percentile £463 £572 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -21.92% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £791 £650
90th Percentile £655 £905 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -8.89% -13.46% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £67.30
25th Percentile - - £67.75
Median hourly rate - - £68.50
75th Percentile - - £69.25
90th Percentile - - £69.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Cloud 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 12,806 13,038 17,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.46% 34.83% 35.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,552 8,611 12,302
10th Percentile £308 £313 £300
25th Percentile £409 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 180 331
10th Percentile £15.17 £16.30 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £22.38 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +8.29% +43.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £66.69 £63.38
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £33.93 £22.51
% change year-on-year -41.06% +50.73% +13.40%

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 18 October 2025.

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 12 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 18 October 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
England +48 51 £500 -29.82% 1
UK excluding London +10 27 £513 -8.89%
London +32 20 £533 -40.83% 1
Work from Home +37 19 £525 -12.50%
West Midlands - 10 £483 -
Midlands - 10 £483 -
North of England - 9 £638 -
Yorkshire - 8 £638 -
South East - 3 £500 -
South West - 3 - -
Scotland - 2 £595 -
North West - 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 1 (1.79%) CMS
1 1 (1.79%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (60.71%) AWS
2 24 (42.86%) GCP
3 17 (30.36%) Azure
4 6 (10.71%) Cloudflare
5 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.57%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub
6 2 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.57%) VULTR
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.79%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (1.79%) AWS IoT
7 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.79%) Datadog
7 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.79%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 37 (66.07%) Firewall
2 24 (42.86%) Wireshark
3 10 (17.86%) Network Security
4 8 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
4 8 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (14.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 7 (12.50%) BGP
5 7 (12.50%) OSPF
5 7 (12.50%) SNMP
6 6 (10.71%) DNS
6 6 (10.71%) HTTPS
7 5 (8.93%) HTTP
8 3 (5.36%) DHCP
9 2 (3.57%) LAN
9 2 (3.57%) NetScaler
9 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.57%) WAN
10 1 (1.79%) SSL
10 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
10 1 (1.79%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) GitLab
1 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 17 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (8.93%) Banking
5 4 (7.14%) Legal
6 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (17.86%) Network Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Architect
3 5 (8.93%) Consultant
3 5 (8.93%) Security Architect
3 5 (8.93%) Security Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) Senior
3 5 (8.93%) Senior Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Juniper Engineer
4 4 (7.14%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (5.36%) Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Designer
6 2 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Network Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Network Designer
6 2 (3.57%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) SailPoint
2 3 (5.36%) JSON
2 3 (5.36%) REST
2 3 (5.36%) XML
3 2 (3.57%) Node.js
3 2 (3.57%) OAuth
3 2 (3.57%) Regular Expression
4 1 (1.79%) .NET
4 1 (1.79%) FIDO
4 1 (1.79%) HTML
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.79%) OLE
4 1 (1.79%) SAML
4 1 (1.79%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (37.50%) Security Posture
2 6 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 5 (8.93%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.36%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.79%) IoT
7 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.79%) SCADA
7 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.79%) Linux
1 1 (1.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Application Security
2 20 (35.71%) DevSecOps
2 20 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (32.14%) Ethical Hacking
3 18 (32.14%) OWASP
4 17 (30.36%) Test Automation
5 15 (26.79%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.00%) Security Testing
7 10 (17.86%) DevOps
7 10 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (16.07%) Cloud Security
8 9 (16.07%) High Availability
8 9 (16.07%) Reverse Engineering
9 8 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
9 8 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (12.50%) Incident Response
10 7 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
11 5 (8.93%) Identity Access Management
11 5 (8.93%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.14%) Python
2 3 (5.36%) SQL
3 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.79%) C#
4 1 (1.79%) Java
4 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) CEH
2 4 (7.14%) CISSP
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
3 3 (5.36%) GIAC
3 3 (5.36%) GWAPT
4 2 (3.57%) CISM
4 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.79%) CCSP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.79%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GRC
2 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (3.57%) JSP 440
3 2 (3.57%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.79%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.79%) NIST
4 1 (1.79%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Snort
Systems Management
1 17 (30.36%) CSIRT
2 8 (14.29%) FortiGate
2 8 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (5.36%) Ansible
3 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 40 (71.43%) F5
2 19 (33.93%) Splunk
3 12 (21.43%) Cisco
4 9 (16.07%) Imperva
5 8 (14.29%) Fortinet
5 8 (14.29%) Juniper
5 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 7 (12.50%) SolarWinds
7 4 (7.14%) Google
8 3 (5.36%) Infoblox
8 3 (5.36%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.36%) Zscaler
9 2 (3.57%) ArcSight
9 2 (3.57%) Citrix
9 2 (3.57%) Meraki
9 2 (3.57%) Nokia
9 2 (3.57%) Qualys
10 1 (1.79%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.79%) Oracle
10 1 (1.79%) Sitecore