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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 618 517 560
Rank change year-on-year -101 +43 +66
Contract jobs citing Akamai 34 36 21
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.064% 0.11% 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.29% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 21 13
10th Percentile £324 - -
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% -6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £688
90th Percentile £594 £663 £885
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £513 £495
% change year-on-year -17.07% +3.54% -7.91%

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 18,711 12,267 14,073
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.33% 37.43% 33.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,398 8,219 9,849
10th Percentile £329 £313 £310
25th Percentile £419 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.57% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 612 314 330
10th Percentile £16.62 £15.11 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £35.81 £27.63 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.61% +25.59% -37.14%
75th Percentile £69.81 £47.50 £49.69
90th Percentile £83.23 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £18.87 £20.00
% change year-on-year +98.73% -5.65% -25.23%

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 19 July 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 9 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 19 July 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 -126 31 £550 +2.33% 4
UK excluding London -103 19 £425 -17.07% 9
North of England -59 16 £425 -15.00% 2
London -80 13 £575 +4.55% 2
Yorkshire -40 10 £338 -32.50% 1
Work from Home -62 7 £500 -2.44% 1
North West -45 6 £555 - 1
South West -41 2 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 6

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 (8.82%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) GCP
2 11 (32.35%) AWS
3 10 (29.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (26.47%) Datadog
5 7 (20.59%) Azure
5 7 (20.59%) Fastly
6 6 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub
6 6 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (5.88%) Cloudflare
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon MSK
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.94%) IaaS
8 1 (2.94%) Kong
8 1 (2.94%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 22 (64.71%) DNS
2 16 (47.06%) Network Security
3 9 (26.47%) HTTP
4 6 (17.65%) TCP/IP
5 5 (14.71%) Firewall
6 3 (8.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) MongoDB
1 6 (17.65%) Redis
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.88%) Snyk
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (35.29%) Security Engineer
2 10 (29.41%) Security Specialist
3 8 (23.53%) Technical Security Specialist
3 8 (23.53%) Technical Specialist
4 7 (20.59%) Application Security Specialist
4 7 (20.59%) Applications Specialist
4 7 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (17.65%) Site Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Architect
6 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (8.82%) Security Architect
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (5.88%) Senior
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (20.59%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) gRPC
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth
2 1 (2.94%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.94%) OpenID
2 1 (2.94%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (2.94%) React
2 1 (2.94%) SAML
2 1 (2.94%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 21 (61.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 7 (20.59%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (14.71%) Cyber Defence
4 3 (8.82%) Cloud Native
4 3 (8.82%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.94%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (41.18%) CI/CD
2 10 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (29.41%) Incident Response
2 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
2 10 (29.41%) Migration
3 9 (26.47%) Bot Management
4 8 (23.53%) DDoS Mitigation
4 8 (23.53%) Platform Engineering
4 8 (23.53%) SIEM
5 7 (20.59%) DevOps
5 7 (20.59%) Observability
5 7 (20.59%) OWASP
5 7 (20.59%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (17.65%) DevSecOps
7 4 (11.76%) Dashboard Development
7 4 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (11.76%) Runbook
8 3 (8.82%) Performance Optimisation
8 3 (8.82%) Threat Analysis
8 3 (8.82%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Python
2 10 (29.41%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) Bash
4 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 2 (5.88%) CEH
1 2 (5.88%) CISA
1 2 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.88%) CISM
1 2 (5.88%) CISSP
1 2 (5.88%) CRISC
1 2 (5.88%) GIAC
1 2 (5.88%) GPEN
1 2 (5.88%) OSCP
2 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (5.88%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
Systems Management
1 9 (26.47%) Grafana
1 9 (26.47%) Terraform
2 7 (20.59%) Kubernetes
3 6 (17.65%) Ansible
3 6 (17.65%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.94%) Argo
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) CrowdStrike
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 2 (5.88%) Qualys
2 1 (2.94%) Cisco
2 1 (2.94%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.94%) ForgeRock
2 1 (2.94%) Splunk