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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 513 551
Rank change year-on-year -119 +38 +66
Contract jobs citing Akamai 39 34 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.073% 0.10% 0.051%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.28% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 19 9
10th Percentile £343 - £349
25th Percentile £431 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £825
90th Percentile £594 £653 £910
UK excluding London median daily rate £433 £525 £506
% change year-on-year -17.62% +3.70% -5.81%
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 18,894 12,303 13,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.26% 37.13% 33.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,476 8,241 9,147
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £420 £411 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 627 314 267
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.18 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £18.51 £16.30
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.63 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +14.27% -30.91%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.41 £53.75
90th Percentile £82.30 £67.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.38 £18.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +82.17% -11.70% -17.81%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 -122 31 £550 +4.76% 11
UK excluding London -84 21 £433 -17.62% 5
London -90 16 £575 +10.58% 8
North of England -57 13 £439 -18.33% 3
Work from Home -64 9 £550 +7.32% 3
Yorkshire -34 7 £325 -39.53%
North West -41 6 £555 - 3
Scotland - 6 £300 - 2
South West -46 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 6 (15.38%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 14 (35.90%) GCP
3 11 (28.21%) Datadog
4 10 (25.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 7 (17.95%) Cloudflare
5 7 (17.95%) Fastly
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (15.38%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (15.38%) Azure
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub
6 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (15.38%) Kong
7 4 (10.26%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (10.26%) Serverless
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.56%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (64.10%) DNS
2 16 (41.03%) Network Security
3 14 (35.90%) HTTP
4 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
5 6 (15.38%) Firewall
6 5 (12.82%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 6 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (15.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.13%) Snyk
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.69%) Banking
3 2 (5.13%) Finance
3 2 (5.13%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 10 (25.64%) Security Specialist
3 8 (20.51%) Technical Security Specialist
3 8 (20.51%) Technical Specialist
4 7 (17.95%) Application Security Specialist
4 7 (17.95%) Applications Specialist
4 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
5 6 (15.38%) Site Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 2 (5.13%) Cloud Specialist
7 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Senior
7 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Architect
8 1 (2.56%) Developer
8 1 (2.56%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Product Owner
8 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (30.77%) Kafka
2 6 (15.38%) OAuth
2 6 (15.38%) OAuth2
2 6 (15.38%) OpenID
2 6 (15.38%) OpenTelemetry
2 6 (15.38%) React
2 6 (15.38%) SAML
3 4 (10.26%) gRPC
3 4 (10.26%) WebSockets
4 1 (2.56%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 22 (56.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 12 (30.77%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (12.82%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
4 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
4 4 (10.26%) Data Structures
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 13 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 13 (33.33%) SIEM
4 11 (28.21%) Bot Management
4 11 (28.21%) Migration
5 10 (25.64%) DDoS Mitigation
5 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
5 10 (25.64%) Observability
5 10 (25.64%) Runbook
6 9 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
7 8 (20.51%) DevOps
8 7 (17.95%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (17.95%) OWASP
8 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (15.38%) DevSecOps
9 6 (15.38%) GitOps
10 5 (12.82%) Application Security
10 5 (12.82%) Threat Detection
11 4 (10.26%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) JavaScript
3 6 (15.38%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 3 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (10.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (5.13%) CEH
2 2 (5.13%) CISA
2 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.13%) CISM
2 2 (5.13%) CISSP
2 2 (5.13%) CRISC
2 2 (5.13%) GIAC
2 2 (5.13%) GPEN
2 2 (5.13%) OSCP
3 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 2 (5.13%) NIST
2 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 12 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.21%) Grafana
3 8 (20.51%) Terraform
4 6 (15.38%) Ansible
4 6 (15.38%) Argo
4 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) ForgeRock
2 6 (15.38%) Dynatrace
2 6 (15.38%) Splunk
3 2 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.13%) Qualys
4 1 (2.56%) Cisco
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Okta
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity