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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 528 582
Rank change year-on-year +5 +54 +191
Contract jobs citing Akamai 54 19 44
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.052% 0.094%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.40% 0.15% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 10 26
10th Percentile £420 £504 £450
25th Percentile £463 £530 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £569 £553
Median % change year-on-year -10.77% +2.94% -3.91%
75th Percentile £588 £628 £650
90th Percentile £655 £688 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -8.89% -13.46% +13.04%
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 13,503 12,891 16,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 38.59% 35.23% 35.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,102 8,497 11,960
10th Percentile £305 £313 £300
25th Percentile £406 £420 £421
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 325 165 323
10th Percentile £15.14 £18.82 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £71.78 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £33.27 £22.50
% change year-on-year -36.88% +47.87% +15.38%

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 8 November 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 11 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 8 November 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 +19 50 £508 -8.76% 10
UK excluding London -11 24 £513 -8.89% 6
London +27 22 £550 +4.76% 7
Work from Home +12 17 £513 -10.87%
West Midlands - 10 £483 -
Midlands - 10 £483 -
Yorkshire - 8 £638 -
North of England - 8 £638 -
South East - 2 £500 - 6
South West - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £595 -

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 (3.70%) CMS
1 2 (3.70%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 34 (62.96%) AWS
2 26 (48.15%) GCP
3 16 (29.63%) Azure
4 6 (11.11%) Cloudflare
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.70%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.70%) AWS CloudTrail
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.70%) Fastly
5 2 (3.70%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.70%) Route 53
5 2 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.70%) VULTR
6 1 (1.85%) AWS IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub
6 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 36 (66.67%) Firewall
2 24 (44.44%) Wireshark
3 8 (14.81%) Cisco ISE
3 8 (14.81%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (14.81%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (12.96%) BGP
4 7 (12.96%) OSPF
4 7 (12.96%) SNMP
5 6 (11.11%) HTTPS
5 6 (11.11%) Network Security
6 5 (9.26%) DNS
6 5 (9.26%) HTTP
7 3 (5.56%) DHCP
8 2 (3.70%) LAN
8 2 (3.70%) NetScaler
8 2 (3.70%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.70%) WAN
9 1 (1.85%) SSL
9 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.70%) MySQL
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) GitLab
2 2 (3.70%) CircleCI
2 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (42.59%) Social Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.41%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (3.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (18.52%) Network Engineer
2 5 (9.26%) Consultant
2 5 (9.26%) Security Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Architect
3 4 (7.41%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Senior
4 3 (5.56%) Security Architect
4 3 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Network Consultant
5 2 (3.70%) Network Designer
5 2 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Security Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Security Consultant
5 2 (3.70%) Senior Security Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) JSON
1 3 (5.56%) REST
1 3 (5.56%) XML
2 2 (3.70%) .NET
2 2 (3.70%) Kafka
2 2 (3.70%) Regular Expression
2 2 (3.70%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.85%) FIDO
3 1 (1.85%) HTML
3 1 (1.85%) Node.js
3 1 (1.85%) OAuth
3 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.85%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.89%) Security Posture
2 6 (11.11%) Data Centre
3 5 (9.26%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.85%) IoT
7 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.70%) Linux
1 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (44.44%) Application Security
2 20 (37.04%) DevSecOps
2 20 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (33.33%) Ethical Hacking
4 17 (31.48%) OWASP
4 17 (31.48%) Test Automation
5 16 (29.63%) CI/CD
6 14 (25.93%) Security Testing
7 9 (16.67%) DevOps
7 9 (16.67%) High Availability
7 9 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
8 8 (14.81%) Continuous Deployment
8 8 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (12.96%) Network Segmentation
9 7 (12.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (11.11%) Cloud Security
10 6 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (11.11%) Incident Response
11 5 (9.26%) Observability
11 5 (9.26%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) SQL
3 2 (3.70%) Bash
3 2 (3.70%) C#
3 2 (3.70%) Go
3 2 (3.70%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.85%) Java
4 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.41%) CEH
3 3 (5.56%) CISSP
3 3 (5.56%) GIAC
3 3 (5.56%) GWAPT
3 3 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Degree
4 2 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.85%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CCSP
5 1 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
5 1 (1.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.70%) GRC
2 2 (3.70%) JSP 440
2 2 (3.70%) NCSC
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.85%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
1 2 (3.70%) Snort
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) CSIRT
2 10 (18.52%) Terraform
3 8 (14.81%) FortiGate
4 5 (9.26%) Ansible
4 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.70%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (70.37%) F5
2 21 (38.89%) Splunk
3 12 (22.22%) Cisco
4 9 (16.67%) Imperva
5 8 (14.81%) Fortinet
5 8 (14.81%) Juniper
6 7 (12.96%) SolarWinds
7 6 (11.11%) Microsoft
8 3 (5.56%) Infoblox
8 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
8 3 (5.56%) Zscaler
9 2 (3.70%) ArcSight
9 2 (3.70%) Citrix
9 2 (3.70%) Google
9 2 (3.70%) Meraki
9 2 (3.70%) Nokia
9 2 (3.70%) Qualys
9 2 (3.70%) Sitecore
10 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.85%) Oracle