Akamai Contracts

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Akamai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akamai over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 545 676
Rank change year-on-year +46 +131 +124
Contract jobs citing Akamai 21 37 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.072% 0.085% 0.070%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.19% 0.26% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 20
10th Percentile £481 £325 £506
25th Percentile £531 £463 £521
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £608
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -13.62% +8.53%
75th Percentile £652 £613 £638
90th Percentile £675 £735 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £515 £538
% change year-on-year +11.65% -4.19% -4.44%

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 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Akamai.

Daily rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Akamai.

Hourly rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Top 11 Contract 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 1 May 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 +44 21 £575 +9.52% 13
UK excluding London +56 11 £575 +11.65% 10
London +31 9 £588 +6.82% 5
Work from Home +34 7 £525 - 6
South East - 4 £475 - 2
South West - 3 £575 - 2
Midlands - 2 £610 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £610 -
North of England +3 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - -
North West - 1 - - 4

Akamai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (52.38%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
3 4 (19.05%) Cloudflare
3 4 (19.05%) Datadog
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (14.29%) GitHub
5 2 (9.52%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (9.52%) GCP
5 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (9.52%) Nutanix
5 2 (9.52%) Serverless
6 1 (4.76%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (4.76%) CloudFront
6 1 (4.76%) Fastly
6 1 (4.76%) npm
6 1 (4.76%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
1 10 (47.62%) Network Security
2 5 (23.81%) VPN
3 3 (14.29%) HTTP
3 3 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 3 (14.29%) SD-WAN
3 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (9.52%) BGP
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (9.52%) DHCP
4 2 (9.52%) DNS
4 2 (9.52%) IPsec
4 2 (9.52%) OSPF
4 2 (9.52%) SNMP
4 2 (9.52%) SSL
4 2 (9.52%) Wireless
5 1 (4.76%) DMVPN
5 1 (4.76%) GLBP
5 1 (4.76%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Retail
4 2 (9.52%) Legal
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Lead
2 3 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Network Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Network Security Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Leader
4 1 (4.76%) Web Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 2 (9.52%) Node.js
2 2 (9.52%) OAuth
2 2 (9.52%) SailPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) Kafka
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) PlayReady
3 1 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.76%) RESTful
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) VCL
3 1 (4.76%) Widevine
3 1 (4.76%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) PKI
2 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) MPEG
3 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.76%) Video on Demand
3 1 (4.76%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
1 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 7 (33.33%) DevOps
1 7 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 6 (28.57%) Agile
2 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (23.81%) Cloud Security
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (19.05%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (14.29%) Application Security
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Security Architecture
5 3 (14.29%) Security Operations
5 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Artefact Management
6 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
6 2 (9.52%) Event-Driven
6 2 (9.52%) Identity Access Management
6 2 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Python
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 1 (4.76%) Bash
2 1 (4.76%) Go
2 1 (4.76%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) CEH
1 4 (19.05%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) GIAC
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CCDP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) PCI DSS
2 2 (9.52%) GRC
2 2 (9.52%) QA
3 1 (4.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Kustomize
3 2 (9.52%) Packer
4 1 (4.76%) Grafana
4 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
4 1 (4.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Imperva
2 5 (23.81%) F5
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 5 (23.81%) Palo Alto
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco
4 2 (9.52%) Dell KACE
4 2 (9.52%) Google
4 2 (9.52%) Meraki
4 2 (9.52%) Qualys
4 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
4 2 (9.52%) Splunk
4 2 (9.52%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (4.76%) Arista
5 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 1 (4.76%) Blue Coat
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Riverbed
5 1 (4.76%) Zscaler