Akamai Contract Job Trends

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Akamai skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 548 615
Rank change year-on-year +49 +67 +178
Contract jobs citing Akamai 48 21 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.055% 0.094%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.39% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 10 25
10th Percentile £446 £544 £450
25th Percentile £463 £572 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £538
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +20.93% -2.27%
75th Percentile £594 £791 £650
90th Percentile £655 £905 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £563 £650
% change year-on-year -6.67% -13.46% +33.33%
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 12,237 13,032 17,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.46% 34.27% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,161 8,779 12,904
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 197 344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.42 £62.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -35.77% +12.15% +39.00%

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
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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +45 45 £515 -27.72% 4
UK excluding London +30 29 £525 -6.67% 4
London +39 18 £515 -42.78% 1
Work from Home +41 15 £525 -12.50% 3
West Midlands - 9 £483 - 1
Midlands - 9 £483 - 2
North of England - 8 £575 - 1
Yorkshire - 7 £575 - 1
South East - 5 £500 - 1
South West - 5 £575 -
Scotland - 2 £595 -
North West - 1 - -

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:

Cloud Services
1 27 (56.25%) AWS
2 17 (35.42%) GCP
3 14 (29.17%) Azure
4 4 (8.33%) Cloudflare
5 3 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (4.17%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.17%) Serverless
6 2 (4.17%) VULTR
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (2.08%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.08%) Datadog
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub
7 1 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.08%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 32 (66.67%) Firewall
2 18 (37.50%) Wireshark
3 14 (29.17%) Network Security
4 10 (20.83%) Cisco ISE
5 8 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 7 (14.58%) BGP
6 7 (14.58%) OSPF
6 7 (14.58%) SNMP
7 4 (8.33%) HTTP
7 4 (8.33%) HTTPS
8 3 (6.25%) VPN
9 2 (4.17%) DNS
9 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
9 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
9 2 (4.17%) WAN
9 2 (4.17%) Wireless
10 1 (2.08%) DMZ
10 1 (2.08%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Banking
5 4 (8.33%) Legal
6 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.42%) Analyst
2 5 (10.42%) Architect
2 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 5 (10.42%) Security Analyst
2 5 (10.42%) Security Architect
2 5 (10.42%) Security Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Juniper Engineer
3 4 (8.33%) Senior
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Architect
3 4 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
4 2 (4.17%) Consultant
4 2 (4.17%) Designer
4 2 (4.17%) Network Designer
4 2 (4.17%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (2.08%) Security Manager
5 1 (2.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) SailPoint
2 3 (6.25%) OAuth
3 2 (4.17%) 802.1X
3 2 (4.17%) JSON
3 2 (4.17%) Regular Expression
3 2 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (4.17%) XML
4 1 (2.08%) Node.js
4 1 (2.08%) OLE
4 1 (2.08%) OpenID
4 1 (2.08%) SAML
4 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 5 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.17%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.08%) PKI
6 1 (2.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Windows
1 2 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (41.67%) Application Security
2 14 (29.17%) DevSecOps
3 13 (27.08%) OWASP
4 12 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
6 9 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.75%) Cloud Security
6 9 (18.75%) Incident Response
7 7 (14.58%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (14.58%) DevOps
7 7 (14.58%) High Availability
7 7 (14.58%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (14.58%) Security Testing
7 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (10.42%) Identity Access Management
9 5 (10.42%) Reverse Engineering
9 5 (10.42%) Security Operations
9 5 (10.42%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) SQL
2 2 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.25%) CEH
1 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) CISSP
2 2 (4.17%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) GIAC
2 2 (4.17%) GWAPT
3 1 (2.08%) CISM
3 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.33%) GRC
2 2 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.17%) Snort
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) CSIRT
2 8 (16.67%) FortiGate
3 4 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 32 (66.67%) F5
2 13 (27.08%) Splunk
3 12 (25.00%) Cisco
4 10 (20.83%) Microsoft
5 9 (18.75%) Imperva
5 9 (18.75%) SolarWinds
6 8 (16.67%) Juniper
7 7 (14.58%) Fortinet
8 5 (10.42%) Palo Alto
9 4 (8.33%) Google
10 3 (6.25%) Qualys
11 2 (4.17%) ArcSight
11 2 (4.17%) Dell KACE
11 2 (4.17%) Meraki
11 2 (4.17%) Ubiquiti