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 28 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 509 562
Rank change year-on-year -84 +53 +115
Contract jobs citing Akamai 27 19 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.065% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.16% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 29
10th Percentile £313 £481 £325
25th Percentile £350 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.35% +9.52% -12.54%
75th Percentile £566 £652 £613
90th Percentile £590 £675 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £575 £515
% change year-on-year -26.09% +11.65% -4.19%

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 16,931 11,063 13,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.04% 37.69% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,508 7,699 9,928
10th Percentile £320 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £735 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +1.05% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 485 251 346
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £18.51 £16.02
Median hourly rate £40.00 £27.50 £20.99
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% +31.05% -40.04%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £34.69
90th Percentile £81.00 £73.75 £61.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £22.50 £17.71
% change year-on-year +111.11% +27.08% -28.09%

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 28 April 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 28 April 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 -92 25 £429 -25.35% 3
UK excluding London -86 19 £425 -26.09%
North of England - 16 £425 -
Yorkshire - 10 £338 -
London -66 6 £430 -26.89% 3
North West - 6 £555 -
Work from Home -32 2 £473 -9.95%
South West -37 2 - -
South East -64 1 - -

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 1 (3.70%) CMS
1 1 (3.70%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) GCP
2 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 10 (37.04%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 9 (33.33%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.41%) Fastly
5 2 (7.41%) Route 53
5 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (62.96%) DNS
2 13 (48.15%) Network Security
3 5 (18.52%) HTTP
4 4 (14.81%) Firewall
4 4 (14.81%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.70%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Metadata
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) MySQL
2 1 (3.70%) Big Data
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) CircleCI
1 2 (7.41%) GitLab
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Banking
5 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Security Specialist
2 8 (29.63%) Technical Security Specialist
2 8 (29.63%) Technical Specialist
3 7 (25.93%) Application Security Specialist
3 7 (25.93%) Applications Specialist
3 7 (25.93%) Security Engineer
4 4 (14.81%) Senior
5 3 (11.11%) Architect
5 3 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (11.11%) Security Architect
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Specialist
6 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Engineer
6 2 (7.41%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
7 1 (3.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.70%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.70%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (18.52%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (14.81%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Media Streaming
5 1 (3.70%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.41%) Linux
1 2 (7.41%) Windows
2 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Migration
2 10 (37.04%) CI/CD
3 8 (29.63%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (22.22%) Bot Management
4 6 (22.22%) Incident Response
4 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
5 5 (18.52%) DDoS Mitigation
5 5 (18.52%) Observability
5 5 (18.52%) OWASP
6 4 (14.81%) DevSecOps
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (14.81%) SIEM
6 4 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (11.11%) Analytics
7 3 (11.11%) Microservices
7 3 (11.11%) Threat Analysis
8 2 (7.41%) Identity Management
8 2 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) JavaScript
2 9 (33.33%) Python
3 3 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (7.41%) Go
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) Java
5 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 6 (22.22%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.70%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.70%) Imperva
3 1 (3.70%) Okta
3 1 (3.70%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Sitecore
3 1 (3.70%) Tenable
3 1 (3.70%) Zscaler