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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 579 497 569
Rank change year-on-year -82 +72 +118
Contract jobs citing Akamai 33 18 34
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.074% 0.062% 0.077%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.16% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 15 29
10th Percentile £313 £463 £325
25th Percentile £366 £519 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.18% +4.76% -9.68%
75th Percentile £588 £610 £613
90th Percentile £648 £675 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £429 £575 £545
% change year-on-year -25.43% +5.50% +1.40%

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 16,431 11,080 14,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.90% 38.11% 32.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,210 7,785 10,216
10th Percentile £313 £313 £294
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £477 £490
% change year-on-year -0.42% -2.65% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 461 217 352
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.38 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £19.25 £16.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.94% +26.19% -23.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £41.50 £39.06
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.80 £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.23 £23.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year +92.47% +32.62% -19.45%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -98 31 £439 -20.18% 3
UK excluding London -87 20 £429 -25.43% 1
North of England - 17 £429 -
Yorkshire - 11 £350 -
London -61 9 £575 +4.55% 3
North West - 6 £555 -
Work from Home -39 4 £500 -4.76% 1
South West -26 2 - -
South East -54 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 (3.03%) CMS
1 1 (3.03%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (63.64%) GCP
2 15 (45.45%) AWS
3 12 (36.36%) Azure
4 10 (30.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 5 (15.15%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.12%) Fastly
6 4 (12.12%) Route 53
6 4 (12.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.03%) AWS IoT
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.03%) Cloudflare
7 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (57.58%) DNS
2 13 (39.39%) Network Security
3 6 (18.18%) Firewall
3 6 (18.18%) HTTP
4 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.03%) DHCP
5 1 (3.03%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.03%) LAN
5 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
5 1 (3.03%) VLAN
5 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.12%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) CircleCI
1 4 (12.12%) GitLab
1 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (21.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Security Specialist
2 8 (24.24%) Technical Security Specialist
2 8 (24.24%) Technical Specialist
3 7 (21.21%) Application Security Specialist
3 7 (21.21%) Applications Specialist
3 7 (21.21%) Security Engineer
4 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Cloud Specialist
5 3 (9.09%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Consultant
6 2 (6.06%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 1 (3.03%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.12%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) .NET
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Spring
2 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.03%) Spring WebFlux
2 1 (3.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (57.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (15.15%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 4 (12.12%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.03%) IoT
5 1 (3.03%) Media Streaming
5 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.03%) Over-the-Top Content
5 1 (3.03%) SCADA
5 1 (3.03%) Security Posture
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.03%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
1 2 (6.06%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) CI/CD
1 13 (39.39%) Migration
2 10 (30.30%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (24.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (21.21%) Bot Management
4 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
4 7 (21.21%) Incident Response
4 7 (21.21%) Observability
4 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (18.18%) DDoS Mitigation
5 6 (18.18%) OWASP
6 5 (15.15%) SIEM
6 5 (15.15%) Zero Trust
7 4 (12.12%) DevSecOps
7 4 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (12.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.12%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (9.09%) DevOps
8 3 (9.09%) Security Operations
8 3 (9.09%) Threat Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (36.36%) Python
2 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.15%) Bash
4 4 (12.12%) Go
5 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.03%) C#
6 1 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.06%) CISSP
2 2 (6.06%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.03%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
3 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.03%) CCSP
3 1 (3.03%) CEH
3 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.03%) CISM
3 1 (3.03%) Degree
3 1 (3.03%) GIAC
3 1 (3.03%) GWAPT
3 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.03%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
3 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.06%) JSP 440
1 2 (6.06%) NCSC
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (3.03%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (3.03%) NIST
2 1 (3.03%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.03%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 9 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 5 (15.15%) Ansible
4 4 (12.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Satellite
5 1 (3.03%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 5 (15.15%) Splunk
2 3 (9.09%) Zscaler
3 2 (6.06%) Imperva
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Okta
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco
4 1 (3.03%) Citrix
4 1 (3.03%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.03%) F5
4 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.03%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.03%) Meraki
4 1 (3.03%) Nokia
4 1 (3.03%) Proofpoint
4 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.03%) Sitecore
4 1 (3.03%) Tenable