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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 586 496 547
Rank change year-on-year -90 +51 +123
Contract jobs citing Akamai 29 21 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.071% 0.083%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.17% 0.19% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 29
10th Percentile £313 £463 £325
25th Percentile £350 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £620 £613
90th Percentile £628 £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 16,796 11,169 14,044
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 36.29% 37.93% 32.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,432 7,781 9,965
10th Percentile £319 £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 £635
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +0.84% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 248 344
10th Percentile £15.20 £15.44 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.29 £18.68 £16.05
Median hourly rate £40.78 £27.63 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.59% +31.57% -37.31%
75th Percentile £67.50 £48.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.15 £61.57
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £23.00 £17.70
% change year-on-year +106.52% +29.94% -26.25%

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 21 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 21 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 -102 27 £431 -21.64% 2
UK excluding London -90 19 £425 -26.09%
North of England - 16 £425 -
Yorkshire - 10 £338 -
London -64 8 £575 +4.55% 2
North West - 6 £555 -
South West -29 2 - -
Work from Home -35 2 £473 -9.95%
South East -57 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 (3.45%) CMS
1 1 (3.45%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) GCP
2 12 (41.38%) AWS
3 10 (34.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 9 (31.03%) Azure
5 5 (17.24%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
6 4 (13.79%) Fastly
6 4 (13.79%) Route 53
6 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (58.62%) DNS
2 13 (44.83%) Network Security
3 5 (17.24%) HTTP
4 4 (13.79%) Firewall
4 4 (13.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) MongoDB
1 4 (13.79%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Big Data
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) CircleCI
1 4 (13.79%) GitLab
1 4 (13.79%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Security Specialist
2 8 (27.59%) Technical Security Specialist
2 8 (27.59%) Technical Specialist
3 7 (24.14%) Application Security Specialist
3 7 (24.14%) Applications Specialist
3 7 (24.14%) Security Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Specialist
6 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Security Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Security Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Java Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) Kafka
2 1 (3.45%) .NET
2 1 (3.45%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) Spring
2 1 (3.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.45%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 18 (62.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 5 (17.24%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
3 4 (13.79%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Media Streaming
4 1 (3.45%) Over-the-Top Content
4 1 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.45%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Linux
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Migration
2 12 (41.38%) CI/CD
3 8 (27.59%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
4 7 (24.14%) Observability
5 6 (20.69%) Bot Management
5 6 (20.69%) Incident Response
5 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.24%) DDoS Mitigation
6 5 (17.24%) OWASP
7 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps
7 4 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
7 4 (13.79%) SIEM
7 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (10.34%) Analytics
8 3 (10.34%) Microservices
8 3 (10.34%) Threat Analysis
9 2 (6.90%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) Python
2 10 (34.48%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) Bash
4 4 (13.79%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) PCI DSS
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 4 (13.79%) Ansible
2 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (3.45%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Splunk
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (3.45%) CyberArk
3 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
3 1 (3.45%) Imperva
3 1 (3.45%) Okta
3 1 (3.45%) Proofpoint
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Sitecore
3 1 (3.45%) Tenable
3 1 (3.45%) Zscaler