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 23 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 636 509 547
Rank change year-on-year -127 +38 +63
Contract jobs citing Akamai 39 44 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.13% 0.041%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% 0.36% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 26 6
10th Percentile £425 £441 £544
25th Percentile £500 £463 £573
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £713
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -28.77% +32.56%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £881
90th Percentile £595 £608 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £494 £563
% change year-on-year -8.86% -12.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £66.66 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.66 - -

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 18,896 12,276 13,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 35.07% 37.22% 33.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,515 8,192 9,059
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £425 £410 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 608 320 239
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £18.51 £17.57
Median hourly rate £34.13 £28.00 £26.97
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% +3.82% -22.94%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £82.25 £67.28 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.00 £18.87 £21.46
% change year-on-year +74.88% -12.07% -20.52%

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 23 August 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 10 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 23 August 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 -136 31 £553 +11.90% 2
UK excluding London -108 22 £450 -8.86% 3
London -89 16 £575 +11.65%
North of England -54 11 £555 -3.48%
Work from Home -60 10 £525 +6.82% 1
Scotland -8 7 £363 -39.08% 1
North West -36 7 £555 -
Yorkshire -40 4 - -
South West -43 2 - -
South East -72 2 £500 +5.26% 2

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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (48.72%) AWS
2 11 (28.21%) Datadog
2 11 (28.21%) GCP
3 8 (20.51%) Cloudflare
3 8 (20.51%) Kong
4 7 (17.95%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (17.95%) Azure
4 7 (17.95%) Fastly
5 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub
5 6 (15.38%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (15.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 5 (12.82%) Amazon MSK
6 5 (12.82%) Serverless
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (10.26%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.56%) CloudFront
8 1 (2.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (56.41%) DNS
2 17 (43.59%) HTTP
3 13 (33.33%) Network Security
4 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
5 7 (17.95%) Firewall
6 5 (12.82%) SSL
7 1 (2.56%) Internet
7 1 (2.56%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.95%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 6 (15.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (15.38%) Bitbucket
1 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.13%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Snyk
General
1 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (38.46%) Security Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Platform Engineer
2 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Security Specialist
3 6 (15.38%) Site Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Security Specialist
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Application Security Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Applications Specialist
5 3 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Senior
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Security Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Design Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Developer
7 1 (2.56%) Network Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Security Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (33.33%) Kafka
2 8 (20.51%) OpenID
2 8 (20.51%) Terraform
3 7 (17.95%) OAuth
3 7 (17.95%) OAuth2
3 7 (17.95%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (17.95%) React
4 6 (15.38%) SAML
5 5 (12.82%) gRPC
5 5 (12.82%) WebSockets
6 2 (5.13%) REST
7 1 (2.56%) JWT
7 1 (2.56%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 19 (48.72%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 14 (35.90%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (17.95%) Onboarding
4 5 (12.82%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (10.26%) Algorithms
5 4 (10.26%) Cloud Native
5 4 (10.26%) Data Structures
6 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) PKI
7 1 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (51.28%) CI/CD
2 15 (38.46%) Incident Response
3 14 (35.90%) Platform Engineering
3 14 (35.90%) SIEM
4 11 (28.21%) Bot Management
4 11 (28.21%) Observability
4 11 (28.21%) Runbook
5 10 (25.64%) Cybersecurity
5 10 (25.64%) DDoS Mitigation
5 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (23.08%) Dashboard Development
6 9 (23.08%) OWASP
7 8 (20.51%) DevOps
8 7 (17.95%) DevSecOps
8 7 (17.95%) GitOps
8 7 (17.95%) Migration
8 7 (17.95%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (15.38%) Application Security
10 5 (12.82%) Computer Science
10 5 (12.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Python
2 7 (17.95%) TypeScript
3 6 (15.38%) Bash
3 6 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.26%) Go
Qualifications
1 5 (12.82%) Degree
2 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) CEH
4 2 (5.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (5.13%) CISA
4 2 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.13%) CISM
4 2 (5.13%) CISSP
4 2 (5.13%) CRISC
4 2 (5.13%) GIAC
4 2 (5.13%) GPEN
4 2 (5.13%) OSCP
5 1 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.56%) SANS
5 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) NIST
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 11 (28.21%) Grafana
3 7 (17.95%) Argo
4 6 (15.38%) Ansible
4 6 (15.38%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.56%) Istio
5 1 (2.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
5 1 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Dynatrace
1 7 (17.95%) ForgeRock
1 7 (17.95%) Splunk
2 4 (10.26%) Qualys
3 2 (5.13%) Cisco
3 2 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (5.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.56%) BiZZdesign
4 1 (2.56%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.56%) F5
4 1 (2.56%) IBM
4 1 (2.56%) Intel
4 1 (2.56%) Okta
4 1 (2.56%) Oracle
4 1 (2.56%) Ping Identity