Akamai Contracts

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Akamai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akamai over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 505 558 641
Rank change year-on-year +53 +83 +177
Contract jobs citing Akamai 34 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.074% 0.079%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.29% 0.22% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 30
10th Percentile £463 £425 £450
25th Percentile £472 £483 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -6.11%
75th Percentile £597 £634 £634
90th Percentile £674 £798 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £528 £538
% change year-on-year -2.84% -1.86% +2.38%

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 11,815 14,295 20,297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.71% 32.88% 36.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,909 10,042 14,673
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £727 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 296 357 334
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.15 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.41 £16.06 £19.00
Median hourly rate £27.88 £22.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.73% -37.14% +59.09%
75th Percentile £47.50 £43.75 £66.00
90th Percentile £71.88 £70.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £20.99 £25.73
% change year-on-year -10.08% -18.43% +33.64%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Akamai.

Daily rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Akamai.

Hourly rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Top 10 Contract 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 3 July 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 +62 33 £550 - 58
London +54 18 £550 -33.33% 42
UK excluding London +28 14 £513 -2.84% 19
Work from Home +34 13 £513 -8.89% 17
South East - 6 £475 - 5
South West - 5 £575 - 2
North of England -5 2 £500 -2.91% 9
East of England +23 1 - - 2
Yorkshire -8 1 £500 -2.91% 1
North West - 1 - - 8

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (41.18%) AWS
2 8 (23.53%) Azure
3 4 (11.76%) Cloudflare
3 4 (11.76%) Datadog
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (8.82%) GitHub
5 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (5.88%) GCP
5 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (5.88%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.88%) Serverless
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
6 1 (2.94%) CloudFront
6 1 (2.94%) Fastly
6 1 (2.94%) npm
6 1 (2.94%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 19 (55.88%) Firewall
2 17 (50.00%) Network Security
3 7 (20.59%) Cisco ISE
4 6 (17.65%) BGP
4 6 (17.65%) OSPF
4 6 (17.65%) SNMP
5 5 (14.71%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (14.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (14.71%) HTTP
5 5 (14.71%) HTTPS
5 5 (14.71%) VPN
6 4 (11.76%) DNS
6 4 (11.76%) Wireshark
7 3 (8.82%) SD-WAN
7 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
7 3 (8.82%) WAN
8 2 (5.88%) DHCP
8 2 (5.88%) IPsec
8 2 (5.88%) SSL
8 2 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 8 (23.53%) Finance
2 4 (11.76%) Banking
2 4 (11.76%) Legal
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (8.82%) Retail
4 2 (5.88%) Social Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Network Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 6 (17.65%) Security Analyst
3 5 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Senior
4 4 (11.76%) Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Security Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Architect
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Security Architect
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Juniper Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
5 3 (8.82%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
6 2 (5.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) SailPoint
2 3 (8.82%) 802.1X
2 3 (8.82%) OAuth
3 2 (5.88%) Node.js
4 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.94%) HTML
4 1 (2.94%) Kafka
4 1 (2.94%) OLE
4 1 (2.94%) OpenID
4 1 (2.94%) PlayReady
4 1 (2.94%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.94%) RESTful
4 1 (2.94%) SAML
4 1 (2.94%) VCL
4 1 (2.94%) Web Services
4 1 (2.94%) Widevine
4 1 (2.94%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 4 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 3 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.88%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.94%) FMCG
5 1 (2.94%) MPEG
5 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) Video on Demand
5 1 (2.94%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
1 2 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Incident Response
2 7 (20.59%) Application Security
2 7 (20.59%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
2 7 (20.59%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (20.59%) DevOps
2 7 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.65%) Agile
3 6 (17.65%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (11.76%) Analytics
5 4 (11.76%) Artefact Management
5 4 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (11.76%) Data Security
5 4 (11.76%) Forensic Analysis
5 4 (11.76%) High Availability
5 4 (11.76%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (11.76%) Load Balancing
5 4 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
5 4 (11.76%) Risk Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.88%) Kusto Query Language
1 2 (5.88%) Python
1 2 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (2.94%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) CISSP
2 3 (8.82%) CEH
2 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.94%) CCDP
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.94%) CISM
4 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.94%) Degree
4 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) GRC
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (23.53%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) FortiGate
3 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.88%) Ansible
4 2 (5.88%) Kustomize
4 2 (5.88%) Packer
5 1 (2.94%) Grafana
5 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) F5
2 8 (23.53%) Cisco
2 8 (23.53%) Imperva
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 7 (20.59%) Palo Alto
4 6 (17.65%) Juniper
4 6 (17.65%) SolarWinds
5 4 (11.76%) Fortinet
5 4 (11.76%) Google
5 4 (11.76%) Qualys
6 2 (5.88%) Dell KACE
6 2 (5.88%) Meraki
6 2 (5.88%) Splunk
6 2 (5.88%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (2.94%) Arista
7 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.94%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.94%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.94%) Riverbed
7 1 (2.94%) Zscaler