Internet Contracts

Internet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Internet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Internet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 352 320 313
Rank change year-on-year -32 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing Internet 257 477 778
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.80% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.58% 6.47% 8.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 322 550
10th Percentile £200 £213 £218
25th Percentile £313 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £750 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 22 35
10th Percentile £12.28 £14.19 £12.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.56 £15.63
Median hourly rate £23.80 £26.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.46% -5.45% +42.86%
75th Percentile £51.75 £35.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £63.42 £52.25 £50.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £19.00 £16.55
% change year-on-year -26.32% +14.79% -1.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Internet is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,616 7,369 9,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.97% 12.32% 10.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,363 4,796 6,383
10th Percentile £205 £231 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.59% +3.80% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 481 362
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.00 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £19.00 £28.33
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.93% -0.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.50 £50.77
90th Percentile £67.75 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -14.00%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Internet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +2 228 £450 -14.29% 361
London +23 134 £450 -18.18% 128
UK excluding London -13 106 £450 +5.88% 253
Work from Home -21 72 £423 -20.47% 229
Midlands +31 28 £675 +22.73% 47
South East +2 28 £475 +11.76% 47
West Midlands +35 19 £750 +25.00% 26
Scotland +18 17 £189 -0.66% 18
South West -2 14 £500 +17.65% 44
East Midlands +21 9 £250 -33.33% 21
North of England +8 9 £325 -33.33% 75
Yorkshire +14 6 £325 -35.00% 21
East of England +7 6 £345 -35.51% 22
Northern Ireland +6 3 £563 +155.68% 4
North West -1 3 £275 -31.25% 51
Wales +15 1 £285 -17.99% 6

Internet
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 18 (7.00%) IIS
2 6 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.95%) CMS
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.56%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 3 (1.17%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.17%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (1.17%) Confluence
6 1 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (8.56%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (7.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.78%) InVision
4 2 (0.78%) Sketch
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.17%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.78%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.39%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.39%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 30 (11.67%) Azure
2 20 (7.78%) AWS
3 15 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.50%) PaaS
6 8 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
6 8 (3.11%) SaaS
7 6 (2.33%) GCP
7 6 (2.33%) IaaS
8 5 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.56%) GitHub
9 4 (1.56%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.17%) Akamai
10 3 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.17%) Serverless
11 2 (0.78%) Apigee
11 2 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.78%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (17.51%) Firewall
2 35 (13.62%) DNS
3 33 (12.84%) MPLS
4 31 (12.06%) WAN
5 28 (10.89%) VPN
6 23 (8.95%) LAN
7 22 (8.56%) Network Security
8 19 (7.39%) Wireless
9 16 (6.23%) TCP/IP
10 15 (5.84%) BGP
10 15 (5.84%) SD-WAN
11 14 (5.45%) HTTP
12 12 (4.67%) Ethernet
12 12 (4.67%) VoIP
12 12 (4.67%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (4.28%) OSPF
14 9 (3.50%) Broadband
14 9 (3.50%) DHCP
14 9 (3.50%) WLAN
15 8 (3.11%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.67%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.17%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (1.17%) Hadoop
4 3 (1.17%) MySQL
4 3 (1.17%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.17%) Redis
4 3 (1.17%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.78%) Big Data
5 2 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.39%) GIS
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.39%) Spatial Data
6 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (6.23%) JIRA
2 8 (3.11%) Git
3 4 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.17%) GitLab
4 3 (1.17%) Postman
4 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.78%) TestComplete
5 2 (0.78%) Toad
5 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
6 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.39%) GoCD
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.39%) Selenium
General
1 79 (30.74%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.23%) Telecoms
3 32 (12.45%) Finance
4 29 (11.28%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.34%) Analytical Skills
6 20 (7.78%) Banking
7 13 (5.06%) Legal
7 13 (5.06%) Marketing
8 8 (3.11%) Electronics
8 8 (3.11%) Law
8 8 (3.11%) Manufacturing
8 8 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.72%) Financial Institution
10 6 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.95%) Billing
11 5 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.56%) Automotive
12 4 (1.56%) Back Office
12 4 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.56%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (14.40%) Network Engineer
2 27 (10.51%) Senior
3 25 (9.73%) Support Engineer
4 22 (8.56%) Analyst
4 22 (8.56%) Architect
5 15 (5.84%) Developer
6 13 (5.06%) Desktop Support
6 13 (5.06%) Software Engineer
7 12 (4.67%) IT Support
7 12 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.28%) IT Engineer
9 9 (3.50%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.11%) C# Developer
10 8 (3.11%) C# WCF Developer
10 8 (3.11%) C# WPF Developer
10 8 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (3.11%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.11%) WCF Developer
10 8 (3.11%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.17%) .NET
2 16 (6.23%) .NET Framework
3 14 (5.45%) Web Services
4 9 (3.50%) WPF
5 8 (3.11%) ASP.NET
5 8 (3.11%) LDAP
5 8 (3.11%) WCF
5 8 (3.11%) WinForms
6 7 (2.72%) JSON
7 4 (1.56%) HTML
7 4 (1.56%) REST
8 3 (1.17%) ADO
8 3 (1.17%) Blazor
8 3 (1.17%) FIX Protocol
8 3 (1.17%) Kafka
8 3 (1.17%) OAuth
8 3 (1.17%) OpenGL
8 3 (1.17%) OpenID
8 3 (1.17%) pytest
8 3 (1.17%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.23%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.56%) IoT
3 9 (3.50%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.11%) Operational Technology
5 7 (2.72%) Social Media
6 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 6 (2.33%) Blockchain
6 6 (2.33%) Smartphone
7 5 (1.95%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 4 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.56%) Device Driver
8 4 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.56%) PCIe
8 4 (1.56%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.56%) Verilog
8 4 (1.56%) VHDL
9 3 (1.17%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 60 (23.35%) Windows
2 16 (6.23%) Linux
3 13 (5.06%) Unix
3 13 (5.06%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.33%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.56%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (1.56%) VxWorks
6 2 (0.78%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.39%) Solaris
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (18.68%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (17.90%) Agile
3 23 (8.95%) Computer Science
4 22 (8.56%) Configuration Management
4 22 (8.56%) Customer Service
5 19 (7.39%) DevOps
5 19 (7.39%) ITIL
5 19 (7.39%) Mentoring
5 19 (7.39%) Software Engineering
6 18 (7.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 18 (7.00%) Migration
7 17 (6.61%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (6.61%) Programme Management
8 16 (6.23%) Data Analysis
8 16 (6.23%) Project Management
8 16 (6.23%) Test Automation
9 15 (5.84%) Change Management
10 13 (5.06%) E-Commerce
10 13 (5.06%) Service Delivery
10 13 (5.06%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.23%) SQL
2 33 (12.84%) Python
3 23 (8.95%) C#
4 19 (7.39%) Java
5 14 (5.45%) PowerShell
6 13 (5.06%) JavaScript
7 9 (3.50%) PL/SQL
7 9 (3.50%) T-SQL
8 8 (3.11%) VB
8 8 (3.11%) VBA
9 6 (2.33%) C
10 5 (1.95%) C++
11 4 (1.56%) Embedded C
12 3 (1.17%) Bash
12 3 (1.17%) Embedded C++
12 3 (1.17%) Go
12 3 (1.17%) Ruby
12 3 (1.17%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.78%) Perl
14 1 (0.39%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (16.34%) Degree
2 36 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 34 (13.23%) SC Cleared
4 27 (10.51%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (5.84%) CCNP
6 12 (4.67%) CCIE
7 10 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.11%) BC Cleared
8 8 (3.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.11%) Master's Degree
9 6 (2.33%) CISSP
10 5 (1.95%) CCIE Data Center
10 5 (1.95%) CISM
11 4 (1.56%) CCNA
11 4 (1.56%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (1.17%) CCDP
12 3 (1.17%) CCIP
12 3 (1.17%) CCSP
12 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
12 3 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.12%) QA
2 15 (5.84%) SLA
3 10 (3.89%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.56%) MISRA
4 4 (1.56%) MISRA C
4 4 (1.56%) NIST
5 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.17%) GDPR
5 3 (1.17%) GRC
5 3 (1.17%) WCAG
6 2 (0.78%) COBIT
6 2 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) RMADS
System Software
1 18 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.89%) Firmware
4 6 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.95%) NFS
6 4 (1.56%) Docker
6 4 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.78%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.78%) vSphere
8 1 (0.39%) KVM
8 1 (0.39%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (4.28%) Ansible
2 7 (2.72%) SCCM
2 7 (2.72%) WSUS
3 4 (1.56%) Puppet
3 4 (1.56%) Terraform
4 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.17%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.17%) SCOM
5 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.78%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.78%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.78%) SCVMM
5 2 (0.78%) VxRail
6 1 (0.39%) Check_MK
6 1 (0.39%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.39%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.39%) Salt
6 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 41 (15.95%) Cisco
2 38 (14.79%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.51%) Oracle
4 19 (7.39%) VMware
5 17 (6.61%) Juniper
6 14 (5.45%) Palo Alto
7 12 (4.67%) Citrix
8 11 (4.28%) F5
8 11 (4.28%) SAP
9 10 (3.89%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.89%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.50%) Symantec
11 7 (2.72%) Adobe
12 6 (2.33%) Dell
12 6 (2.33%) Infoblox
13 5 (1.95%) Arista
13 5 (1.95%) Openreach
14 4 (1.56%) Atlassian
14 4 (1.56%) Fortinet
14 4 (1.56%) Veracode