Internet Contracts

Internet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 382 345 304
Rank change year-on-year -37 -41 +9
Contract jobs citing Internet 148 259 470
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.49% 0.59% 0.85%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.92% 4.79% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 143 313
10th Percentile £250 £203 £200
25th Percentile £375 £336 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.41% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £598 £600
90th Percentile £653 £770 £674
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 43 22
10th Percentile - £12.28 £13.10
25th Percentile - £13.63 £14.45
Median hourly rate £14.20 £22.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.89% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £22.84 £41.25 £33.44
90th Percentile £50.25 £60.75 £36.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.20 £14.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +1.43% -26.32% -8.57%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,771 5,406 7,122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.50% 12.41% 12.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,275 3,197 4,590
10th Percentile £225 £213 £238
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -
75th Percentile £590 £600 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.57% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 430 451
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.56 £17.69 £10.63
Median hourly rate £41.48 £45.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +136.84% -33.23%
75th Percentile £59.09 £63.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.93 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.32 £47.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -36.17% +150.00% -14.03%

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 25 June 2025.

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 25 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Top 15 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 25 June 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 -31 120 £425 -15.00% 1,166
UK excluding London +14 68 £425 -5.56% 527
London -29 64 £408 -20.10% 696
Work from Home +33 58 £475 +5.56% 528
South East +51 27 £400 -17.95% 134
Scotland -1 13 £384 +104.67% 27
North of England +11 10 £475 +46.15% 166
Midlands -3 9 £435 -30.35% 91
North West +3 8 £475 - 79
West Midlands -3 7 £330 -56.00% 53
Northern Ireland -5 4 - - 10
East of England +22 3 £413 +77.42% 52
South West +40 2 £440 -12.00% 42
East Midlands 0 2 £435 +74.12% 38
Yorkshire -1 2 £525 +61.54% 57

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 17 (11.49%) SharePoint
2 12 (8.11%) IIS
3 6 (4.05%) CMS
4 4 (2.70%) Apache
4 4 (2.70%) Confluence
4 4 (2.70%) Drupal
4 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (2.70%) WordPress
5 3 (2.03%) Moodle
6 2 (1.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.35%) MS Project Server
7 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.68%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.68%) Facebook Platform
7 1 (0.68%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 21 (14.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 21 (14.19%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.03%) AutoCAD
3 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (14.19%) Azure
2 20 (13.51%) AWS
3 17 (11.49%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (7.43%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (6.08%) Power Platform
6 8 (5.41%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.70%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.70%) GCP
8 2 (1.35%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.35%) Cloud9 IDE
8 2 (1.35%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.35%) Mimecast
8 2 (1.35%) SaaS
9 1 (0.68%) Akamai
9 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.68%) Figma
9 1 (0.68%) IaaS
9 1 (0.68%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.68%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 46 (31.08%) Firewall
2 27 (18.24%) TCP/IP
3 25 (16.89%) WAN
4 23 (15.54%) LAN
4 23 (15.54%) VPN
5 20 (13.51%) Network Security
5 20 (13.51%) Wireless
6 18 (12.16%) HTTP
7 15 (10.14%) DNS
7 15 (10.14%) MPLS
7 15 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
8 13 (8.78%) BGP
8 13 (8.78%) OSPF
9 12 (8.11%) SD-WAN
10 11 (7.43%) IPsec
11 7 (4.73%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (4.73%) SSL
12 6 (4.05%) DWDM
12 6 (4.05%) Ethernet
12 6 (4.05%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.19%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.11%) Oracle Database
3 11 (7.43%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.08%) Power BI
5 8 (5.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (5.41%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (5.41%) MySQL
6 6 (4.05%) DB2
7 4 (2.70%) Oracle Reports
8 3 (2.03%) Big Data
9 2 (1.35%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.35%) Tableau
10 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.68%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.68%) GIS
10 1 (0.68%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.68%) Metadata
10 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.68%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (7.43%) Jenkins
2 9 (6.08%) Git
3 5 (3.38%) JIRA
4 4 (2.70%) Bitbucket Server
5 2 (1.35%) Gradle
5 2 (1.35%) Maven
5 2 (1.35%) MSI
6 1 (0.68%) Appium
6 1 (0.68%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.68%) Selenium
6 1 (0.68%) TestComplete
6 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 54 (36.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (10.14%) Finance
4 12 (8.11%) Public Sector
5 9 (6.08%) Telecoms
6 7 (4.73%) Banking
6 7 (4.73%) Legal
7 4 (2.70%) Marketing
8 3 (2.03%) Digital Economy
8 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Military
8 3 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.03%) Retail
9 2 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.35%) Law
9 2 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.68%) Automotive
10 1 (0.68%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.68%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (17.57%) Network Engineer
2 19 (12.84%) Senior
3 16 (10.81%) Developer
4 12 (8.11%) C# Developer
4 12 (8.11%) C# WCF Developer
4 12 (8.11%) C# WPF Developer
4 12 (8.11%) WCF Developer
4 12 (8.11%) WPF Developer
5 10 (6.76%) Analyst
5 10 (6.76%) Cisco Engineer
5 10 (6.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (6.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (5.41%) Architect
7 8 (5.41%) IT Manager
7 8 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) Help Desk Support
8 7 (4.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.73%) IT Services Manager
8 7 (4.73%) Service Manager
9 6 (4.05%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.78%) HTML
2 12 (8.11%) .NET
2 12 (8.11%) .NET Framework
2 12 (8.11%) WCF
2 12 (8.11%) WinForms
2 12 (8.11%) WPF
3 8 (5.41%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (4.73%) Web Services
5 6 (4.05%) 802.1X
5 6 (4.05%) CSS
6 5 (3.38%) LDAP
6 5 (3.38%) SOAP
7 4 (2.70%) Ajax
7 4 (2.70%) AngularJS
7 4 (2.70%) CodeIgniter
7 4 (2.70%) jQuery
7 4 (2.70%) LAMP
8 3 (2.03%) XML
9 2 (1.35%) J2EE
9 2 (1.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.11%) Data Centre
1 12 (8.11%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.08%) IoT
2 9 (6.08%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (4.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 5 (3.38%) Fibre Optics
4 5 (3.38%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.38%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.70%) Legacy Code
5 4 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.03%) Digital Signage
6 3 (2.03%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 3 (2.03%) Operational Technology
6 3 (2.03%) SCADA
6 3 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (2.03%) VLE
7 2 (1.35%) Online Banking
7 2 (1.35%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (19.59%) Windows
2 27 (18.24%) Linux
3 15 (10.14%) Unix
4 8 (5.41%) Windows Server
5 4 (2.70%) Android
6 3 (2.03%) Solaris
6 3 (2.03%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.68%) AIX
7 1 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.68%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.68%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (13.51%) Disaster Recovery
3 17 (11.49%) Server Management
4 16 (10.81%) Migration
4 16 (10.81%) Time Management
5 14 (9.46%) Data Analysis
6 12 (8.11%) Agile
6 12 (8.11%) Network Design
6 12 (8.11%) Roadmaps
7 11 (7.43%) Analytics
7 11 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (7.43%) ITIL
7 11 (7.43%) Project Delivery
7 11 (7.43%) Project Management
8 10 (6.76%) Computer Science
8 10 (6.76%) Configuration Management
8 10 (6.76%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (6.08%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (6.08%) DevOps
9 9 (6.08%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.81%) SQL
2 14 (9.46%) Python
3 12 (8.11%) C#
3 12 (8.11%) PL/SQL
3 12 (8.11%) T-SQL
3 12 (8.11%) VB
3 12 (8.11%) VBA
4 9 (6.08%) Java
5 8 (5.41%) Perl
6 6 (4.05%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.70%) PHP
8 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.35%) Bash
9 2 (1.35%) C
9 2 (1.35%) C++
9 2 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 25 (16.89%) Degree
2 21 (14.19%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (12.16%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.49%) SC Cleared
5 14 (9.46%) CCNP
6 9 (6.08%) CCNA
7 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (3.38%) CCIE
9 3 (2.03%) JNCIA
9 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.35%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.35%) MCP
10 2 (1.35%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.68%) CCDP
11 1 (0.68%) ISEB
11 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.68%) MCSA
11 1 (0.68%) MCSE
11 1 (0.68%) MOS
11 1 (0.68%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (12.16%) QA
2 6 (4.05%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.70%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (2.70%) WCAG
4 3 (2.03%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.03%) NCSC
5 2 (1.35%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.35%) SLA
6 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (8.11%) Docker
2 10 (6.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.68%) Terminal Services
4 1 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.68%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.68%) vSphere
4 1 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (10.14%) Ansible
2 11 (7.43%) Terraform
3 10 (6.76%) Kubernetes
4 8 (5.41%) Grafana
4 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (5.41%) Progress Chef
4 8 (5.41%) Prometheus
4 8 (5.41%) Puppet
5 3 (2.03%) SCCM
6 2 (1.35%) CASB
6 2 (1.35%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.68%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.68%) Packer
7 1 (0.68%) yum
Vendors
1 37 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 34 (22.97%) Cisco
3 20 (13.51%) Oracle
4 18 (12.16%) Citrix
5 15 (10.14%) Palo Alto
6 10 (6.76%) Aruba
7 9 (6.08%) Red Hat
7 9 (6.08%) Zscaler
8 8 (5.41%) Fortinet
8 8 (5.41%) Juniper
9 6 (4.05%) Meraki
10 5 (3.38%) Arista
10 5 (3.38%) F5
10 5 (3.38%) Splunk
10 5 (3.38%) VMware
11 4 (2.70%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.70%) Zend
12 3 (2.03%) McAfee
12 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
12 3 (2.03%) SolarWinds