Internet Contracts in the West Midlands

Internet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 92 125
Rank change year-on-year +3 +33 +24
Contract jobs citing Internet 8 19 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.98% 0.59%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.59% 4.81% 3.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 10
10th Percentile £163 £475 £391
25th Percentile £253 £490 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £750 £600
Median % change year-on-year -33.63% +25.00% +102.53%
75th Percentile £648 £775 -
90th Percentile £706 - £660
England median daily rate £463 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate - £13.75 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +2.93%
75th Percentile - £14.00 £16.13
90th Percentile - - £17.70
England median hourly rate £14.20 £21.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year -32.38% -22.94% -0.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 143 395 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 10.63% 20.29% 14.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 232 218
10th Percentile £145 £201 £263
25th Percentile £263 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -20.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 6
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £13.50 £13.13
Median hourly rate £16.23 £19.95 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.67% +19.10% +1.52%
75th Percentile £19.65 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £35.95 £28.75 £21.80
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Internet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Internet in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +11 3 £185 -63.00% 8
Warwickshire -3 2 £675 -10.00% 2
Coventry +8 1 £650 -13.33% 1
Solihull - 1 - -
Internet
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (25.00%) DHCP
2 2 (25.00%) Ethernet
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) 5G
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) LoRaWAN
3 1 (12.50%) Modbus
3 1 (12.50%) MQTT
3 1 (12.50%) OSPF
3 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless Security
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Economy
3 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Law
3 1 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) IT Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Rollout Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Rollout Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Housing Association
2 1 (12.50%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) NB-IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (12.50%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) Network Design
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Architectural Design
3 1 (12.50%) Contract Negotiation
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Data Acquisition
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Edge Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Feasibility Study
3 1 (12.50%) Housing Management
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (12.50%) Predictive Maintenance
3 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 2 (25.00%) CCNA
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Infoblox
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Zscaler