Internet Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Internet
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Internet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 103 102
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +49
Contract jobs citing Internet 16 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.71% 0.36% 0.61%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.60% 2.50% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 8
10th Percentile £374 £442 £342
25th Percentile £408 £468 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £521 £518
Median % change year-on-year +8.07% +0.58% +3.50%
75th Percentile £581 £609 £651
90th Percentile £589 £656 £766
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.25
Median hourly rate - - £13.50
75th Percentile - - £13.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £16.00 £42.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -62.35% +73.47% +6.52%

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 348 240 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.37% 14.35% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 136 206
10th Percentile £206 £168 £206
25th Percentile £300 £291 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +4.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £573
90th Percentile £582 £671 £675
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 19
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.48 £20.55
25th Percentile £19.88 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.13 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.44% -32.85% +11.34%
75th Percentile £34.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £52.50 - £67.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -2.86% -38.04% +25.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Internet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Internet job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Internet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Internet

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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 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Internet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Internet

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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 23 December 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
Warwickshire +4 10 £581 -13.87% 1
Birmingham -4 4 £400 -23.15% 17
Staffordshire +4 2 - - 10
Internet
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) DKIM
1 5 (31.25%) DMARC
1 5 (31.25%) DNS
1 5 (31.25%) Firewall
1 5 (31.25%) SMTP
2 2 (12.50%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 2 (12.50%) WAN
2 2 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.25%) 3GPP
3 1 (6.25%) BGP
3 1 (6.25%) Broadband
3 1 (6.25%) DMZ
3 1 (6.25%) OSPF
3 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.25%) VLAN
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) Wireless Security
3 1 (6.25%) WLAN
General
1 11 (68.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) SOC Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) Network Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyberattack
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
1 3 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
1 3 (18.75%) Security Posture
2 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
2 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS X
3 1 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Validation
2 4 (25.00%) SIEM
2 4 (25.00%) Use Case
3 3 (18.75%) Cloud Operations
3 3 (18.75%) Contingency Planning
3 3 (18.75%) Dashboard Development
3 3 (18.75%) Identity Access Management
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) Information Security
3 3 (18.75%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
3 3 (18.75%) Protective Monitoring
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
3 3 (18.75%) Security Monitoring
3 3 (18.75%) Security Operations
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Intelligence
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Management
3 3 (18.75%) Threat Modelling
3 3 (18.75%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (31.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE Routing and Switching
3 1 (6.25%) CCIE Wireless
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CWSP
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Dovecot
1 5 (31.25%) Postfix
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Broadcom
1 5 (31.25%) Red Hat
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) Google
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Aruba
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) Fortinet
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) Zscaler