Akamai Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Akamai Technologies, Inc
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 - 55
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs citing Akamai 6 0 20
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.64% - 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.57% - 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 20
10th Percentile - - £425
25th Percentile £313 - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 - £545
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.15%
75th Percentile £350 - £669
90th Percentile £394 - £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £350 - £545
% change year-on-year - - -5.22%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Yorkshire

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 in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 382 227 358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 40.86% 42.75% 31.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 143 247
10th Percentile £310 £263 £264
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £567 £600
90th Percentile £633 £710 £675
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £488 £475
% change year-on-year - +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile - £23.46 -
25th Percentile - £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.25 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.57% +118.73% -72.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £75.20 £102.00 £43.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
% change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -65.32%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Akamai.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Akamai

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
Leeds - 5 £325 - 1
Halifax - 4 £325 -
Akamai
Yorkshire

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) GCP
2 3 (50.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Application Security Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Applications Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Security Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Security Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 3 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform