Akamai Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Akamai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Akamai 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 297 331 449
Rank change year-on-year +34 +118 +148
Contract jobs citing Akamai 7 14 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.18% 0.25% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 16
10th Percentile - £325 £506
25th Percentile £463 £359 £577
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £615
Median % change year-on-year - -14.63% +6.96%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £840 £669 £681
UK median daily rate £575 £525 £608
% change year-on-year +9.52% -13.62% +8.53%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Akamai falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Akamai
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Akamai trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Akamai.

Akamai daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Akamai over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Akamai daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Akamai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Datadog
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
4 1 (14.29%) CloudFront
4 1 (14.29%) Fastly
4 1 (14.29%) npm
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) BGP
2 2 (28.57%) DHCP
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) OSPF
2 2 (28.57%) SNMP
2 2 (28.57%) SSL
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) DWDM
3 1 (14.29%) EIGRP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
3 1 (14.29%) IGRP
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) MPLS
3 1 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Backend Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Video On Demand Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) PlayReady
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) VCL
2 1 (14.29%) Widevine
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
1 1 (14.29%) MPEG
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
1 1 (14.29%) Video on Demand
1 1 (14.29%) Video\Live Streaming
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Observability
3 1 (14.29%) OWASP
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Go
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCDP
1 1 (14.29%) CEH
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CISSP
1 1 (14.29%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Grafana
2 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Imperva
1 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) F5
2 2 (28.57%) Qualys
3 1 (14.29%) Arista
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
3 1 (14.29%) Blue Coat
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper
3 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
3 1 (14.29%) Zscaler