Akamai Contracts with Work from Home Options

Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Akamai skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Akamai over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 440 591
Rank change year-on-year +117 +151 -122
Contract jobs citing Akamai 14 27 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.11% 0.076%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.27% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 20
10th Percentile £325 £506 £423
25th Percentile £359 £554 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £563
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +9.33% +8.17%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £669 £683 £719
UK median daily rate £528 £601 £538
% change year-on-year -12.16% +11.72% +2.38%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Akamai is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,467 10,106 18,481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.09% 39.52% 41.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,928 7,421 13,809
10th Percentile £350 £371 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 129 171
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.82 £21.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +96.36% -29.49%
75th Percentile £46.88 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.20 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -6.52%

Akamai
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Akamai trend for jobs with a WFH option

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Akamai over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Azure
2 8 (57.14%) Cloudflare
3 3 (21.43%) AWS
4 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
5 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
2 4 (28.57%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
4 1 (7.14%) BGP
4 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
1 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 4 (28.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Deployment Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Security Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Network Deployment Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Network Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Security Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Senior
1 3 (21.43%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Manager
2 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
2 1 (7.14%) Security Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Security Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) LDAP
1 1 (7.14%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Load Balancing
1 4 (28.57%) RAD
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
2 3 (21.43%) DevOps
2 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) Configuration Management
4 1 (7.14%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.14%) Extreme Programming
4 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (7.14%) Kanban
4 1 (7.14%) OWASP
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum
4 1 (7.14%) Server Management
4 1 (7.14%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
1 1 (7.14%) Go
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) Scala
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
1 1 (7.14%) PowerDNS
1 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) F5
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Barracuda Networks
3 1 (7.14%) Forcepoint
3 1 (7.14%) ForgeRock
3 1 (7.14%) Imperva
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) Zscaler