Internet Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Internet
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 247 274 253
Rank change year-on-year +27 -21 +39
Contract jobs citing Internet 57 71 240
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.46% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 5.47% 4.41% 8.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 38 174
10th Percentile £300 £200 £322
25th Percentile £400 £313 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £423 £538
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -21.40% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £649
90th Percentile £653 £633 £673
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 17 8
10th Percentile - £10.42 £12.50
25th Percentile - £13.00 £13.63
Median hourly rate £14.20 £13.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -30.77% -29.09%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £27.69
90th Percentile £16.32 £24.75 £44.23
UK median hourly rate £14.20 £23.80 £26.00
% change year-on-year -40.34% -8.46% -5.45%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

Internet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Internet trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Internet
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Internet daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Internet daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Internet
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Internet hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Internet
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 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (7.02%) Apache
3 4 (7.02%) CMS
3 4 (7.02%) Confluence
3 4 (7.02%) Drupal
3 4 (7.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.05%) Azure
2 10 (17.54%) AWS
3 9 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (12.28%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (12.28%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
7 2 (3.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (3.51%) Mimecast
8 1 (1.75%) Akamai
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (45.61%) Firewall
2 15 (26.32%) Wireless
3 14 (24.56%) WAN
4 13 (22.81%) LAN
4 13 (22.81%) Network Security
5 12 (21.05%) VPN
6 11 (19.30%) DNS
7 8 (14.04%) HTTP
7 8 (14.04%) TCP/IP
8 7 (12.28%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (10.53%) MPLS
10 5 (8.77%) BGP
10 5 (8.77%) Ethernet
10 5 (8.77%) SD-WAN
11 4 (7.02%) OSPF
12 3 (5.26%) DWDM
12 3 (5.26%) IPsec
12 3 (5.26%) iSCSI
12 3 (5.26%) SSL
12 3 (5.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (12.28%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.02%) MySQL
2 4 (7.02%) Power BI
2 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.75%) SAP HANA
3 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.53%) JIRA
3 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket Server
3 4 (7.02%) Git
General
1 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Finance
2 5 (8.77%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.02%) Legal
3 4 (7.02%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Digital Economy
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Law
5 2 (3.51%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Senior
2 10 (17.54%) Network Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (10.53%) Help Desk Agent
4 6 (10.53%) Help Desk Support
5 5 (8.77%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (8.77%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) IT Manager
6 4 (7.02%) PHP Software Engineer
6 4 (7.02%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Consultant
7 3 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Network Specialist
7 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (8.77%) HTML
3 4 (7.02%) Ajax
3 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
3 4 (7.02%) CodeIgniter
3 4 (7.02%) CSS
3 4 (7.02%) jQuery
3 4 (7.02%) LAMP
3 4 (7.02%) SOAP
3 4 (7.02%) Web Services
4 1 (1.75%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.75%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.75%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.75%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.75%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.77%) IoT
3 4 (7.02%) Legacy Code
4 3 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (5.26%) IVR
4 3 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.51%) Cyberattack
5 2 (3.51%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 2 (3.51%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.51%) SCADA
5 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.75%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.75%) FMCG
6 1 (1.75%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.75%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Linux
2 9 (15.79%) Windows
3 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.02%) Unix
5 3 (5.26%) Android
5 3 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (14.04%) DevOps
2 8 (14.04%) Time Management
3 7 (12.28%) Configuration Management
3 7 (12.28%) Containerisation
3 7 (12.28%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (12.28%) Cost Management
3 7 (12.28%) Deployment Automation
3 7 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (10.53%) Network Design
4 6 (10.53%) Service Delivery
5 5 (8.77%) Agile
5 5 (8.77%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (8.77%) Information Security
5 5 (8.77%) ITIL
5 5 (8.77%) Security Management
5 5 (8.77%) Software Engineering
6 4 (7.02%) Kanban
6 4 (7.02%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.02%) Java
1 4 (7.02%) JavaScript
1 4 (7.02%) PHP
2 2 (3.51%) Python
3 1 (1.75%) Apex Code
3 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.02%) CCNP
5 3 (5.26%) Degree
6 2 (3.51%) CCDP
6 2 (3.51%) CCIE
6 2 (3.51%) CCNA
7 1 (1.75%) BC Cleared
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) CCIE Data Center
7 1 (1.75%) CCIP
7 1 (1.75%) CCSA
7 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
2 2 (3.51%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (3.51%) NCSC
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.75%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Terraform
2 7 (12.28%) Ansible
2 7 (12.28%) Grafana
2 7 (12.28%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Progress Chef
2 7 (12.28%) Prometheus
2 7 (12.28%) Puppet
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.51%) NetBackup
4 2 (3.51%) Opsgenie
5 1 (1.75%) CASB
Vendors
1 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.81%) Cisco
3 7 (12.28%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.77%) Palo Alto
5 4 (7.02%) Aruba
5 4 (7.02%) Forcepoint
5 4 (7.02%) Zend
6 3 (5.26%) Apple
6 3 (5.26%) Arista
6 3 (5.26%) Fortinet
6 3 (5.26%) Juniper
6 3 (5.26%) Meraki
6 3 (5.26%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
7 2 (3.51%) Citrix
7 2 (3.51%) HP
7 2 (3.51%) NetApp
7 2 (3.51%) Proofpoint
7 2 (3.51%) Pure Storage
7 2 (3.51%) Veritas