Akamai Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Akamai Technologies, Inc
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Akamai skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 93
Rank change year-on-year - - +48
Contract jobs citing Akamai 7 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.36% - 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.89% - 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 14
10th Percentile - - £500
25th Percentile £563 - £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -7.69%
75th Percentile - - £673
90th Percentile - - £702
England median daily rate £575 £550 £580
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.17% -5.69%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 788 380 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.04% 37.51% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 253 413
10th Percentile £240 £275 £258
25th Percentile £385 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 2
10th Percentile - £20.67 £24.20
25th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 £30.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £41.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.71% - +64.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £99.32 £51.50
90th Percentile £66.80 £102.00 £57.80
England median hourly rate £27.71 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.77% +26.67% -0.32%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Akamai job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Akamai
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Akamai

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in Yorkshire

Akamai
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
South Yorkshire - 7 £700 - 1
Akamai
England

Akamai
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
3 3 (42.86%) Cloudflare
3 3 (42.86%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (14.29%) AWS CloudTrail
4 1 (14.29%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) HTTP
2 3 (42.86%) HTTPS
3 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Security Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Web Applications Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) JSON
1 3 (42.86%) REST
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Application Security
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
3 4 (57.14%) Security Operations
3 4 (57.14%) Threat Detection
4 3 (42.86%) Ethical Hacking
4 3 (42.86%) OWASP
4 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 3 (42.86%) Security Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Threat Modelling
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 2 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 2 (28.57%) Reverse Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
6 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CEH
1 3 (42.86%) GIAC
1 3 (42.86%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Snort
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) F5
2 4 (57.14%) Imperva
3 3 (42.86%) Splunk
4 1 (14.29%) ArcSight
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco