Internet Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Internet
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Internet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 158 177
Rank change year-on-year -11 +19 -3
Permanent jobs citing Internet 17 44 61
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.28% 1.22% 0.93%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.81% 7.51% 6.76%
Number of salaries quoted 14 36 36
10th Percentile £30,200 £21,101 £27,750
25th Percentile £34,375 £22,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £25,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +94.17% -42.78% +32.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £40,000 £55,750
90th Percentile - - £75,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £40,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +18.75% -17.53% +7.78%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

Internet falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 446 586 902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.24% 16.25% 13.72%
Number of salaries quoted 324 283 627
10th Percentile £28,075 £25,750 £28,650
25th Percentile £31,813 £31,563 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,333 £45,000 £44,175
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% +1.87% -7.00%
75th Percentile £66,563 £63,750 £59,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £70,000
South East median annual salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +11.76% -10.53% +3.54%

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Internet relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Internet job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Internet
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Internet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Internet

Internet
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Internet in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Internet in the Thames Valley

Internet
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -5 9 £62,500 +165.96% 6
Oxfordshire -14 6 £37,500 -6.25% 5
Buckinghamshire - 2 £62,000 - 2
Internet
South East

Internet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Acrobat
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (64.71%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) GitHub
3 6 (35.29%) AWS
4 5 (29.41%) Azure AI
4 5 (29.41%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) LAN
2 6 (35.29%) WAN
3 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 5 (29.41%) Network Security
4 4 (23.53%) DHCP
4 4 (23.53%) DNS
4 4 (23.53%) VLAN
4 4 (23.53%) VPN
4 4 (23.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (11.76%) FTP
5 2 (11.76%) HTTP
5 2 (11.76%) SMTP
5 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
6 1 (5.88%) Broadband
6 1 (5.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (29.41%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Multimedia
4 1 (5.88%) Games
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Lead
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Network Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Network Manager
4 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Trainee
4 2 (11.76%) Trainee Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Web Administrator
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Sales Executive
5 1 (5.88%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) CSS
1 7 (41.18%) HTML
2 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 5 (29.41%) .NET Core
2 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET
2 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Core
2 5 (29.41%) ML.NET
3 2 (11.76%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) Learning Management System
3 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (35.29%) AI
2 6 (35.29%) Machine Learning
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Full-Stack Development
3 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity
4 4 (23.53%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (23.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Incident Response
4 4 (23.53%) Mentoring
4 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) Strategic Planning
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
5 2 (11.76%) SIEM
5 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (11.76%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) C#
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) CCNA
1 5 (29.41%) CCNP
1 5 (29.41%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
3 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (5.88%) CISM
5 1 (5.88%) CISSP
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Aruba
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
2 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) ArcSight
3 2 (11.76%) Splunk
4 1 (5.88%) Adobe