Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Akamai skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Akamai over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 696 881 947
Rank change year-on-year +185 +66 +209
Permanent jobs citing Akamai 6 26 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.025% 0.022%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.039% 0.072% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 1 25 20
10th Percentile - - £48,000
25th Percentile £91,250 £66,250 £60,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £95,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £103,750 £107,500 £87,500
90th Percentile - - £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary - £95,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +123.53% -29.17%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,400 35,996 41,248
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.58% 34.72% 43.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,158 26,922 27,386
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £34,605
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,450 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.90% -9.09% +4.76%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Akamai.

Salary trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Top 3 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the UK over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
England +151 6 £97,500 +2.63% 7
London +91 5 £97,500 +2.63% 2
Work from Home +106 3 £97,500 +2.63% 3

Akamai
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (33.33%) nginx
1 2 (33.33%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) PlantUML
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Cloudflare
2 2 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (16.67%) Datadog
3 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Kong
3 1 (16.67%) Lucidchart
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) Broadband
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) ICMP
2 2 (33.33%) IOS XR
2 2 (33.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (50.00%) Law
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Design Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Architect
2 1 (16.67%) IT Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Jinja
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
1 2 (33.33%) YANG
2 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) IoT
2 1 (16.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) TOGAF
4 1 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) Bash
2 2 (33.33%) Go
2 2 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ACSA
1 1 (16.67%) ACSP
1 1 (16.67%) CCSK
1 1 (16.67%) CCSP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISSAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) COBIT
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (50.00%) Terraform
3 2 (33.33%) Ansible
3 2 (33.33%) HAProxy
4 1 (16.67%) Grafana
4 1 (16.67%) Kibana
4 1 (16.67%) logstash
4 1 (16.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (16.67%) AppDynamics
2 1 (16.67%) CyberArk
2 1 (16.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Netskope
2 1 (16.67%) Okta
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler