Internet Jobs

Internet
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Internet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Internet over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 252 298
Rank change year-on-year -80 +46 -58
Permanent jobs citing Internet 422 1,133 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.81% 1.15% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.08% 8.32% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 217 865 683
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £35,500 £35,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £94,267 £80,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.38% -1.05% -1.72%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,936 13,623 16,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.30% 13.85% 15.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,252 9,516 8,186
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,250
Median % change year-on-year - -5.47% -4.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% -3.33% -

Internet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Internet over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -105 357 £45,000 -10.89% 673
UK excluding London -42 306 £44,000 -6.38% 271
Work from Home -82 123 £50,000 -9.09% 394
Midlands +50 109 £55,500 +58.57% 42
London -63 91 £52,500 -19.23% 410
West Midlands +87 83 £59,144 +68.98% 24
South East +2 60 £40,000 -20.00% 79
North of England -87 52 £53,000 +17.78% 90
Scotland +126 35 £78,876 +67.82% 15
North West -70 27 £56,250 +25.00% 49
East Midlands -1 26 £55,500 +58.57% 18
South West +62 24 £45,000 -14.29% 32
Yorkshire +11 23 £37,500 -11.76% 34
East of England -35 19 £62,000 +12.73% 28
Wales +26 8 £37,500 +36.36% 5
North East +28 2 £33,198 -46.88% 14

Internet
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 29 (6.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.79%) Confluence
3 15 (3.55%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.13%) SAS
5 8 (1.90%) CMS
6 6 (1.42%) WordPress
7 5 (1.18%) IBM Domino
8 3 (0.71%) IIS
9 2 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.24%) Mendix
10 1 (0.24%) Solana
Applications
1 46 (10.90%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.18%) SPSS
5 1 (0.24%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.24%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.13%) Magento
1 9 (2.13%) NetSuite
1 9 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (16.59%) Azure
2 56 (13.27%) Microsoft 365
3 40 (9.48%) AWS
4 31 (7.35%) SaaS
5 19 (4.50%) Entra ID
6 12 (2.84%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.61%) Google Analytics
8 10 (2.37%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.37%) Microsoft Purview
8 10 (2.37%) Power Platform
9 9 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.13%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 8 (1.90%) GCP
10 8 (1.90%) Serverless
11 6 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.18%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.18%) Figma
12 5 (1.18%) Kibo
12 5 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (0.95%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 125 (29.62%) Network Security
2 98 (23.22%) WLAN
3 74 (17.54%) WAN
4 69 (16.35%) LAN
5 51 (12.09%) Firewall
6 46 (10.90%) Wireless
7 42 (9.95%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (6.64%) TCP/IP
9 27 (6.40%) VPN
10 20 (4.74%) SMTP
11 18 (4.27%) DNS
12 13 (3.08%) MPLS
13 12 (2.84%) HTTP
14 10 (2.37%) DKIM
14 10 (2.37%) DMARC
14 10 (2.37%) DNSSEC
15 9 (2.13%) Broadband
15 9 (2.13%) SD-WAN
15 9 (2.13%) VoIP
16 8 (1.90%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.98%) MySQL
2 13 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.37%) Power BI
3 10 (2.37%) Relational Database
4 7 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (1.66%) NoSQL
5 6 (1.42%) SQL Server
6 5 (1.18%) Apache Hive
6 5 (1.18%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.95%) Big Data
7 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.47%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.47%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.47%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.47%) EDMS
8 2 (0.47%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.47%) GIS
8 2 (0.47%) Redis
8 2 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (2.84%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.37%) Git
3 8 (1.90%) JIRA
3 8 (1.90%) Maven
4 4 (0.95%) Subversion
5 3 (0.71%) GitLab
6 2 (0.47%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.47%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.24%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.24%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.24%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.24%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.24%) TeamCity
General
1 80 (18.96%) Social Skills
2 59 (13.98%) Finance
3 40 (9.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 32 (7.58%) Marketing
5 30 (7.11%) Telecoms
6 25 (5.92%) Banking
7 24 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
8 21 (4.98%) Manufacturing
9 16 (3.79%) Legal
10 14 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
11 12 (2.84%) Retail
12 10 (2.37%) Advertising
12 10 (2.37%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (2.13%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.90%) Games
15 7 (1.66%) Public Sector
16 6 (1.42%) Automotive
16 6 (1.42%) Law
17 5 (1.18%) Billing
17 5 (1.18%) Police
Job Titles
1 125 (29.62%) IT Support
2 115 (27.25%) Support Engineer
3 109 (25.83%) IT Engineer
4 107 (25.36%) IT Support Engineer
5 41 (9.72%) Senior
6 37 (8.77%) Lead
7 31 (7.35%) Analyst
8 21 (4.98%) IT Manager
9 19 (4.50%) Infrastructure Support
9 19 (4.50%) Network Support
10 18 (4.27%) Architect
10 18 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 17 (4.03%) Developer
12 13 (3.08%) IT Analyst
12 13 (3.08%) Technical Support
13 11 (2.61%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
13 11 (2.61%) Network Engineer
13 11 (2.61%) Senior Developer
14 10 (2.37%) Service Delivery Manager
14 10 (2.37%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.21%) HTML
2 19 (4.50%) CSS
3 12 (2.84%) 802.1X
4 11 (2.61%) XML
5 10 (2.37%) Android Jetpack
5 10 (2.37%) Jetpack Compose
6 9 (2.13%) RESTful
7 7 (1.66%) .NET
8 6 (1.42%) .NET Core
8 6 (1.42%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.42%) LDAP
8 6 (1.42%) React
9 5 (1.18%) Kafka
9 5 (1.18%) Vue
10 4 (0.95%) Laravel
10 4 (0.95%) Symfony
11 3 (0.71%) Middleware
11 3 (0.71%) REST
12 2 (0.47%) JSON
12 2 (0.47%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 100 (23.70%) Driving Licence
2 30 (7.11%) Virtual Team
3 28 (6.64%) IoT
4 19 (4.50%) Management Information System
4 19 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 17 (4.03%) Mobile App
5 17 (4.03%) Product Ownership
6 15 (3.55%) Cloud Native
7 14 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
8 13 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.84%) Online Banking
10 11 (2.61%) Data Centre
10 11 (2.61%) Social Media
11 10 (2.37%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.90%) Social Network
12 8 (1.90%) Tandem
13 7 (1.66%) Enterprise Software
14 6 (1.42%) Cyber Threat
15 5 (1.18%) Algorithms
15 5 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 180 (42.65%) Windows
2 112 (26.54%) Linux
3 20 (4.74%) Android
4 18 (4.27%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.90%) Apple iOS
5 8 (1.90%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.42%) Unix
7 4 (0.95%) VMS
8 2 (0.47%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) Debian
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 157 (37.20%) Problem-Solving
2 123 (29.15%) ITIL
3 115 (27.25%) Computer Science
4 111 (26.30%) Mentoring
5 99 (23.46%) Network Management
6 97 (22.99%) Asset Management
7 96 (22.75%) IT Asset Management
8 43 (10.19%) Customer Service
9 38 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
10 32 (7.58%) Agile
11 30 (7.11%) Analytics
12 29 (6.87%) B2B
13 28 (6.64%) Roadmaps
14 25 (5.92%) User Experience
15 24 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (5.69%) CRM
16 20 (4.74%) CI/CD
16 20 (4.74%) DevOps
16 20 (4.74%) Line Management
16 20 (4.74%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.53%) Python
2 32 (7.58%) JavaScript
3 20 (4.74%) PowerShell
4 18 (4.27%) SQL
5 15 (3.55%) PHP
6 13 (3.08%) Bash
7 11 (2.61%) C#
7 11 (2.61%) C++
8 9 (2.13%) Kotlin
9 7 (1.66%) Perl
9 7 (1.66%) R
10 6 (1.42%) Go
11 5 (1.18%) C
11 5 (1.18%) MATLAB
12 4 (0.95%) Java
13 3 (0.71%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.47%) PL/SQL
14 2 (0.47%) Progress 4GL
14 2 (0.47%) Scala
14 2 (0.47%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 163 (38.63%) Degree
2 111 (26.30%) Cisco Certification
3 108 (25.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 106 (25.12%) CCNA
5 104 (24.64%) CCNP
6 96 (22.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 95 (22.51%) LPIC
7 95 (22.51%) MCP
7 95 (22.51%) MCSE
8 24 (5.69%) Master's Degree
9 21 (4.98%) SC Cleared
9 21 (4.98%) Security Cleared
10 19 (4.50%) MBA
11 9 (2.13%) DV Cleared
12 6 (1.42%) AWS Certification
13 5 (1.18%) CCIE
13 5 (1.18%) DBS Check
14 4 (0.95%) ACCA
14 4 (0.95%) CIMA
14 4 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.18%) NIST
2 4 (0.95%) GDPR
2 4 (0.95%) GMP
2 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.71%) NCSC
3 3 (0.71%) QA
3 3 (0.71%) SLA
4 2 (0.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.24%) SEPA
System Software
1 34 (8.06%) Active Directory
2 29 (6.87%) Docker
3 13 (3.08%) Firmware
4 5 (1.18%) Terminal Services
5 4 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 20 (4.74%) Terraform
2 15 (3.55%) Kubernetes
3 14 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (1.90%) QRadar
4 8 (1.90%) WSUS
5 7 (1.66%) Ansible
6 3 (0.71%) Graylog
7 2 (0.47%) AWS Copilot
7 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.47%) Nessus
7 2 (0.47%) Nmap
7 2 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.47%) Puppet
7 2 (0.47%) SCCM
8 1 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 1 (0.24%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Clustering
8 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 211 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 133 (31.52%) Cisco
3 19 (4.50%) Google
3 19 (4.50%) Unisys
4 17 (4.03%) Apple
5 15 (3.55%) Adobe
6 13 (3.08%) Meraki
7 10 (2.37%) IronPort
7 10 (2.37%) New Relic
7 10 (2.37%) Veritas
7 10 (2.37%) VMware
8 8 (1.90%) Oracle
8 8 (1.90%) Splunk
9 7 (1.66%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.66%) HubSpot
9 7 (1.66%) Juniper
10 6 (1.42%) YouTube
11 5 (1.18%) Vertica
12 4 (0.95%) Databricks
12 4 (0.95%) Zscaler