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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 258 305
Rank change year-on-year -154 +47 -67
Permanent jobs citing Internet 338 1,138 1,189
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 1.15% 1.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.94% 8.41% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 208 873 646
10th Percentile £26,625 £26,500 £29,400
25th Percentile £32,275 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,625 £68,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,375 £80,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £47,450 £46,500
% change year-on-year -10.43% +2.04% -3.36%

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 8,582 13,531 15,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.57% 13.64% 15.59%
Number of salaries quoted 4,313 9,431 7,998
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -3.23%

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 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Top 17 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 12 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 -189 284 £43,000 -15.69% 959
UK excluding London -125 227 £42,500 -10.43% 477
Work from Home -120 112 £50,000 -9.09% 626
London -58 86 £52,500 -19.23% 586
South East -13 60 £40,000 -20.00% 193
North of England -98 55 £45,000 - 124
Midlands -7 42 £55,500 +58.57% 65
West Midlands +50 30 £53,688 +53.39% 36
North West -97 27 £56,250 +25.00% 66
Yorkshire +13 26 £37,500 -11.76% 50
South West +51 24 £45,000 -14.29% 44
Scotland +95 23 £106,466 +126.52% 40
East of England -49 15 £62,000 +12.73% 38
East Midlands -22 12 £57,000 +62.86% 24
Wales +28 8 £37,500 +36.36% 2
North East +20 2 £33,198 -52.58% 13
Northern Ireland +29 1 - - 1

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 27 (7.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.73%) Confluence
3 14 (4.14%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.37%) CMS
4 8 (2.37%) SAS
5 6 (1.78%) WordPress
6 5 (1.48%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.89%) IIS
8 2 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.30%) Mendix
9 1 (0.30%) Solana
Applications
1 48 (14.20%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.48%) SPSS
5 1 (0.30%) FrameMaker
5 1 (0.30%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.66%) Magento
1 9 (2.66%) NetSuite
1 9 (2.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 64 (18.93%) Azure
2 53 (15.68%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (11.24%) AWS
4 28 (8.28%) SaaS
5 15 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 12 (3.55%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (3.25%) Google Analytics
8 9 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.66%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (2.66%) Power Platform
8 9 (2.66%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 8 (2.37%) Serverless
10 7 (2.07%) GCP
11 6 (1.78%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.48%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 5 (1.48%) Figma
12 5 (1.48%) Kibo
12 5 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 4 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 74 (21.89%) WAN
2 69 (20.41%) LAN
3 49 (14.50%) Network Security
4 46 (13.61%) Firewall
4 46 (13.61%) Wireless
5 39 (11.54%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (8.88%) WLAN
7 27 (7.99%) TCP/IP
8 23 (6.80%) VPN
9 20 (5.92%) SMTP
10 18 (5.33%) DNS
11 13 (3.85%) HTTP
12 12 (3.55%) Broadband
13 10 (2.96%) VoIP
14 9 (2.66%) DKIM
14 9 (2.66%) DMARC
14 9 (2.66%) DNSSEC
14 9 (2.66%) SD-WAN
14 9 (2.66%) VLAN
15 8 (2.37%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (6.21%) MySQL
2 12 (3.55%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (2.96%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.66%) Power BI
5 7 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (1.78%) NoSQL
6 6 (1.78%) SQL Server
7 5 (1.48%) Apache Hive
7 5 (1.48%) Hadoop
8 4 (1.18%) Big Data
9 3 (0.89%) Data Lake
9 3 (0.89%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.59%) EDMS
10 2 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (0.59%) GIS
10 2 (0.59%) Redis
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Athena
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (3.55%) Jenkins
2 10 (2.96%) Git
3 8 (2.37%) JIRA
3 8 (2.37%) Maven
4 4 (1.18%) Subversion
5 3 (0.89%) GitLab
6 2 (0.59%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.59%) Metasploit
7 1 (0.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.30%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.30%) Karma Test Runner
7 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.30%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.30%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (22.49%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.27%) Finance
3 39 (11.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 29 (8.58%) Telecoms
5 27 (7.99%) Marketing
6 26 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
7 24 (7.10%) Banking
8 21 (6.21%) Manufacturing
9 14 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (3.55%) Legal
11 10 (2.96%) Advertising
11 10 (2.96%) Aerospace
11 10 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.96%) Retail
12 8 (2.37%) Games
13 6 (1.78%) Automotive
13 6 (1.78%) Law
14 5 (1.48%) Billing
14 5 (1.48%) Local Government
14 5 (1.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 62 (18.34%) IT Support
2 48 (14.20%) Support Engineer
3 42 (12.43%) IT Engineer
4 40 (11.83%) IT Support Engineer
5 39 (11.54%) Senior
6 36 (10.65%) Lead
7 31 (9.17%) Analyst
8 19 (5.62%) Infrastructure Support
8 19 (5.62%) Network Support
9 18 (5.33%) IT Manager
10 17 (5.03%) Developer
11 15 (4.44%) Architect
11 15 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (4.14%) Technical Support
13 12 (3.55%) IT Analyst
14 11 (3.25%) Senior Developer
15 10 (2.96%) Android Engineer
15 10 (2.96%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
16 9 (2.66%) Magento Developer
16 9 (2.66%) Senior Magento Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.51%) HTML
2 19 (5.62%) CSS
3 13 (3.85%) 802.1X
4 11 (3.25%) XML
5 10 (2.96%) Android Jetpack
5 10 (2.96%) Jetpack Compose
6 9 (2.66%) RESTful
7 8 (2.37%) .NET
8 7 (2.07%) LDAP
8 7 (2.07%) React
9 6 (1.78%) .NET Core
9 6 (1.78%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.48%) Kafka
10 5 (1.48%) Vue
11 4 (1.18%) Laravel
11 4 (1.18%) Symfony
12 3 (0.89%) Middleware
13 2 (0.59%) Django
13 2 (0.59%) Spring
13 2 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.76%) Driving Licence
2 30 (8.88%) Virtual Team
3 27 (7.99%) IoT
4 18 (5.33%) Onboarding
5 17 (5.03%) Management Information System
5 17 (5.03%) Mobile App
6 14 (4.14%) Cloud Native
7 13 (3.85%) Product Ownership
7 13 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 13 (3.85%) Social Media
8 12 (3.55%) Online Banking
8 12 (3.55%) Security Operations Centre
9 11 (3.25%) Client/Server
10 10 (2.96%) Data Centre
11 8 (2.37%) Social Network
11 8 (2.37%) Tandem
12 7 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
13 6 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.48%) Algorithms
15 4 (1.18%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 113 (33.43%) Windows
2 45 (13.31%) Linux
3 20 (5.92%) Android
4 18 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.37%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.37%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.78%) Mac OS
6 6 (1.78%) Unix
7 2 (0.59%) VMS
7 2 (0.59%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.30%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (25.15%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (16.57%) ITIL
3 47 (13.91%) Computer Science
3 47 (13.91%) Mentoring
4 36 (10.65%) Cybersecurity
5 35 (10.36%) Customer Service
6 32 (9.47%) Network Management
7 30 (8.88%) Asset Management
8 29 (8.58%) Analytics
8 29 (8.58%) IT Asset Management
9 28 (8.28%) Agile
9 28 (8.28%) B2B
9 28 (8.28%) Roadmaps
10 25 (7.40%) User Experience
11 23 (6.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (6.80%) CRM
12 20 (5.92%) CI/CD
12 20 (5.92%) DevOps
12 20 (5.92%) Line Management
12 20 (5.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 33 (9.76%) Python
2 32 (9.47%) JavaScript
3 17 (5.03%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.03%) SQL
4 15 (4.44%) PHP
5 12 (3.55%) C#
6 11 (3.25%) Bash
6 11 (3.25%) C++
7 9 (2.66%) Kotlin
8 7 (2.07%) Perl
8 7 (2.07%) R
9 6 (1.78%) Go
10 5 (1.48%) C
10 5 (1.48%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.89%) Java
11 3 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.59%) Progress 4GL
12 2 (0.59%) VBScript
13 1 (0.30%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 94 (27.81%) Degree
2 41 (12.13%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (11.83%) Cisco Certification
4 35 (10.36%) CCNA
4 35 (10.36%) CCNP
5 29 (8.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (8.28%) LPIC
6 28 (8.28%) MCP
6 28 (8.28%) MCSE
7 23 (6.80%) Master's Degree
8 22 (6.51%) Security Cleared
9 21 (6.21%) SC Cleared
10 19 (5.62%) MBA
11 10 (2.96%) DV Cleared
12 7 (2.07%) DBS Check
13 4 (1.18%) ACCA
13 4 (1.18%) AWS Certification
13 4 (1.18%) CIMA
13 4 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
14 3 (0.89%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.18%) GDPR
1 4 (1.18%) GMP
1 4 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (1.18%) SLA
2 3 (0.89%) NIST
2 3 (0.89%) QA
3 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (0.59%) NCSC
4 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.30%) SEPA
System Software
1 32 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 29 (8.58%) Docker
3 13 (3.85%) Firmware
4 5 (1.48%) Terminal Services
5 4 (1.18%) Embedded Firmware
6 3 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.59%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 18 (5.33%) Terraform
2 15 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (2.66%) QRadar
4 8 (2.37%) WSUS
5 3 (0.89%) Ansible
5 3 (0.89%) Graylog
6 2 (0.59%) AWS Copilot
6 2 (0.59%) FortiGate
6 2 (0.59%) Nmap
6 2 (0.59%) SCCM
7 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 1 (0.30%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.30%) Nessus
7 1 (0.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 142 (42.01%) Microsoft
2 62 (18.34%) Cisco
3 19 (5.62%) Google
3 19 (5.62%) Unisys
4 17 (5.03%) Apple
5 15 (4.44%) Adobe
6 11 (3.25%) Meraki
6 11 (3.25%) VMware
7 10 (2.96%) New Relic
8 9 (2.66%) IronPort
8 9 (2.66%) Splunk
8 9 (2.66%) Veritas
9 8 (2.37%) Oracle
10 7 (2.07%) HubSpot
11 6 (1.78%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.78%) Juniper
11 6 (1.78%) YouTube
12 5 (1.48%) Vertica
13 4 (1.18%) Ruckus Wireless
13 4 (1.18%) Zscaler