Internet Contracts

Internet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Internet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Internet over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 304 316
Rank change year-on-year -33 +12 -10
Contract jobs citing Internet 252 469 753
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.84% 0.86%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.64% 6.58% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 312 528
10th Percentile £205 £200 £250
25th Percentile £336 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £619
90th Percentile £750 £669 £721
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 19 33
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.90 £15.30
25th Percentile £13.25 £14.01 £21.00
Median hourly rate £23.50 £19.00 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -33.33% +111.58%
75th Percentile £41.25 £35.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £60.75 £40.03 £61.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £18.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year -24.32% -8.64% +55.77%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Internet is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Internet.

Daily rate trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Internet over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Internet.

Hourly rate trend for Internet in the UK

Internet
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Internet over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Internet in the UK

Internet
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Internet within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
England -26 228 £488 -4.41% 415
London +21 134 £500 -6.98% 159
UK excluding London -38 105 £475 +11.76% 271
Work from Home -37 69 £450 -16.28% 211
Midlands +34 28 £630 +32.63% 66
South East -15 28 £488 -2.50% 53
West Midlands +21 20 £750 +50.00% 37
Scotland +16 16 £189 +7.86% 13
North of England +6 14 £325 -16.13% 71
South West -16 12 £475 +11.76% 35
East Midlands +16 8 £250 -33.33% 29
North West +9 8 £475 +35.71% 32
Yorkshire +15 6 £325 -35.00% 31
Northern Ireland +1 3 £563 +155.68% 8
East of England -4 3 £215 -60.37% 32
Wales +17 1 £325 -6.47% 10

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 22 (8.73%) IIS
2 9 (3.57%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (1.19%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.40%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.40%) Confluence
6 1 (0.40%) Drupal
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Smallworld
6 1 (0.40%) WebLogic
Applications
1 21 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.19%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.79%) InVision
4 2 (0.79%) Sketch
5 1 (0.40%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.40%) MicroStation
5 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.40%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (2.38%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.19%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.70%) Azure
2 21 (8.33%) AWS
3 17 (6.75%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.97%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (3.57%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.78%) PaaS
7 6 (2.38%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.38%) SaaS
8 5 (1.98%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.59%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.59%) GCP
9 4 (1.59%) IaaS
9 4 (1.59%) Serverless
10 3 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.19%) GitHub
10 3 (1.19%) Mimecast
10 3 (1.19%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.19%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.19%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 47 (18.65%) Firewall
2 33 (13.10%) WAN
3 31 (12.30%) MPLS
4 29 (11.51%) DNS
5 28 (11.11%) LAN
6 23 (9.13%) VPN
7 22 (8.73%) Network Security
8 18 (7.14%) Wireless
9 15 (5.95%) Wi-Fi
10 13 (5.16%) SD-WAN
11 12 (4.76%) BGP
12 11 (4.37%) TCP/IP
13 10 (3.97%) WLAN
14 9 (3.57%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (3.57%) Cisco Nexus
14 9 (3.57%) Ethernet
14 9 (3.57%) VoIP
15 8 (3.17%) DHCP
15 8 (3.17%) HTTP
15 8 (3.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (5.95%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (1.59%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.19%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Big Data
6 2 (0.79%) GIS
6 2 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) MySQL
7 1 (0.40%) OLAP
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle BI Publisher
7 1 (0.40%) Redis
Development Applications
1 17 (6.75%) JIRA
2 10 (3.97%) Git
3 7 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.19%) GitLab
6 2 (0.79%) TestComplete
6 2 (0.79%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.40%) Selenium
7 1 (0.40%) Toad
General
1 88 (34.92%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.49%) Finance
3 27 (10.71%) Banking
4 25 (9.92%) Telecoms
5 24 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 23 (9.13%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (5.56%) Marketing
8 13 (5.16%) Legal
9 12 (4.76%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (2.78%) Law
12 6 (2.38%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.38%) Retail
13 5 (1.98%) Electronics
13 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.59%) Automotive
14 4 (1.59%) Back Office
14 4 (1.59%) Billing
14 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (15.08%) Network Engineer
2 23 (9.13%) Senior
3 22 (8.73%) Analyst
3 22 (8.73%) Architect
4 21 (8.33%) Developer
4 21 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 13 (5.16%) IT Support
5 13 (5.16%) Software Engineer
6 12 (4.76%) Project Manager
7 11 (4.37%) C# Developer
7 11 (4.37%) C# WCF Developer
7 11 (4.37%) C# WPF Developer
7 11 (4.37%) IT Engineer
7 11 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.37%) WCF Developer
7 11 (4.37%) WPF Developer
8 9 (3.57%) Desktop Support
8 9 (3.57%) Support Officer
9 8 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (2.78%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.52%) .NET
2 19 (7.54%) .NET Framework
3 13 (5.16%) Web Services
4 12 (4.76%) WPF
5 11 (4.37%) WCF
5 11 (4.37%) WinForms
6 8 (3.17%) ASP.NET
7 6 (2.38%) JSON
7 6 (2.38%) REST
8 4 (1.59%) LDAP
9 3 (1.19%) ADO
9 3 (1.19%) CSS
9 3 (1.19%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.19%) HTML
9 3 (1.19%) Middleware
9 3 (1.19%) Node.js
9 3 (1.19%) OAuth
9 3 (1.19%) OpenGL
9 3 (1.19%) pytest
9 3 (1.19%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.89%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.35%) IoT
3 9 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.38%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.38%) Blockchain
4 6 (2.38%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.38%) Social Media
5 5 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.59%) Device Driver
6 4 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.59%) Operational Technology
6 4 (1.59%) PCIe
6 4 (1.59%) PKI
6 4 (1.59%) Verilog
6 4 (1.59%) VHDL
6 4 (1.59%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.19%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 61 (24.21%) Windows
2 20 (7.94%) Unix
3 18 (7.14%) Linux
4 13 (5.16%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.98%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.59%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.59%) VxWorks
7 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.84%) Agile
1 50 (19.84%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (9.92%) Configuration Management
3 24 (9.52%) Customer Service
4 22 (8.73%) DevOps
4 22 (8.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 21 (8.33%) ITIL
6 19 (7.54%) E-Commerce
6 19 (7.54%) Mentoring
6 19 (7.54%) Project Management
6 19 (7.54%) Software Engineering
7 18 (7.14%) Change Management
7 18 (7.14%) Data Analysis
8 17 (6.75%) Migration
9 15 (5.95%) Validation
10 13 (5.16%) Programme Management
10 13 (5.16%) Software Deployment
11 12 (4.76%) Analytics
11 12 (4.76%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.89%) SQL
2 26 (10.32%) C#
2 26 (10.32%) Python
3 15 (5.95%) PowerShell
4 13 (5.16%) T-SQL
5 12 (4.76%) PL/SQL
6 11 (4.37%) Java
6 11 (4.37%) VB
6 11 (4.37%) VBA
7 9 (3.57%) JavaScript
8 6 (2.38%) C
9 4 (1.59%) C++
9 4 (1.59%) Embedded C
9 4 (1.59%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.19%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.79%) PHP
12 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.40%) Objective-C
12 1 (0.40%) R
12 1 (0.40%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 40 (15.87%) Degree
2 31 (12.30%) Security Cleared
3 28 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.13%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.16%) CCNP
6 11 (4.37%) CCIE
7 10 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.17%) Master's Degree
9 7 (2.78%) BC Cleared
9 7 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.38%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.98%) CCIE Data Center
11 5 (1.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (1.19%) CCNA
13 2 (0.79%) CCDP
13 2 (0.79%) CCIP
13 2 (0.79%) CISM
13 2 (0.79%) CISSP
13 2 (0.79%) DV Cleared
13 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.13%) QA
2 16 (6.35%) SLA
3 8 (3.17%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.59%) GDPR
5 4 (1.59%) MISRA
5 4 (1.59%) MISRA C
6 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.19%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.19%) NCSC
6 3 (1.19%) WCAG
7 2 (0.79%) COBIT
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) NIST
7 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.40%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 17 (6.75%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.97%) Firmware
4 7 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
6 5 (1.98%) Docker
7 3 (1.19%) BitLocker
7 3 (1.19%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.19%) NFS
8 2 (0.79%) vSphere
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 8 (3.17%) Ansible
1 8 (3.17%) SCCM
2 7 (2.78%) Puppet
2 7 (2.78%) WSUS
3 4 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (1.19%) NetBackup
4 3 (1.19%) SCOM
4 3 (1.19%) SCVMM
4 3 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.19%) Terraform
4 3 (1.19%) VxRail
5 2 (0.79%) CASB
5 2 (0.79%) SCOrch
6 1 (0.40%) Data Guard
6 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.40%) PaperCut
6 1 (0.40%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.40%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 46 (18.25%) Cisco
2 38 (15.08%) Microsoft
3 29 (11.51%) Oracle
4 22 (8.73%) Palo Alto
5 21 (8.33%) Juniper
6 17 (6.75%) F5
7 16 (6.35%) VMware
8 12 (4.76%) Citrix
9 10 (3.97%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.97%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.57%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.57%) Symantec
11 8 (3.17%) Dell
12 6 (2.38%) Infoblox
12 6 (2.38%) Qualys
13 5 (1.98%) Arista
13 5 (1.98%) Avaya
13 5 (1.98%) Google
13 5 (1.98%) Openreach
13 5 (1.98%) Wyse