Internet
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Internet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Internet over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 259 297 238
Rank change year-on-year +38 -59 +35
Permanent jobs citing Internet 1,135 1,194 2,708
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.18% 1.73%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.40% 7.57% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 870 652 1,066
10th Percentile £26,500 £29,400 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,375 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £94,750 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,450 £46,250 £48,116
% change year-on-year +2.59% -3.88% +6.93%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,519 15,777 20,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.64% 15.57% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 9,433 8,018 11,667
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,625 £45,000 £46,223
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.64% +2.72%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +66 1,036 £51,000 -2.86% 505
UK excluding London +58 821 £47,450 +2.59% 336
Work from Home +36 509 £55,000 -12.00% 225
London +8 285 £65,000 - 203
North of England +122 248 £45,000 +12.50% 79
South East -2 180 £50,000 - 63
North West +90 134 £45,000 -10.00% 35
East of England +55 122 £55,000 +92.98% 36
Midlands +46 118 £35,000 -26.32% 80
Yorkshire +114 86 £42,500 +30.77% 37
South West -31 79 £52,500 -2.78% 48
East Midlands +25 78 £35,000 -26.32% 32
Scotland -109 41 £47,000 -6.93% 24
West Midlands +28 40 £35,000 -22.22% 48
North East -13 28 £70,000 +91.78% 10
Wales +7 22 £27,500 -8.33% 13
Northern Ireland +30 11 £37,500 -11.76% 4

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 56 (4.93%) Apache
2 45 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (3.44%) SharePoint
4 24 (2.11%) IIS
5 16 (1.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.70%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.62%) Confluence
7 7 (0.62%) SAS
8 6 (0.53%) EPiServer
8 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 5 (0.44%) Kinematics
10 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.26%) WordPress
11 2 (0.18%) nginx
12 1 (0.088%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.088%) Drupal
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.088%) Site Server
Applications
1 93 (8.19%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (0.53%) Adobe Premiere
5 6 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.26%) SPSS
7 3 (0.26%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.18%) InDesign
8 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (0.18%) Shopify
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle iProcurement
4 1 (0.088%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.088%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 359 (31.63%) Azure
2 171 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
3 94 (8.28%) AWS
4 65 (5.73%) Amazon S3
5 40 (3.52%) SaaS
6 31 (2.73%) Entra ID
7 25 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (1.94%) GCP
8 22 (1.94%) Power Platform
9 19 (1.67%) PaaS
10 17 (1.50%) IaaS
11 16 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.32%) Serverless
13 14 (1.23%) GitHub
13 14 (1.23%) Google Workspace
14 9 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (0.70%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
16 7 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 255 (22.47%) Firewall
2 177 (15.59%) LAN
2 177 (15.59%) WAN
3 163 (14.36%) VPN
4 111 (9.78%) DNS
5 110 (9.69%) Wireless
6 107 (9.43%) TCP/IP
7 102 (8.99%) Wi-Fi
8 77 (6.78%) SNMP
9 74 (6.52%) Broadband
10 60 (5.29%) Network Security
11 57 (5.02%) IPsec
12 54 (4.76%) DHCP
13 52 (4.58%) MPLS
14 51 (4.49%) HTTP
15 48 (4.23%) BGP
16 46 (4.05%) OSPF
17 42 (3.70%) VoIP
18 37 (3.26%) Intranet
19 32 (2.82%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 167 (14.71%) SQL Server
2 82 (7.22%) Elasticsearch
3 80 (7.05%) MongoDB
4 42 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (2.03%) MySQL
6 22 (1.94%) Power BI
7 20 (1.76%) Redis
8 18 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.15%) Big Data
10 11 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
10 11 (0.97%) QlikView
11 7 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.53%) Metabase
13 5 (0.44%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.35%) Tableau
15 3 (0.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.76%) Git
3 10 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.79%) JIRA
5 6 (0.53%) Maven
5 6 (0.53%) Selenium
6 5 (0.44%) Postman
7 4 (0.35%) FitNesse
7 4 (0.35%) GitLab
7 4 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
7 4 (0.35%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.35%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.35%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.26%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.18%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.18%) Burp Suite
9 2 (0.18%) JUnit
9 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 278 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 222 (19.56%) Finance
3 116 (10.22%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.34%) Telecoms
5 101 (8.90%) Retail
6 50 (4.41%) Legal
7 47 (4.14%) Law
8 38 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 35 (3.08%) Electronics
10 34 (3.00%) Public Sector
11 33 (2.91%) Manufacturing
12 29 (2.56%) Marketing
13 26 (2.29%) Billing
14 25 (2.20%) Banking
15 21 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
16 16 (1.41%) Automotive
17 15 (1.32%) Local Government
18 14 (1.23%) Aerospace
19 13 (1.15%) Games
19 13 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 217 (19.12%) Developer
2 158 (13.92%) .NET Developer
3 149 (13.13%) Analyst
4 145 (12.78%) Senior
5 96 (8.46%) Internet Developer
6 88 (7.75%) IT Support
7 76 (6.70%) Consultant
7 76 (6.70%) Network Engineer
8 67 (5.90%) Support Engineer
9 65 (5.73%) C# .NET Developer
9 65 (5.73%) C# Developer
10 54 (4.76%) IT Engineer
10 54 (4.76%) NetApp Consultant
11 46 (4.05%) Lead
12 42 (3.70%) Architect
12 42 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 40 (3.52%) IT Analyst
14 37 (3.26%) Software Engineer
15 35 (3.08%) 2nd Line Support
15 35 (3.08%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (16.39%) .NET
2 122 (10.75%) HTML
3 111 (9.78%) ASP.NET
4 105 (9.25%) ASP.NET MVC
5 103 (9.07%) AngularJS
6 102 (8.99%) .NET Core
7 99 (8.72%) ASP.NET Web API
8 89 (7.84%) HTML5
9 84 (7.40%) Entity Framework
10 80 (7.05%) CSS
11 67 (5.90%) YAML
12 60 (5.29%) CSS3
13 58 (5.11%) RESTful
14 56 (4.93%) RabbitMQ
15 55 (4.85%) Blazor
16 54 (4.76%) REST
17 50 (4.41%) .NET Framework
18 38 (3.35%) React
19 33 (2.91%) LINQ
20 32 (2.82%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 131 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 82 (7.22%) IoT
3 70 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
4 59 (5.20%) Greenfield Project
5 56 (4.93%) Management Information System
6 55 (4.85%) Driving Licence
7 38 (3.35%) Cyberattack
8 23 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 22 (1.94%) Clustering
9 22 (1.94%) NHS
10 20 (1.76%) Smartphone
10 20 (1.76%) Social Media
11 18 (1.59%) Client/Server
12 16 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.15%) GNSS
14 13 (1.15%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.06%) Product Ownership
15 12 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 294 (25.90%) Windows
2 205 (18.06%) Linux
3 83 (7.31%) Windows Server
4 56 (4.93%) Windows 10
5 54 (4.76%) Data ONTAP
6 46 (4.05%) Apple iOS
7 43 (3.79%) Ubuntu
8 38 (3.35%) Android
8 38 (3.35%) VMS
9 26 (2.29%) Mac OS
10 23 (2.03%) Unix
11 20 (1.76%) Windows Server 2012
12 18 (1.59%) VyOS
13 17 (1.50%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.97%) Debian
15 10 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
16 8 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 7 (0.62%) Kali Linux
18 6 (0.53%) Windows 7
19 5 (0.44%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (21.85%) Agile
2 225 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
3 178 (15.68%) Full Stack Development
4 174 (15.33%) Customer Service
5 111 (9.78%) MVC
6 106 (9.34%) Project Management
7 92 (8.11%) Actionable Insight
7 92 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
8 90 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 87 (7.67%) Infrastructure Management
10 86 (7.58%) Microservices
11 71 (6.26%) ITIL
12 69 (6.08%) TDD
13 68 (5.99%) Software Engineering
14 62 (5.46%) Continuous Improvement
15 61 (5.37%) Computer Science
16 59 (5.20%) BDD
16 59 (5.20%) Release Management
17 58 (5.11%) Mentoring
18 57 (5.02%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 187 (16.48%) JavaScript
2 186 (16.39%) C#
3 125 (11.01%) SQL
4 120 (10.57%) Python
5 71 (6.26%) PowerShell
6 39 (3.44%) C
7 28 (2.47%) Bash
8 27 (2.38%) PHP
9 25 (2.20%) Java
10 24 (2.11%) TypeScript
11 22 (1.94%) C++
12 21 (1.85%) Go
13 19 (1.67%) Embedded C
14 12 (1.06%) Perl
15 10 (0.88%) ActionScript
15 10 (0.88%) VB
16 9 (0.79%) XAML
17 8 (0.70%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.62%) Shell Script
18 7 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 213 (18.77%) Degree
2 80 (7.05%) Cisco Certification
3 60 (5.29%) Security Cleared
4 53 (4.67%) CCNA
5 48 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (3.35%) DV Cleared
7 35 (3.08%) CCNP
8 25 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
8 25 (2.20%) JNCIA
9 24 (2.11%) HND
10 23 (2.03%) DBS Check
11 21 (1.85%) CISSP
12 18 (1.59%) ACCA
12 18 (1.59%) CIMA
12 18 (1.59%) HNC
13 17 (1.50%) A+ Certification
13 17 (1.50%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.50%) MCSE
14 16 (1.41%) SC Cleared
15 14 (1.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.93%) SLA
2 28 (2.47%) QA
3 22 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.76%) NIST
5 17 (1.50%) GDPR
6 14 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.15%) PCI DSS
8 12 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (0.44%) Data Quality
9 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.44%) NCSC
10 4 (0.35%) PMO
11 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.088%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 182 (16.04%) Active Directory
2 143 (12.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (7.31%) Docker
4 37 (3.26%) vSphere
5 36 (3.17%) Hyper-V
6 27 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (1.50%) Firmware
9 10 (0.88%) OpenSSH
9 10 (0.88%) XenApp
10 8 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.35%) KVM
11 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
11 4 (0.35%) VMware Server
12 2 (0.18%) NFS
12 2 (0.18%) QEMU
12 2 (0.18%) Shibboleth
12 2 (0.18%) Varnish
12 2 (0.18%) Xen
13 1 (0.088%) Samba
Systems Management
1 119 (10.48%) Ansible
2 85 (7.49%) Kubernetes
3 75 (6.61%) vCenter Server
4 66 (5.81%) Terraform
5 57 (5.02%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.91%) CASB
7 27 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 21 (1.85%) FortiGate
9 18 (1.59%) Grafana
10 14 (1.23%) Puppet
11 13 (1.15%) SCCM
12 10 (0.88%) Graphite
12 10 (0.88%) HAProxy
12 10 (0.88%) IBM BigFix
12 10 (0.88%) Nagios
12 10 (0.88%) PowerCLI
13 8 (0.70%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.53%) SmoothWall
15 5 (0.44%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 355 (31.28%) Microsoft
2 156 (13.74%) VMware
3 89 (7.84%) Cisco
4 77 (6.78%) Palo Alto
5 71 (6.26%) Juniper
6 67 (5.90%) Red Hat
7 61 (5.37%) NetApp
8 55 (4.85%) Fortinet
9 54 (4.76%) SolidFire
10 47 (4.14%) Virgin Media
11 39 (3.44%) Google
12 27 (2.38%) Nokia
13 26 (2.29%) HP
13 26 (2.29%) Openreach
14 24 (2.11%) Apple
14 24 (2.11%) Ruckus Wireless
15 23 (2.03%) CheckPoint
15 23 (2.03%) Sandvine
16 22 (1.94%) Citrix
16 22 (1.94%) Veeam