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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 298 241
Rank change year-on-year +47 -57 +37
Permanent jobs citing Internet 1,132 1,214 2,672
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.17% 1.71%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.31% 7.60% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 865 672 1,066
10th Percentile £26,600 £29,000 £27,625
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% +9.57%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £95,000 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -1.05% - +5.56%

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 13,628 15,972 20,897
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.82% 15.39% 13.35%
Number of salaries quoted 9,500 8,150 11,820
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -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 £43,750 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -2.78% - -

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 3 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 3 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 +65 1,037 £51,000 -2.86% 466
UK excluding London +51 813 £47,000 -1.05% 304
Work from Home +49 516 £55,000 -12.00% 232
London +11 291 £65,000 +4.00% 195
North of England +116 245 £45,000 +5.88% 70
South East +10 181 £50,000 - 61
North West +79 133 £45,000 -18.18% 31
East of England +50 122 £55,000 +92.98% 30
Midlands +66 119 £35,000 -26.32% 67
Yorkshire +102 85 £42,500 +7.59% 33
East Midlands +37 78 £35,000 -26.32% 28
South West -34 76 £52,500 -2.78% 49
West Midlands +30 41 £35,000 -22.22% 39
Scotland -111 37 £47,000 -6.93% 22
North East -13 27 £70,000 +91.78% 8
Wales +11 23 £27,500 -8.33% 11
Northern Ireland +32 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 57 (5.04%) Apache
2 46 (4.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 39 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 26 (2.30%) IIS
5 16 (1.41%) CMS
6 8 (0.71%) 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
10 4 (0.35%) Kinematics
11 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
11 3 (0.27%) nginx
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 1 (0.088%) Drupal
12 1 (0.088%) Gunicorn
12 1 (0.088%) JOnAS
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle Spatial
12 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 93 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.62%) 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 (0.27%) SPSS
7 3 (0.27%) 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 (0.27%) 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
Cloud Services
1 356 (31.45%) Azure
2 171 (15.11%) Microsoft 365
3 95 (8.39%) AWS
4 65 (5.74%) Amazon S3
5 40 (3.53%) SaaS
6 30 (2.65%) Entra ID
7 24 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
8 22 (1.94%) Power Platform
9 21 (1.86%) GCP
10 19 (1.68%) PaaS
11 17 (1.50%) IaaS
12 16 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.33%) Serverless
14 14 (1.24%) GitHub
14 14 (1.24%) Google Workspace
15 9 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (0.71%) OneDrive
17 7 (0.62%) Amazon SQS
17 7 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 259 (22.88%) Firewall
2 181 (15.99%) WAN
3 180 (15.90%) LAN
4 167 (14.75%) VPN
5 113 (9.98%) Wireless
6 111 (9.81%) DNS
7 110 (9.72%) TCP/IP
8 104 (9.19%) Wi-Fi
9 77 (6.80%) SNMP
10 74 (6.54%) Broadband
11 61 (5.39%) Network Security
12 56 (4.95%) IPsec
13 55 (4.86%) DHCP
14 53 (4.68%) MPLS
15 52 (4.59%) HTTP
16 50 (4.42%) BGP
17 48 (4.24%) OSPF
18 44 (3.89%) VoIP
19 36 (3.18%) Intranet
20 34 (3.00%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 168 (14.84%) SQL Server
2 82 (7.24%) Elasticsearch
3 80 (7.07%) MongoDB
4 42 (3.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 23 (2.03%) MySQL
6 22 (1.94%) Power BI
7 20 (1.77%) Redis
8 18 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (1.59%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.06%) Big Data
10 11 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
10 11 (0.97%) QlikView
11 7 (0.62%) DynamoDB
12 6 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (0.53%) Metabase
12 6 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 5 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.35%) Oracle Database
14 4 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (2.47%) Jenkins
2 20 (1.77%) Git
3 10 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 9 (0.80%) JIRA
5 7 (0.62%) Selenium
6 6 (0.53%) Maven
7 5 (0.44%) FitNesse
7 5 (0.44%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.44%) Postman
7 5 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 5 (0.44%) TeamCity
7 5 (0.44%) WebDriver
8 4 (0.35%) GitLab
8 4 (0.35%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (0.35%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.27%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.27%) Metasploit
10 2 (0.18%) JUnit
10 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 279 (24.65%) Social Skills
2 222 (19.61%) Finance
3 115 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (9.81%) Telecoms
5 102 (9.01%) Retail
6 51 (4.51%) Legal
7 47 (4.15%) Law
8 34 (3.00%) Electronics
8 34 (3.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 33 (2.92%) Manufacturing
9 33 (2.92%) Public Sector
10 29 (2.56%) Marketing
11 26 (2.30%) Billing
12 24 (2.12%) Banking
13 21 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (1.41%) Automotive
14 16 (1.41%) Local Government
15 14 (1.24%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.24%) Games
16 13 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 213 (18.82%) Developer
2 154 (13.60%) .NET Developer
3 149 (13.16%) Analyst
4 145 (12.81%) Senior
5 94 (8.30%) Internet Developer
6 88 (7.77%) IT Support
7 78 (6.89%) Network Engineer
8 77 (6.80%) Consultant
9 68 (6.01%) Support Engineer
10 65 (5.74%) C# .NET Developer
10 65 (5.74%) C# Developer
11 54 (4.77%) IT Engineer
11 54 (4.77%) NetApp Consultant
12 46 (4.06%) Lead
13 43 (3.80%) Architect
14 42 (3.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 38 (3.36%) IT Analyst
16 37 (3.27%) Software Engineer
17 36 (3.18%) 2nd Line Support
18 35 (3.09%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 182 (16.08%) .NET
2 122 (10.78%) HTML
3 111 (9.81%) ASP.NET
4 105 (9.28%) ASP.NET MVC
5 101 (8.92%) .NET Core
5 101 (8.92%) AngularJS
6 95 (8.39%) ASP.NET Web API
7 89 (7.86%) HTML5
8 82 (7.24%) Entity Framework
9 80 (7.07%) CSS
10 67 (5.92%) YAML
11 60 (5.30%) CSS3
12 56 (4.95%) RabbitMQ
12 56 (4.95%) RESTful
13 55 (4.86%) Blazor
14 54 (4.77%) REST
15 48 (4.24%) .NET Framework
16 38 (3.36%) React
17 34 (3.00%) LINQ
18 32 (2.83%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 130 (11.48%) Data Centre
2 80 (7.07%) IoT
3 70 (6.18%) Self-Motivation
4 58 (5.12%) Greenfield Project
5 56 (4.95%) Management Information System
6 55 (4.86%) Driving Licence
7 38 (3.36%) Cyberattack
8 23 (2.03%) Mobile App
9 22 (1.94%) Clustering
9 22 (1.94%) NHS
10 20 (1.77%) Social Media
11 19 (1.68%) Smartphone
12 18 (1.59%) Client/Server
13 17 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
14 15 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
16 13 (1.15%) Onboarding
17 12 (1.06%) GNSS
17 12 (1.06%) PKI
17 12 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 298 (26.33%) Windows
2 209 (18.46%) Linux
3 85 (7.51%) Windows Server
4 54 (4.77%) Data ONTAP
5 53 (4.68%) Windows 10
6 46 (4.06%) Ubuntu
7 45 (3.98%) Apple iOS
8 40 (3.53%) VMS
9 39 (3.45%) Android
10 24 (2.12%) Mac OS
10 24 (2.12%) Unix
11 20 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
12 19 (1.68%) VyOS
13 18 (1.59%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.97%) Debian
15 10 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
16 9 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 7 (0.62%) Kali Linux
18 6 (0.53%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.53%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (22.08%) Agile
2 228 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (15.37%) Full Stack Development
4 173 (15.28%) Customer Service
5 111 (9.81%) MVC
6 106 (9.36%) Project Management
7 95 (8.39%) Actionable Insight
7 95 (8.39%) Cybersecurity
8 90 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 87 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
10 83 (7.33%) Microservices
11 72 (6.36%) ITIL
12 70 (6.18%) TDD
13 68 (6.01%) Software Engineering
14 62 (5.48%) Computer Science
14 62 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 59 (5.21%) BDD
15 59 (5.21%) Release Management
16 57 (5.04%) Project Planning
16 57 (5.04%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 184 (16.25%) JavaScript
2 182 (16.08%) C#
3 126 (11.13%) SQL
4 120 (10.60%) Python
5 72 (6.36%) PowerShell
6 38 (3.36%) C
7 29 (2.56%) Bash
8 27 (2.39%) PHP
9 25 (2.21%) Java
10 24 (2.12%) TypeScript
11 21 (1.86%) C++
11 21 (1.86%) Go
12 19 (1.68%) Embedded C
13 12 (1.06%) Perl
14 10 (0.88%) ActionScript
14 10 (0.88%) VB
15 9 (0.80%) XAML
16 8 (0.71%) T-SQL
17 7 (0.62%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.62%) XPath
Qualifications
1 210 (18.55%) Degree
2 80 (7.07%) Cisco Certification
3 61 (5.39%) Security Cleared
4 53 (4.68%) CCNA
5 49 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 38 (3.36%) DV Cleared
7 34 (3.00%) CCNP
8 26 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 26 (2.30%) JNCIA
9 24 (2.12%) HND
10 23 (2.03%) DBS Check
11 21 (1.86%) CISSP
12 18 (1.59%) A+ Certification
12 18 (1.59%) ACCA
12 18 (1.59%) CIMA
12 18 (1.59%) HNC
12 18 (1.59%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.50%) MCSE
13 17 (1.50%) SC Cleared
14 15 (1.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (5.12%) SLA
2 27 (2.39%) QA
3 22 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.68%) NIST
5 17 (1.50%) GDPR
6 12 (1.06%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
7 11 (0.97%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.44%) NCSC
9 4 (0.35%) Data Quality
9 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.35%) PMO
10 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 183 (16.17%) Active Directory
2 146 (12.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 83 (7.33%) Docker
4 37 (3.27%) Hyper-V
4 37 (3.27%) vSphere
5 27 (2.39%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
7 16 (1.41%) Firmware
8 10 (0.88%) OpenSSH
8 10 (0.88%) XenApp
9 8 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.35%) KVM
10 4 (0.35%) Terminal Services
10 4 (0.35%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.18%) NFS
11 2 (0.18%) QEMU
11 2 (0.18%) Shibboleth
11 2 (0.18%) Varnish
11 2 (0.18%) Xen
12 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 121 (10.69%) Ansible
2 85 (7.51%) Kubernetes
3 75 (6.63%) vCenter Server
4 68 (6.01%) Terraform
5 57 (5.04%) Prometheus
6 33 (2.92%) CASB
7 27 (2.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 22 (1.94%) FortiGate
9 18 (1.59%) Grafana
10 14 (1.24%) 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 (0.71%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.53%) SmoothWall
15 5 (0.44%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 352 (31.10%) Microsoft
2 159 (14.05%) VMware
3 93 (8.22%) Cisco
4 77 (6.80%) Palo Alto
5 73 (6.45%) Juniper
6 67 (5.92%) Red Hat
7 61 (5.39%) NetApp
8 56 (4.95%) Fortinet
9 54 (4.77%) SolidFire
10 47 (4.15%) Virgin Media
11 38 (3.36%) Google
12 28 (2.47%) Nokia
13 27 (2.39%) HP
14 26 (2.30%) Openreach
15 25 (2.21%) Ruckus Wireless
16 24 (2.12%) CheckPoint
17 23 (2.03%) Sandvine
17 23 (2.03%) Veeam
18 22 (1.94%) Apple
19 21 (1.86%) Citrix