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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 312 312
Rank change year-on-year -17 0 -7
Contract jobs citing Internet 258 455 780
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.79% 0.88%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.77% 6.38% 8.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 305 550
10th Percentile £200 £205 £250
25th Percentile £322 £363 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £602
90th Percentile £750 £669 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 18 35
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.85 £13.81
25th Percentile £13.25 £16.38 £16.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £28.25
Median % change year-on-year - -20.35% +82.26%
75th Percentile £51.75 £35.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £63.78 £58.05 £61.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.00 £18.82 £17.80
% change year-on-year -25.61% +5.72% +36.94%

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 5,406 7,129 9,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.45% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,227 4,606 6,336
10th Percentile £205 £235 £233
25th Percentile £350 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £690 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 416 460 376
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -30.84% +7.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.09 £50.83
90th Percentile £70.00 £74.55 £65.77
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.22 £21.50
% change year-on-year +151.88% -15.28% -5.49%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +10 233 £475 -9.52% 542
London +30 132 £488 -10.34% 205
UK excluding London -18 112 £475 +11.76% 388
Work from Home -31 71 £436 -20.68% 220
Midlands +31 30 £600 +6.67% 87
South East 0 29 £475 -5.00% 76
West Midlands +30 22 £675 +12.50% 50
Scotland +27 17 £190 +0.66% 16
South West -13 14 £500 +17.65% 49
North of England +10 13 £325 -29.73% 106
East Midlands +21 8 £250 -33.33% 37
North West +3 7 £475 +35.71% 49
Yorkshire +14 6 £325 -35.00% 49
East of England +1 5 £215 -60.37% 45
Northern Ireland +1 3 £563 +155.68% 5
Wales +19 1 £325 -6.47% 20

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 21 (8.14%) IIS
2 8 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.16%) Apache
4 3 (1.16%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (1.16%) CMS
4 3 (1.16%) Confluence
5 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.39%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.39%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (0.39%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.39%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (8.14%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.78%) Adobe XD
4 2 (0.78%) InVision
4 2 (0.78%) Sketch
5 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.39%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (1.16%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Internet Expenses
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.39%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.39%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 32 (12.40%) Azure
2 18 (6.98%) AWS
3 15 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.10%) PaaS
6 7 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.71%) GCP
7 6 (2.33%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.33%) SaaS
8 5 (1.94%) IaaS
8 5 (1.94%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.55%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.55%) GitHub
10 3 (1.16%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.16%) Serverless
11 2 (0.78%) Apigee
11 2 (0.78%) Figma
11 2 (0.78%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 48 (18.60%) Firewall
2 33 (12.79%) WAN
3 32 (12.40%) DNS
4 31 (12.02%) MPLS
5 27 (10.47%) LAN
5 27 (10.47%) VPN
6 22 (8.53%) Network Security
7 18 (6.98%) Wireless
8 15 (5.81%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (5.43%) SD-WAN
10 13 (5.04%) TCP/IP
11 12 (4.65%) BGP
11 12 (4.65%) HTTP
12 10 (3.88%) VoIP
12 10 (3.88%) WLAN
13 9 (3.49%) Cisco ASA
13 9 (3.49%) DHCP
13 9 (3.49%) Ethernet
14 8 (3.10%) Broadband
14 8 (3.10%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.14%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.43%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 3 (1.16%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (0.78%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.78%) Big Data
5 2 (0.78%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.78%) MySQL
5 2 (0.78%) Power BI
5 2 (0.78%) Redis
5 2 (0.78%) Tableau
6 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.39%) GIS
6 1 (0.39%) OLAP
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.39%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 20 (7.75%) JIRA
2 7 (2.71%) Git
3 6 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.55%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.55%) GitLab
5 3 (1.16%) Postman
6 2 (0.78%) TestComplete
6 2 (0.78%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.39%) GoCD
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.39%) Selenium
7 1 (0.39%) Toad
General
1 89 (34.50%) Social Skills
2 34 (13.18%) Finance
3 29 (11.24%) Telecoms
4 27 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 25 (9.69%) Banking
6 22 (8.53%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (6.20%) Marketing
8 12 (4.65%) Legal
9 10 (3.88%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (3.10%) Law
11 8 (3.10%) Manufacturing
12 7 (2.71%) Electronics
13 4 (1.55%) Automotive
13 4 (1.55%) Back Office
13 4 (1.55%) Billing
13 4 (1.55%) Investment Banking
13 4 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.55%) Retail
13 4 (1.55%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 37 (14.34%) Network Engineer
2 25 (9.69%) Analyst
2 25 (9.69%) Senior
3 23 (8.91%) Architect
4 22 (8.53%) Support Engineer
5 17 (6.59%) Developer
6 13 (5.04%) Project Manager
6 13 (5.04%) Software Engineer
7 12 (4.65%) IT Support
8 11 (4.26%) IT Engineer
8 11 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
9 10 (3.88%) C# Developer
9 10 (3.88%) C# WCF Developer
9 10 (3.88%) C# WPF Developer
9 10 (3.88%) Desktop Support
9 10 (3.88%) WCF Developer
9 10 (3.88%) WPF Developer
10 8 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.10%) Support Officer
10 8 (3.10%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.30%) .NET
2 18 (6.98%) .NET Framework
3 14 (5.43%) Web Services
4 11 (4.26%) WPF
5 10 (3.88%) WCF
5 10 (3.88%) WinForms
6 8 (3.10%) ASP.NET
7 7 (2.71%) JSON
7 7 (2.71%) LDAP
8 4 (1.55%) OAuth
8 4 (1.55%) OAuth2
8 4 (1.55%) REST
9 3 (1.16%) ADO
9 3 (1.16%) Blazor
9 3 (1.16%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (1.16%) Node.js
9 3 (1.16%) OpenGL
9 3 (1.16%) OpenID
9 3 (1.16%) pytest
9 3 (1.16%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.57%) Data Centre
2 22 (8.53%) IoT
3 9 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.71%) Social Media
5 6 (2.33%) Algorithms
5 6 (2.33%) Blockchain
5 6 (2.33%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.94%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (1.94%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.94%) Smartphone
7 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.55%) Device Driver
7 4 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.55%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.55%) PCIe
7 4 (1.55%) PKI
7 4 (1.55%) Verilog
7 4 (1.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 63 (24.42%) Windows
2 18 (6.98%) Linux
3 17 (6.59%) Unix
4 15 (5.81%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.33%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.55%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.55%) VxWorks
7 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (19.38%) Agile
1 50 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (9.69%) Configuration Management
2 25 (9.69%) Customer Service
3 24 (9.30%) DevOps
4 23 (8.91%) Computer Science
5 20 (7.75%) ITIL
6 19 (7.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (6.98%) Data Analysis
7 18 (6.98%) E-Commerce
7 18 (6.98%) Mentoring
7 18 (6.98%) Project Management
7 18 (6.98%) Software Engineering
8 17 (6.59%) Change Management
8 17 (6.59%) Migration
9 16 (6.20%) Programme Management
10 14 (5.43%) Test Automation
11 13 (5.04%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (5.04%) Validation
12 12 (4.65%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.18%) SQL
2 27 (10.47%) Python
3 25 (9.69%) C#
4 14 (5.43%) Java
4 14 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 12 (4.65%) T-SQL
6 11 (4.26%) JavaScript
6 11 (4.26%) PL/SQL
7 10 (3.88%) VB
7 10 (3.88%) VBA
8 5 (1.94%) C
9 4 (1.55%) C++
9 4 (1.55%) Embedded C
10 3 (1.16%) Bash
10 3 (1.16%) Embedded C++
11 2 (0.78%) Go
11 2 (0.78%) Ruby
11 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 46 (17.83%) Degree
2 30 (11.63%) Security Cleared
3 28 (10.85%) SC Cleared
4 26 (10.08%) Cisco Certification
5 14 (5.43%) CCNP
6 11 (4.26%) CCIE
6 11 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (2.71%) Master's Degree
8 6 (2.33%) BC Cleared
8 6 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.94%) CCIE Data Center
9 5 (1.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (1.55%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.55%) CCNA
10 4 (1.55%) CISM
10 4 (1.55%) CISSP
11 3 (1.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (1.16%) CCSP
11 3 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 3 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.53%) QA
2 14 (5.43%) SLA
3 9 (3.49%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.55%) COBIT
5 4 (1.55%) GDPR
5 4 (1.55%) MISRA
5 4 (1.55%) MISRA C
5 4 (1.55%) NIST
6 3 (1.16%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.16%) GRC
6 3 (1.16%) NCSC
6 3 (1.16%) WCAG
7 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.39%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.39%) RMADS
System Software
1 17 (6.59%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (3.88%) Firmware
4 6 (2.33%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (2.33%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (1.94%) NFS
6 3 (1.16%) Docker
7 2 (0.78%) BitLocker
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (0.78%) vSphere
8 1 (0.39%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (4.65%) Ansible
2 8 (3.10%) SCCM
3 7 (2.71%) WSUS
4 6 (2.33%) Puppet
5 4 (1.55%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.16%) SCOM
6 3 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.78%) CASB
7 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.78%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.78%) SCOrch
7 2 (0.78%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.78%) Terraform
7 2 (0.78%) VxRail
8 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.39%) Grafana
8 1 (0.39%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.39%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 44 (17.05%) Cisco
2 38 (14.73%) Microsoft
3 28 (10.85%) Oracle
4 20 (7.75%) Palo Alto
5 18 (6.98%) Juniper
6 17 (6.59%) VMware
7 15 (5.81%) F5
8 13 (5.04%) Citrix
9 10 (3.88%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.88%) Zscaler
10 9 (3.49%) Symantec
11 8 (3.10%) SAP
12 7 (2.71%) Dell
12 7 (2.71%) Fortinet
13 6 (2.33%) Infoblox
14 5 (1.94%) Arista
14 5 (1.94%) Google
14 5 (1.94%) Openreach
14 5 (1.94%) Qualys
14 5 (1.94%) Veracode