Akamai Technologies, Inc
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Akamai skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Akamai over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 551 670 771
Rank change year-on-year +119 +101 -113
Contract jobs citing Akamai 36 36 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.084% 0.062% 0.068%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.26% 0.17% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 18 36
10th Percentile £385 £506 £383
25th Percentile £473 £534 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £608 £544
Median % change year-on-year -11.15% +11.77% +2.40%
75th Percentile £641 £638 £650
90th Percentile £758 £679 £681
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -1.70%

All Cloud Skills
UK

Akamai is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,842 21,188 33,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.44% 36.76% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 15,319 24,772
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £744 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 340 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.44 £15.37
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.73%
75th Percentile £35.50 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £65.75 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.72 £25.00 £19.63
% change year-on-year -29.12% +27.39% -1.88%

Akamai
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Akamai as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Akamai over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Akamai in the UK

Akamai
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Akamai within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 +120 33 £540 -11.15% 8
UK excluding London +73 18 £515 -4.19% 3
North of England +35 17 £515 -20.77% 1
Yorkshire +31 17 £515 -20.77% 1
London +85 15 £625 +2.00% 5
Work from Home +102 13 £550 -11.29% 7
Scotland - 1 - -

Akamai
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 2 (5.56%) Apache
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Solr
1 2 (5.56%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 18 (50.00%) Azure
2 17 (47.22%) Cloudflare
3 11 (30.56%) AWS
4 6 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.78%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.78%) IaaS
6 1 (2.78%) PaaS
6 1 (2.78%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (44.44%) Firewall
2 13 (36.11%) DNS
3 7 (19.44%) Network Security
4 5 (13.89%) Wireshark
5 3 (8.33%) HTTP
6 2 (5.56%) BGP
6 2 (5.56%) BIG-IP
6 2 (5.56%) DHCP
6 2 (5.56%) HTTPS
6 2 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (5.56%) Hadoop
1 2 (5.56%) MySQL
1 2 (5.56%) Redis
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Burp Suite
2 2 (5.56%) Git
3 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
General
1 12 (33.33%) Retail
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Security Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Architect
3 7 (19.44%) Enterprise Security Architect
4 5 (13.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Project Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Security Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Network Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
6 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.33%) Security Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
6 3 (8.33%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
7 2 (5.56%) Web Applications Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) LDAP
2 3 (8.33%) gRPC
2 3 (8.33%) WebSockets
3 2 (5.56%) Kafka
4 1 (2.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (25.00%) Onboarding
3 4 (11.11%) Fat Client
3 4 (11.11%) Thin Client
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.56%) Replication
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
1 3 (8.33%) Unix
2 1 (2.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) RAD
2 10 (27.78%) DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (19.44%) OWASP
5 6 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 3 (8.33%) Agile
7 3 (8.33%) Cloud Security
7 3 (8.33%) Configuration Management
7 3 (8.33%) DevSecOps
7 3 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.33%) RASP
7 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (8.33%) Workflow
8 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 2 (5.56%) Server Management
8 2 (5.56%) Server Virtualisation
8 2 (5.56%) Service Design
8 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) Go
3 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.56%) Bash
4 2 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (5.56%) Ruby
4 2 (5.56%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (5.56%) CCNP
2 2 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) PowerDNS
1 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 3 (8.33%) Puppet
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.78%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (66.67%) F5
2 5 (13.89%) AlgoSec
2 5 (13.89%) ForeScout
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) BT
3 4 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (8.33%) Imperva
5 2 (5.56%) Adobe
5 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.56%) SAP
6 1 (2.78%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (2.78%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.78%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.78%) New Relic
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle
6 1 (2.78%) PagerDuty
6 1 (2.78%) Splunk
6 1 (2.78%) Zscaler