The first table below looks at the demand for IMAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IMAP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Rank 198 215 219
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +4
Contract jobs citing IMAP 1 4 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.051% 0.261%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.122% 0.396% 2.557%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 23
Average daily rate - £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £538 £475
% change year-on-year
-48.83% +13.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
822 1010 1017
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.94% 12.83% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 687 654
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £265 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 76
Average hourly rate £44.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
IMAP
London

IMAP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing IMAP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London IMAP Jobs Demand Trend

IMAP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IMAP across the City of London region.

City of London IMAP Daily Rate Trend

IMAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IMAP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IMAP.

1 2 (100.00%) POP3
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (50.00%) 3G
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) AWK
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Psychology
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection

IMAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing IMAP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited IMAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) POP3
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) 3G
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Trainer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Trainer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Psychology
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) AWK
1 1 (50.00%) sed
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) qmail
1 1 (50.00%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Facebook
1 1 (50.00%) Twitter