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The table below looks at the demand for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited IMAP over the 3 months to 19 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkInternet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Location
3 months to
19 Nov 2008
Same period last year
Rank198-
Rank change on same period last yearNew entry-
Matching contract IT job ads10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.002 %0.000 %
As % of the category below0.154 %0.000 %
Daily rates quoted10
Average minimum daily rate£400-
Average daily rate£400-
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum daily rate£400-
UK excluding London average daily rate£219-
% change on same period last year-
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.75£45.00
% change on same period last year-38.33 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads649679
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.014 %0.739 %
Daily rates quoted328268
Average minimum daily rate£368£396
Average daily rate£385£408
% change on same period last year-5.68 %
Average maximum daily rate£402£421
UK excluding London average daily rate£349£332
% change on same period last year+5.01 %
Hourly rates quoted5463
Average minimum hourly rate£23.64£21.90
Average hourly rate£25.51£23.47
% change on same period last year+8.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.37£25.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate£27.95£29.13
% change on same period last year-4.03 %
IMAP LondonIMAP
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

IMAP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

IMAP
Daily Rate Trend

The 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 19 November 2008, 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.

14 (66.67 %)SMTP
23 (50.00 %)DNS
23 (50.00 %)Windows
23 (50.00 %)Solaris
23 (50.00 %)Perl
23 (50.00 %)SQL
23 (50.00 %)IIS
23 (50.00 %)Internet
32 (33.33 %)Mac OS X Server
32 (33.33 %)POP3
32 (33.33 %)LotusScript
32 (33.33 %)Content Management
32 (33.33 %)WebSphere
32 (33.33 %)QA
32 (33.33 %)MS Office
32 (33.33 %)ASP
32 (33.33 %)JSP
32 (33.33 %)WebServices
32 (33.33 %)Lotus Notes
32 (33.33 %)Lotus Domino
32 (33.33 %)Apache
32 (33.33 %)Flash
32 (33.33 %)MySQL
32 (33.33 %)Oracle
32 (33.33 %)SQL Server
32 (33.33 %)PHP
32 (33.33 %)HTML
32 (33.33 %)Java
32 (33.33 %)Lotus
32 (33.33 %)HTTP

IMAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (33.33 %)HTML
12 (33.33 %)ASP
12 (33.33 %)JSP
12 (33.33 %)WebServices
12 (33.33 %)WebSphere
21 (16.67 %)MAPI
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
13 (50.00 %)IIS
22 (33.33 %)Lotus Notes
22 (33.33 %)Lotus Domino
22 (33.33 %)Apache
31 (16.67 %)MS Exchange
31 (16.67 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
31 (16.67 %)Exchange Server 2003
31 (16.67 %)Exchange Server 2007
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
12 (33.33 %)MS Office
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
14 (66.67 %)SMTP
23 (50.00 %)DNS
23 (50.00 %)Internet
32 (33.33 %)POP3
32 (33.33 %)HTTP
32 (33.33 %)TCP/IP
41 (16.67 %)VPN
41 (16.67 %)SSL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (33.33 %)MySQL
12 (33.33 %)SQL Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
12 (33.33 %)Flash
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (16.67 %)Finance
11 (16.67 %)Education
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
12 (33.33 %)Analyst
12 (33.33 %)Systems Administrator
12 (33.33 %)Administrator
12 (33.33 %)Domino Administrator
21 (16.67 %)Web Support Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Web Engineer
21 (16.67 %)Exchange Specialist
21 (16.67 %)Web Analyst
21 (16.67 %)Messaging Analyst
21 (16.67 %)Support Analyst
21 (16.67 %)Support Engineer
21 (16.67 %)2nd Line Support
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (16.67 %)Computer Science
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
13 (50.00 %)Windows
13 (50.00 %)Solaris
22 (33.33 %)Mac OS X Server
31 (16.67 %)Windows Server 2008
31 (16.67 %)UNIX
31 (16.67 %)Linux
31 (16.67 %)Mac OS X
31 (16.67 %)Windows Server 2003
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (33.33 %)Content Management
21 (16.67 %)Disaster Recovery
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
13 (50.00 %)Perl
13 (50.00 %)SQL
22 (33.33 %)PHP
22 (33.33 %)Java
22 (33.33 %)LotusScript
31 (16.67 %)JCL
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11 (16.67 %)Degree
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (33.33 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
11 (16.67 %)Active Directory
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (33.33 %)Oracle
12 (33.33 %)Lotus
21 (16.67 %)Microsoft