The first table below looks at the demand for IMAP skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited IMAP over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
Rank 507 534 512
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -22
Contract jobs citing IMAP 6 25 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.014% 0.047% 0.105%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.098% 0.298% 0.801%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 45
Average daily rate £275 £513 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-46.34% +2.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £338 £396
10% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £840 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £538 £450
% change year-on-year
-48.83% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
IMAP
UK

IMAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England IMAP Daily Rate Trend

IMAP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IMAP across the England region.

England IMAP Hourly Rate Trend

IMAP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IMAP within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +30 3 - -
South West +29 2 £275 -
North West +14 1 - -
IMAP
UK

IMAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 10 (90.91%) SMTP
2 8 (72.73%) Internet
3 6 (54.55%) POP3
4 5 (45.45%) HTTP
4 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 4 (36.36%) CSS
5 4 (36.36%) XML
5 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
5 4 (36.36%) FTP
5 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
5 4 (36.36%) HTTPS
5 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
5 4 (36.36%) Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Facebook
5 4 (36.36%) Twitter
6 3 (27.27%) Office 365
6 3 (27.27%) 4G
6 3 (27.27%) Open Source
6 3 (27.27%) Social Media
6 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (27.27%) Psychology
6 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
6 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 3 (27.27%) 3G
6 3 (27.27%) VoIP
6 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
7 2 (18.18%) Web Services
7 2 (18.18%) MySQL
7 2 (18.18%) PHP

IMAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 5 (45.45%) HTML
2 4 (36.36%) CSS
2 4 (36.36%) XML
3 2 (18.18%) Web Services
4 1 (9.091%) jQuery
4 1 (9.091%) Google Maps API
4 1 (9.091%) REST
4 1 (9.091%) CSS3
4 1 (9.091%) Ajax
4 1 (9.091%) LAMP
4 1 (9.091%) SOAP
4 1 (9.091%) XHTML
4 1 (9.091%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (36.36%) MS Exchange
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Excel
2 3 (27.27%) Office 365
3 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) SMTP
2 8 (72.73%) Internet
3 6 (54.55%) POP3
4 5 (45.45%) HTTP
5 4 (36.36%) FTP
5 4 (36.36%) HTTPS
6 3 (27.27%) 4G
6 3 (27.27%) 3G
6 3 (27.27%) VoIP
6 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
7 1 (9.091%) SSH
7 1 (9.091%) RTSP
7 1 (9.091%) Firewall
7 1 (9.091%) VPN
7 1 (9.091%) DNS
7 1 (9.091%) ICMP
7 1 (9.091%) RTCP
7 1 (9.091%) RTP
7 1 (9.091%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Trainer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Trainer
4 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Testing Manager
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) PHP Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Trainer
4 1 (9.091%) Test Manager
4 1 (9.091%) Web Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Open Source
1 3 (27.27%) Social Media
1 3 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (27.27%) Psychology
2 1 (9.091%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.091%) Streaming Media
2 1 (9.091%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (9.091%) UNIX
1 1 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Data Protection
3 1 (9.091%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Refactoring
3 1 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) MVC
3 1 (9.091%) Risk Management
3 1 (9.091%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
3 1 (9.091%) PHP5
3 1 (9.091%) sed
3 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) AWK
3 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
3 1 (9.091%) Perl
3 1 (9.091%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
2 1 (9.091%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) qmail
2 1 (9.091%) Sendmail
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Facebook
1 4 (36.36%) Twitter
2 1 (9.091%) Google
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat