IMAP Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for IMAP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 523 558 523
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -35
Contract jobs citing IMAP 6 26 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.045% 0.100%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.089% 0.284% 0.772%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 15 47
Average daily rate £275 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £350 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £820 £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 - - -
Search 2 IMAP jobs
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6757 9144 7905
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.57% 15.68% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3304 4153 3577
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
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 529 606 804
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%

IMAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK.

IMAP Hourly Rate Trend

IMAP
Top 8 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 UK 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
England +27 6 £275 -46.34%
London +30 3 - -
South West +29 2 £275 -
North West +14 1 - -
City of London +11 1 - -
Bournemouth - 1 £250 -
Dorset - 1 £250 -
Manchester - 1 - -

IMAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 within the UK 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
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