The first table below looks at the demand for POP3 skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited POP3 over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
Rank 525 568 589
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +21
Contract jobs citing POP3 16 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.033% 0.003% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.232% 0.022% 0.148%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 3
Average daily rate £325 - £263
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 - £263
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £14.00 £11.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +17.89%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £14.00 £11.88
% change year-on-year
- +17.89%
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6909 9038 8107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.36% 15.57% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3471 4041 3676
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £208 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 605 809
Average hourly rate £23.75 £24.38 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% +1.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.75 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00

POP3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing POP3 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

POP3 Jobs Demand Trend

POP3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing POP3 within the UK.

POP3 Daily Rate Trend

POP3
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing POP3 within the UK.

POP3 Hourly Rate Trend

POP3
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POP3 within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +27 16 £325 - 9
London +39 14 £325 - 7
City of London - 12 £325 - 4
South West - 2 £275 -
Bournemouth - 1 £250 -
Dorset - 1 £250 -
Hampshire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Middlesex - - - -
North Yorkshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Bristol - - - -
Guildford - - - -
Harrogate - - - -
Harrow - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Leeds - - - -
East of England - - - -
Farnborough - - - -
North West - - - -
South East - - - - 2
Barnsley - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Staines - - - -
York - - - -

POP3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing POP3 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 POP3.

1 29 (100.00%) SMTP
2 24 (82.76%) TCP/IP
3 23 (79.31%) SSL
3 23 (79.31%) Windows
3 23 (79.31%) LDAP
3 23 (79.31%) MS Exchange
3 23 (79.31%) Exchange Server 2003
3 23 (79.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (79.31%) Exchange Server 2010
4 22 (75.86%) Migration
4 22 (75.86%) Microsoft
4 22 (75.86%) IBM Notes
4 22 (75.86%) Lotus
5 20 (68.97%) Active Directory
6 19 (65.52%) Lotus Domino
6 19 (65.52%) Blackberry
6 19 (65.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 18 (62.07%) Symantec
7 18 (62.07%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 17 (58.62%) PowerShell
9 16 (55.17%) Banking
10 13 (44.83%) Norton AntiVirus
10 13 (44.83%) C
11 12 (41.38%) ISO 9001
12 11 (37.93%) MAILsweeper
12 11 (37.93%) McAfee
12 11 (37.93%) Tivoli
12 11 (37.93%) SCOM
12 11 (37.93%) Office Communications Server
13 10 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure

POP3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing POP3 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 POP3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (17.24%) CSS
1 5 (17.24%) XML
1 5 (17.24%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) Middleware
2 3 (10.34%) Web Services
3 2 (6.897%) Ajax
3 2 (6.897%) SOAP
4 1 (3.448%) WAP
4 1 (3.448%) XHTML
4 1 (3.448%) COM
4 1 (3.448%) LAMP
4 1 (3.448%) jQuery
4 1 (3.448%) Google Maps API
4 1 (3.448%) REST
4 1 (3.448%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 23 (79.31%) MS Exchange
1 23 (79.31%) Exchange Server 2003
1 23 (79.31%) Exchange Server 2010
2 22 (75.86%) IBM Notes
3 19 (65.52%) Lotus Domino
3 19 (65.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 11 (37.93%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (3.448%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (6.897%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (100.00%) SMTP
2 24 (82.76%) TCP/IP
3 23 (79.31%) SSL
3 23 (79.31%) LDAP
4 6 (20.69%) HTTP
5 5 (17.24%) SAN
5 5 (17.24%) IMAP
5 5 (17.24%) NAS
6 4 (13.79%) FTP
6 4 (13.79%) HTTPS
6 4 (13.79%) Internet
7 3 (10.34%) 3G
7 3 (10.34%) VoIP
7 3 (10.34%) 4G
8 1 (3.448%) ICMP
8 1 (3.448%) RTCP
8 1 (3.448%) RTP
8 1 (3.448%) Intranet
8 1 (3.448%) DNS
8 1 (3.448%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.448%) MySQL
1 1 (3.448%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) JIRA
General
1 16 (55.17%) Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
2 4 (13.79%) Telecoms
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) Consultant
2 8 (27.59%) Exchange Consultant
2 8 (27.59%) Messaging Consultant
3 6 (20.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (20.69%) Support Consultant
4 5 (17.24%) Test Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Analyst
4 5 (17.24%) Exchange Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Trainer
6 3 (10.34%) Messaging Engineer
7 2 (6.897%) IT Trainer
7 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Messaging Specialist
7 2 (6.897%) Architect
8 1 (3.448%) Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Test Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Web Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Telecoms Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) PHP Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (65.52%) Blackberry
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) Psychology
2 3 (10.34%) Open Source
2 3 (10.34%) Social Media
3 1 (3.448%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.448%) Streaming Media
3 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (79.31%) Windows
1 23 (79.31%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Migration
2 8 (27.59%) Project Management
3 7 (24.14%) ITIL
4 4 (13.79%) Business Continuity
5 3 (10.34%) Data Protection
5 3 (10.34%) Functional Testing
5 3 (10.34%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (6.897%) Performance Testing
7 1 (3.448%) Service Management
7 1 (3.448%) ITSM
7 1 (3.448%) MVC
7 1 (3.448%) OO
7 1 (3.448%) ETL
7 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.448%) Workflow
7 1 (3.448%) Refactoring
7 1 (3.448%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 17 (58.62%) PowerShell
2 13 (44.83%) C
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.448%) PHP
4 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.448%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) MCSE
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.34%) ISEB
2 3 (10.34%) MCITP
3 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) ISO 9001
2 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 20 (68.97%) Active Directory
2 10 (34.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (62.07%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 13 (44.83%) Norton AntiVirus
3 11 (37.93%) MAILsweeper
3 11 (37.93%) Tivoli
3 11 (37.93%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (75.86%) Microsoft
1 22 (75.86%) Lotus
2 18 (62.07%) Symantec
3 11 (37.93%) McAfee
4 10 (34.48%) VMware
5 4 (13.79%) Facebook
5 4 (13.79%) Twitter
6 3 (10.34%) Citrix
7 1 (3.448%) Oracle
7 1 (3.448%) SAP
7 1 (3.448%) Google
7 1 (3.448%) ServiceNow
City of London
SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and knowledge of basic network troubleshooting. Outlook Client Support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Notes Client E-Mail Migration and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
City, London
Technical environment MsExchange 2003 - 2010, Symantec Enterprise Vault BlackBerry Enterprise Server Active Directory Skilled in TCPIP and common networking protocols i.e. SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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