Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for IMAP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited IMAP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 897 967 1192
Rank change year-on-year +70 +225 -317
Permanent jobs citing IMAP 8 6 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.019%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.059% 0.037% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £22,000 - -
75th Percentile £37,750 - -
90th Percentile £45,000 - -
UK excluding London median annual salary £22,000 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

IMAP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 13,589 16,002 20,740
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.85% 15.38% 13.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,487 8,190 11,843
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,265
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -4.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

IMAP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing IMAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IMAP in the UK

IMAP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing IMAP.

Salary trend for IMAP in the UK

IMAP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing IMAP over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for IMAP in the UK

IMAP
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IMAP within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London -4 8 £22,000 - 2
England +110 4 £31,000 - 1
Scotland - 4 £22,000 - 1
North of England - 3 £22,000 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £22,000 -
Work from Home +76 1 £40,000 - 1
North West - 1 £45,000 - 1
South East - 1 £40,000 -

IMAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DHCP
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
1 7 (87.50%) Network Security
1 7 (87.50%) TCP/IP
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) LAN
2 2 (25.00%) SMTP
2 2 (25.00%) VoIP
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
3 1 (12.50%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) SSH
3 1 (12.50%) SSL
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) IT Support
2 6 (75.00%) IT Support Technician
2 6 (75.00%) IT Technician
2 6 (75.00%) Support Technician
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (87.50%) Time Management
3 6 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (75.00%) IT Audit
4 1 (12.50%) Data Security
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Python
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (12.50%) Dovecot
2 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) NFS
2 1 (12.50%) Postfix
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
2 1 (12.50%) VMware