Mimecast Contract Job Trends in England

Mimecast
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Mimecast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 506 486 536
Rank change year-on-year -20 +50 +127
Contract jobs citing Mimecast 24 28 41
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.079% 0.091% 0.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% 0.25% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 19 27
10th Percentile £356 £202 £252
25th Percentile £405 £288 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £456
90th Percentile £564 £600 £555
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £375
% change year-on-year +5.26% +26.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile - - £19.31
90th Percentile - - £19.43
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £18.00
% change year-on-year - +32.22% +2.86%

All Cloud Skills
England

Mimecast falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,749 11,114 13,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 38.56% 35.98% 35.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,000 7,372 10,024
10th Percentile £304 £313 £288
25th Percentile £406 £425 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £650 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 303 151 274
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.46 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.47 £33.93 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +28.04% +17.78%
75th Percentile £49.13 £59.78 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.50 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £30.88 £27.00
% change year-on-year -15.79% +14.35% +22.50%

Mimecast
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mimecast relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Mimecast job vacancy trend in England

Mimecast
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mimecast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mimecast

Mimecast
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mimecast in England over the 6 months to 25 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mimecast in England

Mimecast
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mimecast.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Mimecast

Mimecast
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mimecast within the England region over the 6 months to 25 November 2025. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +8 19 £543 +55.00% 12
East of England - 2 £363 - 3
South West -2 1 £550 +29.41%
North of England -49 1 £230 -54.00% 9
Yorkshire - 1 £230 - 7
South East - 1 - - 13
Mimecast
UK

Mimecast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.33%) Apache
2 2 (8.33%) IIS
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (20.83%) AWS
5 4 (16.67%) OneDrive
5 4 (16.67%) PaaS
6 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 2 (8.33%) IaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
6 2 (8.33%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) DMARC
3 3 (12.50%) DNS
4 2 (8.33%) DHCP
4 2 (8.33%) SMTP
5 1 (4.17%) MPLS
5 1 (4.17%) Network Security
5 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Eclipse
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Billing
2 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (8.33%) Law
2 2 (8.33%) Legal
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (29.17%) Security Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 4 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Network Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Specialist
5 2 (8.33%) Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
5 2 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Switch Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) IT Support
6 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Technology Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Reinsurance
2 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (20.83%) Data Loss Prevention
4 5 (20.83%) ITIL
4 5 (20.83%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
5 4 (16.67%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (8.33%) Data Protection
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
7 2 (8.33%) Performance Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (8.33%) CCSP
2 2 (8.33%) CEH
2 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) CASB
2 2 (8.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
2 7 (29.17%) Palo Alto
3 6 (25.00%) Cisco
4 5 (20.83%) Tenable
5 4 (16.67%) Commvault
5 4 (16.67%) Google
5 4 (16.67%) Zscaler
6 3 (12.50%) F5
6 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
7 2 (8.33%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (8.33%) Proofpoint
7 2 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (8.33%) Veeam
8 1 (4.17%) Citrix
8 1 (4.17%) Sophos
8 1 (4.17%) VMware
8 1 (4.17%) WatchGuard