POP3 Contracts in London

Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring POP3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POP3 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 348 387 492
Rank change year-on-year +39 +105 +104
Contract jobs citing POP3 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.022% 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% 0.23% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile £403 - -
25th Percentile £481 £775 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £610 £850 £572
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% +48.60% -4.67%
75th Percentile £670 £925 £583
90th Percentile £671 - -
England median daily rate £570 £850 £574
% change year-on-year -32.94% +48.21% -9.11%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

POP3 falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,315 1,719 2,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.48% 9.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 1,144 1,885
10th Percentile £263 £213 £256
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -10.71% +1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £725 £741 £775
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 59 53
10th Percentile £24.66 £14.48 £20.22
25th Percentile £25.60 £18.36 £22.63
Median hourly rate £43.75 £22.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.86% -52.17% +31.43%
75th Percentile £51.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.65 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing POP3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for POP3 in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing POP3 in London.

Daily rate trend for POP3 in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing POP3 in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for POP3 in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing POP3 in London.

Hourly rate trend for POP3 in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SMTP
2 2 (40.00%) IMAP
2 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Angular Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) Bootstrap
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
1 3 (60.00%) CSS3
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
3 1 (20.00%) HTML5
3 1 (20.00%) JSON
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (60.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Threat Detection
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk