Mimecast Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Mimecast
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Mimecast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 127 137
Rank change year-on-year -60 +10 +17
Contract jobs citing Mimecast 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.022% 0.044% 0.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.073% 0.14% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £260
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +53.85% -25.71%
75th Percentile £469 - £265
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +11.11% +12.50% -6.98%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,369 694 720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 29.95% 30.23% 24.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 926 470 516
10th Percentile £306 £254 £200
25th Percentile £402 £375 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +2.72% -5.21%
75th Percentile £580 £552 £595
90th Percentile £671 £646 £684
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 16 25
10th Percentile £13.51 £15.19 £13.93
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.96 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.16 £21.39 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year -10.41% +7.22% -14.19%
75th Percentile £33.99 £25.72 £26.50
90th Percentile £74.28 £38.48 £31.36
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% +14.32% -33.33%

Mimecast
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Mimecast job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Mimecast
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Mimecast.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Mimecast

Mimecast
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mimecast within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 July 2026. 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
West Midlands -57 1 £463 +15.63%
Mimecast
England

Mimecast
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Barracuda Networks
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft