DKIM Contract Job Trends in the South East

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring DKIM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 169 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing DKIM 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.023% 0.027% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £543 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +14.21% +5.56% -18.18%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

DKIM 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 622 683 1,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.22% 18.35% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 391 621
10th Percentile £204 £237 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £563
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 68
10th Percentile £18.32 £32.00 £22.23
25th Percentile £28.63 £35.00 £29.38
Median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £87.82 £66.01 £72.74
90th Percentile £90.45 £71.00 £76.97
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.53% -28.75% +25.53%

DKIM
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DKIM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

DKIM job vacancy trend in the South East

DKIM
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DKIM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing DKIM

DKIM
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DKIM within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Thames Valley -11 1 £475 -5.00%
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 -
DKIM
England

DKIM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DMARC
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) SOAR
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft