Mimecast Contract Job Trends in the South East

Mimecast
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Mimecast skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Mimecast 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.046% - 0.020%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% - 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £256 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.35%
75th Percentile £269 - £525
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £423 £400 £391
% change year-on-year +5.63% +2.24% +7.93%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,350 1,091 1,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.31% 32.11% 27.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 982 745 963
10th Percentile £222 £262 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% +0.96%
75th Percentile £576 £630 £623
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 15 33
10th Percentile £12.50 £16.40 £18.96
25th Percentile £15.00 £19.64 £19.76
Median hourly rate £37.00 £29.00 £23.24
Median % change year-on-year +27.59% +24.78% +11.41%
75th Percentile £58.75 £48.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £78.22
England median hourly rate £27.50 £28.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -3.36% +26.47% -

Mimecast
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Mimecast job vacancy trend in the South East

Mimecast
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Mimecast
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 Mimecast within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Kent - 1 £263 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 - - 2
Mimecast
England

Mimecast
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) AutoCAD
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (50.00%) Email Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware