DMARC Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring DMARC 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 128 117 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing DMARC 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.048% 0.051% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.32% 0.27% -
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 - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £500 -
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

DMARC 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 308 375 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.68% 18.97% 23.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 188 364
10th Percentile £238 £229 £180
25th Percentile £325 £390 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +7.53% -7.00%
75th Percentile £540 £607 £588
90th Percentile £619 £650 £657
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -4.00% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 22
10th Percentile £18.73 £22.28 £23.66
25th Percentile £44.50 £27.94 £24.06
Median hourly rate £80.50 £38.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.46% +27.50% +42.86%
75th Percentile £89.63 £48.94 £73.94
90th Percentile £90.04 £54.83 £82.41
South East median hourly rate £70.16 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% +4.17% +33.33%

DMARC
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DMARC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

DMARC job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

DMARC
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DMARC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing DMARC

DMARC
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DMARC within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 -
DMARC
South East

DMARC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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%) DKIM
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