DKIM Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring DKIM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 376 362 413
Rank change year-on-year -14 +51 +90
Contract jobs citing DKIM 7 1 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.042% 0.006% 0.039%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.041% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £241 - £319
25th Percentile £363 - £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +25.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £581 - £447
90th Percentile £581 - £450
UK median daily rate £545 £488 £400
% change year-on-year +11.79% +21.88% -20.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 2,243 2,466 3,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.32% 14.82% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,474 1,354 2,211
10th Percentile £190 £200 £205
25th Percentile £300 £338 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £582 £593
90th Percentile £647 £655 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 131 283
10th Percentile £15.50 £20.00 £16.78
25th Percentile £18.50 £26.25 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -7.06% +25.53%
75th Percentile £66.69 £69.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £48.56 £55.00
% change year-on-year -27.92% -11.71% +34.10%

DKIM
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DKIM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

DKIM job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

DKIM
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DKIM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing DKIM

DKIM
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DKIM in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DKIM in the UK excluding London

DKIM
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DKIM within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Midlands - 6 £572 - 1
West Midlands - 6 £572 -
South West - 1 £165 - 2
DKIM
UK

DKIM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) SaaS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DMARC
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) Internet
2 5 (71.43%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (14.29%) Unified Communications
General
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leader
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Dovecot
1 5 (71.43%) Postfix
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Broadcom
1 5 (71.43%) Red Hat
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft