Dovecot Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Dovecot
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Dovecot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 357 -
Rank change year-on-year -100 - -
Contract jobs citing Dovecot 3 16 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.10% -
As % of the System Software category 0.10% 0.83% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £519 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% - -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 -
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Dovecot falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,983 1,926 2,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.78% 12.49% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,919 1,271 1,528
10th Percentile £200 £200 £192
25th Percentile £356 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year - -3.06% +3.16%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £645 £658
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 66 108
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.03 £15.17
Median hourly rate £60.92 £62.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +127.27% -
75th Percentile £75.00 £86.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £89.93 £91.50 £73.78
UK median hourly rate £59.37 £30.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +97.89% +24.07% -51.64%

Dovecot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Dovecot job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Dovecot
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Dovecot
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 Dovecot within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 August 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
South East - 3 £450 - 1
Dovecot
UK

Dovecot
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 3 (100.00%) Apache
1 3 (100.00%) IIS
1 3 (100.00%) nginx
1 3 (100.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) BIG-IP
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) MySQL
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) LAMP
1 3 (100.00%) LEMP Stack
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform
1 3 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) CentOS
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) F5
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft