IMAP Contracts in the UK excluding London

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring IMAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IMAP over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IMAP 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile £598 - -
UK median daily rate £513 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -24.07% +3.85% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

IMAP 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 1,965 3,454 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.39% 16.63% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,982 2,287
10th Percentile £200 £204 £207
25th Percentile £301 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 139 358 328
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.48 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.38 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.20 £70.66 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

IMAP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing IMAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IMAP in the UK excluding London

IMAP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IMAP in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IMAP in the UK excluding London

IMAP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IMAP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IMAP in the UK excluding London

IMAP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IMAP in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IMAP in the UK excluding London

IMAP
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 IMAP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East of England - 4 £538 -
North of England - 2 £343 -
Yorkshire - 2 £343 -
IMAP
UK

IMAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SMTP
2 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) Skype
3 2 (33.33%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) POP3
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Messaging Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Exchange Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Messaging Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 2 (33.33%) Programme Management
3 2 (33.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Server Building
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) NetApp
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Splunk
4 1 (16.67%) Fujitsu