S/MIME Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring S/MIME skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 352 -
Rank change year-on-year -49 - -
Contract jobs citing S/MIME 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.006% 0.031% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.045% 0.21% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £700 £450 -
% change year-on-year +55.56% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

S/MIME 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 2,204 2,423 3,605
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.44% 15.24% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,458 1,326 2,158
10th Percentile £190 £200 £205
25th Percentile £293 £330 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £564 £580 £600
90th Percentile £643 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 139 283
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.95 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.45 £24.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £47.50 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -15.91% +25.53%
75th Percentile £67.25 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.20 £75.00 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £41.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -17.07% -25.45% +27.91%

S/MIME
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

S/MIME job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

S/MIME
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing S/MIME.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing S/MIME

S/MIME
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing S/MIME.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing S/MIME

S/MIME
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 S/MIME within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East - 1 £700 - 2
S/MIME
UK

S/MIME
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Key Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) GIAC
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Thales