Dovecot Contracts

Dovecot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Dovecot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Dovecot over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 - 654
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Dovecot 12 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% - 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.31% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £450 - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 - -
75th Percentile £578 - -
90th Percentile £581 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £563 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,873 4,458 6,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.77% 11.42% 12.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,488 3,088 4,716
10th Percentile £229 £220 £200
25th Percentile £388 £380 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 145 251
10th Percentile £13.99 £14.06 £15.25
25th Percentile £17.94 £15.76 £18.75
Median hourly rate £32.77 £23.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.69% -52.40% +132.56%
75th Percentile £79.35 £58.69 £66.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.75 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.50 £24.18 £27.00
% change year-on-year +154.34% -10.44% +35.00%

Dovecot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Dovecot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Dovecot in the UK

Dovecot
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dovecot.

Daily rate trend for Dovecot in the UK

Dovecot
Top 6 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 August 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
England - 12 £556 - 3
Midlands - 11 £563 - 2
West Midlands - 11 £563 - 2
UK excluding London - 11 £563 - 2
London - 5 £550 - 1
Work from Home - 3 £582 - 2

Dovecot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (50.00%) Confluence
1 6 (50.00%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
1 6 (50.00%) AWS KMS
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (50.00%) Route 53
1 6 (50.00%) SaaS
1 6 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (100.00%) SMTP
2 10 (83.33%) DNS
3 6 (50.00%) DKIM
3 6 (50.00%) DMARC
3 6 (50.00%) IMAP
3 6 (50.00%) Internet
3 6 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
4 4 (33.33%) Firewall
4 4 (33.33%) FTP
4 4 (33.33%) HTTP
4 4 (33.33%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 6 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Git
1 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
1 6 (50.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
2 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (50.00%) VMS
3 4 (33.33%) Ubuntu
3 4 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Change Management
1 6 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 6 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 6 (50.00%) DevOps
1 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 6 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 6 (50.00%) Validation
2 4 (33.33%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Groovy
1 6 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (50.00%) Python
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 10 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 4 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) Postfix
2 6 (50.00%) Docker
2 6 (50.00%) Squid
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (33.33%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Grafana
1 6 (50.00%) Nessus
1 6 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 6 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Broadcom
1 6 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 6 (50.00%) VMware