Email Filtering Contract Job Trends

Email Filtering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Email Filtering skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 577 547 592
Rank change year-on-year -30 +45 +198
Contract jobs citing Email Filtering 4 17 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.049% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.056% 0.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 15
10th Percentile £528 £234 £190
25th Percentile £550 £350 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% +9.38% +77.78%
75th Percentile £650 £450 £450
90th Percentile £673 £533 £525
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £438 £400
% change year-on-year +20.00% +9.38% +77.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Median hourly rate - £39.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - +77.27% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.35 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Email Filtering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,261 30,399 39,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.54% 87.91% 88.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,301 18,546 26,335
10th Percentile £300 £306 £310
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £744 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,097 1,021 1,510
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.53 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.95
Median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -29.23% -26.97% +37.98%

Email Filtering
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Email Filtering relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Email Filtering job vacancy trend in the UK

Email Filtering
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Email Filtering.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Email Filtering

Email Filtering
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Email Filtering over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Email Filtering in the UK

Email Filtering
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Email Filtering.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Email Filtering

Email Filtering
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Email Filtering within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England -41 3 £675 +163.41% 12
London - 3 £675 - 3
Work from Home +11 1 £675 +17.39% 8
Scotland -3 1 £525 +16.67%
UK excluding London -58 1 £525 +20.00% 9

Email Filtering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) Google Workspace
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) DKIM
2 1 (25.00%) DMARC
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) MPLS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (50.00%) Web Filtering
3 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CISSP
1 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Google
3 1 (25.00%) Proofpoint