Mimecast Contracts

Mimecast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Mimecast skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Mimecast 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 494 532 649
Rank change year-on-year +38 +117 +113
Contract jobs citing Mimecast 26 50 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% 0.36% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 46
10th Percentile £296 £300 £181
25th Percentile £400 £375 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £413 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -2.94% -15.00%
75th Percentile £497 £525 £550
90th Percentile £585 £634 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £375
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +28.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £16.70 -
25th Percentile - £17.38 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £21.15 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - +20.86% -
75th Percentile - £23.80 £19.00
90th Percentile - - £19.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year - +2.86% -

All Cloud Skills
UK

Mimecast falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Mimecast
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mimecast in the UK

Mimecast
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mimecast in the UK

Mimecast
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Mimecast over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Mimecast in the UK

Mimecast
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mimecast.

Hourly rate trend for Mimecast in the UK

Mimecast
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mimecast within the UK 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
England +35 26 £406 -1.52% 29
London +24 20 £450 +2.86% 12
Work from Home +38 10 £400 +14.29% 15
UK excluding London +56 6 £400 - 20
Midlands +23 4 £400 +53.85% 3
West Midlands +15 4 £400 +53.85% 1
South East +46 1 - - 10
East of England +30 1 £383 - 4

Mimecast
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 19 (73.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (46.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (3.85%) Apache
4 1 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) 1Password
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (57.69%) Azure
3 11 (42.31%) Entra ID
4 8 (30.77%) OneDrive
5 6 (23.08%) AWS
6 4 (15.38%) SaaS
7 3 (11.54%) Google Workspace
7 3 (11.54%) Slack
8 2 (7.69%) Adobe Creative Cloud
8 2 (7.69%) GCP
8 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (7.69%) Nutanix
9 1 (3.85%) Asana
9 1 (3.85%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
9 1 (3.85%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 6 (23.08%) Firewall
2 5 (19.23%) DHCP
2 5 (19.23%) DNS
3 4 (15.38%) WAN
4 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
4 3 (11.54%) Unified Communications
4 3 (11.54%) VLAN
4 3 (11.54%) VPN
5 2 (7.69%) DKIM
5 2 (7.69%) DMARC
5 2 (7.69%) Extranet
5 2 (7.69%) Internet
6 1 (3.85%) LAN
6 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Law
4 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (19.23%) Consultant
2 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (15.38%) Lead
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Lead Consultant
3 3 (11.54%) Unified Communications Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) IT Support
4 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Junior Information Security Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Junior Security Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Applications Support
5 1 (3.85%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) NHS
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (46.15%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.69%) Android
3 2 (7.69%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (3.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Identity Management
2 7 (26.92%) Information Security
2 7 (26.92%) ITIL
3 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (19.23%) Migration
4 5 (19.23%) Threat Management
4 5 (19.23%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) Change Management
5 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
5 4 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) PLM
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (15.38%) System Testing
5 4 (15.38%) User Experience
6 3 (11.54%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.54%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
System Software
1 16 (61.54%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.54%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (19.23%) SCCM
3 3 (11.54%) Terraform
4 2 (7.69%) NetBackup
5 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (30.77%) Proofpoint
3 7 (26.92%) Cisco
4 4 (15.38%) Netskope
5 3 (11.54%) Google
5 3 (11.54%) VMware
6 2 (7.69%) Adobe
6 2 (7.69%) Avaya
6 2 (7.69%) Barracuda Networks
6 2 (7.69%) Commvault
6 2 (7.69%) CrowdStrike
6 2 (7.69%) Datto
6 2 (7.69%) Meraki
6 2 (7.69%) Mitel
6 2 (7.69%) MobileIron
6 2 (7.69%) NetApp
6 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 2 (7.69%) Sophos
6 2 (7.69%) Veritas
6 2 (7.69%) Zscaler