Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for POP3 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited POP3 over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 717 820
Rank change year-on-year +136 +103 -159
Contract jobs citing POP3 5 5 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.008% 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.088% 0.068% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile - - £461
25th Percentile £775 £450 £537
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £850 £460 £624
Median % change year-on-year +84.78% -26.31% +56.06%
75th Percentile £925 £583 £645
90th Percentile - £601 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate - £460 £624
% change year-on-year - -26.31% +56.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

POP3 is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,688 7,405 9,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 13.03% 12.33% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,417 4,818 6,380
10th Percentile £205 £235 £228
25th Percentile £350 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £603
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £432
% change year-on-year - +9.95% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 423 488 364
10th Percentile £13.57 £9.80 £14.82
25th Percentile £17.69 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £67.40 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -11.34%

POP3
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing POP3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for POP3 in the UK

POP3
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing POP3.

Daily rate trend for POP3 in the UK

POP3
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing POP3.

Hourly rate trend for POP3 in the UK

POP3
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing POP3 within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +122 5 £850 +48.60%
London +110 5 £850 +48.60%

POP3
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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) FTP
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) ICMP
1 5 (100.00%) SMTP
1 5 (100.00%) SSH
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) ArcSight Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Security Monitoring
1 5 (100.00%) SIEM
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kibana
1 5 (100.00%) logstash
1 5 (100.00%) QRadar
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ArcSight
1 5 (100.00%) Splunk