Sendmail Contract Job Trends

Sendmail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Sendmail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 568 - 625
Rank change year-on-year - - +190
Contract jobs citing Sendmail 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% - 0.009%
As % of the System Software category 0.046% - 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £594
Median % change year-on-year - - +48.44%
75th Percentile £575 - £600
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

Sendmail 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 4,384 4,347 6,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.35% 11.87% 12.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,847 2,794 4,148
10th Percentile £213 £213 £198
25th Percentile £385 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £618
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 93 250
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.17 £15.50
25th Percentile £19.12 £21.46 £18.99
Median hourly rate £28.00 £38.00 £46.09
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -17.55% +84.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £68.29
90th Percentile £86.78 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.25 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.50% +25.00% +99.35%

Sendmail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Sendmail job vacancy trend in the UK

Sendmail
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sendmail

Sendmail
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Sendmail

Sendmail
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sendmail within the UK over the 6 months to 15 November 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
UK excluding London - 2 £550 - 3
East of England - 1 £550 - 2
Wales - 1 £550 - 1
England - 1 £550 - 2

Sendmail
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 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware