IMAP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring IMAP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IMAP 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 300 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing IMAP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.38% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £675 £650
% change year-on-year -24.07% +3.85% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.00 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

IMAP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

IMAP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing IMAP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IMAP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IMAP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing IMAP.

IMAP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IMAP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2013
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) POP3
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Skype
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Threat Detection
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) NetApp
2 1 (25.00%) VMware