Mimecast Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Mimecast
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 294 332 458
Rank change year-on-year +38 +126 +144
Contract jobs citing Mimecast 10 13 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.085% 0.073%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.25% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 9
10th Percentile £378 £288 £166
25th Percentile - £325 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% -15.57%
75th Percentile £414 £538 £575
90th Percentile £564 £594 £588
UK median daily rate £406 £413 £425
% change year-on-year -1.52% -2.94% -15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Mimecast
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mimecast trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Mimecast
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mimecast daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mimecast
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mimecast daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Mimecast
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 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (10.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Asana
5 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) Firewall
1 3 (30.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Applications Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Strategy Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 4 (40.00%) Change Management
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 4 (40.00%) Information Security
2 4 (40.00%) PLM
2 4 (40.00%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (40.00%) System Testing
2 4 (40.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) ITIL
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (20.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (20.00%) Threat Management
4 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 6 (60.00%) Proofpoint
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) NetApp
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) Pure Storage
4 2 (20.00%) Veritas
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (20.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds