POP3 Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Post Office Protocol, version 3 (POP3)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring POP3 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited POP3 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 298 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - +150
Contract jobs citing POP3 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% - 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.58% - 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £475 - -
25th Percentile £493 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 - £572
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.35%
75th Percentile £559 - £583
90th Percentile £573 - -
UK median daily rate £570 £850 £511
% change year-on-year -32.94% +66.34% -19.02%
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

POP3 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%

POP3
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing POP3 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

POP3 trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

POP3
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing POP3.

POP3 daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

POP3
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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SMTP
2 3 (50.00%) IMAP
2 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 2 (33.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 3 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Remote Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (50.00%) Bootstrap
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) CSS3
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) LDAP
1 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (33.33%) JSON
2 2 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (33.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (50.00%) Threat Detection
1 3 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (50.00%) Splunk