IMAP Job Trends in England

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring IMAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 599 661 -
Rank change year-on-year +62 - -
Permanent jobs citing IMAP 10 14 0
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.019% 0.028% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.21% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 0
10th Percentile £31,338 £49,750 -
25th Percentile £32,781 £51,250 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,625 £52,500 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.24% - -
75th Percentile £39,031 £56,250 -
90th Percentile £39,613 £58,750 -
UK median annual salary £36,625 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year -30.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,901 6,644 6,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.08% 13.40% 14.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,523 3,518 5,391
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £28,697 £40,000 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%

IMAP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing IMAP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

IMAP job vacancy trend in England

IMAP
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IMAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing IMAP

IMAP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IMAP within the England region over the 6 months to 30 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East of England +13 6 £36,625 -30.24% 1
Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
IMAP
UK

IMAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 4 (40.00%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 4 (40.00%) AWS KMS
2 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Route 53
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
2 9 (90.00%) Firewall
3 6 (60.00%) DHCP
3 6 (60.00%) POP3
3 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 5 (50.00%) EIGRP
4 5 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 5 (50.00%) LAN
4 5 (50.00%) Network Security
4 5 (50.00%) OSPF
4 5 (50.00%) VLAN
4 5 (50.00%) VPN
4 5 (50.00%) WAN
4 5 (50.00%) Wireless
4 5 (50.00%) Wireshark
5 4 (40.00%) FTP
5 4 (40.00%) HTTP
5 4 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (40.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (40.00%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
1 4 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
1 4 (40.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Driving Licence
2 4 (40.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Linux
3 4 (40.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Time Management
2 5 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (40.00%) Change Management
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 4 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Groovy
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) CCNA
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (60.00%) DBS Check
2 5 (50.00%) CCNP
3 4 (40.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) MCSE
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) DFS Replication
2 4 (40.00%) Docker
2 4 (40.00%) Dovecot
2 4 (40.00%) Postfix
2 4 (40.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Grafana
1 4 (40.00%) Nessus
1 4 (40.00%) Prometheus
1 4 (40.00%) Proxmox
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 4 (40.00%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow