Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring DMARC skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited DMARC over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 674 847 960
Rank change year-on-year +173 +113 +204
Permanent jobs citing DMARC 32 51 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.051% 0.021%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.40% 0.38% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 25 50 21
10th Percentile £26,250 £42,500 £33,500
25th Percentile £32,000 - £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,000 £47,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.17% -27.69% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £52,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,250 £68,750 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -1.05% -5.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DMARC 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,011 13,516 15,741
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.64% 13.62% 15.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,348 9,426 8,007
10th Percentile £23,731 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,074 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £66,250 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £43,750 £45,000
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% -3.23%

DMARC
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing DMARC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for DMARC in the UK

DMARC
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DMARC.

Salary trend for DMARC in the UK

DMARC
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing DMARC over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for DMARC in the UK

DMARC
Top 9 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DMARC within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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
England +146 26 £70,996 +51.05% 8
UK excluding London +163 23 £55,000 +17.02% 7
Work from Home +135 16 £71,991 +53.17% 4
North of England +56 10 £71,991 +53.17%
Yorkshire - 10 £71,991 -
London +115 9 £70,250 +8.08% 2
East of England +45 7 £27,500 -28.57% 1
Scotland +116 5 £33,000 -29.79%
Wales - 1 £55,000 -

DMARC
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (68.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (21.88%) IIS
2 7 (21.88%) SharePoint
2 7 (21.88%) Tomcat
3 3 (9.38%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Cloud Services
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (50.00%) Azure
3 13 (40.63%) Entra ID
3 13 (40.63%) SaaS
4 11 (34.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (21.88%) Microsoft Copilot
5 7 (21.88%) Power Automate
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (9.38%) Mimecast
7 2 (6.25%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 24 (75.00%) DKIM
2 12 (37.50%) Firewall
3 10 (31.25%) DNSSEC
3 10 (31.25%) Internet
3 10 (31.25%) SMTP
4 8 (25.00%) DHCP
4 8 (25.00%) DNS
5 7 (21.88%) SSL
5 7 (21.88%) VPN
6 5 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (9.38%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 8 (25.00%) Banking
3 8 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (21.88%) Czech Language
4 7 (21.88%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Law
5 1 (3.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Lead
2 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (31.25%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Administrator
4 7 (21.88%) IT Administrator
4 7 (21.88%) IT Support
5 5 (15.63%) Help Desk Team Lead
5 5 (15.63%) Team Leader
6 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
6 3 (9.38%) Security Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (6.25%) Information Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Information Security Analyst
7 2 (6.25%) Security Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Legal Analyst
8 1 (3.13%) Operations Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) JSON
1 7 (21.88%) REST
1 7 (21.88%) SOAP
1 7 (21.88%) XML
2 3 (9.38%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (25.00%) Cloud Native
3 5 (15.63%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (15.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
4 3 (9.38%) Security Posture
4 3 (9.38%) Social Network
5 2 (6.25%) PKI
5 2 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 24 (75.00%) Windows
2 12 (37.50%) Unix
3 10 (31.25%) Linux
4 5 (15.63%) VMS
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Server
6 3 (9.38%) Mac OS X
7 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (31.25%) Project Management
4 9 (28.13%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (25.00%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.88%) Agile
6 7 (21.88%) CRM
6 7 (21.88%) Customer Service
6 7 (21.88%) Data Privacy
6 7 (21.88%) Portfolio Management
6 7 (21.88%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (15.63%) Incident Response
7 5 (15.63%) IT Strategy
7 5 (15.63%) Remote Monitoring and Management
8 3 (9.38%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 3 (9.38%) Infrastructure Management
8 3 (9.38%) IT Audit
8 3 (9.38%) Security Operations
8 3 (9.38%) SIEM
8 3 (9.38%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 16 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 7 (21.88%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) JavaScript
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) VBA
3 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 31 (96.88%) Microsoft
2 10 (31.25%) Cisco
2 10 (31.25%) IronPort
2 10 (31.25%) Veritas
3 7 (21.88%) Oracle
4 5 (15.63%) Apple
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 3 (9.38%) DocuSign
5 3 (9.38%) Meraki
5 3 (9.38%) Salesforce
5 3 (9.38%) Veeam
6 1 (3.13%) Okta
6 1 (3.13%) Proofpoint
6 1 (3.13%) SendGrid