IMAP Job Trends

Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring IMAP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 639 694 -
Rank change year-on-year +55 - -
Permanent jobs citing IMAP 11 13 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.019% 0.024% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.18% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 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 £57,500 -
90th Percentile £39,613 £59,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,625 £52,500 -
% change year-on-year -30.24% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,592 7,163 7,717
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.21% 13.21% 14.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,910 3,709 6,243
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -

IMAP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

IMAP job vacancy trend in the UK

IMAP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IMAP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing IMAP

IMAP
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IMAP within the UK over the 6 months to 5 January 2026. 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
UK excluding London +48 11 £36,625 -30.24% 1
England +74 10 £36,625 -30.24% 1
East of England +19 6 £36,625 -30.24% 1
Midlands - 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
Scotland - 1 - -

IMAP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (36.36%) Confluence
2 4 (36.36%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (45.45%) Azure
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) AWS KMS
3 4 (36.36%) Route 53
3 4 (36.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) DNS
2 10 (90.91%) Firewall
2 10 (90.91%) SMTP
3 7 (63.64%) DHCP
3 7 (63.64%) TCP/IP
4 6 (54.55%) POP3
4 6 (54.55%) VPN
5 5 (45.45%) EIGRP
5 5 (45.45%) Intrusion Detection
5 5 (45.45%) LAN
5 5 (45.45%) Network Security
5 5 (45.45%) OSPF
5 5 (45.45%) VLAN
5 5 (45.45%) WAN
5 5 (45.45%) Wireless
5 5 (45.45%) Wireshark
6 4 (36.36%) FTP
6 4 (36.36%) HTTP
6 4 (36.36%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (36.36%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon Aurora
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (36.36%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Git
1 4 (36.36%) Jenkins
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) Vagrant
General
1 11 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Driving Licence
2 4 (36.36%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Linux
3 4 (36.36%) Ubuntu
3 4 (36.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Time Management
2 5 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (45.45%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (36.36%) Change Management
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
3 4 (36.36%) Configuration Management
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Patch Management
3 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Customer Service
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Groovy
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) CCNA
1 6 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (54.55%) DBS Check
2 5 (45.45%) CCNP
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
3 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) MCSE
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (36.36%) DFS Replication
2 4 (36.36%) Docker
2 4 (36.36%) Dovecot
2 4 (36.36%) Postfix
2 4 (36.36%) Squid
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Grafana
1 4 (36.36%) Nessus
1 4 (36.36%) Prometheus
1 4 (36.36%) Proxmox
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco
2 5 (45.45%) SolarWinds
3 4 (36.36%) Jaspersoft
3 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
4 1 (9.09%) Pegasus
4 1 (9.09%) Sage
4 1 (9.09%) VMware
4 1 (9.09%) Xero