Mimecast Job Trends

Mimecast
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Mimecast skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 585 615
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +102
Permanent jobs citing Mimecast 65 114 106
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.32% 0.59% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 41 95 93
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £26,050
25th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% +13.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £72,500 £61,875 £53,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,400 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,500 £34,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year +4.41% -9.33% -7.98%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20,529 19,355 22,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.22% 36.17% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,258 11,374 18,418
10th Percentile £28,750 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £46,713 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

Mimecast
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Mimecast job vacancy trend in the UK

Mimecast
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mimecast.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Mimecast

Mimecast
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Mimecast over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Mimecast in the UK

Mimecast
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mimecast within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +5 56 £52,500 +23.53% 19
UK excluding London +42 35 £35,500 +4.41% 14
London +26 31 £70,000 +40.00% 7
Work from Home +56 25 £46,250 +38.06% 10
South East +27 13 £35,000 +4.48% 6
North of England +6 9 £51,250 +46.43% 5
Scotland - 9 - -
North West +19 7 £57,500 +64.29%
South West +10 3 £50,000 -31.03% 1
Yorkshire -13 2 £45,000 +1.12% 5
Midlands +21 1 £27,500 -52.17% 1
West Midlands +21 1 £27,500 - 1

Mimecast
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 25 (38.46%) SharePoint
2 23 (35.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (4.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) AutoCAD
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.54%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 40 (61.54%) Azure
2 35 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (33.85%) Entra ID
4 10 (15.38%) Microsoft Purview
5 8 (12.31%) Tessian
6 7 (10.77%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (7.69%) Rubrik
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (3.08%) SecurityScorecard
11 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
11 1 (1.54%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.54%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 16 (24.62%) Firewall
2 14 (21.54%) VPN
3 12 (18.46%) DHCP
3 12 (18.46%) DNS
4 7 (10.77%) WAN
5 6 (9.23%) Intrusion Detection
5 6 (9.23%) LAN
6 5 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
6 5 (7.69%) Network Security
6 5 (7.69%) Wireless
7 3 (4.62%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (4.62%) DMARC
7 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
8 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (3.08%) DKIM
8 2 (3.08%) WebEx
9 1 (1.54%) Internet
9 1 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
General
1 19 (29.23%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.15%) Finance
3 9 (13.85%) Retail
4 7 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Front Office
6 3 (4.62%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.54%) Law
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (18.46%) Security Engineer
2 11 (16.92%) Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) IT Analyst
3 9 (13.85%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Senior
4 8 (12.31%) Service Analyst
4 8 (12.31%) Service Desk Analyst
5 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 7 (10.77%) Help Desk Technician
6 6 (9.23%) 3rd Line Support
7 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (7.69%) Junior
7 5 (7.69%) Support Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Lead
9 3 (4.62%) Desktop Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) Desktop Support
9 3 (4.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (4.62%) IT Administrator
9 3 (4.62%) IT Manager
9 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) JSON
1 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Product Ownership
2 7 (10.77%) Driving Licence
3 5 (7.69%) Security Posture
4 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.62%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) CCTV
5 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.54%) CMDB
6 1 (1.54%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.54%) iPhone
6 1 (1.54%) iSeries
6 1 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.54%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.54%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.54%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 37 (56.92%) Windows
2 14 (21.54%) Windows 10
3 11 (16.92%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.77%) Linux
5 6 (9.23%) Apple iOS
5 6 (9.23%) Mac OS
6 5 (7.69%) Android
7 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (27.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 17 (26.15%) ITIL
4 16 (24.62%) Agile
4 16 (24.62%) Information Security
5 14 (21.54%) Coaching
6 13 (20.00%) DevOps
7 12 (18.46%) Analytics
7 12 (18.46%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (18.46%) Incident Response
8 11 (16.92%) Customer Service
8 11 (16.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (16.92%) Security Operations
9 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (13.85%) Incident Management
10 9 (13.85%) Mentoring
10 9 (13.85%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.85%) SIEM
11 8 (12.31%) AI
11 8 (12.31%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.31%) PowerShell
2 16 (24.62%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) Bash
4 5 (7.69%) SQL
5 3 (4.62%) Bicep
6 1 (1.54%) Perl
6 1 (1.54%) VB
6 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Degree
2 7 (10.77%) CISSP
3 6 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.69%) MCP
4 5 (7.69%) MCSE
5 4 (6.15%) CISM
6 3 (4.62%) MCSA
7 2 (3.08%) CCNA
7 2 (3.08%) CCNP
7 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.08%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (3.08%) MOS
8 1 (1.54%) CISA
8 1 (1.54%) CISMP
8 1 (1.54%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) GDPR
2 5 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (6.15%) PCI DSS
4 3 (4.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.08%) NIST
6 1 (1.54%) GRC
6 1 (1.54%) NCSC
System Software
1 34 (52.31%) Active Directory
2 12 (18.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.08%) EMC RecoverPoint
3 2 (3.08%) pfSense
3 2 (3.08%) Squid
3 2 (3.08%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.08%) vSphere
4 1 (1.54%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.54%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 13 (20.00%) SCCM
2 11 (16.92%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (4.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (4.62%) Grafana
4 3 (4.62%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (3.08%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.08%) VxRail
6 1 (1.54%) CASB
6 1 (1.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.54%) QRadar
6 1 (1.54%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 41 (63.08%) Microsoft
2 18 (27.69%) VMware
3 16 (24.62%) Sophos
4 9 (13.85%) Cisco
4 9 (13.85%) Okta
4 9 (13.85%) ServiceNow
4 9 (13.85%) Zscaler
5 8 (12.31%) Dell
5 8 (12.31%) Veeam
6 7 (10.77%) CrowdStrike
7 6 (9.23%) LogicMonitor
8 5 (7.69%) Barracuda Networks
8 5 (7.69%) Fortinet
8 5 (7.69%) HP
8 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
8 5 (7.69%) Ubiquiti
9 4 (6.15%) Citrix
9 4 (6.15%) Qualys
9 4 (6.15%) Tenable
10 3 (4.62%) OneLogin