DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DKIM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DKIM over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 703 826
Rank change year-on-year +121 +123 -145
Contract jobs citing DKIM 9 15 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.032%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.16% 0.20% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 15
10th Percentile - £413 £373
25th Percentile £455 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £535 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% +12.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £504 £575 £575
90th Percentile £524 £600 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £30.25
Median hourly rate £23.80 - £30.50
75th Percentile - - £30.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

DKIM is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,522 7,324 9,654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.80% 12.38% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,303 4,766 6,317
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.81% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £440
% change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 420 475 360
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.87
25th Percentile £16.72 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -10.42%

DKIM
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DKIM in the UK

DKIM
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing DKIM.

Daily rate trend for DKIM in the UK

DKIM
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DKIM within the UK over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +106 9 £473 -14.09% 3
London +107 8 £473 +1.07% 1
Work from Home +128 2 £525 -6.46% 3
UK excluding London +56 1 - - 2
North of England +17 1 - - 1
North West +14 1 - -

DKIM
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 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (22.22%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft 365
1 5 (55.56%) Mimecast
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (22.22%) Entra ID
3 2 (22.22%) Nutanix
3 2 (22.22%) Rubrik
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) DMARC
2 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Extranet
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) Internet
3 2 (22.22%) LAN
3 2 (22.22%) NAS
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) VPN
3 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
General
1 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (11.11%) Law
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Security Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) IT Support
2 2 (22.22%) Messaging Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Support Officer
3 1 (11.11%) Information Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) LDAP
1 2 (22.22%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (22.22%) Fat Client
2 2 (22.22%) Thin Client
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Team
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Change Management
2 4 (44.44%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
3 3 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Antivirus Management
4 2 (22.22%) Converged Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (22.22%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) Server Management
4 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
4 2 (22.22%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 2 (22.22%) BitLocker
2 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (22.22%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (22.22%) NetBackup
2 2 (22.22%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) SCOM
2 2 (22.22%) SCVMM
2 2 (22.22%) VxRail
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Avaya
2 2 (22.22%) Brocade
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco
2 2 (22.22%) Commvault
2 2 (22.22%) Dell
2 2 (22.22%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (22.22%) EMC
2 2 (22.22%) Equitrac
2 2 (22.22%) F5
2 2 (22.22%) Forcepoint
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) Juniper
2 2 (22.22%) McAfee
2 2 (22.22%) Mitel
2 2 (22.22%) MobileIron
2 2 (22.22%) Proofpoint
2 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Wyse