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 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 667 823
Rank change year-on-year +97 +156 -116
Contract jobs citing DKIM 6 21 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.037% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.11% 0.30% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 18
10th Percentile £457 £358 £380
25th Percentile £461 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £486 £575 £559
90th Percentile £490 £588 £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 5,399 7,076 9,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.66% 12.54% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,232 4,571 6,322
10th Percentile £206 £240 £234
25th Percentile £350 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 414 450 371
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -32.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.28 £51.11
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.14 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +156.31% -16.28% -3.20%

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 2 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 25 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
London +89 6 £473 +18.13% 1
England +80 6 £473 -5.50% 2

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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2013
2 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (66.67%) Mimecast
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) Nutanix
2 2 (33.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DMARC
2 3 (50.00%) DNS
3 2 (33.33%) Extranet
3 2 (33.33%) Firewall
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
3 2 (33.33%) LAN
3 2 (33.33%) NAS
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) IT Support
1 2 (33.33%) Messaging Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) LDAP
1 2 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Fat Client
2 2 (33.33%) Thin Client
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Unix
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (33.33%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Advisory Board
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (33.33%) Identity Management
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
2 2 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) Server Management
2 2 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
2 2 (33.33%) BitLocker
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) NetBackup
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) SCOM
2 2 (33.33%) SCVMM
2 2 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Avaya
2 2 (33.33%) Brocade
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Commvault
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Dell Compellent
2 2 (33.33%) EMC
2 2 (33.33%) Equitrac
2 2 (33.33%) F5
2 2 (33.33%) Forcepoint
2 2 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (33.33%) Juniper
2 2 (33.33%) McAfee
2 2 (33.33%) Mitel
2 2 (33.33%) MobileIron
2 2 (33.33%) Proofpoint
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Wyse