S/MIME Contracts

Secure Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring S/MIME skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited S/MIME over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 - 835
Rank change year-on-year - - -106
Contract jobs citing S/MIME 2 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% - 0.015%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.037% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £418
25th Percentile £425 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £508
75th Percentile £475 - £700
90th Percentile - - £720
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £591

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

S/MIME falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,422 7,095 9,780
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.41% 12.77% 11.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,210 4,570 6,438
10th Percentile £210 £244 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 445 370
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £51.28
90th Percentile £70.90 £75.00 £65.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%

S/MIME
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing S/MIME as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for S/MIME in the UK

S/MIME
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing S/MIME.

Daily rate trend for S/MIME in the UK

S/MIME
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing S/MIME.

Hourly rate trend for S/MIME in the UK

S/MIME
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 S/MIME within the UK over the 6 months to 12 June 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 - 2 £450 -
England - 2 £450 -

S/MIME
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 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) OCI
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) SAML
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Server
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) VMware