SMTP Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the City of London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 173 211 242
Rank change year-on-year
+38 +31
Contract jobs citing SMTP 26 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.409% 0.102% 0.030%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.163% 0.792% 0.295%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 0
Average daily rate £325 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £45.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-56.66% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 822 1010 1017
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 12.94% 12.83% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 543 687 654
Average daily rate £400 £413 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £265 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 38 76
Average hourly rate £44.00 £22.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +4.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £17.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-15.27% -7.72%
SMTP
London

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SMTP across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

City of London SMTP Jobs Demand Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SMTP across the City of London region.

City of London SMTP Daily Rate Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SMTP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London SMTP Daily Rate Histogram

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SMTP across the City of London region.

City of London SMTP Hourly Rate Trend

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SMTP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SMTP.

1 37 (80.43%) Windows
2 31 (67.39%) MS Exchange
3 30 (65.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 27 (58.70%) Microsoft
4 27 (58.70%) Active Directory
5 25 (54.35%) SSL
6 24 (52.17%) TCP/IP
7 23 (50.00%) Blackberry
8 22 (47.83%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 22 (47.83%) LDAP
8 22 (47.83%) Exchange Server 2010
9 21 (45.65%) POP3
10 20 (43.48%) Migration
10 20 (43.48%) Exchange Server 2003
11 18 (39.13%) PowerShell
12 17 (36.96%) Banking
12 17 (36.96%) Symantec
12 17 (36.96%) Lotus
12 17 (36.96%) Lotus Notes
13 16 (34.78%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
14 14 (30.43%) Lotus Domino
15 13 (28.26%) VMware
16 11 (23.91%) Project Management
16 11 (23.91%) HTTP
17 10 (21.74%) DNS
17 10 (21.74%) MAILsweeper
17 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
17 10 (21.74%) Internet
17 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
18 9 (19.57%) Norton AntiVirus

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing SMTP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SMTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (13.04%) HTML
2 4 (8.696%) Ajax
3 3 (6.522%) ASP
3 3 (6.522%) Web Services
3 3 (6.522%) XML
3 3 (6.522%) Middleware
4 2 (4.348%) LAMP
4 2 (4.348%) OLE
4 2 (4.348%) .NET
4 2 (4.348%) SOAP
4 2 (4.348%) CSS
5 1 (2.174%) JDBC
5 1 (2.174%) COM
5 1 (2.174%) JMS
5 1 (2.174%) XSL
5 1 (2.174%) XSLT
5 1 (2.174%) WSDL
5 1 (2.174%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 31 (67.39%) MS Exchange
2 22 (47.83%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 22 (47.83%) Exchange Server 2010
3 20 (43.48%) Exchange Server 2003
4 17 (36.96%) Lotus Notes
5 14 (30.43%) Lotus Domino
6 7 (15.22%) Office Communications Server
7 6 (13.04%) IIS
8 4 (8.696%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (6.522%) SharePoint
10 2 (4.348%) Apache
10 2 (4.348%) Lync
11 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2013
11 1 (2.174%) Confluence
11 1 (2.174%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 5 (10.87%) MS Excel
2 4 (8.696%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 25 (54.35%) SSL
2 24 (52.17%) TCP/IP
3 22 (47.83%) LDAP
4 21 (45.65%) POP3
5 11 (23.91%) HTTP
6 10 (21.74%) DNS
6 10 (21.74%) Internet
7 9 (19.57%) SAN
8 5 (10.87%) FTP
8 5 (10.87%) HTTPS
8 5 (10.87%) Firewall
9 4 (8.696%) DHCP
9 4 (8.696%) NAS
10 3 (6.522%) VPN
10 3 (6.522%) NNTP
11 2 (4.348%) LAN
11 2 (4.348%) IMAP
12 1 (2.174%) 4G
12 1 (2.174%) Network Security
12 1 (2.174%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) MySQL
2 2 (4.348%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (2.174%) JIRA
General
1 17 (36.96%) Banking
2 7 (15.22%) Finance
3 5 (10.87%) Investment Banking
4 3 (6.522%) Law
5 2 (4.348%) Legal
6 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.174%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Consultant
2 10 (21.74%) Analyst
3 8 (17.39%) Exchange Consultant
3 8 (17.39%) Messaging Consultant
4 6 (13.04%) Exchange Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (10.87%) Administrator
6 4 (8.696%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (8.696%) Test Analyst
6 4 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (8.696%) Messaging Engineer
7 3 (6.522%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (6.522%) Support Analyst
7 3 (6.522%) Architect
7 3 (6.522%) Support Consultant
8 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Exchange Administrator
8 2 (4.348%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.348%) Messaging Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 23 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (8.696%) PKI
3 2 (4.348%) Replication
3 2 (4.348%) Clustering
3 2 (4.348%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.348%) iPhone
4 1 (2.174%) Open Source
4 1 (2.174%) DataPower
4 1 (2.174%) EqualLogic
4 1 (2.174%) Social Media
4 1 (2.174%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.174%) Psychology
4 1 (2.174%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 37 (80.43%) Windows
2 30 (65.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (21.74%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (13.04%) Linux
5 5 (10.87%) Windows XP
6 4 (8.696%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.696%) Windows 7
7 3 (6.522%) Windows Mobile
7 3 (6.522%) Windows Vista
8 2 (4.348%) UNIX
8 2 (4.348%) Windows 8
9 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (2.174%) VMS
9 1 (2.174%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) Migration
2 11 (23.91%) Project Management
3 8 (17.39%) Business Continuity
4 6 (13.04%) ITIL
4 6 (13.04%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.522%) Digital Forensics
5 3 (6.522%) E-Discovery
5 3 (6.522%) Functional Testing
5 3 (6.522%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (6.522%) Computer Forensics
5 3 (6.522%) Data Analysis
5 3 (6.522%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.522%) Change Management
6 2 (4.348%) Load Balancing
6 2 (4.348%) Analytics
6 2 (4.348%) Change Control
7 1 (2.174%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (2.174%) ITIL V3
7 1 (2.174%) Network Management
7 1 (2.174%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 9 (19.57%) C
3 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.87%) SQL
4 4 (8.696%) Perl
5 3 (6.522%) Java
5 3 (6.522%) VB
5 3 (6.522%) Python
5 3 (6.522%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.348%) PHP
7 1 (2.174%) sed
7 1 (2.174%) XPath
7 1 (2.174%) AWK
Qualifications
1 9 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (19.57%) MCSE
2 3 (6.522%) MCITP
2 3 (6.522%) CISSP
2 3 (6.522%) ISEB
3 2 (4.348%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.174%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) ISO 9001
2 4 (8.696%) SLA
3 2 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Active Directory
2 10 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.522%) VMware ESX
4 2 (4.348%) ISA Server
4 2 (4.348%) vSphere
5 1 (2.174%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.174%) qmail
5 1 (2.174%) Sendmail
5 1 (2.174%) NFS
5 1 (2.174%) NDS
Systems Management
1 16 (34.78%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 10 (21.74%) MAILsweeper
3 9 (19.57%) Norton AntiVirus
4 8 (17.39%) Tivoli
4 8 (17.39%) SCOM
5 1 (2.174%) Puppet
5 1 (2.174%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.174%) WSUS
5 1 (2.174%) BladeLogic
5 1 (2.174%) Nagios
5 1 (2.174%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (2.174%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 27 (58.70%) Microsoft
2 17 (36.96%) Symantec
2 17 (36.96%) Lotus
3 13 (28.26%) VMware
4 7 (15.22%) McAfee
5 5 (10.87%) Citrix
6 4 (8.696%) Red Hat
6 4 (8.696%) Clearswift
7 3 (6.522%) RightFax
7 3 (6.522%) Apple
7 3 (6.522%) Open Text
8 2 (4.348%) Websense
8 2 (4.348%) EMC
8 2 (4.348%) Juniper
8 2 (4.348%) Oracle
8 2 (4.348%) Postini
9 1 (2.174%) Facebook
9 1 (2.174%) Twitter
9 1 (2.174%) Acronis
9 1 (2.174%) Akamai
3rd line Exchange / Messaging Support Consultant (Contract)
City of London
SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and knowledge of basic network troubleshooting. Outlook Client Support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Notes Client E-Mail Migration and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
DevOps Engineer
City, London
A technology start-up company, operating in the latest and greatest in cloud computing technology, would like to hire a number of DevOps Engineers to create a new...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £300 - £500 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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