SMTP Contracts in Scotland

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for SMTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SMTP over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 160 178
Rank change year-on-year +37 +18 -19
Contract jobs citing SMTP 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.23% 0.10% 0.057%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.01% 0.85% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £511 £171
25th Percentile - £511 £172
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £525 £194
Median % change year-on-year - +170.97% -51.56%
75th Percentile - £541 £237
90th Percentile - £544 £250
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -18.18% +6.02% +22.06%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Scotland

SMTP 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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 249 355 306
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.22% 12.40% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 227 194
10th Percentile £187 £160 £179
25th Percentile £363 £359 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £626 £538 £538
90th Percentile £700 £600 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 21 16
10th Percentile £15.43 - £21.00
25th Percentile £16.69 - £41.31
Median hourly rate £22.14 £10.63 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +108.23% -77.62% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £35.00 £53.89
90th Percentile £60.75 £58.75 £56.63
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in Scotland

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in Scotland

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SMTP in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in Scotland

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Renfrewshire +2 5 - -
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Clustering
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 5 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 5 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 5 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 5 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware