The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 17 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 Gloucestershire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 64 99 81
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -18
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 28 3 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 3.175% 0.244% 0.903%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 10.14% 1.176% 5.051%
Number of salaries quoted 11 3 6
Average salary £42,000 £50,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Communications & Networking
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
276 255 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 31.29% 20.75% 17.87%
Number of salaries quoted 231 189 165
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,700 £26,200
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £48,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SMTP
South West

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire SMTP Jobs Demand Trend

SMTP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SMTP across the Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire SMTP Salary Trend

SMTP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMTP across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Gloucestershire SMTP Salary Histogram

SMTP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Gloucester +18 16 £42,000 -16.00%
Cheltenham - 2 £37,500 -
SMTP
South West

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SMTP.

1 74 (84.09%) DNS
2 72 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 71 (80.68%) HTTP
4 68 (77.27%) Internet
5 61 (69.32%) LDAP
6 58 (65.91%) ISA Server
6 58 (65.91%) Squid
7 54 (61.36%) Firewall
7 54 (61.36%) Load Balancing
7 54 (61.36%) Juniper
7 54 (61.36%) Cisco
8 50 (56.82%) Linux
9 47 (53.41%) UNIX
9 47 (53.41%) Perl
10 45 (51.14%) MS Exchange
11 40 (45.45%) Python
12 37 (42.05%) Shell Script
12 37 (42.05%) SaaS
12 37 (42.05%) Bash shell
12 37 (42.05%) qmail
12 37 (42.05%) Postfix
12 37 (42.05%) Sendmail
13 35 (39.77%) Windows
14 34 (38.64%) TCP/IP
15 30 (34.09%) Security Cleared
16 23 (26.14%) SC Cleared
16 23 (26.14%) DV Cleared
17 21 (23.86%) SAN
17 21 (23.86%) Active Directory
18 20 (22.73%) MS Excel

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SMTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (18.18%) XML
1 16 (18.18%) HTML
2 10 (11.36%) SOAP
2 10 (11.36%) WSDL
3 6 (6.818%) ASP.NET 2.0
3 6 (6.818%) ASP.NET
3 6 (6.818%) CSS
3 6 (6.818%) .NET
4 3 (3.409%) Ajax
4 3 (3.409%) LAMP
5 1 (1.136%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 45 (51.14%) MS Exchange
2 8 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
2 8 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (3.409%) Apache
Applications
1 20 (22.73%) MS Excel
2 8 (9.091%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 74 (84.09%) DNS
2 71 (80.68%) HTTP
3 68 (77.27%) Internet
4 61 (69.32%) LDAP
5 54 (61.36%) Firewall
6 34 (38.64%) TCP/IP
7 21 (23.86%) SAN
8 19 (21.59%) FTP
9 17 (19.32%) SNMP
10 10 (11.36%) SSH
10 10 (11.36%) POP3
11 3 (3.409%) Network Security
11 3 (3.409%) Wireshark
11 3 (3.409%) tcpdump
11 3 (3.409%) SSL
11 3 (3.409%) TELNET
11 3 (3.409%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 6 (6.818%) SQL Server 2008
1 6 (6.818%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.409%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.409%) Subversion
General
1 9 (10.23%) Finance
2 6 (6.818%) Advertising
2 6 (6.818%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.409%) Games
Job Titles
1 34 (38.64%) Administrator
2 20 (22.73%) Technical Consultant
2 20 (22.73%) Consultant
3 16 (18.18%) Technical Support Consultant
3 16 (18.18%) Linux Administrator
3 16 (18.18%) Technical Support
3 16 (18.18%) Support Consultant
4 15 (17.05%) Developer
5 14 (15.91%) Security Administrator
6 11 (12.50%) Windows Administrator
7 10 (11.36%) UNIX Consultant
7 10 (11.36%) UNIX Support
7 10 (11.36%) Linux Consultant
7 10 (11.36%) Linux Support
7 10 (11.36%) UNIX Administrator
8 8 (9.091%) Exchange Specialist
9 7 (7.955%) Senior Windows Administrator
10 6 (6.818%) Senior Linux Administrator
10 6 (6.818%) Infrastructure Consultant
10 6 (6.818%) Database Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (42.05%) SaaS
2 17 (19.32%) Clustering
3 8 (9.091%) Blackberry
4 6 (6.818%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.409%) Mobile Games
5 3 (3.409%) iPhone
5 3 (3.409%) Social Media
5 3 (3.409%) iPad
5 3 (3.409%) Social Gaming
6 2 (2.273%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 50 (56.82%) Linux
2 47 (53.41%) UNIX
3 35 (39.77%) Windows
4 14 (15.91%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (9.091%) Windows XP
6 3 (3.409%) Android
6 3 (3.409%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (61.36%) Load Balancing
2 10 (11.36%) OO
2 10 (11.36%) Service Delivery
3 8 (9.091%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (6.818%) Mobile Application Development
5 3 (3.409%) Information Security
5 3 (3.409%) Web Development
5 3 (3.409%) Reverse Engineering
5 3 (3.409%) Network Architecture
5 3 (3.409%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 47 (53.41%) Perl
2 40 (45.45%) Python
3 37 (42.05%) Shell Script
3 37 (42.05%) Bash shell
4 12 (13.64%) SQL
5 10 (11.36%) C++
6 6 (6.818%) C#
6 6 (6.818%) JavaScript
6 6 (6.818%) VB
6 6 (6.818%) XQuery
6 6 (6.818%) XPath
7 3 (3.409%) PHP
Qualifications
1 30 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 23 (26.14%) SC Cleared
2 23 (26.14%) DV Cleared
3 17 (19.32%) MCSA
3 17 (19.32%) Cisco Certification
3 17 (19.32%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (19.32%) CCNA
4 13 (14.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.409%) QA
System Software
1 58 (65.91%) ISA Server
1 58 (65.91%) Squid
2 37 (42.05%) qmail
2 37 (42.05%) Postfix
2 37 (42.05%) Sendmail
3 21 (23.86%) Active Directory
4 8 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (3.409%) Snort
Systems Management
1 17 (19.32%) Zenoss
2 8 (9.091%) MIMEsweeper
3 6 (6.818%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (3.409%) Nagios
Vendors
1 72 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 54 (61.36%) Juniper
2 54 (61.36%) Cisco
3 17 (19.32%) NetApp
4 8 (9.091%) VMware
4 8 (9.091%) Clearswift
5 3 (3.409%) Perforce
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
Demonstrated shell scripting is essential within Bash, Perl, Python or Expect - Advanced understanding of Unix based email servers operating Qmail, Ecelerity, Postfix, Send mail or Exim. Microsoft Exchange...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Excellent Salary + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013