The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 88 69 95
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +26
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 4 5 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.340% 0.701% 0.475%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.556% 2.907% 2.304%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 5
Average salary £47,500 £29,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+63.79% -22.66%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Communications & Networking
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
257 172 217
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 21.84% 24.12% 20.63%
Number of salaries quoted 216 161 184
Average salary £42,000 £35,000 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -1.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SMTP
South East

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent SMTP Salary Trend

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 7 (87.50%) HTTP
2 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 4 (50.00%) Clustering
3 4 (50.00%) Apache
3 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (50.00%) IIS
3 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 4 (50.00%) Linux
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (37.50%) InfoPath
4 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (37.50%) SCOM
4 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (25.00%) Memcached
5 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (25.00%) CentOS
5 2 (25.00%) nginx
5 2 (25.00%) Open Source
5 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 4 (50.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 2 (25.00%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) IIS
1 4 (50.00%) Apache
1 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (37.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (25.00%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) HTTP
2 5 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 2 (25.00%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (25.00%) SSL
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 2 (25.00%) Internet
3 2 (25.00%) VRRP
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) IPsec
3 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 2 (25.00%) IMAP
3 2 (25.00%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) Debian
3 2 (25.00%) OpenBSD
3 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
3 2 (25.00%) FreeBSD
3 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Squid
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) JBoss
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
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