The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 21 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 185 - 172
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 4 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.098% - 0.103%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.675% - 0.756%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
Average salary £41,250 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,750 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+16.42% -
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
593 595 529
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.47% 16.34% 13.57%
Number of salaries quoted 492 530 460
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,400 £75,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SMTP
North West

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SMTP Salary Trend

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
3 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (40.00%) Linux
4 4 (40.00%) LDAP
4 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 4 (40.00%) SAN
4 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (30.00%) Internet
5 3 (30.00%) HTTP
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (20.00%) Dell
6 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (20.00%) Juniper
6 2 (20.00%) SSL
6 2 (20.00%) SLA
6 2 (20.00%) Cisco
6 2 (20.00%) TIBCO
6 2 (20.00%) MPLS
6 2 (20.00%) OSPF
6 2 (20.00%) BGP

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (10.00%) ASP
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) Apache
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) nginx
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) Lync
2 2 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 5 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (40.00%) LDAP
3 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 3 (30.00%) Internet
4 3 (30.00%) HTTP
5 2 (20.00%) SSL
5 2 (20.00%) MPLS
5 2 (20.00%) OSPF
5 2 (20.00%) BGP
5 2 (20.00%) VPN
5 2 (20.00%) ADSL
5 2 (20.00%) PBX
5 2 (20.00%) SMS
5 2 (20.00%) VoIP
5 2 (20.00%) DHCP
5 2 (20.00%) FTP
5 2 (20.00%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) DTS
3 1 (10.00%) MS Access
3 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Services Delivery Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Service Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (20.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
1 2 (20.00%) Communications Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) IT Services Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Support
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Administrator
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) iPhone
1 2 (20.00%) Open Source
1 2 (20.00%) EqualLogic
1 2 (20.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 8
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Phone
3 2 (20.00%) Android
3 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
4 1 (10.00%) AIX
4 1 (10.00%) HPUX
4 1 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
1 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Product Management
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
3 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) C
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) VB6
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
2 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (20.00%) MCP
1 2 (20.00%) MCSE
1 2 (20.00%) MCITP
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (20.00%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (10.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) TIBCO
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (10.00%) Apple