SMTP Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SMTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing SMTP 21 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.11% - 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 14.29% - 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £475 - £213
% change year-on-year - - -61.36%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

SMTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 147 82 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 21.75% 11.34% 23.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 44 83
10th Percentile £237 £163 £204
25th Percentile £285 £205 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £418 £378 £385
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% -1.95% -13.68%
75th Percentile £488 £580 £475
90th Percentile £575 £613 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -8.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 9
10th Percentile £44.35 £25.13 -
25th Percentile £44.88 £30.94 £62.50
Median hourly rate £47.00 £41.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -36.54% -
75th Percentile £50.38 £50.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £51.65 £56.38 £69.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -14.29% +27.27% +13.40%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing SMTP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SMTP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SMTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SMTP

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SMTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SMTP

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 21 (100.00%) Confluence
2 9 (42.86%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 21 (100.00%) AWS
1 21 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 21 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 12 (57.14%) Amazon Glacier
3 9 (42.86%) Amazon ECS
3 9 (42.86%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (42.86%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (100.00%) DNS
1 21 (100.00%) Firewall
1 21 (100.00%) FTP
1 21 (100.00%) HTTP
1 21 (100.00%) SSH
2 9 (42.86%) IMAP
2 9 (42.86%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (42.86%) Amazon Aurora
2 9 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (100.00%) Git
1 21 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 21 (100.00%) JIRA
1 21 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 21 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 9 (42.86%) Presentation Skills
2 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (95.24%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 16 (76.19%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (71.43%) AWS DevOps
3 15 (71.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 9 (42.86%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (38.10%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 21 (100.00%) Linux
1 21 (100.00%) VMS
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (100.00%) Change Management
1 21 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 21 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 21 (100.00%) DevOps
1 21 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 21 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 9 (42.86%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) Groovy
1 21 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 21 (100.00%) Python
2 12 (57.14%) Java
2 12 (57.14%) Perl
3 9 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (42.86%) AWS Certification
2 9 (42.86%) Azure Certification
2 9 (42.86%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 21 (100.00%) Docker
2 12 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 9 (42.86%) Dovecot
3 9 (42.86%) Postfix
3 9 (42.86%) Squid
Systems Management
1 21 (100.00%) Grafana
1 21 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 21 (100.00%) Terraform
2 9 (42.86%) Nessus
2 9 (42.86%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 9 (42.86%) Jaspersoft