SMTP Contracts in the City of London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring SMTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SMTP over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 120 172
Rank change year-on-year 0 +52 -
Contract jobs citing SMTP 3 7 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.32% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 3.35% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - - £629
25th Percentile £313 £450 £634
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £850 £663
Median % change year-on-year -61.76% +28.30% -
75th Percentile £338 £925 £684
90th Percentile - - £686
Central London median daily rate £325 £850 £663
% change year-on-year -61.76% +28.30% -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 168 209 366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.57% 9.53% 10.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 139 252
10th Percentile £258 £202 £250
25th Percentile £466 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +22.06% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £622 £675
90th Percentile £741 £755 £750
Central London median daily rate £539 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +19.72% -18.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - - £20.46
25th Percentile - £12.75 £20.81
Median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%
75th Percentile - £14.25 £24.64
90th Percentile - - £30.86
Central London median hourly rate - £13.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -35.71% -46.84%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the City of London

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SMTP in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the City of London

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SMTP in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the City of London

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) FTP
1 2 (66.67%) HTTP
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) SIEM
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Chaos Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) OWASP
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (66.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Detection
2 2 (66.67%) Threat Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Management
3 1 (33.33%) ITSM
3 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) C#
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft