SMTP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring SMTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 119 124
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +41
Contract jobs citing SMTP 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.084% 0.18% 0.14%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.40% 1.81% 1.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £313 £775
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £325 £850
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% -61.76% +28.30%
75th Percentile £638 £338 £925
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £625 £325 £850
% change year-on-year +92.31% -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 143 166 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 6.03% 9.78% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 112 146
10th Percentile £233 £251 £209
25th Percentile £413 £420 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £680 £660 £625
90th Percentile £738 £749 £781
Central London median daily rate £550 £541 £450
% change year-on-year +1.62% +20.28% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £19.64 - -
25th Percentile £20.08 £23.75 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.50 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.12% +81.48% -51.53%
75th Percentile £44.35 £25.25 £14.25
90th Percentile £56.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £24.50 £13.50
% change year-on-year +6.57% +81.48% -51.53%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

SMTP job vacancy trend in the City of London

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SMTP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SMTP

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SMTP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing SMTP

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (100.00%) Big Data
1 2 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) BitLocker
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (100.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) VMware