SMTP Contract Job Trends in England

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring SMTP skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 485 433 507
Rank change year-on-year -52 +74 +135
Contract jobs citing SMTP 59 78 58
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.19% 0.27% 0.15%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.74% 2.10% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 52 41
10th Percentile £435 £227 £208
25th Percentile £463 £388 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £535
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +0.47% -6.96%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £630 £656 £713
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 2 0
10th Percentile £45.00 £43.58 -
25th Percentile £45.38 £48.19 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +14.54% - -
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.69 -
90th Percentile £84.50 £70.53 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £41.00 -
% change year-on-year +58.54% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,388 3,707 5,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.89% 12.75% 14.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,185 2,175 3,295
10th Percentile £206 £220 £210
25th Percentile £356 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 115 324
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.64 £17.73
25th Percentile £20.42 £21.46 £22.94
Median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
Median % change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.00% -31.82% +31.50%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

SMTP job vacancy trend in England

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SMTP

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in England

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing SMTP

SMTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SMTP in England over the 6 months to 15 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for SMTP in England

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the England region over the 6 months to 15 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 30 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 29 £475 - 1
London -24 20 £513 +2.50% 5
East of England -27 15 £680 +23.64% 7
South West - 2 - -
South East -24 1 - - 4
East Midlands - 1 - -
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (35.59%) Confluence
2 11 (18.64%) nginx
3 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (18.64%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 2 (3.39%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (33.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 20 (33.90%) Amazon EC2
1 20 (33.90%) Amazon ELB
1 20 (33.90%) Amazon S3
1 20 (33.90%) AWS
1 20 (33.90%) AWS KMS
1 20 (33.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 17 (28.81%) Azure
3 14 (23.73%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (18.64%) Amazon ECS
4 11 (18.64%) Route 53
5 9 (15.25%) Amazon Glacier
6 6 (10.17%) Entra ID
6 6 (10.17%) SaaS
7 2 (3.39%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.69%) IaaS
8 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (83.05%) DNS
2 40 (67.80%) HTTP
3 35 (59.32%) FTP
4 21 (35.59%) Firewall
5 20 (33.90%) SSH
6 15 (25.42%) Network Security
6 15 (25.42%) SSL
7 11 (18.64%) IMAP
7 11 (18.64%) OpenLDAP
8 10 (16.95%) DKIM
8 10 (16.95%) DMARC
9 8 (13.56%) Internet
10 5 (8.47%) TCP/IP
11 2 (3.39%) DHCP
12 1 (1.69%) Kerberos
12 1 (1.69%) POP3
12 1 (1.69%) Telnet
12 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.90%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (18.64%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (18.64%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.39%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.39%) MySQL
3 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.69%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.69%) Impala
4 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (35.59%) Jenkins
1 21 (35.59%) JIRA
2 20 (33.90%) Git
2 20 (33.90%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.69%) GCC
3 1 (1.69%) MSI
3 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (61.02%) Social Skills
2 18 (30.51%) Public Sector
3 15 (25.42%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (20.34%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.78%) Finance
6 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Legal
7 2 (3.39%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Law
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) DevOps Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Analyst
2 18 (30.51%) AWS Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 18 (30.51%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (28.81%) SOC Analyst
4 16 (27.12%) AWS DevOps
4 16 (27.12%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 11 (18.64%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 9 (15.25%) DevOps Platform Engineer
7 5 (8.47%) Architect
8 2 (3.39%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Consultant
8 2 (3.39%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.39%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (1.69%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) CyberArk Engineer
9 1 (1.69%) Cybersecurity Manager
9 1 (1.69%) NetApp Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (54.24%) LDAP
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Graph
3 2 (3.39%) Web Services
4 1 (1.69%) .NET
4 1 (1.69%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.69%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.69%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.69%) CSS
4 1 (1.69%) CSS3
4 1 (1.69%) HTML
4 1 (1.69%) HTML5
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth
4 1 (1.69%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.69%) OpenID
4 1 (1.69%) SAML
4 1 (1.69%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Replication
2 15 (25.42%) Cyberattack
3 13 (22.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (22.03%) CSOC
3 13 (22.03%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (22.03%) Management Information System
3 13 (22.03%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (5.08%) SCADA
5 2 (3.39%) PKI
6 1 (1.69%) Clustering
6 1 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.69%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.69%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.69%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 34 (57.63%) Linux
2 30 (50.85%) Windows
3 20 (33.90%) Amazon Linux
3 20 (33.90%) VMS
4 14 (23.73%) Ubuntu
5 12 (20.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (10.17%) Windows Server
7 4 (6.78%) CentOS
8 1 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.98%) DevOps
2 22 (37.29%) Change Management
3 21 (35.59%) Configuration Management
3 21 (35.59%) SIEM
4 20 (33.90%) Cloud Security
4 20 (33.90%) Platform Engineering
5 19 (32.20%) Patch Management
6 18 (30.51%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (28.81%) Information Security
8 16 (27.12%) Incident Response
8 16 (27.12%) Runbook
8 16 (27.12%) Security Operations
9 15 (25.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (25.42%) Network Packet Capture
10 13 (22.03%) Analytics
10 13 (22.03%) Behavioural Analytics
10 13 (22.03%) Machine Learning
10 13 (22.03%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (22.03%) SOAR
10 13 (22.03%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 42 (71.19%) PowerShell
1 42 (71.19%) Python
2 20 (33.90%) Groovy
3 12 (20.34%) SQL
4 10 (16.95%) Java
5 9 (15.25%) Perl
6 7 (11.86%) Bash
7 4 (6.78%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (69.49%) Security Cleared
2 40 (67.80%) SC Cleared
3 14 (23.73%) Degree
4 11 (18.64%) Azure Certification
4 11 (18.64%) DV Cleared
5 10 (16.95%) AWS Certification
6 3 (5.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (5.08%) CCNA
6 3 (5.08%) CCSP
6 3 (5.08%) CEH
6 3 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (5.08%) CISSP
6 3 (5.08%) CompTIA CySA+
6 3 (5.08%) CompTIA Security+
6 3 (5.08%) GCIH
6 3 (5.08%) OSCP
7 2 (3.39%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 22 (37.29%) Docker
2 21 (35.59%) Postfix
3 19 (32.20%) Active Directory
3 19 (32.20%) DFS Replication
4 17 (28.81%) Dovecot
5 11 (18.64%) Squid
6 8 (13.56%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (3.39%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (1.69%) BitLocker
8 1 (1.69%) HDFS
8 1 (1.69%) Hyper-V
8 1 (1.69%) NFS
8 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (35.59%) Terraform
2 20 (33.90%) Grafana
2 20 (33.90%) Prometheus
3 11 (18.64%) Nessus
4 10 (16.95%) Proxmox
5 3 (5.08%) CSIRT
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.39%) Ansible
7 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.69%) Kibana
7 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.69%) Puppet
7 1 (1.69%) SCCM
7 1 (1.69%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.69%) vMotion
Vendors
1 21 (35.59%) ServiceNow
2 11 (18.64%) Jaspersoft
2 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
3 8 (13.56%) VMware
4 6 (10.17%) Broadcom
4 6 (10.17%) Red Hat
5 3 (5.08%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (5.08%) Darktrace
5 3 (5.08%) Google
6 2 (3.39%) Citrix
6 2 (3.39%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.39%) Oracle
6 2 (3.39%) PTC
7 1 (1.69%) Foundry
7 1 (1.69%) NetApp
7 1 (1.69%) Zscaler