SMTP Contracts in England

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 501 610
Rank change year-on-year +115 +109 +88
Contract jobs citing SMTP 89 36 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.36% 0.099% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.79% 0.75% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 33 31
10th Percentile £325 £290 £394
25th Percentile £475 £420 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -6.91% -1.91%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £606
90th Percentile £640 £883 £675
UK median daily rate £570 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +8.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile £66.50 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - £83.00
75th Percentile £81.73 - -
90th Percentile £82.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £81.01 - £83.00

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 3,188 4,784 5,911
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.03% 13.15% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,978 2,876 3,864
10th Percentile £220 £210 £231
25th Percentile £363 £350 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £650
90th Percentile £675 £700 £738
UK median daily rate £488 £490 £520
% change year-on-year -0.51% -5.68% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 389 424
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.50 £9.80
25th Percentile £15.09 £16.30 £10.63
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%
75th Percentile £63.38 £63.75 £59.28
90th Percentile £81.01 £70.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -27.50% +116.22% -34.88%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SMTP in England.

Daily rate trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in England

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SMTP in England.

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SMTP in England over the 6 months to 17 May 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 17 May 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
London +46 28 £500 +11.11% 6
South East - 22 £558 - 15
East of England +32 19 £588 +6.82% 9
North of England +31 13 £625 +4.17% 2
Yorkshire - 9 £625 -
North West - 4 - - 2
Midlands +19 2 £618 - 3
West Midlands +8 2 £618 - 3
South West +42 1 £650 -3.70% 1
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (21.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (8.99%) Skype for Business
3 6 (6.74%) Apache
3 6 (6.74%) Confluence
3 6 (6.74%) IIS
4 4 (4.49%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (4.49%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (4.49%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (2.25%) CMS
6 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.46%) Azure
2 17 (19.10%) GitHub
3 13 (14.61%) AWS
3 13 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.48%) GCP
5 9 (10.11%) IaaS
5 9 (10.11%) OpenShift
5 9 (10.11%) PaaS
6 8 (8.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (7.87%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (5.62%) Entra ID
9 4 (4.49%) Cohesity
10 3 (3.37%) Azure AKS
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Machine Learning
10 3 (3.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (3.37%) Power Platform
11 1 (1.12%) Datadog
11 1 (1.12%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 55 (61.80%) DNS
2 36 (40.45%) HTTP
3 31 (34.83%) FTP
4 25 (28.09%) DHCP
5 23 (25.84%) SSL
6 19 (21.35%) TCP/IP
7 17 (19.10%) Firewall
8 15 (16.85%) Network Security
9 12 (13.48%) VPN
10 9 (10.11%) POP3
10 9 (10.11%) Skype
10 9 (10.11%) Telnet
11 6 (6.74%) NetScaler
12 5 (5.62%) IMAP
13 4 (4.49%) PSTN
13 4 (4.49%) SAN
14 2 (2.25%) Internet
14 2 (2.25%) SSH
14 2 (2.25%) tcpdump
15 1 (1.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.11%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (10.11%) Big Data
1 9 (10.11%) Elasticsearch
2 8 (8.99%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.48%) Public Sector
4 10 (11.24%) Finance
5 6 (6.74%) Banking
6 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Law
8 2 (2.25%) Electronics
8 2 (2.25%) Legal
8 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.25%) Marketing
8 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.12%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.12%) Aviation
9 1 (1.12%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.12%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.12%) Military
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Analyst
2 16 (17.98%) SOC Analyst
3 13 (14.61%) Support Engineer
4 11 (12.36%) Infrastructure Support
5 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Support
5 9 (10.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Developer
6 8 (8.99%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.87%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 7 (7.87%) Senior
7 7 (7.87%) ServiceNow Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Security Analyst
9 4 (4.49%) Collaboration Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Exchange Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Messaging Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 3 (3.37%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (31.46%) LDAP
2 17 (19.10%) REST
3 8 (8.99%) AngularJS
3 8 (8.99%) Bootstrap
3 8 (8.99%) CSS
3 8 (8.99%) CSS3
3 8 (8.99%) JSON
3 8 (8.99%) Web Services
4 7 (7.87%) .NET
4 7 (7.87%) HTML
5 5 (5.62%) SOAP
6 3 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (3.37%) YAML
7 2 (2.25%) HTML5
8 1 (1.12%) Bazel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.22%) PKI
2 16 (17.98%) Clustering
2 16 (17.98%) Cyberattack
3 13 (14.61%) Security Operations Centre
4 11 (12.36%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (11.24%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (10.11%) Data Centre
6 9 (10.11%) Management Information System
7 8 (8.99%) Blackberry
7 8 (8.99%) CSOC
7 8 (8.99%) Product Ownership
8 7 (7.87%) Distributed Systems
8 7 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (4.49%) Handset
9 4 (4.49%) Security Posture
10 2 (2.25%) Cyber Kill Chain
10 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 2 (2.25%) YARA
11 1 (1.12%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 42 (47.19%) Windows
2 21 (23.60%) Linux
2 21 (23.60%) Windows Server
3 11 (12.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (4.49%) Android
4 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (3.37%) Mac OS X
6 2 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.12%) Unix
7 1 (1.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) SIEM
2 24 (26.97%) DevOps
3 20 (22.47%) Cybersecurity
3 20 (22.47%) Security Operations
4 19 (21.35%) Threat Detection
5 16 (17.98%) Artificial Intelligence
5 16 (17.98%) Incident Response
5 16 (17.98%) Machine Learning
6 13 (14.61%) Agile
6 13 (14.61%) ITSM
6 13 (14.61%) Workflow
7 11 (12.36%) Network Packet Capture
8 10 (11.24%) Information Management
8 10 (11.24%) Information Security
9 9 (10.11%) CI/CD
9 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (10.11%) Software Deployment
10 8 (8.99%) Translating Business Requirements
11 7 (7.87%) Analytics
11 7 (7.87%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.94%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.99%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.87%) C#
3 7 (7.87%) Shell Script
4 6 (6.74%) Kusto Query Language
5 5 (5.62%) Python
6 3 (3.37%) Bicep
7 2 (2.25%) Bash
8 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (48.31%) Security Cleared
2 30 (33.71%) SC Cleared
3 22 (24.72%) DV Cleared
4 18 (20.22%) Degree
5 3 (3.37%) CCNA
5 3 (3.37%) CCSP
5 3 (3.37%) CEH
5 3 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.37%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (3.37%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (3.37%) GCIH
5 3 (3.37%) OSCP
6 2 (2.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (2.25%) CISSP
7 1 (1.12%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) SLA
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
2 2 (2.25%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.25%) NIST
2 2 (2.25%) NIST 800
3 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (49.44%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (11.24%) BitLocker
3 10 (11.24%) Hyper-V
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft App-V
3 10 (11.24%) Terminal Services
3 10 (11.24%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (10.11%) Docker
4 9 (10.11%) NFS
5 6 (6.74%) Samba
5 6 (6.74%) vSphere
5 6 (6.74%) XenApp
5 6 (6.74%) XenDesktop
6 3 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (25.84%) Ansible
2 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.24%) vCenter Server
3 10 (11.24%) vMotion
4 9 (10.11%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (10.11%) Nagios
4 9 (10.11%) Puppet
5 8 (8.99%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Clustering
6 6 (6.74%) WSUS
6 6 (6.74%) yum
7 3 (3.37%) Grafana
8 2 (2.25%) CSIRT
9 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.12%) SCCM
9 1 (1.12%) SCOM
9 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 30 (33.71%) Microsoft
2 23 (25.84%) VMware
3 17 (19.10%) HP
4 16 (17.98%) Citrix
5 13 (14.61%) Google
6 11 (12.36%) Symantec
7 8 (8.99%) ServiceNow
8 6 (6.74%) Dell
9 5 (5.62%) Splunk
10 4 (4.49%) Clearswift
10 4 (4.49%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (4.49%) Darktrace
10 4 (4.49%) NetApp
10 4 (4.49%) Ribbon
11 2 (2.25%) FireEye
11 2 (2.25%) IronPort
11 2 (2.25%) LogRhythm
11 2 (2.25%) Palo Alto
11 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.25%) SAP