SMTP Contracts in Hertfordshire

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 64 -
Rank change year-on-year +38 - -
Contract jobs citing SMTP 19 9 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.92% 1.08% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 20.21% 7.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 0
10th Percentile £511 - -
25th Percentile £528 £290 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £470 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £625 £575 -
90th Percentile £626 - -
East of England median daily rate £588 £470 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £80.34 - -
25th Percentile £80.59 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.91 - -
90th Percentile £83.05 - -
East of England median hourly rate £81.35 - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 94 122 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 29.28% 14.63% 22.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 57 106
10th Percentile £446 £290 £261
25th Percentile £463 £350 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -19.05% +27.27%
75th Percentile £613 £480 £700
90th Percentile £635 £588 £714
East of England median daily rate £475 £415 £475
% change year-on-year +14.46% -12.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 45 20
10th Percentile £52.00 £57.50 £55.98
25th Percentile £59.00 £61.25 £64.06
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - +118.30%
75th Percentile £81.35 - £73.94
90th Percentile £86.80 - £74.65
East of England median hourly rate £39.32 £22.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +74.76% -57.14% +238.71%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in Hertfordshire

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in Hertfordshire

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in Hertfordshire

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Stevenage +39 18 £600 +27.66% 3
Hitchin - 1 £575 -
SMTP
East of England

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 4 (21.05%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (21.05%) Exchange Server 2013
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (21.05%) Skype for Business
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) DNS
1 15 (78.95%) FTP
1 15 (78.95%) HTTP
1 15 (78.95%) SSL
2 13 (68.42%) Network Security
3 4 (21.05%) IMAP
3 4 (21.05%) SAN
3 4 (21.05%) Skype
General
1 10 (52.63%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 4 (21.05%) Law
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.26%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Analyst
2 13 (68.42%) SOC Analyst
3 4 (21.05%) Messaging Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
5 1 (5.26%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Junior
5 1 (5.26%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Security Operations Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Messaging Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) SOC Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (78.95%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (68.42%) Cyberattack
2 11 (57.89%) Security Operations Centre
3 10 (52.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (52.63%) Cyber Threat
4 8 (42.11%) CSOC
5 7 (36.84%) Management Information System
6 4 (21.05%) Blackberry
7 2 (10.53%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (10.53%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 2 (10.53%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (63.16%) Threat Detection
3 11 (57.89%) Network Packet Capture
4 10 (52.63%) Information Management
4 10 (52.63%) Information Security
4 10 (52.63%) Security Operations
5 8 (42.11%) Incident Response
6 7 (36.84%) Analytics
6 7 (36.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 7 (36.84%) Behavioural Analytics
6 7 (36.84%) Machine Learning
6 7 (36.84%) SIEM
7 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (10.53%) Problem Management
8 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
9 1 (5.26%) Decision-Making
9 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
9 1 (5.26%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 16 (84.21%) Security Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) DV Cleared
2 13 (68.42%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
1 4 (21.05%) NetApp
1 4 (21.05%) VMware
2 2 (10.53%) Darktrace
2 2 (10.53%) FireEye
2 2 (10.53%) IronPort
2 2 (10.53%) LogRhythm
2 2 (10.53%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Symantec
3 1 (5.26%) Fujitsu
3 1 (5.26%) Twitter