SMTP Contract Job Trends in London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 369 345 381
Rank change year-on-year -24 +36 +141
Contract jobs citing SMTP 20 24 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.14% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.56% 1.58% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 17
10th Percentile £331 £333 £263
25th Percentile £425 £360 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -14.89% +9.30%
75th Percentile £597 £556 £613
90th Percentile £629 £616 £880
England median daily rate £475 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -11.63% +0.47% -6.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £38.15 - -
25th Percentile £41.00 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - -
75th Percentile £62.75 - -
90th Percentile £63.05 - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £56.75 -
% change year-on-year +14.54% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,286 1,517 2,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.02% 10.01% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 933 1,359
10th Percentile £311 £256 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £626 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £750
England median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 13 56
10th Percentile £20.76 £23.87 £18.93
25th Percentile - £28.41 £19.99
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +35.92% +3.00%
75th Percentile £33.19 £43.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £62.35 £76.91 £76.88
England median hourly rate £34.50 £41.00 £56.45
% change year-on-year -15.85% -27.36% +26.28%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

SMTP job vacancy trend in London

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SMTP

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in London

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing SMTP

SMTP
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for SMTP in London

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the London 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
South London - 10 £475 -
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (55.00%) Confluence
2 10 (50.00%) nginx
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (50.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 10 (50.00%) AWS
2 10 (50.00%) AWS KMS
2 10 (50.00%) Route 53
2 10 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) DNS
2 16 (80.00%) HTTP
3 12 (60.00%) Firewall
4 11 (55.00%) SSH
5 10 (50.00%) FTP
5 10 (50.00%) IMAP
5 10 (50.00%) OpenLDAP
6 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
7 3 (15.00%) Internet
8 1 (5.00%) DHCP
8 1 (5.00%) DKIM
8 1 (5.00%) DMARC
8 1 (5.00%) Kerberos
8 1 (5.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (5.00%) Apache Hive
3 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.00%) Impala
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (55.00%) JIRA
2 10 (50.00%) Git
2 10 (50.00%) Vagrant
3 1 (5.00%) GCC
3 1 (5.00%) MSI
3 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (60.00%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (20.00%) Finance
5 3 (15.00%) Legal
6 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Security Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Exchange Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) Security Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (55.00%) LDAP
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
3 1 (5.00%) Software Packaging
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (10.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (5.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (85.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Linux
3 10 (50.00%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (50.00%) Ubuntu
3 10 (50.00%) VMS
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Change Management
1 12 (60.00%) DevOps
2 11 (55.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) Configuration Management
3 10 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 10 (50.00%) Patch Management
3 10 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
3 10 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Digital Forensics
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) Security Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Security Operations
4 3 (15.00%) SIEM
4 3 (15.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 3 (15.00%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (10.00%) E-Discovery
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security
5 2 (10.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 18 (90.00%) PowerShell
2 15 (75.00%) Python
3 11 (55.00%) SQL
4 10 (50.00%) Groovy
5 4 (20.00%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (15.00%) Bash
7 1 (5.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (65.00%) Degree
2 12 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (50.00%) AWS Certification
4 10 (50.00%) Azure Certification
5 3 (15.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (15.00%) CCNA
5 3 (15.00%) CCSP
5 3 (15.00%) CEH
5 3 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (15.00%) CISSP
5 3 (15.00%) CompTIA CySA+
5 3 (15.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 3 (15.00%) GCIH
5 3 (15.00%) OSCP
6 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 12 (60.00%) Docker
2 11 (55.00%) Dovecot
2 11 (55.00%) Postfix
3 10 (50.00%) DFS Replication
3 10 (50.00%) Squid
4 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (5.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (5.00%) BitLocker
6 1 (5.00%) HDFS
6 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (55.00%) Terraform
2 10 (50.00%) Grafana
2 10 (50.00%) Nessus
2 10 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 10 (50.00%) Proxmox
3 3 (15.00%) CSIRT
4 2 (10.00%) Ansible
4 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (5.00%) Kibana
5 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.00%) Puppet
5 1 (5.00%) SCCM
5 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
5 1 (5.00%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) CrowdStrike
3 3 (15.00%) Darktrace
3 3 (15.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.00%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) NetApp
5 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.00%) Zscaler