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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 429 341 363
Rank change year-on-year -88 +22 +74
Contract jobs citing SMTP 11 30 14
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.22% 0.086%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.69% 2.15% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 13
10th Percentile £500 £288 £275
25th Percentile £508 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £375 £420
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -10.71% -26.57%
75th Percentile £638 £541 £450
90th Percentile £641 £596 £528
England median daily rate £510 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.37% -13.64% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.00 -
England median hourly rate - £80.68 -

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 1,602 1,393 1,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 7.95% 10.25% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 909 1,018
10th Percentile £305 £286 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% -1.96% -7.27%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £619
90th Percentile £725 £720 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 32 30
10th Percentile £19.34 £19.89 £16.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.15 £20.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.58 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year -0.27% +20.41% -35.98%
75th Percentile £53.75 £50.50 £51.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.15 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.75 £44.00 £54.94
% change year-on-year -36.93% -19.91% +3.66%

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 12 August 2026.

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
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 12 August 2026. 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
Central London -19 3 £625 +92.31% 1
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 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) IaaS
1 6 (54.55%) PaaS
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) OpenShift
4 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) DNS
2 7 (63.64%) DHCP
2 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 7 (63.64%) VPN
3 1 (9.09%) HTTP
3 1 (9.09%) Internet
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (27.27%) Big Data
General
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (27.27%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Messaging Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Information Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Security Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Clustering
1 7 (63.64%) PKI
2 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
3 3 (27.27%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server
3 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) AI
2 3 (27.27%) DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Incident Management
2 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
2 3 (27.27%) Software Deployment
3 2 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) High Availability
4 1 (9.09%) Incident Response
4 1 (9.09%) Information Security
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Security Operations
4 1 (9.09%) SIEM
4 1 (9.09%) SOAR
4 1 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) DV Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) CISSP
3 1 (9.09%) ECSA
3 1 (9.09%) OSCP
3 1 (9.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) BitLocker
2 7 (63.64%) Hyper-V
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (63.64%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (54.55%) Docker
4 4 (36.36%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) vCenter Server
1 7 (63.64%) vMotion
2 6 (54.55%) Ansible
2 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
2 6 (54.55%) Puppet
3 3 (27.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) Citrix
2 7 (63.64%) VMware
3 5 (45.45%) Google
4 4 (36.36%) HP
4 4 (36.36%) NetApp
4 4 (36.36%) Symantec
5 1 (9.09%) Dell
5 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.09%) Splunk