SMTP Contracts in London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 378 459
Rank change year-on-year +55 +81 +111
Contract jobs citing SMTP 28 18 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.22% 0.10% 0.085%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.13% 1.08% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 16
10th Percentile £303 £319 £419
25th Percentile £322 £410 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £575
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -21.74% -17.86%
75th Percentile £578 £669 £675
90th Percentile £630 £925 £681
England median daily rate £570 £525 £564
% change year-on-year +8.57% -6.91% -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.75 - -
Median hourly rate £54.50 - £83.00
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.35 - £83.00

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 1,314 1,663 2,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.50% 9.51% 9.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 1,116 1,812
10th Percentile £263 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £571
Median % change year-on-year - -12.43% +3.82%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £675
90th Percentile £718 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £495 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -5.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 50 57
10th Percentile £24.21 £14.46 £19.57
25th Percentile £24.66 £16.40 £22.63
Median hourly rate £38.75 £22.75 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.33% -43.13% +14.29%
75th Percentile £50.50 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.25 £60.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% +122.22% -24.72%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in London

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in London

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in London

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend 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 18 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
Central London +1 3 £325 -61.76%
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (7.14%) Confluence
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) AutoCAD
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (53.57%) Azure
2 9 (32.14%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (28.57%) Azure Sentinel
3 8 (28.57%) GitHub
4 7 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (17.86%) AWS
6 4 (14.29%) GCP
7 3 (10.71%) Azure AKS
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Machine Learning
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (10.71%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (10.71%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
9 1 (3.57%) Akamai
9 1 (3.57%) Datadog
9 1 (3.57%) npm
9 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
9 1 (3.57%) PaaS
9 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (60.71%) HTTP
1 17 (60.71%) TCP/IP
2 16 (57.14%) DNS
3 8 (28.57%) Firewall
3 8 (28.57%) SSL
4 7 (25.00%) DHCP
4 7 (25.00%) FTP
5 4 (14.29%) POP3
5 4 (14.29%) VPN
6 2 (7.14%) Internet
6 2 (7.14%) Network Security
6 2 (7.14%) SSH
7 1 (3.57%) BGP
7 1 (3.57%) EIGRP
7 1 (3.57%) IMAP
7 1 (3.57%) IPsec
7 1 (3.57%) OSPF
7 1 (3.57%) SNMP
7 1 (3.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Power BI
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.57%) Big Data
2 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Developer
2 3 (10.71%) Security Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow Developer
2 3 (10.71%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Audio Visual Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Senior
3 2 (7.14%) Server Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Server Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Windows Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) .NET
2 6 (21.43%) LDAP
3 4 (14.29%) JSON
3 4 (14.29%) REST
4 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.71%) Bootstrap
4 3 (10.71%) CSS
4 3 (10.71%) CSS3
4 3 (10.71%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (10.71%) Web Services
4 3 (10.71%) YAML
5 2 (7.14%) HTML
6 1 (3.57%) Bazel
6 1 (3.57%) HTML5
6 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 3 (10.71%) Cyberattack
3 3 (10.71%) PKI
3 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.14%) Clustering
4 2 (7.14%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 2 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.57%) Digital Signage
5 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.71%) Mac OS X
5 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (46.43%) SIEM
2 11 (39.29%) DevOps
3 10 (35.71%) Security Operations
4 8 (28.57%) Agile
4 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 8 (28.57%) Incident Response
5 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 7 (25.00%) Threat Detection
6 6 (21.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (14.29%) Digital Forensics
8 4 (14.29%) OWASP
8 4 (14.29%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (14.29%) SOAR
8 4 (14.29%) Threat Modelling
9 3 (10.71%) Incident Management
9 3 (10.71%) ITSM
9 3 (10.71%) Security Architecture
9 3 (10.71%) Static Code Analysis
9 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.00%) C#
3 6 (21.43%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (14.29%) Python
5 3 (10.71%) Bicep
5 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) CCNA
2 3 (10.71%) CCSP
2 3 (10.71%) CEH
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (10.71%) CompTIA CySA+
2 3 (10.71%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (10.71%) GCIH
2 3 (10.71%) OSCP
2 3 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) GCIA
4 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) GDPR
1 2 (7.14%) HIPAA
1 2 (7.14%) NIST
1 2 (7.14%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) BitLocker
2 2 (7.14%) Hyper-V
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (7.14%) Terminal Services
2 2 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
1 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
2 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (7.14%) CSIRT
3 2 (7.14%) vCenter Server
3 2 (7.14%) vMotion
4 1 (3.57%) Nagios
4 1 (3.57%) Puppet
4 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.86%) Google
3 4 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
4 3 (10.71%) Splunk
5 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 2 (7.14%) Darktrace
5 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.14%) VMware
6 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.57%) HP
6 1 (3.57%) McAfee
6 1 (3.57%) Symantec