SMTP Contracts in the Midlands

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 130 148
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +61
Contract jobs citing SMTP 18 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.74% 0.072% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.08% 0.46% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 3
10th Percentile £454 - £352
25th Percentile £463 £725 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £750 £568
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% +32.16% +3.18%
75th Percentile £529 £775 £576
90th Percentile £577 - -
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -16.67%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 296 433 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 12.14% 15.68% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 268 336
10th Percentile £200 £213 £234
25th Percentile £300 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -
75th Percentile £570 £600 £570
90th Percentile £638 £688 £713
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 13
10th Percentile - £12.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £14.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.87% -32.69% +5.00%
75th Percentile £31.00 £23.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £42.23 £26.15 -
England median hourly rate £42.50 £48.56 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.48% -2.88% +92.31%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the Midlands

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the Midlands

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the Midlands

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
West Midlands +12 18 £475 - 7
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 12 (66.67%) Confluence
2 4 (22.22%) nginx
3 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 12 (66.67%) AWS
1 12 (66.67%) AWS KMS
1 12 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 8 (44.44%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (27.78%) SaaS
4 4 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (22.22%) Route 53
5 3 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 16 (88.89%) DNS
2 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 10 (55.56%) FTP
2 10 (55.56%) HTTP
2 10 (55.56%) SSH
3 5 (27.78%) DKIM
3 5 (27.78%) DMARC
3 5 (27.78%) Internet
4 4 (22.22%) IMAP
4 4 (22.22%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (22.22%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Git
1 12 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 12 (66.67%) JIRA
1 12 (66.67%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (55.56%) Public Sector
2 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) AWS DevOps
2 7 (38.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) AWS Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 7 (38.89%) Platform Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) AWS Platform Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (55.56%) Replication
2 1 (5.56%) Clustering
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 12 (66.67%) Amazon Linux
2 12 (66.67%) VMS
3 11 (61.11%) Windows
4 5 (27.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
6 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Change Management
1 12 (66.67%) Cloud Security
1 12 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 12 (66.67%) DevOps
1 12 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 10 (55.56%) Patch Management
3 5 (27.78%) Validation
4 4 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 4 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (72.22%) PowerShell
2 12 (66.67%) Groovy
2 12 (66.67%) Python
3 8 (44.44%) Java
3 8 (44.44%) Perl
4 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (66.67%) Docker
2 10 (55.56%) DFS Replication
3 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 9 (50.00%) Dovecot
3 9 (50.00%) Postfix
4 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (22.22%) Squid
6 1 (5.56%) vSphere
6 1 (5.56%) XenApp
6 1 (5.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Grafana
1 12 (66.67%) Prometheus
1 12 (66.67%) Terraform
2 4 (22.22%) Nessus
3 2 (11.11%) Proxmox
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 6 (33.33%) VMware
3 5 (27.78%) Broadcom
3 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
4 4 (22.22%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Dell
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft