SMTP Contracts in the North of England

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 151 184 215
Rank change year-on-year +33 +31 +9
Contract jobs citing SMTP 15 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.46% 0.021% 0.086%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.72% 0.17% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile £418 - £528
25th Percentile £544 £550 £551
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £600 £564
Median % change year-on-year +2.08% +6.38% +10.05%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £595
90th Percentile £683 - £650
England median daily rate £550 £450 £564
% change year-on-year +22.22% -20.21% +7.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £81.01 - £83.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 552 599 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 16.75% 12.56% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 419 467
10th Percentile £181 £200 £200
25th Percentile £246 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £538 £612 £570
90th Percentile £638 £750 £675
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 28 48
10th Percentile £20.74 £13.53 -
25th Percentile £22.98 £17.72 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.76 £24.87 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +133.96% -40.35%
75th Percentile £41.50 £45.88 £15.15
90th Percentile - £48.75 £34.13
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the North of England

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SMTP in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the North of England

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in the North of England

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SMTP in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the North of England

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the North of England 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
Yorkshire - 11 £613 -
North West - 4 - - 1
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (26.67%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 9 (60.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) PSTN
1 4 (26.67%) Skype
2 2 (13.33%) IMAP
2 2 (13.33%) Network Security
2 2 (13.33%) POP3
General
1 8 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Collaboration Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (60.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (26.67%) Blackberry
2 4 (26.67%) Handset
3 2 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Android
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (13.33%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) ITSM
1 9 (60.00%) SIEM
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (26.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (13.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Threat Detection
4 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Bash
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (60.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (60.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Clearswift
2 4 (26.67%) Ribbon
3 2 (13.33%) Splunk