SMTP Contracts in the South East

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 135 - 219
Rank change year-on-year - - +31
Contract jobs citing SMTP 24 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.80% - 0.052%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.68% - 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 2
10th Percentile £325 - £332
25th Percentile £475 - £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £381
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.38%
75th Percentile £588 - £417
90th Percentile £593 - £426
England median daily rate £550 £450 £564
% change year-on-year +22.22% -20.21% +7.43%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the South East 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
Berkshire - 16 £475 - 1
Thames Valley - 16 £475 - 2
Hampshire - 8 £575 - 5
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 8 (33.33%) Apache
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (20.83%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
1 8 (33.33%) GCP
1 8 (33.33%) IaaS
1 8 (33.33%) OpenShift
1 8 (33.33%) PaaS
2 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (100.00%) DNS
2 19 (79.17%) DHCP
3 11 (45.83%) FTP
3 11 (45.83%) Telnet
4 8 (33.33%) Firewall
4 8 (33.33%) VPN
5 5 (20.83%) NetScaler
6 4 (16.67%) tcpdump
7 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (33.33%) Big Data
1 8 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
General
1 7 (29.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Infrastructure Support
3 8 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (29.17%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 4 (16.67%) Administrator
6 3 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
7 1 (4.17%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Clustering
1 13 (54.17%) PKI
2 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (79.17%) Windows
2 16 (66.67%) Linux
3 15 (62.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) DevOps
1 8 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 8 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 6 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 5 (20.83%) Workflow
3 5 (20.83%) Workflow Management
4 4 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Server Migrations
5 3 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
6 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.17%) Server Management
7 1 (4.17%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) PowerShell
2 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 12 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (33.33%) Degree
3 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 17 (70.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (45.83%) NFS
3 8 (33.33%) BitLocker
3 8 (33.33%) Docker
3 8 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 8 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (33.33%) Samba
3 8 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 8 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (20.83%) vSphere
4 5 (20.83%) XenApp
4 5 (20.83%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (45.83%) Ansible
2 8 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (33.33%) Nagios
2 8 (33.33%) Puppet
2 8 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 8 (33.33%) vMotion
2 8 (33.33%) yum
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Clustering
3 5 (20.83%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) VMware
2 16 (66.67%) HP
3 13 (54.17%) Citrix
3 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
4 8 (33.33%) Google
4 8 (33.33%) Symantec
5 5 (20.83%) Dell
6 4 (16.67%) Red Hat