SMTP Contracts in the Thames Valley

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 86 - 149
Rank change year-on-year - - +6
Contract jobs citing SMTP 16 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% - 0.068%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 6.35% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 2
10th Percentile - - £332
25th Percentile £325 - £342
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £381
Median % change year-on-year - - -26.51%
75th Percentile £538 - £417
90th Percentile £538 - £426
South East median daily rate £540 - £381
% change year-on-year - - -27.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 252 605 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 16.68% 22.52% 16.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 295 291
10th Percentile £242 £205 £313
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +2.46% +5.51%
75th Percentile £550 £594 £570
90th Percentile £618 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £480 £490 £488
% change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 50 15
10th Percentile - £17.79 £19.70
25th Percentile - £23.78 £25.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.15% -1.52% +288.24%
75th Percentile £22.09 £85.65 £80.25
90th Percentile £31.44 £87.47 £81.22
South East median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
% change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the Thames Valley 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
SMTP
South East

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (50.00%) Apache
2 5 (31.25%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (100.00%) DNS
2 11 (68.75%) DHCP
2 11 (68.75%) FTP
2 11 (68.75%) Telnet
3 5 (31.25%) NetScaler
4 4 (25.00%) tcpdump
5 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
1 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Clustering
1 5 (31.25%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Vulnerability Management
2 5 (31.25%) Workflow
2 5 (31.25%) Workflow Management
3 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) Server Migrations
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (6.25%) Server Management
6 1 (6.25%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 12 (75.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) NFS
2 9 (56.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (50.00%) Samba
4 5 (31.25%) vSphere
4 5 (31.25%) XenApp
4 5 (31.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (50.00%) yum
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Clustering
2 5 (31.25%) WSUS
3 3 (18.75%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 8 (50.00%) HP
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
3 5 (31.25%) Dell
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
4 4 (25.00%) Red Hat