SMTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for SMTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SMTP over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 438 470
Rank change year-on-year +72 +32 -97
Contract jobs citing SMTP 20 18 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.098% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.60% 0.51% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 25
10th Percentile £290 £346 £415
25th Percentile £418 £511 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £478
Median % change year-on-year - +15.18% +19.38%
75th Percentile £594 £564 £588
90th Percentile £706 £576 £642
UK median daily rate £470 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -14.55% +4.76% +23.53%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SMTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,318 3,500 4,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.28% 14.89% 13.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,893 2,213 2,635
10th Percentile £203 £213 £185
25th Percentile £350 £350 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £544
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £495 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -4.44% +3.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 355 323 238
10th Percentile £13.35 - £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £15.63
Median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.66 £74.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.88 £28.25
% change year-on-year +111.92% -33.19% +6.60%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
East of England - 11 £550 - 3
Scotland +47 5 - -
South West +15 2 £675 +22.73% 5
Midlands +29 1 - -
West Midlands +24 1 - -
North of England +21 1 £600 +6.38% 1
North East - 1 £600 -
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 17 (85.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (15.00%) CMS
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2000
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (15.00%) Exchange Server 2013
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) DNS
2 9 (45.00%) DHCP
3 8 (40.00%) Firewall
4 6 (30.00%) VPN
5 4 (20.00%) FTP
5 4 (20.00%) HTTP
5 4 (20.00%) SSL
6 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
7 2 (10.00%) LAN
7 2 (10.00%) Skype
7 2 (10.00%) WAN
8 1 (5.00%) SNMP
8 1 (5.00%) SSH
8 1 (5.00%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) Junior
2 3 (15.00%) Junior Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) PKI
2 6 (30.00%) Clustering
3 3 (15.00%) Cyberattack
3 3 (15.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 3 (15.00%) Linux
5 3 (15.00%) Windows 2000
6 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (30.00%) High Availability
2 6 (30.00%) Identity Access Management
3 5 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
4 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (10.00%) ITSM
5 2 (10.00%) Matrix Management
5 2 (10.00%) Office Automation
5 2 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Service Management
5 2 (10.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (95.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (35.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Degree
4 3 (15.00%) MCP
5 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (30.00%) BitLocker
2 6 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (30.00%) Terminal Services
2 6 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) MAILsweeper
2 6 (30.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (30.00%) vMotion
3 2 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (10.00%) OPNET
3 2 (10.00%) SCCM
3 2 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) Sophos
2 8 (40.00%) Trend Micro
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) Citrix
3 6 (30.00%) Infoblox
3 6 (30.00%) IronPort
4 4 (20.00%) Symantec
5 3 (15.00%) Darktrace
5 3 (15.00%) FireEye
5 3 (15.00%) LogRhythm
5 3 (15.00%) Splunk
6 2 (10.00%) Remedy
6 2 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.00%) Google
7 1 (5.00%) HP