SMTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 379 428
Rank change year-on-year +99 +49 +49
Contract jobs citing SMTP 59 20 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.46% 0.096% 0.079%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.99% 0.58% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 11 14
10th Percentile £351 £290 £346
25th Percentile £513 £375 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £564
90th Percentile £643 £713 £576
UK median daily rate £550 £460 £550
% change year-on-year +19.57% -16.36% +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £64.40 - -
25th Percentile £80.34 - -
Median hourly rate £81.35 - -
75th Percentile £81.73 - -
90th Percentile £82.86 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 - £83.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,973 3,448 3,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 16.62% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,978 2,282
10th Percentile £200 £203 £210
25th Percentile £305 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £481 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £584
90th Percentile £638 £675 £690
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £518
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.39% +3.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 360 327
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.48 -
25th Percentile £15.44 £16.30 £9.80
Median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%
75th Percentile £62.25 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.66 £74.05
UK median hourly rate £30.04 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -24.90% +110.53% -32.74%

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 2 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing SMTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 2 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
South East - 23 £540 - 12
East of England +38 19 £588 +15.20% 17
North of England +37 15 £613 +2.08% 1
Yorkshire - 11 £613 -
North West - 4 - - 1
Midlands +19 2 £618 - 2
West Midlands +16 2 £618 -
South West +42 1 £650 -3.70% 1
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 (28.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (13.56%) Skype for Business
3 7 (11.86%) Apache
4 6 (10.17%) IIS
5 4 (6.78%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (6.78%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (6.78%) Exchange Server 2013
6 2 (3.39%) CMS
7 1 (1.69%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (15.25%) Azure
1 9 (15.25%) GitHub
2 8 (13.56%) AWS
2 8 (13.56%) GCP
2 8 (13.56%) IaaS
2 8 (13.56%) OpenShift
2 8 (13.56%) PaaS
3 4 (6.78%) Cohesity
4 3 (5.08%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (67.80%) DNS
2 25 (42.37%) FTP
3 19 (32.20%) DHCP
4 15 (25.42%) HTTP
4 15 (25.42%) Network Security
4 15 (25.42%) SSL
5 10 (16.95%) Telnet
6 9 (15.25%) Firewall
6 9 (15.25%) Skype
7 8 (13.56%) VPN
8 6 (10.17%) IMAP
8 6 (10.17%) NetScaler
9 4 (6.78%) PSTN
9 4 (6.78%) SAN
10 3 (5.08%) tcpdump
11 2 (3.39%) POP3
11 2 (3.39%) TCP/IP
12 1 (1.69%) LAN
12 1 (1.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.56%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (13.56%) Big Data
1 8 (13.56%) Elasticsearch
General
1 19 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (16.95%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.78%) Law
4 2 (3.39%) Banking
4 2 (3.39%) Electronics
4 2 (3.39%) Finance
4 2 (3.39%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.39%) Marketing
4 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.69%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.69%) Aviation
5 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.69%) Military
5 1 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Analyst
1 14 (23.73%) Support Engineer
2 13 (22.03%) SOC Analyst
3 11 (18.64%) Infrastructure Support
4 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support
4 8 (13.56%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (11.86%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
6 4 (6.78%) Collaboration Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Exchange Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Messaging Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Administrator
7 3 (5.08%) Senior
7 3 (5.08%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (3.39%) Linux Administrator
8 2 (3.39%) Security Analyst
9 1 (1.69%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (30.51%) LDAP
2 9 (15.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.42%) PKI
2 14 (23.73%) Clustering
3 13 (22.03%) Cyberattack
4 11 (18.64%) Security Operations Centre
5 10 (16.95%) Analytical Mindset
5 10 (16.95%) Cyber Threat
6 8 (13.56%) Blackberry
6 8 (13.56%) CSOC
6 8 (13.56%) Data Centre
7 7 (11.86%) Management Information System
8 6 (10.17%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (6.78%) Handset
10 2 (3.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (3.39%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 32 (54.24%) Windows
2 19 (32.20%) Linux
3 17 (28.81%) Windows Server
4 9 (15.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (6.78%) Android
5 4 (6.78%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (5.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.39%) Unix
8 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (27.12%) SIEM
2 15 (25.42%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (25.42%) Cybersecurity
2 15 (25.42%) Machine Learning
3 14 (23.73%) Threat Detection
4 11 (18.64%) Network Packet Capture
5 10 (16.95%) Information Management
5 10 (16.95%) Information Security
5 10 (16.95%) ITSM
5 10 (16.95%) Security Operations
6 9 (15.25%) DevOps
7 8 (13.56%) Incident Response
7 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (13.56%) Software Deployment
8 7 (11.86%) Analytics
8 7 (11.86%) Behavioural Analytics
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Monitoring
8 7 (11.86%) Performance Tuning
8 7 (11.86%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (10.17%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) PowerShell
2 7 (11.86%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.69%) Bash
3 1 (1.69%) Python
3 1 (1.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (69.49%) Security Cleared
2 29 (49.15%) SC Cleared
3 21 (35.59%) DV Cleared
4 9 (15.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) SLA
System Software
1 32 (54.24%) Active Directory
2 10 (16.95%) NFS
2 10 (16.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (13.56%) BitLocker
3 8 (13.56%) Docker
3 8 (13.56%) Hyper-V
3 8 (13.56%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (13.56%) Terminal Services
3 8 (13.56%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (11.86%) Samba
5 6 (10.17%) vSphere
5 6 (10.17%) XenApp
5 6 (10.17%) XenDesktop
6 3 (5.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 19 (32.20%) Ansible
2 9 (15.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (13.56%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.56%) Nagios
3 8 (13.56%) Puppet
3 8 (13.56%) vCenter Server
3 8 (13.56%) vMotion
4 7 (11.86%) yum
5 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Clustering
5 6 (10.17%) WSUS
6 1 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.69%) SCCM
6 1 (1.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 22 (37.29%) VMware
3 16 (27.12%) HP
4 14 (23.73%) Citrix
5 10 (16.95%) Symantec
6 8 (13.56%) Google
7 6 (10.17%) Dell
8 4 (6.78%) Clearswift
8 4 (6.78%) NetApp
8 4 (6.78%) Ribbon
8 4 (6.78%) Splunk
9 3 (5.08%) Red Hat
10 2 (3.39%) Darktrace
10 2 (3.39%) FireEye
10 2 (3.39%) IronPort
10 2 (3.39%) LogRhythm
10 2 (3.39%) SAP
11 1 (1.69%) Fujitsu
11 1 (1.69%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.69%) Twitter