SMTP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 274 344 456
Rank change year-on-year +70 +112 +139
Contract jobs citing SMTP 30 1 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.30% 0.007% 0.081%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.88% 0.062% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 1 17
10th Percentile £325 - £420
25th Percentile £350 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £564
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -6.91% +10.05%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £583
90th Percentile £630 - £630
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +22.22% -18.18% +6.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £46.94 - -
90th Percentile £56.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.68 - £83.00

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,043 1,610 2,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.53% 10.49% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 1,029 1,967
10th Percentile £325 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £650
90th Percentile £700 £703 £725
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £519
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 77 101
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.75 £24.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £14.27 £42.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £24.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.35% -59.17% +23.51%
75th Percentile £64.38 £65.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £87.46 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%

SMTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SMTP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SMTP.

SMTP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SMTP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

SMTP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SMTP.

SMTP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 (13.33%) Apache
1 4 (13.33%) Confluence
2 3 (10.00%) IIS
3 2 (6.67%) Tomcat
4 1 (3.33%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.33%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (3.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) GitHub
3 6 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) AWS
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure AKS
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Machine Learning
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (6.67%) Cloudflare
6 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) Akamai
7 1 (3.33%) Cohesity
7 1 (3.33%) Datadog
7 1 (3.33%) npm
7 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (56.67%) DNS
2 11 (36.67%) HTTP
3 9 (30.00%) DHCP
3 9 (30.00%) FTP
3 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (23.33%) SSL
5 6 (20.00%) POP3
6 5 (16.67%) Telnet
7 4 (13.33%) Firewall
7 4 (13.33%) IMAP
7 4 (13.33%) Network Security
8 2 (6.67%) NetScaler
8 2 (6.67%) SNMP
8 2 (6.67%) tcpdump
8 2 (6.67%) VPN
9 1 (3.33%) BGP
9 1 (3.33%) EIGRP
9 1 (3.33%) HTTPS
9 1 (3.33%) OSPF
9 1 (3.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (6.67%) Power BI
3 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.33%) Git
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.33%) Subversion
General
1 8 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Banking
3 2 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.33%) Legal
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Developer
3 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (6.67%) Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Remote Support Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) PHP Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Analyst
5 1 (3.33%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) REST
2 5 (16.67%) LDAP
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 4 (13.33%) JSON
4 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (10.00%) Bootstrap
4 3 (10.00%) CSS
4 3 (10.00%) CSS3
4 3 (10.00%) HTML
4 3 (10.00%) Web Services
5 2 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (6.67%) SOAP
5 2 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Security Posture
2 3 (10.00%) Cyberattack
2 3 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.00%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.67%) Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.33%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 12 (40.00%) Windows
2 11 (36.67%) Linux
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (10.00%) Mac OS X
4 3 (10.00%) Unix
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) SIEM
2 9 (30.00%) Agile
3 7 (23.33%) DevOps
3 7 (23.33%) Workflow
4 6 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 5 (16.67%) Threat Detection
6 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
6 4 (13.33%) Incident Response
6 4 (13.33%) ITSM
6 4 (13.33%) Microservices
6 4 (13.33%) Security Operations
6 4 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 3 (10.00%) Customer Service
7 3 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (10.00%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (10.00%) Translating Business Requirements
7 3 (10.00%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (10.00%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) C#
3 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 2 (6.67%) Bicep
4 2 (6.67%) PHP
4 2 (6.67%) Python
4 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.33%) Perl
5 1 (3.33%) SQL
5 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Degree
4 1 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CCNA
4 1 (3.33%) CCSP
4 1 (3.33%) CEH
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.33%) CISSP
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (3.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) GCIH
4 1 (3.33%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) NFS
3 2 (6.67%) Samba
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
3 2 (6.67%) XenApp
3 2 (6.67%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.33%) Docker
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) Ansible
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (10.00%) Terraform
4 2 (6.67%) Grafana
4 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (6.67%) WSUS
4 2 (6.67%) yum
5 1 (3.33%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Splunk
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 4 (13.33%) HP
4 3 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.67%) Citrix
5 2 (6.67%) Dell
5 2 (6.67%) F5
5 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.33%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (3.33%) Darktrace
6 1 (3.33%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) NetApp
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle