SMTP Contracts with Work from Home Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 458 576
Rank change year-on-year +105 +118 -134
Contract jobs citing SMTP 1 22 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.006% 0.085% 0.081%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.060% 0.74% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 25
10th Percentile - £421 £430
25th Percentile £513 £503 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.75% +11.40% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £581 £550
90th Percentile - £623 £725
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £506
% change year-on-year -18.18% +8.64% +19.12%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,658 2,969 4,346
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.75% 11.41% 9.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,057 1,978 2,957
10th Percentile £293 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £612 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £490 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 107 100
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.00 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.27 £42.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £57.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -57.39% +21.05% +15.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.88 £63.38
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.55 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +110.53% -30.91% +4.05%

SMTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SMTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing SMTP.

SMTP daily rate 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 a work from home option 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST