SMTP Job Trends in Birmingham

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring SMTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 - 99
Rank change year-on-year - - +49
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 5 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 0.29% - 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.03% - 3.82%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 10
10th Percentile - - £35,875
25th Percentile £71,250 - £39,088
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 - £49,565
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.49%
75th Percentile £73,750 - £57,000
90th Percentile - - £57,039
West Midlands median annual salary £72,500 - £49,565
% change year-on-year - - +23.91%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Birmingham

SMTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 165 238 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.43% 13.17% 19.38%
Number of salaries quoted 96 102 213
10th Percentile - £37,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £67,813 £67,138 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,625 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £37,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -24.50% +11.11% -3.23%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SMTP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

SMTP job vacancy trend in Birmingham

SMTP
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SMTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing SMTP

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
1 5 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Amazon Glacier
3 2 (40.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (40.00%) Azure
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (40.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) FTP
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) SSH
2 2 (40.00%) IMAP
2 2 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 5 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Change Management
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 5 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Groovy
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) DFS Replication
3 2 (40.00%) Dovecot
3 2 (40.00%) Postfix
3 2 (40.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Grafana
1 5 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 2 (40.00%) Nessus
2 2 (40.00%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (40.00%) Jaspersoft