SMTP Jobs in England

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring SMTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited SMTP over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 618 789 810
Rank change year-on-year +171 +21 +267
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 64 73 71
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.076% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.70% 0.59% 0.53%
Number of salaries quoted 36 58 49
10th Percentile £43,750 £29,000 £32,700
25th Percentile £50,938 £38,750 £42,155
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,375 £45,250 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.64% -4.74% -20.15%
75th Percentile £73,750 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £68,250 £78,107
UK median annual salary £61,375 £43,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year +40.29% -7.89% -9.52%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,191 12,420 13,520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.66% 12.96% 16.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,939 8,545 6,899
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £63,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £39,000 £47,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -17.89% -6.86% -2.86%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SMTP in England.

Salary trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMTP in England over the 6 months to 14 June 2025.

Salary histogram for SMTP in England

SMTP
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the England region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +101 21 £57,500 +35.29% 7
East of England +58 13 £62,000 +24.00% 11
Midlands +77 10 £72,500 +107.14% 11
North of England +67 10 £70,000 +60.00% 4
West Midlands +63 10 £72,500 +34.26% 9
London +98 9 £70,000 +27.27% 3
Yorkshire +65 5 £71,991 - 2
North West +29 5 £35,000 -20.00% 2
South West +108 1 £35,000 -
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 28 (43.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (15.63%) Confluence
3 4 (6.25%) Apache
3 4 (6.25%) IIS
3 4 (6.25%) Skype for Business
4 3 (4.69%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (4.69%) nginx
5 1 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.56%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.56%) CMS
5 1 (1.56%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.56%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) AWS
2 14 (21.88%) Azure
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon EC2
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon ELB
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon S3
3 10 (15.63%) AWS KMS
3 10 (15.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 7 (10.94%) Amazon Glacier
4 7 (10.94%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (9.38%) GCP
5 6 (9.38%) OpenShift
5 6 (9.38%) SaaS
6 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (4.69%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
7 3 (4.69%) Route 53
8 1 (1.56%) IaaS
8 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (65.63%) DNS
2 34 (53.13%) HTTP
3 33 (51.56%) Firewall
4 25 (39.06%) FTP
5 23 (35.94%) TCP/IP
6 16 (25.00%) DHCP
7 15 (23.44%) VPN
8 14 (21.88%) Internet
8 14 (21.88%) Network Security
9 12 (18.75%) LAN
9 12 (18.75%) WAN
10 10 (15.63%) SSH
11 6 (9.38%) Remote Desktop
12 5 (7.81%) DKIM
12 5 (7.81%) DMARC
12 5 (7.81%) DNSSEC
12 5 (7.81%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (6.25%) IMAP
13 4 (6.25%) Skype
14 3 (4.69%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (26.56%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (14.06%) Relational Database
3 8 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.69%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.69%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
2 10 (15.63%) Jenkins
2 10 (15.63%) JIRA
2 10 (15.63%) Vagrant
3 2 (3.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.56%) Log4Net
4 1 (1.56%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 17 (26.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Law
3 9 (14.06%) Pharmaceutical
3 9 (14.06%) Telecoms
4 7 (10.94%) Finance
4 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
5 5 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 4 (6.25%) Banking
7 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Advertising
8 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (25.00%) Lead
3 10 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Automation Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Development Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Information Security Engineer
4 9 (14.06%) Security Engineer
5 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
5 8 (12.50%) Support Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 7 (10.94%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (9.38%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (7.81%) Analyst
9 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (6.25%) IT Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.69%) Security Analyst
10 3 (4.69%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (21.88%) LDAP
2 3 (4.69%) YAML
3 1 (1.56%) .NET
3 1 (1.56%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.56%) Ajax
3 1 (1.56%) Angular 2
3 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.56%) HTML
3 1 (1.56%) HTML5
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Ninject
3 1 (1.56%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.56%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (1.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Client/Server
1 12 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (17.19%) PKI
3 8 (12.50%) Clustering
4 6 (9.38%) Data Centre
4 6 (9.38%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (7.81%) Replication
6 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
7 3 (4.69%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (4.69%) MISP
8 2 (3.13%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.13%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.56%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (32.81%) Windows
2 17 (26.56%) Linux
3 10 (15.63%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (15.63%) VMS
3 10 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
4 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.13%) Android
5 2 (3.13%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Security Operations
2 19 (29.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 15 (23.44%) Task Automation
4 14 (21.88%) DevOps
4 14 (21.88%) Incident Response
4 14 (21.88%) SIEM
5 12 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (18.75%) Malware Analysis
5 12 (18.75%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 12 (18.75%) Vulnerability Management
6 11 (17.19%) Information Security
7 10 (15.63%) Change Management
7 10 (15.63%) Cloud Security
7 10 (15.63%) Configuration Management
7 10 (15.63%) Patch Management
7 10 (15.63%) Reverse Engineering
8 9 (14.06%) Data Protection
8 9 (14.06%) People Management
8 9 (14.06%) Security Architecture
8 9 (14.06%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (54.69%) PowerShell
2 27 (42.19%) Python
3 13 (20.31%) Perl
4 10 (15.63%) Groovy
5 7 (10.94%) Bash
5 7 (10.94%) Java
6 6 (9.38%) C++
7 4 (6.25%) SQL
8 1 (1.56%) C#
8 1 (1.56%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (57.81%) Security Cleared
2 22 (34.38%) Degree
3 21 (32.81%) DV Cleared
4 20 (31.25%) SC Cleared
5 5 (7.81%) AWS Certification
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CCNA
6 2 (3.13%) CEH
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CISM
6 2 (3.13%) CISSP
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.56%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.56%) GCIA
7 1 (1.56%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 16 (25.00%) Docker
2 16 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 12 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (15.63%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (12.50%) BitLocker
5 8 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
5 8 (12.50%) Terminal Services
6 6 (9.38%) vSphere
7 5 (7.81%) DFS Replication
8 3 (4.69%) Dovecot
8 3 (4.69%) Postfix
8 3 (4.69%) Squid
9 1 (1.56%) NFS
9 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (15.63%) Grafana
1 10 (15.63%) Prometheus
1 10 (15.63%) QRadar
1 10 (15.63%) Terraform
2 9 (14.06%) Ansible
3 8 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 8 (12.50%) vMotion
3 8 (12.50%) WSUS
4 6 (9.38%) Kubernetes
4 6 (9.38%) Nagios
4 6 (9.38%) Puppet
5 3 (4.69%) Nessus
5 3 (4.69%) Proxmox
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 40 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 20 (31.25%) VMware
3 16 (25.00%) Citrix
4 15 (23.44%) Google
5 12 (18.75%) Splunk
6 10 (15.63%) ServiceNow
7 8 (12.50%) Cisco
8 6 (9.38%) HP
8 6 (9.38%) Symantec
9 5 (7.81%) IronPort
9 5 (7.81%) Veritas
10 3 (4.69%) Jaspersoft
11 2 (3.13%) Veeam
12 1 (1.56%) Clearswift
12 1 (1.56%) Ekahau
12 1 (1.56%) MobileIron
12 1 (1.56%) NetApp
12 1 (1.56%) PayPal
12 1 (1.56%) Salesforce