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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 622 756 845
Rank change year-on-year +134 +89 +193
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 71 67 77
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.078% 0.087%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.85% 0.56% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 38 54 54
10th Percentile £45,250 £29,000 £32,575
25th Percentile £51,250 £38,750 £42,155
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,300 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.19% -2.53% -20.15%
75th Percentile £71,875 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,886 £69,250 £79,799
UK median annual salary £57,500 £45,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +27.07% -4.74% -7.32%

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 8,311 12,058 13,979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 16.77% 13.96% 15.83%
Number of salaries quoted 3,748 8,529 7,169
10th Percentile £25,087 £26,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £35,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

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 18 May 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 18 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +109 19 £82,500 +50.00% 6
East of England +56 18 £55,000 +10.00% 12
South East +89 15 £57,500 +35.29% 17
North of England +55 13 £70,996 +57.77% 2
Yorkshire +72 8 £71,991 -
Midlands +55 5 £72,500 +76.61% 3
West Midlands +41 5 £72,500 +43.42% 3
North West +3 5 £35,000 -22.22% 2
South West +101 1 £35,000 - 2
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 38 (53.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (15.49%) Skype for Business
3 8 (11.27%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 8 (11.27%) Exchange Server 2013
4 5 (7.04%) Confluence
5 3 (4.23%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.41%) Apache
6 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.41%) CMS
6 1 (1.41%) IIS
6 1 (1.41%) nginx
6 1 (1.41%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.41%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (11.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (11.27%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.41%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.41%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) AWS
1 19 (26.76%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (21.13%) SaaS
3 13 (18.31%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.27%) Cohesity
4 8 (11.27%) IaaS
4 8 (11.27%) PaaS
5 7 (9.86%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (8.45%) GCP
6 6 (8.45%) OpenShift
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon ELB
7 5 (7.04%) Amazon S3
7 5 (7.04%) AWS KMS
7 5 (7.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (5.63%) Amazon Glacier
9 1 (1.41%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.41%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 41 (57.75%) DNS
2 28 (39.44%) FTP
3 27 (38.03%) HTTP
4 26 (36.62%) Firewall
5 23 (32.39%) DHCP
6 21 (29.58%) TCP/IP
7 20 (28.17%) SAN
8 15 (21.13%) Internet
9 13 (18.31%) Network Security
9 13 (18.31%) VPN
10 12 (16.90%) Cisco IOS
10 12 (16.90%) IPv4
10 12 (16.90%) PBX
10 12 (16.90%) Structured Cabling
10 12 (16.90%) VLAN
11 11 (15.49%) Skype
12 10 (14.08%) LAN
12 10 (14.08%) WAN
13 9 (12.68%) IMAP
14 7 (9.86%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (26.76%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
3 5 (7.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.45%) Git
2 5 (7.04%) Jenkins
2 5 (7.04%) JIRA
2 5 (7.04%) Vagrant
3 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.41%) Log4Net
4 1 (1.41%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 19 (26.76%) Finance
2 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
3 16 (22.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 9 (12.68%) Law
4 9 (12.68%) Pharmaceutical
4 9 (12.68%) Telecoms
5 6 (8.45%) Banking
6 3 (4.23%) Advertising
6 3 (4.23%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.23%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Lead
3 11 (15.49%) Support Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Development Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Information Security Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Security Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Consultant
6 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Support
6 8 (11.27%) Messaging Engineer
6 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Consultant
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
7 7 (9.86%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 7 (9.86%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (8.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) IT Engineer
9 4 (5.63%) IT Support
9 4 (5.63%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.08%) LDAP
2 1 (1.41%) .NET
2 1 (1.41%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.41%) Ajax
2 1 (1.41%) Angular 2
2 1 (1.41%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.41%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.41%) HTML
2 1 (1.41%) HTML5
2 1 (1.41%) JSON
2 1 (1.41%) Ninject
2 1 (1.41%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (1.41%) REST
2 1 (1.41%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (1.41%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) Client/Server
1 10 (14.08%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (11.27%) Blackberry
2 8 (11.27%) Clustering
2 8 (11.27%) PKI
2 8 (11.27%) Private Cloud
2 8 (11.27%) Public Cloud
3 6 (8.45%) Cloud Native
3 6 (8.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.23%) Replication
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
5 2 (2.82%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.82%) MISP
5 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 34 (47.89%) Windows
2 17 (23.94%) Windows Server
3 12 (16.90%) Android
3 12 (16.90%) Linux
3 12 (16.90%) Windows 10
4 5 (7.04%) Amazon Linux
4 5 (7.04%) VMS
5 3 (4.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.41%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 19 (26.76%) Security Operations
2 15 (21.13%) Task Automation
3 13 (18.31%) Incident Response
3 13 (18.31%) SIEM
4 12 (16.90%) Cybersecurity
4 12 (16.90%) Vulnerability Management
5 11 (15.49%) Information Security
5 11 (15.49%) Malware Analysis
6 10 (14.08%) Incident Management
6 10 (14.08%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 9 (12.68%) Cyber Intelligence
7 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
7 9 (12.68%) Reverse Engineering
7 9 (12.68%) Security Architecture
7 9 (12.68%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
7 9 (12.68%) Threat Detection
8 8 (11.27%) Commercial Awareness
8 8 (11.27%) People Management
8 8 (11.27%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 32 (45.07%) PowerShell
2 29 (40.85%) Python
3 10 (14.08%) Perl
4 7 (9.86%) Bash
5 6 (8.45%) C++
6 5 (7.04%) Groovy
7 4 (5.63%) Java
8 2 (2.82%) SQL
9 1 (1.41%) C#
9 1 (1.41%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (47.89%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.03%) Degree
3 22 (30.99%) SC Cleared
4 17 (23.94%) DV Cleared
5 12 (16.90%) CCNA
5 12 (16.90%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (16.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (16.90%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
6 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.82%) CEH
7 2 (2.82%) CISM
7 2 (2.82%) CISSP
8 1 (1.41%) CREST Certified
8 1 (1.41%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.41%) GCIA
8 1 (1.41%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.82%) NIST
2 1 (1.41%) SLA
System Software
1 37 (52.11%) Active Directory
2 23 (32.39%) Hyper-V
3 20 (28.17%) VMware ESXi
4 18 (25.35%) VMware Infrastructure
5 11 (15.49%) Docker
6 8 (11.27%) BitLocker
6 8 (11.27%) Microsoft App-V
6 8 (11.27%) Terminal Services
6 8 (11.27%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (9.86%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (8.45%) vSphere
9 3 (4.23%) DFS Replication
10 1 (1.41%) Dovecot
10 1 (1.41%) NFS
10 1 (1.41%) Postfix
10 1 (1.41%) Squid
Systems Management
1 15 (21.13%) WSUS
2 12 (16.90%) SCCM
3 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (12.68%) QRadar
4 8 (11.27%) vCenter Server
4 8 (11.27%) vMotion
5 7 (9.86%) Ansible
6 6 (8.45%) Kubernetes
6 6 (8.45%) Nagios
6 6 (8.45%) Puppet
7 5 (7.04%) Grafana
7 5 (7.04%) Prometheus
7 5 (7.04%) Terraform
8 1 (1.41%) Nessus
8 1 (1.41%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 54 (76.06%) Microsoft
2 28 (39.44%) VMware
3 23 (32.39%) Citrix
4 20 (28.17%) Cisco
5 15 (21.13%) Google
6 12 (16.90%) Veeam
7 10 (14.08%) Splunk
8 8 (11.27%) NetApp
9 7 (9.86%) IronPort
9 7 (9.86%) Veritas
10 6 (8.45%) HP
10 6 (8.45%) Symantec
11 5 (7.04%) ServiceNow
12 1 (1.41%) Clearswift
12 1 (1.41%) Ekahau
12 1 (1.41%) Jaspersoft
12 1 (1.41%) MobileIron
12 1 (1.41%) PayPal
12 1 (1.41%) Salesforce