SMTP Job Trends in the North West

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 183 203 193
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +96
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 1 5 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% 0.099% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.052% 0.93% 0.90%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,800 - £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,600 - £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.36%
75th Percentile £63,400 - £64,063
90th Percentile - - £64,625
England median annual salary £57,800 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +10.10% -16.00% +23.76%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,924 536 553
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 30.00% 10.58% 12.42%
Number of salaries quoted 364 316 448
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,250 £28,275
25th Percentile £26,250 £32,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £52,031 £57,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £77,715
England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -4.76%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

SMTP job vacancy trend in the North West

SMTP
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SMTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing SMTP

SMTP
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the North West region over the 6 months to 15 January 2026. 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
Manchester +23 1 £60,600 - 1
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Telnet
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft