SMTP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SMTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 490 492 515
Rank change year-on-year +2 +23 +134
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 27 65 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.063% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.36% 1.32% 1.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 36 53
10th Percentile £40,750 £38,750 £37,750
25th Percentile £49,750 £49,750 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,400 £72,846 £63,750
90th Percentile £73,050 £89,375 -
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +21.32%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,594 4,931 5,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.62% 13.78% 15.00%
Number of salaries quoted 2,827 2,465 4,584
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,750 £25,500
25th Percentile £27,750 £36,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £76,250 £70,000
UK median annual salary £39,250 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -28.64% +10.00% -4.76%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SMTP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SMTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing SMTP

SMTP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
West Midlands +38 10 £66,550 -
Midlands +26 10 £66,550 -
East of England +6 8 £43,750 -18.98% 8
South East +16 4 £52,500 +23.53% 8
South West +6 4 - -
North West +15 1 £60,600 - 1
North of England 0 1 £60,600 -14.64% 2
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (48.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (22.22%) Confluence
3 4 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (14.81%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon EC2
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon ELB
2 8 (29.63%) Amazon S3
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
2 8 (29.63%) AWS KMS
2 8 (29.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
3 4 (14.81%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
3 4 (14.81%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 23 (85.19%) DNS
2 17 (62.96%) HTTP
3 14 (51.85%) TCP/IP
4 13 (48.15%) FTP
5 12 (44.44%) Firewall
6 11 (40.74%) SSH
7 10 (37.04%) IMAP
8 9 (33.33%) DHCP
9 7 (25.93%) Network Security
10 6 (22.22%) POP3
10 6 (22.22%) VLAN
10 6 (22.22%) VPN
11 5 (18.52%) EIGRP
11 5 (18.52%) Intrusion Detection
11 5 (18.52%) LAN
11 5 (18.52%) OSPF
11 5 (18.52%) SSL
11 5 (18.52%) WAN
11 5 (18.52%) Wireless
11 5 (18.52%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (29.63%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (14.81%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Database
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle Database 10g
2 4 (14.81%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (37.04%) Git
2 8 (29.63%) Jenkins
2 8 (29.63%) Vagrant
3 6 (22.22%) JIRA
4 2 (7.41%) Subversion
General
1 13 (48.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
4 3 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Advertising
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (14.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Messaging Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (22.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (29.63%) Replication
2 6 (22.22%) Driving Licence
3 5 (18.52%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (14.81%) GNSS
4 4 (14.81%) Satnav
5 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.70%) CSOC
6 1 (3.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.70%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 23 (85.19%) Windows
2 12 (44.44%) Linux
3 9 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (29.63%) VMS
5 6 (22.22%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (14.81%) Solaris
6 4 (14.81%) Ubuntu
6 4 (14.81%) Unix
6 4 (14.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (11.11%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (40.74%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Cloud Security
2 8 (29.63%) Configuration Management
2 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 7 (25.93%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Change Management
4 6 (22.22%) Patch Management
4 6 (22.22%) Time Management
5 5 (18.52%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (18.52%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (14.81%) B2B
6 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 4 (14.81%) Mathematics
6 4 (14.81%) Open Source
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineering
6 4 (14.81%) Test Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Groovy
3 6 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 4 (14.81%) C++
4 4 (14.81%) Java
4 4 (14.81%) Perl
4 4 (14.81%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) C#
5 2 (7.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (48.15%) Security Cleared
2 12 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 8 (29.63%) Degree
4 6 (22.22%) AWS Certification
4 6 (22.22%) CCNA
4 6 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (22.22%) DBS Check
5 5 (18.52%) CCNP
6 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
6 4 (14.81%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.70%) MCSE
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (22.22%) Docker
3 4 (14.81%) DFS Replication
3 4 (14.81%) Dovecot
3 4 (14.81%) Postfix
3 4 (14.81%) Squid
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (29.63%) Terraform
2 6 (22.22%) Grafana
2 6 (22.22%) Prometheus
3 4 (14.81%) Nessus
3 4 (14.81%) Proxmox
4 3 (11.11%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (48.15%) Microsoft
2 6 (22.22%) Cisco
2 6 (22.22%) Oracle
2 6 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (18.52%) SolarWinds
4 4 (14.81%) Jaspersoft
4 4 (14.81%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.70%) Darktrace
5 1 (3.70%) F5
5 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
5 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk