SMTP Jobs in the UK excluding London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 523 722 703
Rank change year-on-year +199 -19 +101
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 54 49 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.066% 0.090%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.77% 0.50% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 35 38 27
10th Percentile £43,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £34,500 £34,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% - -14.14%
75th Percentile £65,500 £55,875 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,831 £58,088 £59,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +27.78% -5.26% -9.52%

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 7,027 9,853 10,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.84% 13.21% 18.61%
Number of salaries quoted 3,301 7,110 4,617
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% -2.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £57,000 £58,750 £60,250
90th Percentile £71,250 £68,750 £75,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £47,500 £50,500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.94% -3.81%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SMTP in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 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
South East +91 20 £57,500 +35.29% 30
East of England +62 16 £62,000 +24.00% 24
North of England +59 10 £70,000 +55.56% 16
Midlands +79 7 £72,500 +76.61% 22
West Midlands +53 7 £72,500 +43.42% 15
Yorkshire +63 5 £71,991 - 7
North West +13 5 £35,000 -22.22% 7
South West +97 1 £35,000 - 12
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (51.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.96%) Confluence
2 7 (12.96%) Skype for Business
3 4 (7.41%) Apache
3 4 (7.41%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (7.41%) Exchange Server 2013
3 4 (7.41%) IIS
4 3 (5.56%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (3.70%) nginx
6 1 (1.85%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.85%) CMS
6 1 (1.85%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (24.07%) AWS
2 11 (20.37%) Azure
3 7 (12.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 7 (12.96%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (12.96%) Amazon ELB
3 7 (12.96%) Amazon S3
3 7 (12.96%) AWS KMS
3 7 (12.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (11.11%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) OpenShift
5 5 (9.26%) Amazon Glacier
5 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Purview
5 5 (9.26%) SaaS
6 4 (7.41%) Cohesity
7 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.70%) Route 53
9 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.85%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 30 (55.56%) DNS
2 29 (53.70%) Firewall
3 25 (46.30%) HTTP
4 20 (37.04%) FTP
5 17 (31.48%) TCP/IP
6 14 (25.93%) Internet
6 14 (25.93%) Network Security
6 14 (25.93%) VPN
7 13 (24.07%) DHCP
8 12 (22.22%) LAN
8 12 (22.22%) WAN
9 7 (12.96%) Skype
9 7 (12.96%) SSH
10 6 (11.11%) IMAP
10 6 (11.11%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (9.26%) DKIM
11 5 (9.26%) DMARC
11 5 (9.26%) DNSSEC
11 5 (9.26%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (7.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.07%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (16.67%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 7 (12.96%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.96%) JIRA
2 7 (12.96%) Vagrant
3 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.85%) Log4Net
4 1 (1.85%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (20.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (12.96%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.26%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.41%) Aerospace
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Advertising
5 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Law
5 3 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (29.63%) Lead
3 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure Support
4 7 (12.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (12.96%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.26%) Analyst
5 5 (9.26%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.41%) Messaging Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.56%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Development Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Exchange Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Information Security Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) Security Analyst
7 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.56%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (24.07%) LDAP
2 3 (5.56%) YAML
3 1 (1.85%) .NET
3 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.85%) Ajax
3 1 (1.85%) Angular 2
3 1 (1.85%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.85%) HTML
3 1 (1.85%) HTML5
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) Ninject
3 1 (1.85%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.85%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Client/Server
1 12 (22.22%) Security Operations Centre
2 11 (20.37%) PKI
3 8 (14.81%) Clustering
4 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
6 4 (7.41%) Blackberry
6 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
6 4 (7.41%) Replication
7 3 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (5.56%) MISP
8 2 (3.70%) Cyberattack
8 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
8 2 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 19 (35.19%) Windows
2 14 (25.93%) Linux
3 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.96%) Amazon Linux
4 7 (12.96%) VMS
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (3.70%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (27.78%) Security Operations
3 14 (25.93%) SIEM
4 12 (22.22%) Malware Analysis
4 12 (22.22%) MITRE ATT&CK
5 11 (20.37%) DevOps
6 10 (18.52%) Reverse Engineering
7 9 (16.67%) People Management
7 9 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 9 (16.67%) Use Case
8 8 (14.81%) Incident Response
8 8 (14.81%) Line Management
9 7 (12.96%) Blue Team
9 7 (12.96%) Change Management
9 7 (12.96%) Cloud Security
9 7 (12.96%) Configuration Management
9 7 (12.96%) Patch Management
10 6 (11.11%) Application Virtualisation
10 6 (11.11%) Disk Encryption
10 6 (11.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 30 (55.56%) PowerShell
2 17 (31.48%) Python
3 11 (20.37%) Perl
4 7 (12.96%) Bash
4 7 (12.96%) Groovy
5 6 (11.11%) C++
6 5 (9.26%) Java
7 3 (5.56%) SQL
8 1 (1.85%) C#
8 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (68.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.89%) DV Cleared
3 20 (37.04%) SC Cleared
4 12 (22.22%) Degree
5 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.70%) CEH
6 2 (3.70%) CISM
6 2 (3.70%) CISSP
7 1 (1.85%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.85%) GCIA
7 1 (1.85%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.70%) NIST
2 1 (1.85%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (46.30%) Active Directory
2 13 (24.07%) Docker
2 13 (24.07%) Hyper-V
3 10 (18.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (14.81%) BitLocker
4 8 (14.81%) Microsoft App-V
4 8 (14.81%) Terminal Services
4 8 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (11.11%) vSphere
6 4 (7.41%) DFS Replication
7 3 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.70%) Dovecot
8 2 (3.70%) Postfix
8 2 (3.70%) Squid
9 1 (1.85%) NFS
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) QRadar
2 9 (16.67%) Ansible
3 8 (14.81%) vCenter Server
3 8 (14.81%) vMotion
4 7 (12.96%) Grafana
4 7 (12.96%) Prometheus
4 7 (12.96%) Terraform
5 6 (11.11%) Kubernetes
5 6 (11.11%) Nagios
5 6 (11.11%) Puppet
6 5 (9.26%) WSUS
7 2 (3.70%) Nessus
7 2 (3.70%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 40 (74.07%) Microsoft
2 20 (37.04%) VMware
3 13 (24.07%) Citrix
4 12 (22.22%) Splunk
5 9 (16.67%) Google
6 7 (12.96%) ServiceNow
7 6 (11.11%) HP
7 6 (11.11%) Symantec
8 5 (9.26%) Cisco
8 5 (9.26%) IronPort
8 5 (9.26%) Veritas
9 4 (7.41%) NetApp
10 2 (3.70%) Jaspersoft
11 1 (1.85%) PayPal
11 1 (1.85%) Salesforce