SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SMTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SMTP over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 619 877 874
Rank change year-on-year +258 -3 -187
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 122 199 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.16% 0.18%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 1.30% 1.37%
Number of salaries quoted 81 104 152
10th Percentile £35,875 £29,175 £31,325
25th Percentile £45,653 £44,375 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,170 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.01% +9.83% -9.52%
75th Percentile £63,750 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,875 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +25.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SMTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,066 15,350 16,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,330 10,317 11,453
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMTP over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. 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
UK excluding London +212 101 £55,000 +10.00% 12
England +228 89 £60,000 +15.01% 19
Work from Home +184 67 £60,000 +15.31% 7
Midlands +106 36 £49,565 +3.80% 4
Wales +52 32 - -
West Midlands +130 25 £49,565 +4.35% 4
London +236 23 £75,000 +30.43% 7
South West +74 21 £62,500 - 3
East Midlands +27 11 £60,000 +25.00%
South East +142 8 £55,000 +4.76% 2
North of England +147 7 £60,000 +9.09% 2
North West +101 5 £61,250 +29.97%
Yorkshire +93 2 £38,750 -43.44% 2
Scotland +54 1 £44,480 -19.13% 1

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 27 (22.13%) MS Exchange
2 4 (3.28%) OpenStack
3 2 (1.64%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.82%) CMS
4 1 (0.82%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 55 (45.08%) Azure
2 47 (38.52%) AWS
3 42 (34.43%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (12.30%) Entra ID
5 8 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (4.10%) GCP
8 4 (3.28%) IaaS
9 3 (2.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon ELB
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon Glacier
10 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.64%) AWS KMS
10 2 (1.64%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.82%) MailChimp
11 1 (0.82%) SaaS
11 1 (0.82%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 90 (73.77%) TCP/IP
2 89 (72.95%) HTTP
3 70 (57.38%) FTP
4 67 (54.92%) DNS
5 48 (39.34%) DHCP
6 43 (35.25%) SSL
7 42 (34.43%) Internet
8 39 (31.97%) Firewall
9 38 (31.15%) Network Security
9 38 (31.15%) VPN
10 37 (30.33%) WAN
11 35 (28.69%) LAN
12 32 (26.23%) Sourcefire
13 31 (25.41%) SSH
14 30 (24.59%) SNMP
15 26 (21.31%) Intrusion Detection
16 24 (19.67%) Telnet
17 6 (4.92%) SD-WAN
18 4 (3.28%) 5G
18 4 (3.28%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.56%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.28%) Big Data
3 4 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.82%) DB2
5 1 (0.82%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.82%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (4.92%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.10%) Git
3 3 (2.46%) Subversion
4 2 (1.64%) Vagrant
5 1 (0.82%) GitLab
5 1 (0.82%) JIRA
5 1 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 52 (42.62%) Analytical Skills
2 32 (26.23%) Games
3 9 (7.38%) Public Sector
3 9 (7.38%) Social Skills
4 6 (4.92%) Law
4 6 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (4.10%) Aerospace
6 4 (3.28%) Finance
6 4 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.28%) Retail
7 3 (2.46%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.64%) Aeronautics
8 2 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 41 (33.61%) Analyst
2 37 (30.33%) SOC Analyst
3 32 (26.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 31 (25.41%) Senior
5 19 (15.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 15 (12.30%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Manager
6 15 (12.30%) Cyber Threat Manager
6 15 (12.30%) Threat Intelligence Manager
7 8 (6.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (6.56%) Senior Analyst
8 7 (5.74%) Administrator
8 7 (5.74%) Support Engineer
9 6 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) 3rd Line Support
10 5 (4.10%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 5 (4.10%) Junior
10 5 (4.10%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (4.10%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (31.97%) LDAP
2 9 (7.38%) Web Services
3 8 (6.56%) JSON
3 8 (6.56%) REST
4 7 (5.74%) YAML
5 4 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (3.28%) Kafka
5 4 (3.28%) LAPP Stack
5 4 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
5 4 (3.28%) RESTful
5 4 (3.28%) XML
6 2 (1.64%) CSS
6 2 (1.64%) Velocity
7 1 (0.82%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.82%) Django
7 1 (0.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 50 (40.98%) Cyber Threat
2 35 (28.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 33 (27.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 32 (26.23%) PKI
5 28 (22.95%) Data Centre
6 24 (19.67%) EFT
7 11 (9.02%) Replication
8 5 (4.10%) Mainframe
8 5 (4.10%) Management Information System
8 5 (4.10%) Operational Technology
8 5 (4.10%) SCADA
9 4 (3.28%) GNSS
9 4 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (3.28%) Tandem
10 3 (2.46%) IoT
11 2 (1.64%) CCTV
11 2 (1.64%) Cyberattack
11 2 (1.64%) Fibre Optics
12 1 (0.82%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.82%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 50 (40.98%) Windows
2 38 (31.15%) Windows Server
3 12 (9.84%) Linux
3 12 (9.84%) Windows 10
4 7 (5.74%) VMS
5 4 (3.28%) Unix
6 1 (0.82%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (34.43%) Cybersecurity
1 42 (34.43%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (30.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 37 (30.33%) Kalman Filter
2 37 (30.33%) SIEM
3 33 (27.05%) Security Operations
4 32 (26.23%) Actionable Insight
4 32 (26.23%) Blue Team
4 32 (26.23%) Compliance Audit
4 32 (26.23%) Data Loss Prevention
4 32 (26.23%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 32 (26.23%) Time Management
4 32 (26.23%) Two-Factor Authentication
5 24 (19.67%) ITIL
5 24 (19.67%) Server Patching
6 19 (15.57%) Open Source
7 17 (13.93%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 17 (13.93%) Threat Intelligence
8 15 (12.30%) MITRE ATT&CK
8 15 (12.30%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 46 (37.70%) PowerShell
2 21 (17.21%) SQL
3 14 (11.48%) Python
4 8 (6.56%) Bash
5 7 (5.74%) Java
6 6 (4.92%) Ruby
7 4 (3.28%) C++
7 4 (3.28%) Go
8 3 (2.46%) C#
9 2 (1.64%) Groovy
9 2 (1.64%) Perl
Qualifications
1 63 (51.64%) Security Cleared
2 35 (28.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.30%) CREST Certified
3 15 (12.30%) GIAC
4 12 (9.84%) Degree
5 6 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.46%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.64%) CCNP
8 2 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.64%) GRC
1 2 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.82%) HMG Security Policy Framework
2 1 (0.82%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (34.43%) Active Directory
2 25 (20.49%) VMware ESXi
3 8 (6.56%) Hyper-V
4 6 (4.92%) Docker
5 5 (4.10%) Firmware
5 5 (4.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.64%) VMware Server
7 1 (0.82%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 32 (26.23%) FortiGate
2 29 (23.77%) SCCM
3 24 (19.67%) vCenter Server
4 18 (14.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (7.38%) Terraform
6 8 (6.56%) Kubernetes
7 5 (4.10%) NetBackup
7 5 (4.10%) SCOM
7 5 (4.10%) SCSM
8 4 (3.28%) Progress Chef
8 4 (3.28%) Puppet
9 2 (1.64%) Nagios
Vendors
1 52 (42.62%) Microsoft
2 44 (36.07%) VMware
3 40 (32.79%) Cisco
4 34 (27.87%) F5
5 32 (26.23%) ArcSight
5 32 (26.23%) CheckPoint
5 32 (26.23%) IBM
5 32 (26.23%) Juniper
5 32 (26.23%) Splunk
5 32 (26.23%) TippingPoint
5 32 (26.23%) Trend Micro
6 24 (19.67%) Citrix
6 24 (19.67%) Globalscape
7 6 (4.92%) Aruba
8 5 (4.10%) Google
8 5 (4.10%) HP
8 5 (4.10%) Veritas
9 4 (3.28%) Rackspace
10 3 (2.46%) Oracle
11 2 (1.64%) Infoblox