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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 822 861 1089
Rank change year-on-year +39 +228 -324
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 74 109 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.075% 0.10% 0.093%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.54% 0.68% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 59 65 102
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £40,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,155 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,500 £47,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -7.32% -2.38%
75th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £71,000 £79,557 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -4.76%

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 13,586 16,051 20,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.86% 15.34% 13.43%
Number of salaries quoted 9,485 8,237 11,833
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.94% -3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £43,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Top 15 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 27 April 2024. 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
England +82 67 £47,100 -0.84% 17
UK excluding London -6 50 £42,500 - 13
Work from Home +60 25 £54,000 +13.68% 4
London +121 24 £55,000 +7.32% 3
South East +21 16 £42,500 +0.82% 4
Midlands +12 15 £47,100 -0.84%
West Midlands +34 13 £47,100 -15.89%
South West +1 8 £35,000 - 5
Isle of Man - 4 £37,000 -
North of England +41 3 £45,000 - 1
Wales +9 3 - -
Yorkshire +91 2 - -
East Midlands -18 2 £25,000 -31.03%
East of England +9 1 £50,000 - 3
North West +7 1 £45,000 - 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 19 (25.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.41%) Apache
3 4 (5.41%) nginx
4 3 (4.05%) IIS
5 2 (2.70%) Moodle
5 2 (2.70%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.35%) CMS
6 1 (1.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.76%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.49%) Azure
2 23 (31.08%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (20.27%) AWS
3 15 (20.27%) Entra ID
4 7 (9.46%) OneDrive
5 5 (6.76%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (6.76%) Google Workspace
6 4 (5.41%) Mimecast
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.70%) GCP
7 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 2 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.35%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 53 (71.62%) DNS
2 50 (67.57%) TCP/IP
3 42 (56.76%) HTTP
4 22 (29.73%) DHCP
5 21 (28.38%) SSL
6 20 (27.03%) Firewall
7 17 (22.97%) FTP
8 14 (18.92%) Internet
8 14 (18.92%) SNMP
9 12 (16.22%) SSH
10 10 (13.51%) Ethernet
10 10 (13.51%) LAN
11 9 (12.16%) VLAN
11 9 (12.16%) VPN
12 8 (10.81%) Network Security
12 8 (10.81%) Telnet
12 8 (10.81%) WAN
13 7 (9.46%) VoIP
14 5 (6.76%) VRRP
14 5 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) MySQL
2 4 (5.41%) Redis
2 4 (5.41%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.05%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (12.16%) Jenkins
2 5 (6.76%) Git
3 2 (2.70%) git-flow
3 2 (2.70%) GitLab
4 1 (1.35%) Log4Net
4 1 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 24 (32.43%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Banking
3 7 (9.46%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.41%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Finance
6 2 (2.70%) Games
7 1 (1.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) Analyst
3 11 (14.86%) Senior
3 11 (14.86%) Systems Engineer
4 9 (12.16%) Lead
5 8 (10.81%) Developer
6 7 (9.46%) Embedded Developer
6 7 (9.46%) Firmware Developer
7 6 (8.11%) SOC Analyst
8 5 (6.76%) Administrator
8 5 (6.76%) Network Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Senior Network Engineer
8 5 (6.76%) Support Specialist
8 5 (6.76%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (6.76%) Team Leader
9 4 (5.41%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.41%) Support Engineer
10 3 (4.05%) 2nd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) Web Services
2 6 (8.11%) LDAP
3 4 (5.41%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.41%) LAMP
4 3 (4.05%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (2.70%) MAPI
5 2 (2.70%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.70%) REST
5 2 (2.70%) SOAP
6 1 (1.35%) .NET
6 1 (1.35%) Angular 2
6 1 (1.35%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.35%) ASP.NET Web API
6 1 (1.35%) HTML
6 1 (1.35%) HTML5
6 1 (1.35%) Ninject
6 1 (1.35%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (1.35%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (1.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.22%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.86%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (10.81%) EFT
4 7 (9.46%) CUDA
4 7 (9.46%) Cyber Threat
4 7 (9.46%) GNSS
4 7 (9.46%) Tandem
5 6 (8.11%) Cyberattack
6 5 (6.76%) Clustering
6 5 (6.76%) Security Operations Centre
7 4 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (4.05%) Driving Licence
8 3 (4.05%) Onboarding
9 2 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (2.70%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.70%) PKI
9 2 (2.70%) Replication
9 2 (2.70%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.35%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 36 (48.65%) Windows
2 32 (43.24%) Linux
3 22 (29.73%) Windows Server
4 11 (14.86%) Unix
5 5 (6.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (6.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.70%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.35%) CentOS
8 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (36.49%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (14.86%) Computer Science
4 9 (12.16%) Containerisation
4 9 (12.16%) Test Automation
5 8 (10.81%) ITIL
5 8 (10.81%) Server Patching
5 8 (10.81%) SIEM
6 7 (9.46%) B2B
6 7 (9.46%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (9.46%) Incident Response
6 7 (9.46%) Open Source
6 7 (9.46%) Security Operations
6 7 (9.46%) Software Architecture
6 7 (9.46%) Software Engineering
7 6 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (8.11%) Customer Service
7 6 (8.11%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 6 (8.11%) Threat Intelligence
7 6 (8.11%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.51%) Python
3 7 (9.46%) C
3 7 (9.46%) C++
4 3 (4.05%) Bash
4 3 (4.05%) SQL
5 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.35%) C#
6 1 (1.35%) Java
6 1 (1.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (20.27%) Degree
2 6 (8.11%) CREST Certified
2 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.76%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.41%) GIAC
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (2.70%) CASP
5 2 (2.70%) CompTIA CySA+
5 2 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (2.70%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.70%) HIPAA
1 2 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.70%) NIST
1 2 (2.70%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.70%) QA
System Software
1 23 (31.08%) Active Directory
2 12 (16.22%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (12.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (9.46%) Embedded Firmware
4 7 (9.46%) Firmware
5 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
6 3 (4.05%) Docker
7 2 (2.70%) Varnish
7 2 (2.70%) vSphere
8 1 (1.35%) Dovecot
8 1 (1.35%) NFS
8 1 (1.35%) Postfix
8 1 (1.35%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Intune
1 12 (16.22%) vCenter Server
2 11 (14.86%) SCCM
3 5 (6.76%) Ansible
4 4 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (5.41%) Terraform
5 3 (4.05%) Autotask
5 3 (4.05%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (4.05%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.05%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (4.05%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.70%) Host Intrusion Detection System
6 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.70%) Packer
6 2 (2.70%) Puppet
7 1 (1.35%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 33 (44.59%) VMware
2 29 (39.19%) Microsoft
3 9 (12.16%) Cisco
4 8 (10.81%) CheckPoint
4 8 (10.81%) Citrix
4 8 (10.81%) Globalscape
5 6 (8.11%) Sophos
6 5 (6.76%) Datto
6 5 (6.76%) Draytek
6 5 (6.76%) Sage
6 5 (6.76%) Veeam
6 5 (6.76%) Webroot
7 4 (5.41%) Apple
7 4 (5.41%) Commvault
7 4 (5.41%) Splunk
7 4 (5.41%) Trend Micro
8 3 (4.05%) ArcSight
8 3 (4.05%) F5
8 3 (4.05%) IBM
8 3 (4.05%) Juniper