SMTP Job Trends

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring SMTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 619 607 649
Rank change year-on-year -12 +42 +166
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 32 105 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.054% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.33% 1.48% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15 51 72
10th Percentile £41,500 £38,750 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,500 £40,000 £46,729
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,600 £52,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +15.43% -14.29% +18.89%
75th Percentile £72,000 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £73,750 £88,750 £74,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,600 £54,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +12.22% -6.09% +15.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 9,557 7,100 7,904
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.02% 13.31% 14.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,857 3,674 6,397
10th Percentile £25,250 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,918 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £54,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -29.68% +9.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £33,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -32.50% +11.11% -

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

SMTP job vacancy trend in the UK

SMTP
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SMTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing SMTP

SMTP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMTP over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Top 11 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 13 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
England 0 30 £60,600 +15.43% 18
UK excluding London +31 29 £60,600 +12.22% 15
Midlands +33 11 £72,500 -
West Midlands +31 11 £72,500 -
East of England +8 8 £43,750 -18.98% 8
South West +10 5 £77,500 -13.89%
Work from Home +20 4 £60,600 +15.43% 1
South East +8 4 £52,500 +23.53% 6
London +21 2 - - 7
North West +24 1 £60,600 -
North of England +16 1 £60,600 -14.64% 1

SMTP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 16 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (21.88%) Confluence
3 4 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (12.50%) nginx
4 2 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon EC2
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon ELB
2 9 (28.13%) Amazon S3
2 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 9 (28.13%) AWS KMS
2 9 (28.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 5 (15.63%) Amazon Glacier
3 5 (15.63%) Azure
4 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (12.50%) Route 53
5 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (78.13%) DNS
2 18 (56.25%) HTTP
3 14 (43.75%) FTP
3 14 (43.75%) TCP/IP
4 13 (40.63%) Firewall
5 12 (37.50%) SSH
6 10 (31.25%) IMAP
7 9 (28.13%) DHCP
8 7 (21.88%) Network Security
9 6 (18.75%) POP3
9 6 (18.75%) VLAN
9 6 (18.75%) VPN
10 5 (15.63%) EIGRP
10 5 (15.63%) Intrusion Detection
10 5 (15.63%) LAN
10 5 (15.63%) OSPF
10 5 (15.63%) SNMP
10 5 (15.63%) SSL
10 5 (15.63%) WAN
10 5 (15.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (12.50%) Amazon Aurora
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database
2 4 (12.50%) Oracle Database 10g
2 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (34.38%) Git
2 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 9 (28.13%) Vagrant
3 7 (21.88%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) Subversion
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (28.13%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 6 (18.75%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (15.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Advertising
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Python Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Python Software Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Messaging Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior IT Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Replication
2 6 (18.75%) Driving Licence
3 5 (15.63%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (12.50%) GNSS
4 4 (12.50%) Satnav
5 3 (9.38%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.13%) CSOC
6 1 (3.13%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (3.13%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 25 (78.13%) Windows
2 14 (43.75%) Linux
3 11 (34.38%) Windows Server
4 9 (28.13%) VMS
5 7 (21.88%) Amazon Linux
6 4 (12.50%) Solaris
6 4 (12.50%) Ubuntu
6 4 (12.50%) Unix
6 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (9.38%) HPUX
8 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (28.13%) Cloud Security
2 9 (28.13%) Configuration Management
2 9 (28.13%) DevOps
3 7 (21.88%) Change Management
3 7 (21.88%) ITIL
3 7 (21.88%) Patch Management
4 6 (18.75%) Time Management
5 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
5 5 (15.63%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.63%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (15.63%) Validation
6 4 (12.50%) B2B
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Mathematics
6 4 (12.50%) Open Source Development
6 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) Groovy
3 7 (21.88%) PowerShell
4 5 (15.63%) Java
4 5 (15.63%) Perl
5 4 (12.50%) C++
5 4 (12.50%) SQL
6 2 (6.25%) C#
6 2 (6.25%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (46.88%) SC Cleared
3 8 (25.00%) Degree
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Certification
4 6 (18.75%) CCNA
4 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (18.75%) DBS Check
5 5 (15.63%) CCNP
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
6 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.13%) MCSE
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) SLA
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
2 7 (21.88%) Docker
3 5 (15.63%) Dovecot
3 5 (15.63%) Postfix
4 4 (12.50%) DFS Replication
4 4 (12.50%) Squid
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Grafana
2 7 (21.88%) Prometheus
3 4 (12.50%) Nessus
3 4 (12.50%) Proxmox
4 3 (9.38%) Nagios
5 2 (6.25%) PaperCut
6 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) ServiceNow
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco
3 6 (18.75%) Oracle
4 5 (15.63%) SolarWinds
4 5 (15.63%) VMware
5 4 (12.50%) Jaspersoft
6 2 (6.25%) Dell
7 1 (3.13%) Blue Coat
7 1 (3.13%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.13%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.13%) Darktrace
7 1 (3.13%) F5
7 1 (3.13%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.13%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.13%) Splunk