Hybrid/Remote SMTP Job Trends

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring SMTP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 408 436
Rank change year-on-year +29 +28 +214
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 3 48 67
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.21% 1.99% 2.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3 28 59
10th Percentile £60,990 - £36,695
25th Percentile £65,775 £40,000 £45,653
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £46,250 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +67.57% -22.92% +15.31%
75th Percentile £89,375 £73,886 £63,750
90th Percentile £94,250 £90,000 £74,000
UK median annual salary £60,750 £46,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +31.35% -22.92% +15.01%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,407 2,413 2,985
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.20% 12.28% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 981 1,385 2,506
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £84,964 £85,000
UK median annual salary £37,750 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -29.44% +7.00% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing SMTP and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

SMTP job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SMTP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SMTP

SMTP
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing SMTP over the 6 months to 20 November 2025.

SMTP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) FTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) SNMP
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) Telnet
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
18 hybrid/remote SMTP jobs