SMTP Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 558 632
Rank change year-on-year +165 +74 +155
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 22 25 44
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.074% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.87% 0.47% 0.92%
Number of salaries quoted 16 24 35
10th Percentile £48,000 £34,000 £42,155
25th Percentile £50,875 £46,050 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £54,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% +13.68% -4.39%
75th Percentile £73,886 £63,250 £56,875
90th Percentile - £75,000 £70,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £45,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +26.37% -4.21% -9.52%

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 2,522 5,284 4,767
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 16.46% 15.62% 11.21%
Number of salaries quoted 1,614 3,423 3,541
10th Percentile £23,504 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -8.70% +1.77%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £75,294
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £88,750
UK median annual salary £47,500 £48,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -4.76%

SMTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SMTP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SMTP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing SMTP.

SMTP salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing SMTP over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

SMTP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (68.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (31.82%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 7 (31.82%) Exchange Server 2013
2 7 (31.82%) Skype for Business
3 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.55%) CMS
3 1 (4.55%) IIS
3 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft Purview
1 8 (36.36%) SaaS
2 7 (31.82%) Cohesity
3 3 (13.64%) Azure
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) Sage Pay
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Internet
2 8 (36.36%) DKIM
2 8 (36.36%) DMARC
2 8 (36.36%) DNSSEC
3 7 (31.82%) DNS
3 7 (31.82%) IMAP
3 7 (31.82%) SAN
3 7 (31.82%) Skype
4 5 (22.73%) HTTP
5 4 (18.18%) 5G
5 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
5 4 (18.18%) WAN
6 1 (4.55%) FTP
6 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Subversion
3 1 (4.55%) Log4Net
3 1 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 8 (36.36%) Banking
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Advertising
5 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (36.36%) Lead
1 8 (36.36%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Messaging Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Algorithm Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) C/C++ Firmware Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Development Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) DSP Algorithm Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) DSP Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Embedded C Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Embedded Firmware Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Firmware Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Development Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior DSP Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) .NET
1 1 (4.55%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.55%) Ajax
1 1 (4.55%) Angular 2
1 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
1 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET
1 1 (4.55%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) HTML5
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) Ninject
1 1 (4.55%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (4.55%) Unity DI Container
1 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Cloud Native
2 7 (31.82%) Blackberry
3 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
3 4 (18.18%) FPGA
3 4 (18.18%) GNSS
3 4 (18.18%) MicroBlaze
3 4 (18.18%) Self-Driving Car
3 4 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (18.18%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 6 (27.27%) Unix
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (31.82%) Capacity Management
2 7 (31.82%) Problem Management
2 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (18.18%) B2B
3 4 (18.18%) Digital Signal Processing
3 4 (18.18%) Mathematics
3 4 (18.18%) Open Source
3 4 (18.18%) Signal Processing
3 4 (18.18%) Software Architecture
3 4 (18.18%) Test Assurance
3 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (9.09%) Server Building
5 1 (4.55%) CRM
5 1 (4.55%) DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.55%) MVC
5 1 (4.55%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) C
1 4 (18.18%) C++
1 4 (18.18%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) C#
2 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
1 7 (31.82%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (18.18%) Embedded Firmware
2 4 (18.18%) Firmware
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (40.91%) VMware
3 8 (36.36%) Cisco
3 8 (36.36%) IronPort
3 8 (36.36%) Veritas
4 7 (31.82%) NetApp
5 1 (4.55%) PayPal
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.55%) Salesforce