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 19 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 390 473
Rank change year-on-year +20 +83 +99
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 11 37 53
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.067% 0.24% 0.19%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.68% 1.87% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 11 24 50
10th Percentile - £40,000 £44,778
25th Percentile £57,800 £44,688 £51,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -14.29% +28.95%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £63,750
90th Percentile - - £73,875
UK median annual salary £60,600 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.22% -1.82% +15.79%

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 1,623 1,981 3,707
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 9.87% 12.76% 13.49%
Number of salaries quoted 945 1,166 3,215
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,445 £56,810 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.73% +3.29% -0.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +12.24% -6.67%

SMTP
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

SMTP
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 19 February 2026.

SMTP salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

SMTP
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 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) HTTP
1 4 (36.36%) SSL
2 3 (27.27%) DHCP
2 3 (27.27%) FTP
2 3 (27.27%) SNMP
2 3 (27.27%) SSH
2 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (27.27%) Telnet
3 1 (9.09%) Firewall
3 1 (9.09%) HTTPS
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 7 (63.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Consultant
2 7 (63.64%) CyberArk Consultant
3 6 (54.55%) Professional Services Consultant
4 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) REST
1 7 (63.64%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) FreeBSD
3 1 (9.09%) OpenBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) SIEM
2 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Operations
3 1 (9.09%) Innovative Thinking
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) Open Source
3 1 (9.09%) Presales
3 1 (9.09%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) Bash
2 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
2 1 (9.09%) KVM
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Proxmox
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) CyberArk
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 1 (9.09%) VMware