Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
Period
to 26 January 2022

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 26 January 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
26 Jan 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 526 324 274
Rank change year-on-year -202 -50 -6
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 24 20 7
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.081% 0.18% 0.097%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% 1.34% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 17 18 7
10th Percentile £32,000 £35,275 £46,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £51,250 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -21.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,750 -
90th Percentile £78,750 - -
UK median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -5.00%

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 WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,067 1,491 1,014
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.36% 13.45% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2,356 1,317 885
10th Percentile £35,750 £33,750 £34,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £50,050 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.10% +5.26% -

SMTP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

SMTP trend for jobs with a WFH option

SMTP
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing SMTP over the 6 months to 26 January 2022.

SMTP salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 26 January 2022, SMTP job roles required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for SMTP.

1 16 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 13 (54.17%) HTTP
4 12 (50.00%) DNS
5 11 (45.83%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 10 (41.67%) SQL
7 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
8 7 (29.17%) Penetration Testing
8 7 (29.17%) DHCP
8 7 (29.17%) Windows
8 7 (29.17%) Linux
8 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
8 7 (29.17%) Project Management
8 7 (29.17%) AWS
9 6 (25.00%) Git (software)
9 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
9 6 (25.00%) Content Management
9 6 (25.00%) Firewall
9 6 (25.00%) VMware
10 5 (20.83%) Agile Software Development
10 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (20.83%) JSON
10 5 (20.83%) Python
10 5 (20.83%) LDAP
10 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
10 5 (20.83%) XML
10 5 (20.83%) Docker

SMTP
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) OpenStack
2 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.17%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (4.17%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Sentinel
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) AWS
3 4 (16.67%) Azure Active Directory
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (16.67%) SaaS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Service Fabric
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Storage
4 2 (8.33%) NuGet
4 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon Glacier
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
5 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
5 1 (4.17%) BrowserStack
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 13 (54.17%) HTTP
3 12 (50.00%) DNS
4 7 (29.17%) DHCP
5 6 (25.00%) Firewall
6 4 (16.67%) WAN
7 3 (12.50%) 5G
7 3 (12.50%) HTTPS
7 3 (12.50%) Internet
7 3 (12.50%) SD-WAN
7 3 (12.50%) SNMP
7 3 (12.50%) VPN
7 3 (12.50%) Wireless
8 2 (8.33%) FTP
8 2 (8.33%) Sourcefire
9 1 (4.17%) DDNS
9 1 (4.17%) Kerberos
9 1 (4.17%) LAN
9 1 (4.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) NoSQL
2 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (12.50%) JIRA
2 3 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (8.33%) Moq
3 2 (8.33%) NUnit
4 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.17%) Subversion
4 1 (4.17%) Vagrant
General
1 4 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Retail
2 3 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Penetration Tester
1 6 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (12.50%) Analyst
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Development Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.83%) JSON
1 5 (20.83%) LDAP
1 5 (20.83%) XML
2 4 (16.67%) OAuth
2 4 (16.67%) OpenID
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) .NET
3 3 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (12.50%) gRPC
3 3 (12.50%) Kafka
3 3 (12.50%) LAPP Stack
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
3 3 (12.50%) Web Services
4 2 (8.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (8.33%) Middleware
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) EDI
5 1 (4.17%) SAML
5 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (12.50%) Tandem
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 2 (8.33%) iSeries
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) YubiKey
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Linux
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (12.50%) VMS
3 3 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 2 (8.33%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (29.17%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (29.17%) Project Management
3 6 (25.00%) Content Management
3 6 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
3 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.83%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (20.83%) SDLC
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (12.50%) Due Diligence
6 3 (12.50%) Escalation Management
6 3 (12.50%) Information Security
6 3 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 3 (12.50%) Open Source
6 3 (12.50%) Presales
6 3 (12.50%) Scrum
6 3 (12.50%) SOA
6 3 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 8 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 4 (16.67%) C#
4 4 (16.67%) VB
5 3 (12.50%) C++
6 2 (8.33%) Bash
6 2 (8.33%) Java
6 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.33%) Perl
7 1 (4.17%) Groovy
7 1 (4.17%) Ruby
7 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) MCSE
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CCNA
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
3 2 (8.33%) SSCP
4 1 (4.17%) ISEB
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) NDS
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (12.50%) SafeCom
4 2 (8.33%) Nessus
4 2 (8.33%) QRadar
5 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (4.17%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) Nagios
5 1 (4.17%) Opscode Chef
5 1 (4.17%) PingFederate
5 1 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.50%) Equitrac
3 3 (12.50%) Rackspace
3 3 (12.50%) Splunk
4 2 (8.33%) LogRhythm
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco
5 1 (4.17%) Commvault
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) ForgeRock
5 1 (4.17%) NetIQ
5 1 (4.17%) Okta
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) WatchGuard