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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 418 557
Rank change year-on-year +24 +139 +48
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 16 17 24
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.085% 0.11% 0.074%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.78% 0.88% 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 11 12 23
10th Percentile £57,800 £49,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £65,150 £50,875 £48,025
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £52,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -2.78% +13.68%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £65,500
90th Percentile - - £75,000
UK median annual salary £53,000 £57,500 £45,250
% change year-on-year -7.83% +27.07% -4.74%

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 2,053 1,934 5,051
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 10.92% 12.81% 15.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1,001 1,184 3,332
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,599 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%

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 20 May 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 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) HTTP
2 5 (31.25%) FTP
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 4 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (18.75%) Internet
4 3 (18.75%) LAN
4 3 (18.75%) SSL
5 2 (12.50%) DHCP
5 2 (12.50%) SNMP
5 2 (12.50%) SSH
5 2 (12.50%) Telnet
6 1 (6.25%) Firewall
6 1 (6.25%) HTTPS
6 1 (6.25%) VLAN
6 1 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 9 (56.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 9 (56.25%) Public Sector
2 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (62.50%) Consultant
2 9 (56.25%) CyberArk Consultant
3 8 (50.00%) Professional Services Consultant
4 3 (18.75%) Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) SOC Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (56.25%) REST
1 9 (56.25%) SAML
2 3 (18.75%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Defence
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (18.75%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) CentOS
4 1 (6.25%) FreeBSD
4 1 (6.25%) OpenBSD
4 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) SIEM
2 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Management
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) SOAR
3 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (18.75%) Swim Lanes
4 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Thinking
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Security
5 1 (6.25%) Innovative Thinking
5 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (6.25%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.25%) Presales
5 1 (6.25%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.25%) Security Operations
5 1 (6.25%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Bash
2 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (56.25%) SC Cleared
3 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) NIST
1 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) KVM
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) QRadar
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Proxmox
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) CyberArk
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) ArcSight
3 3 (18.75%) Splunk
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.25%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) Dell
5 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 1 (6.25%) Veeam