SMTP Contracts in England

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for SMTP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited SMTP over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 501 606 702
Rank change year-on-year +105 +96 -151
Contract jobs citing SMTP 36 41 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.085% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.75% 0.69% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 31 47
10th Percentile £290 £394 £438
25th Percentile £420 £488 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% -1.91% +35.29%
75th Percentile £575 £606 £700
90th Percentile £883 £675 -
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
England

SMTP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 4,790 5,906 7,860
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.14% 12.27% 11.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,878 3,863 5,177
10th Percentile £210 £231 £225
25th Percentile £350 £394 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.05%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £700 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £490 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 423 313
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.90
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.01 £48.45
90th Percentile £70.13 £75.00 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £18.50 £28.41
% change year-on-year +116.22% -34.88% +13.64%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing SMTP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SMTP in England.

Daily rate trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in England

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SMTP in England.

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in England

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the England region over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +81 18 £450 -21.74% 5
East of England - 14 £550 - 3
South West +1 2 £675 +22.73% 4
Midlands +26 1 - -
West Midlands +24 1 - -
North of England +23 1 £600 +6.38% 1
North East - 1 £600 -
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 16 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (19.44%) Apache
2 7 (19.44%) Tomcat
3 3 (8.33%) CMS
3 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2000
3 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (8.33%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
4 2 (5.56%) IBM Domino
4 2 (5.56%) IBM Notes
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) Cloudflare
2 5 (13.89%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (8.33%) AWS
5 1 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) DNS
2 14 (38.89%) TCP/IP
3 12 (33.33%) Firewall
3 12 (33.33%) HTTP
4 11 (30.56%) FTP
5 7 (19.44%) DHCP
5 7 (19.44%) SSH
5 7 (19.44%) SSL
6 4 (11.11%) ICMP
6 4 (11.11%) LAN
6 4 (11.11%) POP3
6 4 (11.11%) SNMP
6 4 (11.11%) WAN
7 3 (8.33%) Skype
7 3 (8.33%) Telnet
8 2 (5.56%) Unified Communications
8 2 (5.56%) VPN
9 1 (2.78%) HTTPS
9 1 (2.78%) IPsec
9 1 (2.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.11%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (11.11%) Banking
4 3 (8.33%) Military
5 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Messaging Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Web Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Analyst
5 4 (11.11%) ArcSight Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) SIEM Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Junior
6 3 (8.33%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Support Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Web Administrator
6 3 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Elastic Stack
1 4 (11.11%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 4 (11.11%) PKI
2 3 (8.33%) Cyberattack
2 3 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (52.78%) Windows
2 13 (36.11%) Windows Server
3 10 (27.78%) Linux
4 4 (11.11%) Unix
4 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 3 (8.33%) Windows 2000
6 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (19.44%) Load Balancing
3 6 (16.67%) Data Loss Prevention
3 6 (16.67%) Migration
3 6 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (13.89%) Agile
4 5 (13.89%) Proactive Monitoring
4 5 (13.89%) SIEM
5 4 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (11.11%) Incident Response
5 4 (11.11%) ITIL
5 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
6 3 (8.33%) Office Automation
6 3 (8.33%) Performance Monitoring
6 3 (8.33%) PRINCE2
6 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.33%) Project Management
6 3 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) PHP
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (27.78%) DV Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) MCP
4 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) CCNP
5 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.78%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
1 5 (13.89%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (8.33%) Virtual Servers
2 3 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.56%) XenApp
4 1 (2.78%) BitLocker
4 1 (2.78%) Docker
4 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.78%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) MAILsweeper
2 6 (16.67%) Puppet
3 4 (11.11%) Kibana
3 4 (11.11%) logstash
3 4 (11.11%) QRadar
3 4 (11.11%) Terraform
4 3 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (8.33%) OPNET
4 3 (8.33%) SCCM
4 3 (8.33%) SCOM
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.78%) vCenter Server
6 1 (2.78%) vMotion
Vendors
1 11 (30.56%) Sophos
1 11 (30.56%) Trend Micro
2 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (19.44%) F5
3 7 (19.44%) Splunk
4 6 (16.67%) IronPort
5 4 (11.11%) ArcSight
5 4 (11.11%) Symantec
5 4 (11.11%) VMware
6 3 (8.33%) Cisco
6 3 (8.33%) Citrix
6 3 (8.33%) Darktrace
6 3 (8.33%) FireEye
6 3 (8.33%) LogRhythm
6 3 (8.33%) Remedy
6 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.56%) IBM
7 2 (5.56%) Lotus
7 2 (5.56%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.78%) HP