SMTP Contracts in London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 377 458 570
Rank change year-on-year +81 +112 -139
Contract jobs citing SMTP 18 22 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.085% 0.096%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.08% 0.85% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 22
10th Percentile £319 £419 £457
25th Percentile £410 £481 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -17.86% +47.37%
75th Percentile £669 £675 -
90th Percentile £925 £681 -
England median daily rate £525 £564 £575
% change year-on-year -6.91% -1.91% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
England median hourly rate - £83.00 -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,663 2,582 3,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.52% 9.99% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 1,812 2,524
10th Percentile £213 £250 £313
25th Percentile £350 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +3.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
England median daily rate £495 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -5.71% +5.00% +14.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 57 85
10th Percentile £14.46 £19.57 £20.93
25th Percentile £16.40 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £22.75 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.13% +14.29% -29.51%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £48.45
90th Percentile £60.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £18.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year +122.22% -24.72% -0.38%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in London

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in London

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in London

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in London

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the London 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
Central London +55 6 £850 +28.30%
South London - 1 £675 -
SMTP
England

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 7 (38.89%) Apache
1 7 (38.89%) Tomcat
2 2 (11.11%) IBM Domino
2 2 (11.11%) IBM Notes
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Cloudflare
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 13 (72.22%) DNS
2 11 (61.11%) TCP/IP
3 9 (50.00%) Firewall
4 8 (44.44%) HTTP
5 7 (38.89%) FTP
6 6 (33.33%) SSH
7 4 (22.22%) ICMP
7 4 (22.22%) POP3
8 3 (16.67%) DHCP
8 3 (16.67%) SNMP
8 3 (16.67%) SSL
9 2 (11.11%) LAN
9 2 (11.11%) Telnet
9 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications
9 2 (11.11%) WAN
10 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
10 1 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
10 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
10 1 (5.56%) Skype
10 1 (5.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Web Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) ArcSight Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) SIEM Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Web Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Citrix Support
5 2 (11.11%) Citrix Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Unified Communications Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (5.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 1 (5.56%) Windows
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (38.89%) Load Balancing
2 6 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
3 5 (27.78%) SIEM
4 4 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
5 3 (16.67%) Agile
5 3 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 2 (11.11%) Capacity Management
6 2 (11.11%) Change Control
6 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.11%) Server Management
7 1 (5.56%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.56%) Incident Response
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (5.56%) Project Management
7 1 (5.56%) Security Operations
7 1 (5.56%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) PHP
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CCNP
1 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.56%) NIST
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.11%) XenApp
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) Puppet
2 4 (22.22%) Kibana
2 4 (22.22%) logstash
2 4 (22.22%) QRadar
2 4 (22.22%) Terraform
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (5.56%) OPNET
4 1 (5.56%) SCCM
4 1 (5.56%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) F5
2 4 (22.22%) ArcSight
2 4 (22.22%) Splunk
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (11.11%) Lotus
4 2 (11.11%) Proofpoint
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) Remedy
5 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Zscaler