SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 550 654 769
Rank change year-on-year +104 +115 -166
Contract jobs citing SMTP 40 49 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.083% 0.10%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.72% 0.67% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 37 57
10th Percentile £290 £366 £425
25th Percentile £410 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +5.77% +22.35%
75th Percentile £631 £588 £675
90th Percentile £925 £675 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £478
% change year-on-year - +15.18% +19.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 5,561 7,346 9,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.82% 12.40% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 4,780 6,318
10th Percentile £205 £242 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £610
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £438
% change year-on-year - +8.57% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 476 359
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £14.86
25th Percentile £16.90 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.93 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +111.30% -31.16% +3.77%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £50.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +148.00% -13.95% -9.71%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the UK

SMTP
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
England +117 35 £460 -18.44% 17
London +91 20 £450 -21.74% 4
UK excluding London +55 20 £550 - 12
East of England - 10 £510 - 3
Scotland +39 5 - -
Midlands +26 2 - -
South West +18 2 £675 +22.73% 5
Work from Home +106 1 £525 -6.91% 4
North of England +25 1 £600 +6.38% 1
West Midlands +24 1 - -
East Midlands +19 1 - -
North East - 1 £600 -

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 18 (45.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (17.50%) Apache
2 7 (17.50%) Tomcat
3 4 (10.00%) IBM Domino
3 4 (10.00%) IBM Notes
4 3 (7.50%) CMS
4 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2000
4 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (7.50%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (17.50%) Cloudflare
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 27 (67.50%) DNS
2 17 (42.50%) Firewall
3 15 (37.50%) TCP/IP
4 13 (32.50%) HTTP
5 12 (30.00%) DHCP
6 11 (27.50%) FTP
7 8 (20.00%) SSL
7 8 (20.00%) VPN
8 7 (17.50%) SSH
9 4 (10.00%) ICMP
9 4 (10.00%) LAN
9 4 (10.00%) POP3
9 4 (10.00%) SNMP
9 4 (10.00%) Unified Communications
9 4 (10.00%) WAN
10 3 (7.50%) Skype
10 3 (7.50%) Telnet
11 1 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
4 3 (7.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Messaging Engineer
1 7 (17.50%) Web Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Administrator
4 4 (10.00%) Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) ArcSight Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) SOC Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Web Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (22.50%) LDAP
2 4 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) PKI
2 6 (15.00%) Clustering
3 4 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (7.50%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 21 (52.50%) Windows
2 15 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 10 (25.00%) Linux
4 7 (17.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (10.00%) Unix
5 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
6 3 (7.50%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 8 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.50%) Load Balancing
3 7 (17.50%) Migration
4 6 (15.00%) Agile
4 6 (15.00%) High Availability
4 6 (15.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (15.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 5 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (12.50%) SIEM
6 4 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 4 (10.00%) ITIL
6 4 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
7 3 (7.50%) PRINCE2
7 3 (7.50%) Project Management
7 3 (7.50%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) PHP
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (47.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (27.50%) DV Cleared
3 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) MCP
6 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) CCNP
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) BitLocker
2 6 (15.00%) Hyper-V
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 6 (15.00%) Terminal Services
2 6 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (7.50%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (5.00%) XenApp
6 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (17.50%) MAILsweeper
2 6 (15.00%) Puppet
2 6 (15.00%) vCenter Server
2 6 (15.00%) vMotion
3 4 (10.00%) Kibana
3 4 (10.00%) logstash
3 4 (10.00%) QRadar
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
4 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (7.50%) OPNET
4 3 (7.50%) SCCM
4 3 (7.50%) SCOM
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 17 (42.50%) Microsoft
2 9 (22.50%) VMware
3 8 (20.00%) Citrix
4 7 (17.50%) F5
4 7 (17.50%) Sophos
4 7 (17.50%) Splunk
4 7 (17.50%) Trend Micro
5 6 (15.00%) Infoblox
5 6 (15.00%) IronPort
6 5 (12.50%) Cisco
7 4 (10.00%) ArcSight
7 4 (10.00%) Lotus
7 4 (10.00%) Symantec
8 3 (7.50%) Darktrace
8 3 (7.50%) FireEye
8 3 (7.50%) IBM
8 3 (7.50%) LogRhythm
8 3 (7.50%) Proofpoint
8 3 (7.50%) Remedy
8 3 (7.50%) SolarWinds