SMTP Contracts

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 635 741
Rank change year-on-year +100 +106 -112
Contract jobs citing SMTP 40 47 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.093% 0.084% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.74% 0.66% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 36 65
10th Percentile £290 £359 £400
25th Percentile £420 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £549 £548
Median % change year-on-year +0.18% +0.27% +28.82%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £700
90th Percentile £713 £675 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £547 £513
% change year-on-year +0.55% +6.73% +20.59%
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 5,426 7,124 9,720
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.60% 12.71% 11.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,234 4,603 6,376
10th Percentile £206 £240 £240
25th Percentile £350 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £613
90th Percentile £688 £719 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 417 443 367
10th Percentile £13.50 £9.80 £15.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £10.63 £16.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £18.24 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% -29.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.54 £50.77
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.54
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.88 £18.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +154.89% -16.28% -1.15%

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 1 June 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 11 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 1 June 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 +83 37 £550 -3.08% 11
UK excluding London +49 25 £550 +0.55% 7
East of England - 18 £550 - 3
London +82 15 £450 -21.53% 4
Scotland +37 3 - -
South West - 2 £675 -
Work from Home +97 1 £525 -6.91% 4
North of England +20 1 £600 +6.38% 3
Midlands +19 1 - -
West Midlands +13 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 22 (55.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (17.50%) Apache
2 7 (17.50%) Tomcat
3 4 (10.00%) 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
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) Cloudflare
2 7 (17.50%) Entra ID
3 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (55.00%) DNS
2 14 (35.00%) Firewall
3 12 (30.00%) HTTP
4 11 (27.50%) FTP
4 11 (27.50%) TCP/IP
5 10 (25.00%) DHCP
6 8 (20.00%) SSL
7 6 (15.00%) SSH
8 5 (12.50%) VPN
9 4 (10.00%) LAN
9 4 (10.00%) SNMP
9 4 (10.00%) WAN
10 3 (7.50%) ICMP
10 3 (7.50%) POP3
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
11 1 (2.50%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
General
1 10 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Banking
2 3 (7.50%) Finance
2 3 (7.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Messaging Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Web Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) Linux Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) ArcSight Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Junior
6 3 (7.50%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) SIEM Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Web Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (20.00%) LDAP
2 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) PKI
2 5 (12.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 4 (10.00%) Clustering
3 4 (10.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (65.00%) Windows
2 19 (47.50%) Windows Server
3 11 (27.50%) Linux
4 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (7.50%) Unix
5 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.50%) Windows 2000
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (17.50%) Load Balancing
2 7 (17.50%) Project Delivery
3 6 (15.00%) Migration
4 5 (12.50%) Agile
4 5 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 4 (10.00%) High Availability
5 4 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (10.00%) ITIL
5 4 (10.00%) SIEM
6 3 (7.50%) Change Management
6 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.50%) ITSM
6 3 (7.50%) Matrix Management
6 3 (7.50%) PRINCE2
6 3 (7.50%) Project Management
6 3 (7.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (7.50%) Service Management
6 3 (7.50%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.50%) PHP
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 16 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (15.00%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) Degree
5 3 (7.50%) MCP
6 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.50%) CCNP
6 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
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 8 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 4 (10.00%) BitLocker
3 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (10.00%) Terminal Services
3 4 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
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 14 (35.00%) MAILsweeper
2 6 (15.00%) Puppet
3 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 4 (10.00%) vMotion
4 3 (7.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (7.50%) Kibana
4 3 (7.50%) logstash
4 3 (7.50%) OPNET
4 3 (7.50%) QRadar
4 3 (7.50%) SCCM
4 3 (7.50%) SCOM
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (35.00%) Sophos
1 14 (35.00%) Trend Micro
2 11 (27.50%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.50%) F5
3 7 (17.50%) IronPort
3 7 (17.50%) Splunk
3 7 (17.50%) VMware
4 6 (15.00%) Citrix
5 5 (12.50%) Symantec
6 4 (10.00%) Darktrace
6 4 (10.00%) FireEye
6 4 (10.00%) Infoblox
6 4 (10.00%) LogRhythm
7 3 (7.50%) ArcSight
7 3 (7.50%) Remedy
7 3 (7.50%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco
8 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.50%) Google
8 1 (2.50%) HP