SMTP Contracts in the UK excluding London

SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SMTP skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SMTP over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 416 465
Rank change year-on-year +44 +49 -57
Contract jobs citing SMTP 29 14 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.062% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.88% 0.40% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 10 30
10th Percentile £290 £323 £290
25th Percentile £525 £423 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.55% +6.73% +20.59%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £629
90th Percentile £583 £587 £653
UK median daily rate £550 £534 £549
% change year-on-year +3.00% -2.69% +24.72%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

SMTP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,288 3,532 4,254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.42% 15.56% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,852 2,200 2,762
10th Percentile £203 £210 £190
25th Percentile £350 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £675 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 354 299 243
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.91
25th Percentile £16.30 £9.80 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £19.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -11.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.00 £48.62
90th Percentile £73.60 £75.00 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £19.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +110.53% -26.92% +4.00%

SMTP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SMTP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for SMTP in the UK excluding London

SMTP
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
East of England - 22 £550 - 6
Scotland +49 3 - -
West Midlands +18 2 - -
Midlands +14 2 - - 1
North of England +14 1 £600 +6.38% 3
North East - 1 £600 -
South West - 1 £675 -
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 23 (79.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (17.24%) CMS
3 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2000
3 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Azure
1 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
2 2 (6.90%) GCP
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (37.93%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) DHCP
2 6 (20.69%) FTP
2 6 (20.69%) HTTP
2 6 (20.69%) SSL
3 5 (17.24%) Firewall
4 4 (13.79%) VPN
5 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.45%) LAN
6 1 (3.45%) Skype
6 1 (3.45%) SNMP
6 1 (3.45%) SSH
6 1 (3.45%) Telnet
6 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Amazon RDS
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.45%) Military
Job Titles
1 17 (58.62%) Messaging Engineer
2 6 (20.69%) Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) SOC Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Junior
4 3 (10.34%) Junior Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Security Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (31.03%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Cyberattack
1 5 (17.24%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 5 (17.24%) PKI
2 4 (13.79%) Clustering
3 2 (6.90%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (96.55%) Windows
2 20 (68.97%) Windows Server
3 5 (17.24%) Linux
3 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.34%) Windows 2000
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (3.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (17.24%) Incident Response
2 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
3 4 (13.79%) High Availability
3 4 (13.79%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (10.34%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (6.90%) ITIL
5 2 (6.90%) Security Operations
6 1 (3.45%) Agile
6 1 (3.45%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (3.45%) Change Management
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science
6 1 (3.45%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (3.45%) ITSM
6 1 (3.45%) Matrix Management
6 1 (3.45%) PRINCE2
6 1 (3.45%) Project Management
6 1 (3.45%) Project Planning
6 1 (3.45%) Service Management
6 1 (3.45%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.45%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
3 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.34%) MCP
5 2 (6.90%) Degree
6 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) BitLocker
2 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (13.79%) Terminal Services
2 4 (13.79%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (58.62%) MAILsweeper
2 4 (13.79%) vCenter Server
2 4 (13.79%) vMotion
3 1 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.45%) Nessus
3 1 (3.45%) OPNET
3 1 (3.45%) SCCM
3 1 (3.45%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Sophos
1 17 (58.62%) Trend Micro
2 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
3 8 (27.59%) IronPort
4 6 (20.69%) Symantec
5 5 (17.24%) Darktrace
5 5 (17.24%) FireEye
5 5 (17.24%) LogRhythm
5 5 (17.24%) Splunk
5 5 (17.24%) VMware
6 4 (13.79%) Citrix
6 4 (13.79%) Infoblox
7 2 (6.90%) Google
8 1 (3.45%) HP
8 1 (3.45%) Remedy
8 1 (3.45%) SolarWinds