The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Communications & Networking category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SMTP 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £45.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-56.11% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
48 66 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 10.93% 10.63% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 33
Average daily rate £375 £250 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £100 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
Average hourly rate £13.00 £30.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.66% +100.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMTP
West Midlands

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing SMTP across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

Birmingham SMTP Jobs Demand Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SMTP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SMTP Daily Rate Trend

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SMTP across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham SMTP Hourly Rate Trend

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SMTP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SMTP.

1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) IIOP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Compaq
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) JMX
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (50.00%) Jython
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Java

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing SMTP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SMTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) JMX
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) JMS
1 1 (50.00%) Java RMI
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (50.00%) IIOP
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Jython
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Sun
1 1 (50.00%) Compaq
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware