The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Buckinghamshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 72 69 76
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Contract jobs citing SMTP 3 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.329% 0.314% 0.550%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.609% 1.911% 3.468%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £425 £425 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £338 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £45.00 £12.63
% change year-on-year
-56.11% +256.43%
All Communications & Networking
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
115 157 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 12.60% 16.42% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 48 64
Average daily rate £425 £313 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 27
Average hourly rate £14.23 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.50 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.39 £35.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.00
SMTP
South East

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire SMTP Hourly Rate Trend

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 4 (57.14%) Oracle
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
1 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
1 4 (57.14%) CCSP
1 4 (57.14%) CCNA
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
1 4 (57.14%) Internet
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
1 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
1 4 (57.14%) MCTS
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (57.14%) NAS
2 3 (42.86%) XenApp
2 3 (42.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
2 3 (42.86%) Lync
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
2 3 (42.86%) JMS

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (42.86%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 3 (42.86%) JMS
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
1 3 (42.86%) STL
1 3 (42.86%) XML
1 3 (42.86%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) MS Exchange
2 3 (42.86%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
1 4 (57.14%) Internet
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
1 4 (57.14%) NAS
2 3 (42.86%) iSCSI
3 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (14.29%) ICMP
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Technical Architect
1 3 (42.86%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cryptography
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) Thin Client
3 2 (28.57%) Fat Client
4 1 (14.29%) PKI
4 1 (14.29%) CESG
4 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Vista
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
1 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (14.29%) Information Assurance
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
1 3 (42.86%) C++
1 3 (42.86%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) CCSP
1 4 (57.14%) CCNA
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (57.14%) MCTS
2 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (42.86%) ISEB
2 3 (42.86%) MCSE
2 3 (42.86%) MCP
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) XenApp
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 3 (42.86%) OpenView
2 1 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) SCOM
2 1 (14.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) StorageTek
2 3 (42.86%) Sun
2 3 (42.86%) HP
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