Cambridge SMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Cumbria Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Lothian East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Thames Ditton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	56
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.655 %	1.622 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£314
% change on same period last year	-12.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.28	£27.87
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Communications & Networking Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	113	185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.151 %	0.185 %
Daily rates quoted	13	15
Average minimum daily rate	£207	£290
Average daily rate	£232	£298
% change on same period last year	-22.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£256	£306
UK excluding London average daily rate	£343	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.16	£31.23
Average hourly rate	£27.51	£33.82
% change on same period last year	-18.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.86	£36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.76
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
SMS Cambridgeshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SMS across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SMS across the Cambridge region.

SMS
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SMS across the Cambridge region.

SMS
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing SMS 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 SMS.

1 5 (62.50 %) IVR 2 4 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 4 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 3 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (12.50 %) C# 4 1 (12.50 %) HTML 4 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (12.50 %) IIS 4 1 (12.50 %) Change Management

4 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 4 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (12.50 %) CMS 4 1 (12.50 %) WinForms 4 1 (12.50 %) Banking 4 1 (12.50 %) Critical Path Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Planning

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing SMS 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 SMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) HTML 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET 1 1 (12.50 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) IIS 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (12.50 %) CMS 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 4 (50.00 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 4 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Systems Integrator 2 3 (37.50 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) C# Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Systems Administrator 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Lead 3 1 (12.50 %) WinForms Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) UNIX 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Critical Path Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C# 1 1 (12.50 %) JavaScript 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL
System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Citrix