City of London SMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	213	186
Rank change on same period last year	-27
Matching contract IT job ads	10	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	1.036 %	1.526 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£330
Average daily rate	£293	£343
% change on same period last year	-14.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£317
% change on same period last year	-8.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£23.40
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£24.50
% change on same period last year	+22.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.55
% change on same period last year	-1.18 %
Communications & Networking City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	965	852
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.281 %	0.874 %
Daily rates quoted	460	349
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£402
Average daily rate	£400	£423
% change on same period last year	-5.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£334	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	67	67
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.54	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£29.09	£21.29
% change on same period last year	+36.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.64	£22.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.96	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
SMS London

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 City of London 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 City of London 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 City of London region.

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 28 (63.64 %) Windows 2 21 (47.73 %) Windows XP 3 17 (38.64 %) Active Directory 3 17 (38.64 %) Banking 4 16 (36.36 %) SCCM 5 11 (25.00 %) Finance 6 8 (18.18 %) Investment Banking 6 8 (18.18 %) ITIL 6 8 (18.18 %) VBScript 7 7 (15.91 %) VB 7 7 (15.91 %) SQL Server 7 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2000 7 7 (15.91 %) MCSE 7 7 (15.91 %) Microsoft Certification 7 7 (15.91 %) SQL Server 2000

7 7 (15.91 %) Financial Institution 8 6 (13.64 %) VB.NET 8 6 (13.64 %) .NET 8 6 (13.64 %) Windows Vista 9 5 (11.36 %) ZENworks 10 4 (9.091 %) MSI 10 4 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 10 4 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 4 (9.091 %) Citrix 10 4 (9.091 %) SharePoint 11 3 (6.818 %) Novell 11 3 (6.818 %) TCP/IP 11 3 (6.818 %) Migration 11 3 (6.818 %) VMware 11 3 (6.818 %) Asset Management

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 6 (13.64 %) .NET 2 3 (6.818 %) Software Packaging 3 2 (4.545 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (2.273 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 4 (9.091 %) SharePoint 1 4 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.273 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.818 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (4.545 %) Intranet 2 2 (4.545 %) Internet 3 1 (2.273 %) Firewall 3 1 (2.273 %) VoIP 3 1 (2.273 %) DHCP 3 1 (2.273 %) VPN 3 1 (2.273 %) DNS 3 1 (2.273 %) SSL 3 1 (2.273 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.91 %) SQL Server 1 7 (15.91 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (6.818 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.273 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 4 (9.091 %) MSI	General 1 17 (38.64 %) Banking 2 11 (25.00 %) Finance 3 8 (18.18 %) Investment Banking 4 7 (15.91 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (4.545 %) Telecoms 5 2 (4.545 %) Advertising 6 1 (2.273 %) Education 6 1 (2.273 %) Law
Job Titles 1 9 (20.45 %) Analyst 2 5 (11.36 %) Desktop Support 2 5 (11.36 %) Technical Engineer 3 4 (9.091 %) Applications Packager 3 4 (9.091 %) Release Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (6.818 %) Desktop Analyst 4 3 (6.818 %) Helpdesk Support 4 3 (6.818 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (4.545 %) Project Manager 6 1 (2.273 %) Test Manager 6 1 (2.273 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Senior Support Analyst 6 1 (2.273 %) Storage Specialist 6 1 (2.273 %) Deployment Engineer 6 1 (2.273 %) Server Specialist 6 1 (2.273 %) Online Project Manager 6 1 (2.273 %) Messaging Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.818 %) Blackberry 1 3 (6.818 %) Asset Management 2 1 (2.273 %) Mainframe 2 1 (2.273 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 28 (63.64 %) Windows 2 21 (47.73 %) Windows XP 3 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (13.64 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (4.545 %) Windows NT 6 1 (2.273 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (18.18 %) ITIL 2 4 (9.091 %) Service Delivery 3 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 3 3 (6.818 %) Migration 3 3 (6.818 %) Configuration Management 3 3 (6.818 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (2.273 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (2.273 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 8 (18.18 %) VBScript 2 7 (15.91 %) VB 3 6 (13.64 %) VB.NET 4 2 (4.545 %) C 5 1 (2.273 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (15.91 %) MCSE 1 7 (15.91 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.818 %) QA	System Software 1 17 (38.64 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.273 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (2.273 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (2.273 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 16 (36.36 %) SCCM 2 5 (11.36 %) ZENworks 3 2 (4.545 %) DameWare 3 2 (4.545 %) WSUS 4 1 (2.273 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 4 (9.091 %) Citrix 2 3 (6.818 %) Novell 2 3 (6.818 %) Remedy 2 3 (6.818 %) VMware 3 1 (2.273 %) Sophos 3 1 (2.273 %) VERITAS 3 1 (2.273 %) Lotus 3 1 (2.273 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (2.273 %) Symantec 3 1 (2.273 %) Juniper 3 1 (2.273 %) Cisco 3 1 (2.273 %) Dell 3 1 (2.273 %) Nortel