Croydon SMS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Croydon 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 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Runcorn Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walton-on-Thames West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	18
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	47.06 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£310	£246
% change on same period last year	+25.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£38.50
Average hourly rate	-	£41.63
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£44.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.93	£22.14
% change on same period last year	+8.11 %
Communications & Networking Croydon
Matching contract IT job ads	16	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.019 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£390
Average daily rate	£413	£390
% change on same period last year	+5.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£463	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£337
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£26.76
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£29.33
% change on same period last year	+19.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£31.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.83	£28.22
% change on same period last year	-1.38 %
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 Croydon 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 Croydon 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 Croydon region.