SMS Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 22 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 Edinburgh 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 54 50 67
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +17
Contract jobs citing SMS 1 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.121% 0.725% 0.309%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.136% 5.797% 3.571%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Average daily rate £150 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.84% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £280 £265
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £13.13 £19.25
% change year-on-year
+98.09% -31.81%
All Communications & Networking
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 88 138 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 10.65% 12.50% 8.655%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 56 31
Average daily rate £356 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.78% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £243 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £424 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 11
Average hourly rate £9.20 £27.50 £15.58
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.54% +76.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.38 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-18.22% -7.72%
SMS
Scotland

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh SMS Jobs Demand Trend

SMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh SMS Daily Rate Trend

SMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh SMS Hourly Rate Trend

SMS
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (42.86%) Tivoli
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) MSI
3 1 (14.29%) PaintShop Pro
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (14.29%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) Intranet
3 1 (14.29%) Extranet
3 1 (14.29%) Social Media
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
3 1 (14.29%) Blog
3 1 (14.29%) LANDesk
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (42.86%) Application Packaging
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) PaintShop Pro
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Intranet
1 1 (14.29%) Extranet
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MSI
1 1 (14.29%) Dreamweaver
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Applications Packager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Web Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Social Media
1 1 (14.29%) Digital Media
1 1 (14.29%) Blog
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Tivoli
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Apple
2 1 (14.29%) LANDesk
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