SMS Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 451 459 449
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -10
Contract jobs citing SMS 62 100 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.149% 0.187% 0.217%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.015% 1.193% 1.656%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 51 67
Average daily rate £382 £326 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.20% -10.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £180 £206
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £290 £273
% change year-on-year
+42.24% +6.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 12
Average hourly rate £28.00 £13.13 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+113.33% -30.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.85 £10.73 £13.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £136.75 £16.65 £35.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £13.13 £19.25
% change year-on-year
+98.09% -31.81%
Search 36 SMS jobs in England
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMS
UK

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England SMS Daily Rate Trend

SMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SMS across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England SMS Daily Rate Histogram

SMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England SMS Hourly Rate Trend

SMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SMS across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England SMS Hourly Rate Histogram

SMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMS within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +20 25 £255 -34.61%
South East +13 21 £360 +35.84%
South West +29 6 £525 +17.97%
North West +1 3 £400 +52.38%
Yorkshire 0 2 £394 -
West Midlands - 2 £625 -
North East - 1 - -
SMS
UK

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 43 (34.13%) Windows
2 27 (21.43%) Banking
3 26 (20.63%) SCCM
4 25 (19.84%) Service Delivery
5 23 (18.25%) Finance
5 23 (18.25%) Active Directory
6 19 (15.08%) Project Management
6 19 (15.08%) Change Management
7 17 (13.49%) Marketing
8 14 (11.11%) Windows 7
9 13 (10.32%) Isilon
9 13 (10.32%) EMC
9 13 (10.32%) Java
9 13 (10.32%) SQL
10 12 (9.524%) Legal
11 11 (8.730%) Migration
11 11 (8.730%) Telecoms
11 11 (8.730%) Retail
11 11 (8.730%) JavaScript
11 11 (8.730%) .NET
11 11 (8.730%) Windows Server 2003
11 11 (8.730%) McAfee
12 9 (7.143%) Internet
12 9 (7.143%) HP
12 9 (7.143%) DNS
12 9 (7.143%) Windows XP
12 9 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (6.349%) SCOM
13 8 (6.349%) FTP
13 8 (6.349%) SQL Server

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 11 (8.730%) .NET
2 7 (5.556%) .NET Framework
2 7 (5.556%) Web Services
3 6 (4.762%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 6 (4.762%) SPNEGO
3 6 (4.762%) Middleware
3 6 (4.762%) CSS
3 6 (4.762%) HTML
4 5 (3.968%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.175%) HTML5
5 4 (3.175%) XML
6 3 (2.381%) Ajax
6 3 (2.381%) JSP
6 3 (2.381%) CSS3
7 2 (1.587%) SOAP
7 2 (1.587%) jQuery
7 2 (1.587%) JSON
8 1 (0.794%) JSF
8 1 (0.794%) Ruby on Rails
8 1 (0.794%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.175%) IIS
2 3 (2.381%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.587%) ESB
4 1 (0.794%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (0.794%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.794%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.794%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (0.794%) Apache
4 1 (0.794%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.794%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.794%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (0.794%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.794%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.968%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.381%) FastStats
3 1 (0.794%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.794%) InDesign
3 1 (0.794%) Adobe Captivate
Business Applications
1 1 (0.794%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.794%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (7.143%) Internet
1 9 (7.143%) DNS
2 8 (6.349%) FTP
3 6 (4.762%) Network Security
3 6 (4.762%) X.509
3 6 (4.762%) LDAP
3 6 (4.762%) Kerberos
4 5 (3.968%) DHCP
5 4 (3.175%) SAN
6 3 (2.381%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.587%) HTTP
7 2 (1.587%) Firewall
8 1 (0.794%) 2G
8 1 (0.794%) RNC
8 1 (0.794%) GGSN
8 1 (0.794%) SGSN
8 1 (0.794%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.794%) GSM
8 1 (0.794%) RFID
8 1 (0.794%) RTCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.349%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.968%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (2.381%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.794%) DB2
4 1 (0.794%) GIS
4 1 (0.794%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (3.968%) MSI
2 2 (1.587%) JUnit
2 2 (1.587%) Subversion
3 1 (0.794%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.794%) Maven
3 1 (0.794%) Selenium
3 1 (0.794%) Ant
3 1 (0.794%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.794%) PhoneGap
3 1 (0.794%) Capistrano
3 1 (0.794%) Mockito
3 1 (0.794%) EasyMock
General
1 27 (21.43%) Banking
2 23 (18.25%) Finance
3 17 (13.49%) Marketing
4 12 (9.524%) Legal
5 11 (8.730%) Telecoms
5 11 (8.730%) Retail
6 8 (6.349%) Billing
7 6 (4.762%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.381%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.587%) Law
10 1 (0.794%) Advertising
10 1 (0.794%) Electronics
10 1 (0.794%) Front Office
10 1 (0.794%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.794%) Interactive Media
10 1 (0.794%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.794%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.794%) Dutch Language
10 1 (0.794%) French Language
10 1 (0.794%) Turkish Language
Job Titles
1 27 (21.43%) Project Manager
2 16 (12.70%) Developer
3 14 (11.11%) Analyst
4 10 (7.937%) Storage Specialist
4 10 (7.937%) Senior Storage Specialist
5 4 (3.175%) SCCM Engineer
5 4 (3.175%) Support Engineer
5 4 (3.175%) Head of IT
6 3 (2.381%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (2.381%) Architect
6 3 (2.381%) Server Engineer
6 3 (2.381%) Software Analyst
6 3 (2.381%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.381%) Coordinator
6 3 (2.381%) Test Analyst
6 3 (2.381%) Consultant
6 3 (2.381%) Wintel Analyst
6 3 (2.381%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (1.587%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (1.587%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.556%) SWIFT
2 6 (4.762%) Hedge funds
3 4 (3.175%) iPad
4 3 (2.381%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.587%) Data Integration
5 2 (1.587%) Social Media
5 2 (1.587%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.587%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.587%) IVR
5 2 (1.587%) Clustering
6 1 (0.794%) Device Driver
6 1 (0.794%) Replication
6 1 (0.794%) Video Editing
6 1 (0.794%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.794%) Web 2.0
6 1 (0.794%) Copywriting
6 1 (0.794%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.794%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.794%) NHS
6 1 (0.794%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 43 (34.13%) Windows
2 14 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 11 (8.730%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (7.143%) Windows XP
4 9 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (5.556%) UNIX
5 7 (5.556%) HPUX
5 7 (5.556%) Solaris
6 6 (4.762%) Android
6 6 (4.762%) AIX
6 6 (4.762%) NetWare
7 4 (3.175%) Windows 2000
8 3 (2.381%) Windows 2000 Server
9 2 (1.587%) Windows 8
9 2 (1.587%) Linux
10 1 (0.794%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.794%) Windows CE
10 1 (0.794%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.84%) Service Delivery
2 19 (15.08%) Project Management
2 19 (15.08%) Change Management
3 11 (8.730%) Migration
4 7 (5.556%) CRM
5 6 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (4.762%) Identity Management
5 6 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (3.968%) Content Management
6 5 (3.968%) Programme Management
6 5 (3.968%) PRINCE2
6 5 (3.968%) Software Distribution
7 4 (3.175%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (3.175%) Analytics
7 4 (3.175%) Change Control
7 4 (3.175%) Service Management
7 4 (3.175%) ITIL
7 4 (3.175%) Supplier Management
7 4 (3.175%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (3.175%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (10.32%) Java
1 13 (10.32%) SQL
2 11 (8.730%) JavaScript
3 7 (5.556%) Perl
3 7 (5.556%) Shell Script
4 6 (4.762%) VB.NET
5 4 (3.175%) C#
6 3 (2.381%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.381%) VBScript
6 3 (2.381%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.587%) PHP
8 1 (0.794%) Ruby
8 1 (0.794%) VB
8 1 (0.794%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (3.968%) Security Cleared
2 4 (3.175%) Degree
3 2 (1.587%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.794%) HNC
4 1 (0.794%) HND
4 1 (0.794%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (0.794%) APMP
4 1 (0.794%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.794%) WAI
1 1 (0.794%) QA
1 1 (0.794%) SLA
1 1 (0.794%) JTAG
System Software
1 23 (18.25%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.175%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (1.587%) Xen
4 2 (1.587%) XenApp
5 1 (0.794%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.794%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (0.794%) MetaFrame
5 1 (0.794%) vSphere
5 1 (0.794%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (20.63%) SCCM
2 8 (6.349%) SCOM
3 7 (5.556%) Tivoli
4 6 (4.762%) Tivoli Identity Manager
5 5 (3.968%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 2 (1.587%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (1.587%) Business Desktop Deployment
7 1 (0.794%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.794%) WSUS
7 1 (0.794%) Nagios
7 1 (0.794%) Legato
7 1 (0.794%) MOM
7 1 (0.794%) HP SIM
7 1 (0.794%) Puppet
7 1 (0.794%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 13 (10.32%) Isilon
1 13 (10.32%) EMC
2 11 (8.730%) McAfee
3 9 (7.143%) HP
4 7 (5.556%) Citrix
5 6 (4.762%) IBM
5 6 (4.762%) VMware
6 4 (3.175%) Oracle
7 3 (2.381%) Altiris
7 3 (2.381%) LANDesk
7 3 (2.381%) Pega
8 2 (1.587%) Symantec
9 1 (0.794%) Telerik
9 1 (0.794%) AppSense
9 1 (0.794%) Huawei
9 1 (0.794%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.794%) Adobe
9 1 (0.794%) Sun
9 1 (0.794%) SAP
9 1 (0.794%) ESRI
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