The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 75 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SMS 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.107% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.493% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £290 £273
% change year-on-year
+42.24% +6.42%
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
67 67 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 7.181% 8.513% 4.755%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 19 10
Average daily rate £360 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £235 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £440 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 2
Average hourly rate £14.50 £26.00 £97.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.23% -73.19%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMS
Scotland

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow SMS Hourly Rate Trend

SMS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) JDBC
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring MVC
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Technician
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle