The first table below looks at the demand for the Messaging Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Messaging Specialist in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire 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
Messaging Specialist
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Specialist 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £231 £475 -
% change year-on-year
-51.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
621 916 815
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.39% 93.76% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 397 345
Average daily rate £400 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.10% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 89 102
Average hourly rate £17.50 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.54% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.13 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Messaging Specialist
East of England

Messaging Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Messaging Specialist across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Messaging Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Messaging Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Messaging Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Messaging Specialist
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Messaging Specialist in their job title 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 with Messaging Specialist in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing

Messaging Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Messaging Specialist in their job title 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 with Messaging Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft