The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMTP 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 Leeds 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
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 73 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Contract jobs citing SMTP 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.135% 0.230% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.575% 1.681% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £45.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-56.11% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
174 119 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 23.55% 13.69% 9.748%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 55 22
Average daily rate £275 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £235 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £350 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 12
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.75 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+147.27% -30.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.90 £11.00 £11.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £115.00 £30.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMTP
West Yorkshire

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds SMTP Jobs Demand Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds SMTP Daily Rate Trend

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing SMTP 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 SMTP.

1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Debian
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Syncsort
2 1 (50.00%) NAS

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing SMTP 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 SMTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) SSH
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) FTP
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Debian
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) XenServer
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Syncsort
2 1 (50.00%) F5