SMTP Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 321 341 416
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +75
Contract jobs citing SMTP 56 74 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.259% 0.275% 0.084%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.989% 2.004% 0.769%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 51 13
Average daily rate £375 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
Average hourly rate £21.34 £26.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.49% -33.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £45.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
-56.11% +25.00%
All Communications & Networking
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 2816 3693 3382
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 13.00% 13.71% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1707 2249 1938
Average daily rate £400 £388 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 145 221
Average hourly rate £21.34 £22.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.17% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.27 £14.90 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMTP
England

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London SMTP Daily Rate Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London SMTP Daily Rate Histogram

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London SMTP Hourly Rate Trend

SMTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the London 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
City of London +32 25 £325 -18.75%
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £375 -
Wembley - 1 £375 -
SMTP
England

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 71 (63.96%) Windows
2 61 (54.95%) MS Exchange
3 59 (53.15%) Active Directory
4 57 (51.35%) Windows Server 2008
5 49 (44.14%) Microsoft
6 47 (42.34%) DNS
7 41 (36.94%) Exchange Server 2010
8 39 (35.14%) TCP/IP
8 39 (35.14%) VMware
9 37 (33.33%) Blackberry
10 36 (32.43%) LDAP
11 33 (29.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 33 (29.73%) Symantec
12 31 (27.93%) SSL
12 31 (27.93%) Windows Server 2003
12 31 (27.93%) PowerShell
13 30 (27.03%) SAN
13 30 (27.03%) Linux
13 30 (27.03%) Migration
14 27 (24.32%) HTTP
15 25 (22.52%) DHCP
15 25 (22.52%) Exchange Server 2003
16 24 (21.62%) POP3
17 23 (20.72%) VMware Infrastructure
17 23 (20.72%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
18 22 (19.82%) SQL
19 21 (18.92%) Red Hat
19 21 (18.92%) Banking
20 19 (17.12%) SCOM
20 19 (17.12%) Internet

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 9 (8.108%) HTML
2 8 (7.207%) Web Services
3 7 (6.306%) LAMP
4 6 (5.405%) XML
5 5 (4.505%) Ajax
6 4 (3.604%) Middleware
6 4 (3.604%) ASP
6 4 (3.604%) CSS
7 3 (2.703%) SOAP
7 3 (2.703%) OLE
7 3 (2.703%) WebSphere
8 2 (1.802%) JDBC
8 2 (1.802%) .NET
9 1 (0.901%) J2EE
9 1 (0.901%) COM
9 1 (0.901%) XSL
9 1 (0.901%) XSLT
9 1 (0.901%) JMS
9 1 (0.901%) WSDL
9 1 (0.901%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 61 (54.95%) MS Exchange
2 41 (36.94%) Exchange Server 2010
3 33 (29.73%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 25 (22.52%) Exchange Server 2003
5 19 (17.12%) Apache
6 18 (16.22%) Lotus Notes
7 15 (13.51%) IIS
7 15 (13.51%) Lotus Domino
8 13 (11.71%) Exchange Server 2007
9 12 (10.81%) Lync
10 11 (9.910%) Tomcat
11 10 (9.009%) SharePoint
11 10 (9.009%) Exchange Server 2013
12 8 (7.207%) Office Communications Server
13 4 (3.604%) Liferay
14 3 (2.703%) Amazon AWS
15 2 (1.802%) WebSphere Application Server
15 2 (1.802%) WebLogic
16 1 (0.901%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
16 1 (0.901%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (9.009%) MS Excel
1 10 (9.009%) MS Office
2 2 (1.802%) Office 365
3 1 (0.901%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 47 (42.34%) DNS
2 39 (35.14%) TCP/IP
3 36 (32.43%) LDAP
4 31 (27.93%) SSL
5 30 (27.03%) SAN
6 27 (24.32%) HTTP
7 25 (22.52%) DHCP
8 24 (21.62%) POP3
9 19 (17.12%) Internet
10 15 (13.51%) SNMP
11 13 (11.71%) HTTPS
12 12 (10.81%) LAN
13 10 (9.009%) WAN
13 10 (9.009%) iSCSI
14 9 (8.108%) NAS
14 9 (8.108%) FTP
14 9 (8.108%) Kerberos
14 9 (8.108%) VLAN
15 8 (7.207%) Firewall
16 7 (6.306%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.22%) MySQL
2 8 (7.207%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.604%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.703%) Big Data
4 3 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.703%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (1.802%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.802%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (1.802%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (6.306%) Git (software)
1 7 (6.306%) Hudson
1 7 (6.306%) Jenkins
2 3 (2.703%) Subversion
3 1 (0.901%) JIRA
3 1 (0.901%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 21 (18.92%) Banking
2 9 (8.108%) Finance
3 8 (7.207%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.306%) Law
5 3 (2.703%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.802%) Legal
6 2 (1.802%) Advertising
7 1 (0.901%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 19 (17.12%) Consultant
2 18 (16.22%) Administrator
3 15 (13.51%) Analyst
4 11 (9.910%) Systems Engineer
4 11 (9.910%) Messaging Consultant
5 10 (9.009%) Exchange Administrator
5 10 (9.009%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (7.207%) Exchange Consultant
7 6 (5.405%) Exchange Engineer
7 6 (5.405%) Linux Engineer
7 6 (5.405%) Linux Administrator
7 6 (5.405%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (4.505%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (4.505%) Test Analyst
8 5 (4.505%) Architect
8 5 (4.505%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (4.505%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (4.505%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.505%) Messaging Engineer
9 4 (3.604%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 37 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 13 (11.71%) Clustering
3 11 (9.910%) Open Source
4 10 (9.009%) EqualLogic
5 6 (5.405%) iPhone
6 5 (4.505%) PKI
7 4 (3.604%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.703%) Social Media
8 3 (2.703%) N-Tier
8 3 (2.703%) Cryptography
8 3 (2.703%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (2.703%) Psychology
9 2 (1.802%) Statistics
9 2 (1.802%) Replication
10 1 (0.901%) DataPower
10 1 (0.901%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.901%) Visualisation
10 1 (0.901%) SaaS
10 1 (0.901%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 71 (63.96%) Windows
2 57 (51.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 31 (27.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 30 (27.03%) Linux
5 13 (11.71%) Windows XP
6 10 (9.009%) Windows 8
6 10 (9.009%) Windows Server 2012
7 8 (7.207%) Ubuntu
7 8 (7.207%) Windows Mobile
7 8 (7.207%) UNIX
8 7 (6.306%) Debian
9 6 (5.405%) Gentoo
9 6 (5.405%) FreeBSD
9 6 (5.405%) CentOS
9 6 (5.405%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (4.505%) Windows 7
10 5 (4.505%) Solaris
10 5 (4.505%) SUSE
11 3 (2.703%) AIX
11 3 (2.703%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.03%) Migration
2 13 (11.71%) Project Management
3 12 (10.81%) Business Continuity
4 11 (9.910%) ITIL
5 8 (7.207%) Network Load Balancing
5 8 (7.207%) Configuration Management
6 7 (6.306%) Incident Management
7 6 (5.405%) Information Security
8 5 (4.505%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (3.604%) Computer Forensics
9 4 (3.604%) Data Analysis
9 4 (3.604%) Change Management
9 4 (3.604%) E-Discovery
10 3 (2.703%) Functional Testing
10 3 (2.703%) Non-Functional Testing
10 3 (2.703%) Analytics
10 3 (2.703%) Data Protection
10 3 (2.703%) Performance Management
10 3 (2.703%) Digital Forensics
10 3 (2.703%) Memory Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (27.93%) PowerShell
2 22 (19.82%) SQL
3 12 (10.81%) Perl
4 11 (9.910%) C
5 10 (9.009%) Python
6 9 (8.108%) Bash shell
7 8 (7.207%) JavaScript
7 8 (7.207%) Shell Script
8 6 (5.405%) Java
9 4 (3.604%) VB
10 2 (1.802%) AWK
10 2 (1.802%) C++
10 2 (1.802%) PHP
10 2 (1.802%) sed
11 1 (0.901%) C#
11 1 (0.901%) VBScript
11 1 (0.901%) Ruby
11 1 (0.901%) XPath
Qualifications
1 12 (10.81%) Security Cleared
2 10 (9.009%) MCSE
2 10 (9.009%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.306%) Degree
4 6 (5.405%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (5.405%) RHCE
5 4 (3.604%) MCITP
5 4 (3.604%) CISSP
5 4 (3.604%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.703%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.703%) ISEB
7 1 (0.901%) CCNA
7 1 (0.901%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.901%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.009%) QA
2 9 (8.108%) ISO 9001
3 5 (4.505%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (53.15%) Active Directory
2 23 (20.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (10.81%) VMware ESX
3 12 (10.81%) NFS
4 11 (9.910%) Hyper-V
4 11 (9.910%) Postfix
5 9 (8.108%) vSphere
6 6 (5.405%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (3.604%) Squid
8 3 (2.703%) XenServer
8 3 (2.703%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.901%) XenApp
9 1 (0.901%) Sendmail
9 1 (0.901%) qmail
9 1 (0.901%) NDS
9 1 (0.901%) Samba
9 1 (0.901%) Nmap
9 1 (0.901%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 19 (17.12%) SCOM
3 13 (11.71%) MAILsweeper
4 12 (10.81%) Nagios
5 10 (9.009%) Norton AntiVirus
5 10 (9.009%) Tivoli
6 9 (8.108%) Puppet
6 9 (8.108%) SCVMM
6 9 (8.108%) WSUS
7 8 (7.207%) Backup Exec
8 7 (6.306%) Cacti
9 2 (1.802%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (1.802%) MOM
10 1 (0.901%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.901%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (44.14%) Microsoft
2 39 (35.14%) VMware
3 33 (29.73%) Symantec
4 21 (18.92%) Red Hat
5 18 (16.22%) Lotus
6 14 (12.61%) HP
7 12 (10.81%) Oracle
8 9 (8.108%) Broadcom
8 9 (8.108%) Dell
8 9 (8.108%) Citrix
9 8 (7.207%) Clearswift
9 8 (7.207%) EMC
9 8 (7.207%) McAfee
10 7 (6.306%) Apple
11 6 (5.405%) Postini
11 6 (5.405%) RightFax
12 5 (4.505%) SAP
12 5 (4.505%) Cisco
12 5 (4.505%) Open Text
13 4 (3.604%) Juniper
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