Midlands SMS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Midlands region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Deeside Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	67
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	4.848 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£650
Average daily rate	-	£750
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£850
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£254
% change on same period last year	+22.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£9.00
Average hourly rate	-	£11.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.90	£23.09
% change on same period last year	+12.19 %
Communications & Networking Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	67	165
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.177 %
Daily rates quoted	7	36
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£295
Average daily rate	£399	£309
% change on same period last year	+28.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£332
% change on same period last year	+4.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£16.32
Average hourly rate	£25.42	£18.23
% change on same period last year	+39.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.83	£20.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.93	£29.11
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
SMS England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SMS across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SMS
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SMS across the Midlands region.

SMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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