The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East 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 North East 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 33 - 43
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SMS 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 0.357% - 0.458%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.326% - 3.636%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £170
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
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
43 113 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 15.36% 22.87% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 53 23
Average daily rate £300 £350 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +8.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £226 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £450 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 6
Average hourly rate £10.63 £19.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.07% -9.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £13.50 £14.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.33 £27.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMS
England

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region.

North East SMS Hourly Rate Trend

SMS
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 (25.00%) CSS
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
2 3 (75.00%) Software Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows XP
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Citrix