North East SMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the North East 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	73
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.676 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£322
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.35	£24.21
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Communications & Networking North East
Matching contract IT job ads	90	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.150 %
Daily rates quoted	23	32
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£298
Average daily rate	£297	£300
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.18	£23.42
Average hourly rate	£24.43	£24.25
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.68	£25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
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 North East 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 North East 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 North East region.