The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Wales 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 Wales 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing SMS 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Wales - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Wales - 25.00% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £155 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £16.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
SMS
Wales

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Wales SMS Jobs Demand Trend

SMS
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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.

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM