SMS Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 21 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 West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 116 118 124
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing SMS 3 17 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.127% 0.539% 0.199%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.997% 2.993% 1.282%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 3
Average daily rate £400 £263 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £100 £127
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £354 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £284 £265
% change year-on-year
+23.34% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £34.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £12.75 £19.25
% change year-on-year
+103.92% -33.76%
All Communications & Networking
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 301 568 468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 12.75% 18.01% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 226 242
Average daily rate £313 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.34% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £175 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £462 £461 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £335 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.97% +3.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 44
Average hourly rate £22.50 £21.86 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.92% -39.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £30.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £25.75 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-16.50% -6.36%
SMS
England

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 West region.

North West SMS Daily Rate Trend

SMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SMS across the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West SMS Daily Rate Histogram

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 West region.

North West SMS Hourly Rate Trend

SMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMS within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cheshire -2 1 £525 +62.79%
Merseyside -2 1 £275 +4.76%
Lancashire - 1 - -
SMS
England

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Change Management
3 6 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 6 (42.86%) Java
3 6 (42.86%) X.509
3 6 (42.86%) Banking
3 6 (42.86%) Retail
3 6 (42.86%) UNIX
3 6 (42.86%) Network Security
3 6 (42.86%) AIX
3 6 (42.86%) HPUX
3 6 (42.86%) Solaris
3 6 (42.86%) LDAP
3 6 (42.86%) Perl
3 6 (42.86%) Kerberos
3 6 (42.86%) IBM
3 6 (42.86%) Tivoli
3 6 (42.86%) Tivoli Identity Manager
3 6 (42.86%) Shell Script
3 6 (42.86%) Middleware
3 6 (42.86%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
3 6 (42.86%) SPNEGO
4 4 (28.57%) iPad
4 4 (28.57%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
4 4 (28.57%) .NET
4 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 4 (28.57%) Photoshop
4 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 4 (28.57%) Android

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (42.86%) Middleware
1 6 (42.86%) Tivoli Directory Integrator
1 6 (42.86%) SPNEGO
2 4 (28.57%) .NET
2 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (7.143%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) X.509
1 6 (42.86%) Network Security
1 6 (42.86%) LDAP
1 6 (42.86%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 6 (42.86%) Banking
1 6 (42.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Developer
2 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) SCCM Administrator
2 1 (7.143%) Administrator
2 1 (7.143%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) iPad
2 1 (7.143%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) UNIX
2 6 (42.86%) AIX
2 6 (42.86%) HPUX
2 6 (42.86%) Solaris
3 4 (28.57%) Android
4 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
5 2 (14.29%) Windows 8
6 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Change Management
2 6 (42.86%) Identity Management
3 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) Perl
1 6 (42.86%) Shell Script
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
2 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Tivoli
1 6 (42.86%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 3 (21.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) IBM
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