North West SMTP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Location Aldershot Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Docklands, London East of England East Sussex England Essex Farnborough Gloucestershire Grays Greenwich Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Knutsford London Manchester Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Redditch Romford South East South West Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge West Midlands Worcester Worcestershire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	132	118
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	12	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.796 %	2.976 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£375
Average daily rate	£385	£375
% change on same period last year	+2.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£427	£341
% change on same period last year	+25.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.56	£23.40
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Communications & Networking North West
Matching contract IT job ads	668	504
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.881 %	0.535 %
Daily rates quoted	135	83
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£284
Average daily rate	£389	£299
% change on same period last year	+30.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£412	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	77	61
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.62	£21.73
Average hourly rate	£26.65	£23.28
% change on same period last year	+14.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.67	£24.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
SMTP 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SMTP across the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing SMTP within the North West region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	-16	7	£387	-
Manchester	-26	5	£383	-

SMTP England

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing SMTP 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 SMTP.

1 12 (92.31 %) SQL 1 12 (92.31 %) IIS 1 12 (92.31 %) COM+ 1 12 (92.31 %) DCOM 1 12 (92.31 %) LAN 1 12 (92.31 %) WAN 1 12 (92.31 %) POP3 1 12 (92.31 %) Windows 1 12 (92.31 %) Citrix 1 12 (92.31 %) SAN 2 11 (84.62 %) Windows Server 2003 2 11 (84.62 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (84.62 %) MCSE 2 11 (84.62 %) Active Directory 2 11 (84.62 %) VMware

3 7 (53.85 %) PRINCE2 4 5 (38.46 %) Finance 5 1 (7.692 %) Cisco IPT 5 1 (7.692 %) Banking 5 1 (7.692 %) VPN 5 1 (7.692 %) DNS 5 1 (7.692 %) Cisco 5 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft 5 1 (7.692 %) CheckPoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing SMTP 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 SMTP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 12 (92.31 %) COM+ 1 12 (92.31 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 12 (92.31 %) IIS
Communications & Networking 1 12 (92.31 %) LAN 1 12 (92.31 %) WAN 1 12 (92.31 %) POP3 1 12 (92.31 %) SAN 2 1 (7.692 %) Cisco IPT 2 1 (7.692 %) VPN 2 1 (7.692 %) DNS	General 1 5 (38.46 %) Finance 2 1 (7.692 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (76.92 %) Infrastructure Specialist 1 10 (76.92 %) Server Specialist 2 9 (69.23 %) Development Specialist 3 8 (61.54 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (7.692 %) Senior Infrastructure Specialist	Operating Systems 1 12 (92.31 %) Windows 2 11 (84.62 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (53.85 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 12 (92.31 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 11 (84.62 %) MCSE 1 11 (84.62 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 11 (84.62 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 12 (92.31 %) Citrix 2 11 (84.62 %) VMware 3 1 (7.692 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (7.692 %) Cisco 3 1 (7.692 %) Microsoft