The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 17 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 Nottinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing SMTP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire - - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £275 £300
% change year-on-year
+54.54% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
-56.66% +20.00%
All Communications & Networking
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
65 28 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 19.70% 9.859% 20.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 14
Average daily rate £345 £238 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.26% -9.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £165 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £396 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +46.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.85 £30.00 £13.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SMTP
East Midlands

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire SMTP Jobs Demand Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire SMTP Daily Rate Trend

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire SMTP Hourly Rate Trend

SMTP
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) BIG-IP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (80.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) FWSM
3 3 (60.00%) CCNP
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
4 2 (40.00%) PBX
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) NetScreen
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (20.00%) CCNA

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) HTTP
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Internet
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) BIG-IP
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco PIX
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (60.00%) FWSM
4 2 (40.00%) PBX
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) WAN
5 1 (20.00%) NetScreen
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security
5 1 (20.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNP
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) Juniper
4 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint