Oxford SMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Oxford 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 SMS over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	0.000 %
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	£277	£310
% change on same period last year	-10.93 %
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	£22.74	£25.78
% change on same period last year	-11.79 %
Communications & Networking Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	63	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.083 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	14	9
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£345
Average daily rate	£328	£370
% change on same period last year	-11.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£344
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.13	£36.66
Average hourly rate	£24.84	£39.25
% change on same period last year	-36.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.55	£41.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.58	£28.53
% change on same period last year	-10.35 %
SMS Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford 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 Oxford region.

SMS
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 11 (100.00 %) Windows 2 10 (90.91 %) SharePoint 3 8 (72.73 %) Windows NT 3 8 (72.73 %) SQL Server 3 8 (72.73 %) ITIL 3 8 (72.73 %) LAN 3 8 (72.73 %) WAN 3 8 (72.73 %) TCP/IP 3 8 (72.73 %) SQL Server 2000 3 8 (72.73 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 8 (72.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (27.27 %) MCSA 5 2 (18.18 %) Linux 5 2 (18.18 %) MCSE

5 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 5 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 Platforms 1 10 (90.91 %) SharePoint 2 8 (72.73 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 8 (72.73 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 8 (72.73 %) LAN 1 8 (72.73 %) WAN 1 8 (72.73 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (72.73 %) SQL Server 1 8 (72.73 %) SQL Server 2000	Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Support Technician 1 8 (72.73 %) 2nd Line Support 2 2 (18.18 %) Applications Support Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Wintel Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Applications Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Analyst
Operating Systems 1 11 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Windows NT 3 2 (18.18 %) Linux 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (72.73 %) ITIL
Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) MCSA 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (18.18 %) MCSE	System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Cisco