Reading SMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	70	65
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	2	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	1.042 %	4.103 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£327
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£322
% change on same period last year	-10.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£23.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£24.00
% change on same period last year	+25.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.35	£24.21
% change on same period last year	+4.72 %
Communications & Networking Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	192	195
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.256 %	0.197 %
Daily rates quoted	40	68
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£318
Average daily rate	£380	£345
% change on same period last year	+10.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.96	£28.09
Average hourly rate	£21.54	£29.93
% change on same period last year	-28.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.13	£31.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.58
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
SMS Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading 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 Reading region.

SMS
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (85.71 %) Active Directory 2 5 (71.43 %) Cisco Certification 2 5 (71.43 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (71.43 %) MCSE 2 5 (71.43 %) CCNA 2 5 (71.43 %) Project Management 2 5 (71.43 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows 4 1 (14.29 %) Altiris 4 1 (14.29 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL 4 1 (14.29 %) VBScript 4 1 (14.29 %) OpenView Configuration Management

4 1 (14.29 %) MSI 4 1 (14.29 %) InstallShield

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (14.29 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 5 (71.43 %) Exchange Server 2003
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MSI 1 1 (14.29 %) InstallShield	Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Systems Administrator 1 4 (57.14 %) Administrator 2 2 (28.57 %) Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Support Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Applications Packager 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Applications Support 3 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Applications Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Senior Systems Administrator
Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) Project Management 2 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (14.29 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL 1 1 (14.29 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 5 (71.43 %) MCSE 1 5 (71.43 %) CCNA 1 5 (71.43 %) Cisco Certification 1 5 (71.43 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 6 (85.71 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 1 (14.29 %) Altiris