The first table below looks at the demand for SMTP skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMTP over the 3 months to 18 June 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 South East 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 184 203 234
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +31
Contract jobs citing SMTP 41 39 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.507% 0.388% 0.190%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.676% 1.798% 1.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 15 8
Average daily rate £425 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £300 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £425 £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £356 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £12.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +256.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £45.00 £12.63
% change year-on-year
-56.11% +256.43%
All Communications & Networking
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1532 2169 1936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 18.96% 21.59% 18.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 619 667
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £180 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-3.03% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 184 258
Average hourly rate £25.50 £32.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.53% +30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £15.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £46.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year
- -1.96%
SMTP
England

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East SMTP Daily Rate Trend

SMTP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SMTP across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East SMTP Daily Rate Histogram

SMTP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East SMTP Hourly Rate Trend

SMTP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +20 18 £275 -18.51% 2
Surrey +19 14 £450 +9.09%
Kent 0 2 £475 +40.74% 2
Hampshire -7 2 - - 4
West Sussex - 2 - - 1
Middlesex - - - - 1
East Sussex - - - -
SMTP
England

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 31 (50.00%) Cisco
2 30 (48.39%) TCP/IP
2 30 (48.39%) Firewall
3 26 (41.94%) Internet
4 24 (38.71%) Juniper
4 24 (38.71%) SAN
5 23 (37.10%) HTTP
6 22 (35.48%) Solaris
6 22 (35.48%) NAS
7 19 (30.65%) Linux
7 19 (30.65%) DNS
8 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
8 18 (29.03%) Intrusion Detection
9 17 (27.42%) Network Load Balancing
9 17 (27.42%) WAN
9 17 (27.42%) McAfee
10 15 (24.19%) Radware
10 15 (24.19%) DHCP
10 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
10 15 (24.19%) Telecoms
11 14 (22.58%) VMware
11 14 (22.58%) SNMP
12 13 (20.97%) FTP
12 13 (20.97%) CRM
12 13 (20.97%) Finance
13 11 (17.74%) Clustering
13 11 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
13 11 (17.74%) Bash shell
13 11 (17.74%) Windows
13 11 (17.74%) Perl

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 6 (9.677%) JDBC
2 4 (6.452%) XML
3 3 (4.839%) XSL
3 3 (4.839%) JMS
3 3 (4.839%) SOAP
3 3 (4.839%) STL
3 3 (4.839%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (3.226%) JPA
4 2 (3.226%) Web Services
4 2 (3.226%) Hibernate
4 2 (3.226%) Windows SharePoint Services
5 1 (1.613%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.613%) J2EE
5 1 (1.613%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.677%) Apache
2 5 (8.065%) Tomcat
2 5 (8.065%) MS Exchange
3 4 (6.452%) Liferay
4 3 (4.839%) IIS
4 3 (4.839%) Lync
4 3 (4.839%) SharePoint
5 2 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.613%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (1.613%) WebLogic
6 1 (1.613%) Exchange Server 5.5
6 1 (1.613%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (1.613%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (9.677%) MS Office
2 1 (1.613%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 30 (48.39%) TCP/IP
1 30 (48.39%) Firewall
2 26 (41.94%) Internet
3 24 (38.71%) SAN
4 23 (37.10%) HTTP
5 22 (35.48%) NAS
6 19 (30.65%) DNS
7 18 (29.03%) Intrusion Detection
8 17 (27.42%) WAN
9 15 (24.19%) DHCP
10 14 (22.58%) SNMP
11 13 (20.97%) FTP
12 10 (16.13%) LAN
12 10 (16.13%) VPN
13 9 (14.52%) SSL
14 8 (12.90%) 3G
14 8 (12.90%) iSCSI
14 8 (12.90%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (12.90%) Radio Access Network
15 7 (11.29%) tcpdump
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.677%) MySQL
1 6 (9.677%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.452%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (4.839%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (4.839%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (3.226%) MarkLogic
4 2 (3.226%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.613%) DB2
5 1 (1.613%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 4 (6.452%) Git (software)
1 4 (6.452%) Hudson
1 4 (6.452%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.226%) Ant
2 2 (3.226%) Maven
General
1 15 (24.19%) Telecoms
2 13 (20.97%) Finance
3 7 (11.29%) Back Office
4 4 (6.452%) Banking
5 1 (1.613%) Retail
5 1 (1.613%) Billing
5 1 (1.613%) Law
5 1 (1.613%) Publishing
5 1 (1.613%) Military
Job Titles
1 20 (32.26%) Architect
2 14 (22.58%) Solutions Architect
3 10 (16.13%) Administrator
4 9 (14.52%) IP Engineer
5 5 (8.065%) Security Engineer
5 5 (8.065%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.065%) Consultant
5 5 (8.065%) Developer
5 5 (8.065%) Analyst
6 4 (6.452%) Linux Administrator
7 3 (4.839%) Technical Architect
8 2 (3.226%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.226%) Network Analyst
8 2 (3.226%) Security Consultant
8 2 (3.226%) Security Analyst
8 2 (3.226%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.226%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (1.613%) QA Engineer
9 1 (1.613%) Security Architect
9 1 (1.613%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.74%) Clustering
2 8 (12.90%) Cryptography
3 2 (3.226%) SecurID
3 2 (3.226%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.226%) IVR
3 2 (3.226%) Client/Server
3 2 (3.226%) Thin Client
3 2 (3.226%) Open Source
4 1 (1.613%) SaaS
4 1 (1.613%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.613%) CESG
4 1 (1.613%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.613%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.613%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (35.48%) Solaris
2 19 (30.65%) Linux
3 11 (17.74%) Windows
4 8 (12.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (11.29%) UNIX
6 5 (8.065%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.613%) Debian
7 1 (1.613%) OpenBSD
7 1 (1.613%) Fedora
7 1 (1.613%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.613%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.613%) AIX
7 1 (1.613%) FreeBSD
7 1 (1.613%) CentOS
7 1 (1.613%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (27.42%) Network Load Balancing
2 13 (20.97%) CRM
3 8 (12.90%) Fault Management
4 7 (11.29%) ITIL
5 6 (9.677%) Customer Engagement
6 5 (8.065%) Load Balancing
7 4 (6.452%) Memory Management
7 4 (6.452%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (6.452%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (4.839%) TOGAF
8 3 (4.839%) High Availability
9 2 (3.226%) Multithreading
9 2 (3.226%) Performance Management
9 2 (3.226%) Information Assurance
9 2 (3.226%) Lean Six Sigma
9 2 (3.226%) Problem Management
9 2 (3.226%) TDD
9 2 (3.226%) Service Delivery
9 2 (3.226%) E-Commerce
9 2 (3.226%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.74%) Perl
1 11 (17.74%) Bash shell
2 9 (14.52%) SQL
3 7 (11.29%) Java
4 4 (6.452%) C++
4 4 (6.452%) Shell Script
4 4 (6.452%) AWK
4 4 (6.452%) sed
5 2 (3.226%) C-shell
5 2 (3.226%) Korn
6 1 (1.613%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.613%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (29.03%) Security Cleared
2 15 (24.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.452%) CCNA
4 4 (6.452%) CCSP
4 4 (6.452%) MCTS
5 3 (4.839%) Degree
5 3 (4.839%) MCP
5 3 (4.839%) MCSE
5 3 (4.839%) ISEB
5 3 (4.839%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.226%) CCNP
6 2 (3.226%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.613%) CCIE
7 1 (1.613%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.613%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) SLA
2 1 (1.613%) QA
System Software
1 11 (17.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (9.677%) NFS
3 5 (8.065%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.065%) Hyper-V
3 5 (8.065%) Squid
4 4 (6.452%) Nmap
4 4 (6.452%) Postfix
4 4 (6.452%) ProxySG
5 3 (4.839%) XenApp
6 2 (3.226%) vSphere
6 2 (3.226%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.613%) Snort
Systems Management
1 6 (9.677%) OpenView
2 4 (6.452%) Nagios
2 4 (6.452%) Puppet
3 3 (4.839%) HP NNM
3 3 (4.839%) CiscoWorks
3 3 (4.839%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (3.226%) Cisco IPCC
4 2 (3.226%) SCOM
5 1 (1.613%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.613%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.613%) Netcool/Webtop
5 1 (1.613%) SCCM
5 1 (1.613%) Netcool
5 1 (1.613%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (1.613%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 31 (50.00%) Cisco
2 24 (38.71%) Juniper
3 17 (27.42%) McAfee
4 15 (24.19%) Radware
5 14 (22.58%) VMware
6 11 (17.74%) Citrix
6 11 (17.74%) Oracle
7 9 (14.52%) HP
8 8 (12.90%) Red Hat
9 7 (11.29%) CheckPoint
9 7 (11.29%) F5
10 6 (9.677%) Microsoft
11 5 (8.065%) Blue Coat
11 5 (8.065%) JBoss
12 4 (6.452%) Redback
12 4 (6.452%) EMC
12 4 (6.452%) SAP
12 4 (6.452%) NetApp
13 3 (4.839%) StorageTek
13 3 (4.839%) Sun
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Capita Resourcing are the Managed Service Provider for various Central Government Clients which require the highest level of UK Security Clearance... You will be expected to contribute towards...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £400 - £475 per annum + Market Rate
Posted: 7 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Ensuring that all assigned incidents and activities are resolved within given SLA timescales... Win Server 2003 / 2008. Windows Active Directory. Internet protocols HTTP, SMTP, DNS, DHCP... SCom. VSphere...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £350 - £450 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Senior contract QA Engineer required with extensive experience of automated testing in perl. Skills required: Test Analysis and design Expert perl knowledge, Strong Linux knowledge, Strong TCP/IP...
Intelligent Recruitment
Rate: From £350 to £420 per day Superb rate, contract to run for initial 6 m
Posted: 14 June 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Senior contract QA Engineer required with extensive experience of automated testing in perl. Skills required: Test Analysis and design Expert perl knowledge, Strong Linux knowledge, Strong TCP/IP...
Intelligent Recruitment
Rate: From £350 to £420 per day Superb rate, contract to run for initial 6 m
Posted: 12 June 2013
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