SMS Contracts in Southampton
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMS 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 Southampton 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
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SMS 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.678% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.348% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £288 £273
% change year-on-year
+21.73% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £12.75 £19.25
% change year-on-year
+103.92% -33.76%
All Communications & Networking
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category		 46 32 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 15.59% 13.97% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 6
Average daily rate £328 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.16% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £270 £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £360 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 15
Average hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +28.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.63 £28.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £37.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £26.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-21.15% -5.45%
SMS
Hampshire

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton SMS Jobs Demand Trend

SMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Southampton SMS Daily Rate Trend

SMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Southampton SMS Hourly Rate Trend

SMS
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) VB.NET Programmer
1 2 (66.67%) C# Programmer
2 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
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