Staines SMS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Staines 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Coventry Cumbria Deeside Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Lothian East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Penrith Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Thames Ditton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales West Lothian West Midlands West Yorkshire Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	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	£278	£300
% change on same period last year	-7.35 %
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	£26.52	£26.28
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Communications & Networking Staines
Matching contract IT job ads	11	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£325
Average daily rate	£350	£328
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£342
% change on same period last year	+1.36 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.80	£11.00
Average hourly rate	£39.40	£11.00
% change on same period last year	+258.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.00	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£28.46
% change on same period last year	-9.70 %
SMS Surrey

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 Staines 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 Staines 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 Staines region.

SMS
Top 1 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 1 (100.00 %) Handset

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Test Engineer

Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Handset