The first table below looks at the demand for the Messaging Specialist role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Messaging Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Messaging Specialist
Rank 514 574 559
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Messaging Specialist 15 10 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.017% 0.041%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.019% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 17
Average daily rate £375 £425 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £319 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £231 £475 -
% change year-on-year
-51.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Messaging Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Messaging Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Messaging Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Messaging Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Messaging Specialist within the UK.

Messaging Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Messaging Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Messaging Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Messaging Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Messaging Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Messaging Specialist within the UK.

Messaging Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Messaging Specialist
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Messaging Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +51 15 £375 -11.76%
London +42 9 £400 -5.88%
City of London +14 3 £350 -17.64%
Yorkshire - 3 - -
West Yorkshire - 3 - -
Leeds - 3 - -
North West +15 2 £231 -13.64%
Cheshire - 2 £231 -
Knutsford - 2 £231 -
South East - 1 £425 -
Docklands, London - 1 £400 -
Berkshire - 1 £425 -
Reading - 1 £425 -

Messaging Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Messaging Specialist in their job title 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 with Messaging Specialist in their job title.

1 21 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 18 (75.00%) Blackberry
3 16 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 16 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (62.50%) Windows
5 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (54.17%) Migration
7 12 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (45.83%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (41.67%) Lync
10 9 (37.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 9 (37.50%) Symantec
11 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
11 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
12 5 (20.83%) Clustering
13 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
13 4 (16.67%) Websense
13 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
13 4 (16.67%) Banking
13 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking
13 4 (16.67%) MCSE
13 4 (16.67%) S/MIME
13 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
13 4 (16.67%) SCCM
13 4 (16.67%) SCOM
13 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
13 4 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
13 4 (16.67%) UAG

Messaging Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Messaging Specialist in their job title 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 with Messaging Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 21 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 16 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 16 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 10 (41.67%) Lync
5 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
6 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
7 3 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
7 3 (12.50%) IIS
8 1 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (4.167%) Lotus Notes
8 1 (4.167%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Office
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) S/MIME
2 3 (12.50%) NAS
2 3 (12.50%) SAN
2 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 3 (12.50%) LDAP
2 3 (12.50%) LAN
2 3 (12.50%) WAN
2 3 (12.50%) SMTP
3 2 (8.333%) DHCP
3 2 (8.333%) PBX
3 2 (8.333%) SSL
4 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.167%) POP3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (16.67%) Banking
1 4 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (8.333%) Retail Banking
2 2 (8.333%) Retail
2 2 (8.333%) Law
3 1 (4.167%) Legal
3 1 (4.167%) Advertising
3 1 (4.167%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 18 (75.00%) Blackberry
2 5 (20.83%) Clustering
3 1 (4.167%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 14 (58.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (45.83%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (12.50%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 8
5 1 (4.167%) Windows 7
5 1 (4.167%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Migration
2 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (16.67%) High Availability
2 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (8.333%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.333%) Test Scripting
4 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.167%) Business Transformation
4 1 (4.167%) Business Continuity
4 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.167%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) MCSE
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.167%) MCP
3 1 (4.167%) MCSD
3 1 (4.167%) MCITP
System Software
1 8 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) UAG
3 1 (4.167%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.167%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 4 (16.67%) SCOM
3 2 (8.333%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) Symantec
3 4 (16.67%) Websense
4 3 (12.50%) F5
4 3 (12.50%) Cisco
5 2 (8.333%) IronPort
5 2 (8.333%) Veritas
5 2 (8.333%) Remedy
6 1 (4.167%) Lotus
6 1 (4.167%) Apple
6 1 (4.167%) IBM
6 1 (4.167%) Dell
6 1 (4.167%) VMware
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