The first table below looks at the demand for SMPP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited SMPP 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 of the Communications & Networking category.

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
Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) Protocol
Rank 521 579 -
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -
Contract jobs citing SMPP 8 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.009% -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.118% 0.055% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6757 9144 7905
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.57% 15.68% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3304 4153 3577
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 606 804
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%

SMPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SMPP Jobs Demand Trend

SMPP
Daily Rate Trend

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

SMPP Daily Rate Trend

SMPP
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SMPP 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 SMPP.

1 11 (100.00%) C
1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) Solaris
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) HTTP
1 11 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 11 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
1 11 (100.00%) XMPP
1 11 (100.00%) Erlang

SMPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing SMPP 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 SMPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) XMPP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) HTTP
General
1 11 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 11 (100.00%) Development Engineer
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Solaris
1 11 (100.00%) Linux
1 11 (100.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C
1 11 (100.00%) Java
1 11 (100.00%) Erlang