West Yorkshire SMS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the West Yorkshire 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Reading Redcar Rotherham Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Ditton Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	90	89
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	2	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.962 %	1.812 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£319
% change on same period last year	-9.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-31.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£25.20
% change on same period last year	+0.19 %
Communications & Networking West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	208	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.277 %	0.280 %
Daily rates quoted	50	47
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£327
Average daily rate	£297	£333
% change on same period last year	-11.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£311	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£344
% change on same period last year	-3.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.31	£26.69
Average hourly rate	£24.57	£28.29
% change on same period last year	-13.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.84	£29.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.81	£28.60
% change on same period last year	-9.75 %
SMS Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

SMS
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SMS within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	-5	1	-	-

SMS Yorkshire

SMS
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) IBM 2 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) PMP 2 1 (33.33 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 1 (33.33 %) Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Office

2 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Server Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Analyst	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) PMP 1 1 (33.33 %) PMI Certification
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) IBM 1 1 (33.33 %) Dell 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 1 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware