The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank - 142 154
Permanent jobs citing SMS 0 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - 0.070% 0.033%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.385% 0.152%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 1
Average salary - £40,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
471 519 659
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 17.73% 18.29% 21.75%
Number of salaries quoted 369 434 571
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +9.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SMS
East of England

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire SMS Jobs Demand Trend

SMS
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SMS across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire SMS Salary Trend

SMS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SMS.

1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Statistics
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Psychology
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
1 2 (66.67%) Android
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) REST
1 2 (66.67%) Facebook
1 2 (66.67%) Twitter
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (33.33%) HP

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited SMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) SOAP
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
1 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) jQuery
1 2 (66.67%) OAuth
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (66.67%) Data Mining
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Help Desk Operator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 2 (66.67%) Statistics
1 2 (66.67%) Psychology
1 2 (66.67%) Data Extraction
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Web Development
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Facebook
1 2 (66.67%) Twitter
2 1 (33.33%) HP