The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 159 - 162
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SMS 5 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.163% - 0.276%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.853% - 1.704%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 6
Average salary £42,500 - £40,500
90% offered a salary of more than £19,200 - £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 - £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
586 567 587
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 19.16% 16.63% 16.21%
Number of salaries quoted 517 512 515
Average salary £35,425 £32,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.00% -2.98%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SMS
England

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands SMS Salary Trend

SMS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMS across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East Midlands SMS Salary Histogram

SMS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMS within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Derbyshire - 2 £45,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 2 £36,000 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £22,500 -
SMS
England

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) OOP
2 1 (14.29%) OO
2 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) Broadband
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Vista
2 1 (14.29%) Citrix Presentation Server

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Broadband
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Support Technician
1 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (14.29%) Field Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Systems Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Applications Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Senior Systems Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
1 1 (14.29%) IT Director
1 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Technician
1 1 (14.29%) SOA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Vista
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) OOP
1 1 (14.29%) OO
1 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
1 1 (14.29%) SOA
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
1 1 (14.29%) Change Management
1 1 (14.29%) Migration
1 1 (14.29%) Scrum
1 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
1 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
1 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) MetaFrame
1 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) XenApp
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) VMware
1 1 (14.29%) Twitter