The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 20 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 of England region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 261 261 247
Rank change year-on-year
0 -14
Permanent jobs citing SMS 4 17 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.049% 0.195% 0.214%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.226% 1.050% 1.090%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 12
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1767 1619 1835
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 21.55% 18.54% 19.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1422 1291 1482
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England SMS Salary Trend

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 of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire -4 3 £38,500 +10.00%
Cambridgeshire +11 1 - -
SMS
England

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 6 (37.50%) Marketing
2 5 (31.25%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 5 (31.25%) Web Services
3 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) HTML
4 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
4 3 (18.75%) Business Objects
4 3 (18.75%) XML
4 3 (18.75%) Windows
4 3 (18.75%) Quality Management
4 3 (18.75%) GAP Analysis
4 3 (18.75%) RFID
4 3 (18.75%) SAS
4 3 (18.75%) Chordiant
4 3 (18.75%) Cisco
4 3 (18.75%) HP
4 3 (18.75%) Genesys
4 3 (18.75%) CA
4 3 (18.75%) Tivoli
4 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) SCCM
4 3 (18.75%) WFM
4 3 (18.75%) Unica
4 3 (18.75%) Direct Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) CMDB
4 3 (18.75%) Database Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
4 3 (18.75%) Alterian

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 5 (31.25%) Web Services
2 4 (25.00%) HTML
3 3 (18.75%) XML
4 2 (12.50%) jQuery
4 2 (12.50%) OAuth
4 2 (12.50%) REST
4 2 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (6.250%) .NET
5 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) Data Mining
General
1 6 (37.50%) Marketing
2 1 (6.250%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Consultant
2 6 (37.50%) Senior Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Marketing Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Database Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Database Marketing Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Genesys Consultant
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Genesys Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Designer
4 2 (12.50%) Java Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Software Consultant
4 2 (12.50%) Training Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Operator
5 1 (6.250%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Marketing Executive
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) CMDB
2 2 (12.50%) Data Extraction
2 2 (12.50%) Mobile App
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 2 (12.50%) E-Learning
2 2 (12.50%) Statistics
2 2 (12.50%) Psychology
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
1 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Quality Management
1 3 (18.75%) GAP Analysis
1 3 (18.75%) Asset Management
1 3 (18.75%) WFM
1 3 (18.75%) Direct Marketing
1 3 (18.75%) Database Marketing
2 2 (12.50%) Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Software Distribution
2 2 (12.50%) Web Development
2 2 (12.50%) Workflow
2 2 (12.50%) ITIL
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
2 2 (12.50%) Service Management
3 1 (6.250%) CRM
3 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.250%) Release Management
3 1 (6.250%) Time Management
3 1 (6.250%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Java
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (25.00%) C#
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) VMware ESX
1 3 (18.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Tivoli
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) HP
1 3 (18.75%) Genesys
1 3 (18.75%) CA
1 3 (18.75%) VMware
1 3 (18.75%) Epiphany
1 3 (18.75%) Alterian
1 3 (18.75%) Altiris
1 3 (18.75%) Business Objects
1 3 (18.75%) Chordiant
1 3 (18.75%) Cisco
1 3 (18.75%) Unica
1 3 (18.75%) Verint
2 2 (12.50%) Facebook
2 2 (12.50%) Twitter
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (6.250%) FrontRange
Hertfordshire, South East
Have an understanding of device relationships, virtualisation and usage of licences along with IIS, web services and SMTP integration experience and SQL query building and core integration/ data...
Salary: £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013