England SMS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the England region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Coventry Crewe Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Keighley Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Surrey UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	534	450
Rank change on same period last year	-84
Matching permanent IT job ads	378	708
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.210 %	0.298 %
As % of the category below	1.269 %	1.894 %
Salaries quoted	325	541
Average minimum salary	£35,593	£37,505
Average salary	£38,515	£39,712
% change on same period last year	-3.01 %
Average maximum salary	£41,438	£41,919
UK excluding London average salary	£36,551	£39,131
% change on same period last year	-6.59 %
Communications & Networking England
Matching permanent IT job ads	29792	37391
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	16.54 %	15.75 %
Salaries quoted	25431	30176
Average minimum salary	£37,749	£39,063
Average salary	£40,649	£41,947
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Average maximum salary	£43,550	£44,831
UK excluding London average salary	£37,613	£39,408
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
SMS UK

SMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SMS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

SMS
Salary Trend

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

SMS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMS across the England region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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 England region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-32	179	£42,359	+5.65 %
South East	-47	77	£39,460	-4.69 %
South West	+4	35	£26,250	-25.25 %
Yorkshire	+24	34	£31,235	-6.21 %
North West	+3	17	£40,063	-19.73 %
East Midlands	+20	15	£38,350	+64.94 %
East of England	-28	13	£31,688	-12.33 %
West Midlands	-19	9	£32,500	-8.15 %
Midlands	-	2	£26,500	-

SMS UK

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the 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.

1 377 (38.83 %) Windows 2 280 (28.84 %) Active Directory 3 253 (26.06 %) SQL 4 245 (25.23 %) WAP 5 186 (19.16 %) Windows Server 2003 6 138 (14.21 %) Microsoft Certification 7 132 (13.59 %) Java 8 129 (13.29 %) Telecoms 9 120 (12.36 %) MS Exchange 10 109 (11.23 %) OO 11 108 (11.12 %) ITIL 11 108 (11.12 %) PHP 11 108 (11.12 %) MOM 12 104 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 103 (10.61 %) SQL Server

13 103 (10.61 %) MCSE 14 102 (10.50 %) IIS 15 100 (10.30 %) C++ 16 98 (10.09 %) JavaScript 17 93 (9.578 %) E-Commerce 17 93 (9.578 %) TCP/IP 18 91 (9.372 %) Finance 19 87 (8.960 %) XML 20 85 (8.754 %) .NET 21 83 (8.548 %) HTML 22 81 (8.342 %) Cisco 22 81 (8.342 %) Citrix 23 80 (8.239 %) Windows XP 23 80 (8.239 %) Linux 24 79 (8.136 %) VMware

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the 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 1 245 (25.23 %) WAP 2 87 (8.960 %) XML 3 85 (8.754 %) .NET 4 83 (8.548 %) HTML 5 75 (7.724 %) WML 6 62 (6.385 %) ASP 7 61 (6.282 %) Spring 8 60 (6.179 %) Hibernate 9 59 (6.076 %) XSLT 10 57 (5.870 %) J2EE 11 56 (5.767 %) SOAP 12 48 (4.943 %) XHTML 13 38 (3.913 %) Servlets 13 38 (3.913 %) ASP.NET 13 38 (3.913 %) CSS 14 30 (3.090 %) Application Packaging 15 23 (2.369 %) AJAX 16 22 (2.266 %) WebServices 17 17 (1.751 %) J2ME 17 17 (1.751 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 120 (12.36 %) MS Exchange 2 104 (10.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 102 (10.50 %) IIS 4 56 (5.767 %) Apache 5 37 (3.811 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 33 (3.399 %) SharePoint 7 21 (2.163 %) CMS 8 17 (1.751 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 16 (1.648 %) BizTalk Server 10 15 (1.545 %) Tomcat 11 14 (1.442 %) JBoss 11 14 (1.442 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 11 (1.133 %) Lotus Notes 13 7 (0.721 %) SAS 13 7 (0.721 %) Oracle Workflow 13 7 (0.721 %) Papyrus 14 6 (0.618 %) Lotus Domino 15 5 (0.515 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 15 5 (0.515 %) WorkSite 16 2 (0.206 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 8 (0.824 %) MS Visio 2 7 (0.721 %) DOC1 2 7 (0.721 %) PrintSoft PReS 3 5 (0.515 %) Photoshop 4 3 (0.309 %) SPSS 4 3 (0.309 %) AutoCAD 5 1 (0.103 %) MS Office 5 1 (0.103 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 22 (2.266 %) assyst 2 8 (0.824 %) SoftGrid 3 1 (0.103 %) AWD
Communications & Networking 1 93 (9.578 %) TCP/IP 2 76 (7.827 %) DNS 3 70 (7.209 %) Internet 3 70 (7.209 %) SAN 4 62 (6.385 %) DHCP 5 56 (5.767 %) GSM 6 39 (4.016 %) Firewall 7 35 (3.605 %) LAN 8 31 (3.193 %) VoIP 9 28 (2.884 %) WAN 10 27 (2.781 %) VPN 11 26 (2.678 %) GPRS 11 26 (2.678 %) SS7 12 25 (2.575 %) 3G 13 18 (1.854 %) Cisco PIX 14 15 (1.545 %) UMTS 14 15 (1.545 %) SMTP 15 13 (1.339 %) HTTP 15 13 (1.339 %) GGSN 15 13 (1.339 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 103 (10.61 %) SQL Server 2 53 (5.458 %) MySQL 3 47 (4.840 %) PostgreSQL 4 26 (2.678 %) SQL Server 2005 5 16 (1.648 %) SQL Server 2000 6 12 (1.236 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 11 (1.133 %) Oracle 9i 8 9 (0.927 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 7 (0.721 %) RDBMS 10 4 (0.412 %) Oracle 10g 11 2 (0.206 %) Oracle 8/8i 12 1 (0.103 %) DB2 12 1 (0.103 %) Informix 12 1 (0.103 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 31 (3.193 %) MSI 2 14 (1.442 %) Subversion 3 12 (1.236 %) InstallShield 3 12 (1.236 %) Eclipse 4 11 (1.133 %) JUnit 4 11 (1.133 %) Flash 5 10 (1.030 %) Ant 6 7 (0.721 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 7 (0.721 %) Oracle Forms 6 7 (0.721 %) TestDirector 6 7 (0.721 %) Rational Robot 7 5 (0.515 %) AdminStudio 8 3 (0.309 %) NUnit 9 2 (0.206 %) Zend Studio 10 1 (0.103 %) QuickTest Pro 10 1 (0.103 %) XMLSpy 10 1 (0.103 %) WinRunner	General 1 129 (13.29 %) Telecoms 2 91 (9.372 %) Finance 3 65 (6.694 %) Marketing 4 46 (4.737 %) Law 5 32 (3.296 %) Banking 6 31 (3.193 %) Pensions 7 29 (2.987 %) Multimedia 8 25 (2.575 %) Health 9 24 (2.472 %) Government 9 24 (2.472 %) Back Office 10 21 (2.163 %) Music 11 20 (2.060 %) Games 12 18 (1.854 %) Publishing 13 16 (1.648 %) Retail 14 15 (1.545 %) Legal 15 14 (1.442 %) Advertising 16 11 (1.133 %) Education 16 11 (1.133 %) Music Industry 17 10 (1.030 %) Billing 18 7 (0.721 %) Mobile Games
Job Titles 1 237 (24.41 %) Developer 2 206 (21.22 %) Analyst 3 71 (7.312 %) Support Engineer 4 55 (5.664 %) Support Analyst 5 51 (5.252 %) Java Developer 6 49 (5.046 %) Consultant 7 46 (4.737 %) Senior Analyst 8 44 (4.531 %) Administrator 9 42 (4.325 %) Webmaster 9 42 (4.325 %) PHP Developer 10 41 (4.222 %) Test Analyst 11 38 (3.913 %) Team Leader 12 35 (3.605 %) Web Developer 13 33 (3.399 %) Architect 13 33 (3.399 %) Senior Developer 13 33 (3.399 %) .NET Developer 13 33 (3.399 %) C# Developer 14 32 (3.296 %) Desktop Analyst 15 29 (2.987 %) Deployment Analyst 15 29 (2.987 %) Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 31 (3.193 %) Clustering 2 29 (2.987 %) IVR 3 25 (2.575 %) Blackberry 4 20 (2.060 %) W3C 5 18 (1.854 %) Computer Science 6 17 (1.751 %) Web 2.0 7 16 (1.648 %) Mainframe 8 15 (1.545 %) Handset 9 14 (1.442 %) PDA 10 13 (1.339 %) Management Information System 10 13 (1.339 %) Firmware 11 12 (1.236 %) Multithreading 11 12 (1.236 %) Device Driver 12 11 (1.133 %) CMDB 12 11 (1.133 %) Streaming Video 13 10 (1.030 %) IPTV 14 9 (0.927 %) IBM Mainframe 15 8 (0.824 %) Interactive TV 15 8 (0.824 %) iPhone 16 5 (0.515 %) Smartphone
Operating Systems 1 377 (38.83 %) Windows 2 186 (19.16 %) Windows Server 2003 3 80 (8.239 %) Linux 3 80 (8.239 %) Windows XP 4 77 (7.930 %) Windows 2000 5 75 (7.724 %) UNIX 6 38 (3.913 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 25 (2.575 %) Windows NT 8 24 (2.472 %) Windows Vista 9 17 (1.751 %) Windows Server 2008 10 14 (1.442 %) VMS 10 14 (1.442 %) Red Hat Linux 11 9 (0.927 %) Windows Mobile 12 8 (0.824 %) Android 13 7 (0.721 %) Solaris 14 5 (0.515 %) FreeBSD 15 4 (0.412 %) AIX 16 2 (0.206 %) zOS 17 1 (0.103 %) Windows CE 17 1 (0.103 %) OpenVMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 109 (11.23 %) OO 2 108 (11.12 %) ITIL 3 93 (9.578 %) E-Commerce 4 55 (5.664 %) Project Management 5 47 (4.840 %) Agile Software Development 6 37 (3.811 %) PRINCE2 7 35 (3.605 %) Service Delivery 8 34 (3.502 %) Web Development 9 33 (3.399 %) Service Management 10 32 (3.296 %) Security Cleared 11 29 (2.987 %) Content Management 12 28 (2.884 %) System Testing 13 24 (2.472 %) Web Design 14 22 (2.266 %) Configuration Management 15 20 (2.060 %) TDD 16 19 (1.957 %) Workflow 17 18 (1.854 %) Asset Management 17 18 (1.854 %) Internet Marketing 18 16 (1.648 %) Network Load Balancing 18 16 (1.648 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 253 (26.06 %) SQL 2 132 (13.59 %) Java 3 108 (11.12 %) PHP 4 100 (10.30 %) C++ 5 98 (10.09 %) JavaScript 6 69 (7.106 %) C# 7 46 (4.737 %) DHTML 8 31 (3.193 %) C 8 31 (3.193 %) VBScript 9 22 (2.266 %) VB.NET 10 20 (2.060 %) PHP5 11 18 (1.854 %) VB 11 18 (1.854 %) Perl 12 11 (1.133 %) Ruby 13 5 (0.515 %) PHP4 13 5 (0.515 %) PowerShell 13 5 (0.515 %) Shell Script 13 5 (0.515 %) JCL 14 4 (0.412 %) ActionScript 14 4 (0.412 %) REXX	Qualifications 1 138 (14.21 %) Microsoft Certification 2 103 (10.61 %) MCSE 3 60 (6.179 %) Degree 4 20 (2.060 %) MCSA 5 18 (1.854 %) MCP 5 18 (1.854 %) Citrix Certification 6 15 (1.545 %) Cisco Certification 7 14 (1.442 %) MCSD 8 13 (1.339 %) CCEA 8 13 (1.339 %) ISEB 9 11 (1.133 %) CCNA 9 11 (1.133 %) MCDST 10 8 (0.824 %) ITIL Certification 11 6 (0.618 %) CCA 12 5 (0.515 %) MBA 13 2 (0.206 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 13 2 (0.206 %) HND 14 1 (0.103 %) CCNP 14 1 (0.103 %) HP AIS 14 1 (0.103 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 39 (4.016 %) QA 2 10 (1.030 %) SLA 3 9 (0.927 %) COBIT 4 5 (0.515 %) ISO9001 5 3 (0.309 %) WAI 6 2 (0.206 %) TickIT 6 2 (0.206 %) JSP 440	System Software 1 280 (28.84 %) Active Directory 2 28 (2.884 %) Backup Exec 3 27 (2.781 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 26 (2.678 %) Terminal Services 5 21 (2.163 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 19 (1.957 %) ISA Server 7 6 (0.618 %) VMware ESX 7 6 (0.618 %) NetBackup 8 5 (0.515 %) MetaFrame 9 4 (0.412 %) Terminal Server 10 2 (0.206 %) Oracle RAC 10 2 (0.206 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 108 (11.12 %) MOM 2 36 (3.708 %) WSUS 3 28 (2.884 %) SCCM 4 24 (2.472 %) SCOM 5 19 (1.957 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 14 (1.442 %) MAILsweeper 7 6 (0.618 %) Unicenter 7 6 (0.618 %) Tivoli 8 5 (0.515 %) Nagios 9 4 (0.412 %) ZENworks 10 3 (0.309 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 3 (0.309 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 10 3 (0.309 %) Legato 10 3 (0.309 %) EMC NetWorker 10 3 (0.309 %) OpenView 11 2 (0.206 %) DameWare 11 2 (0.206 %) EMC TimeFinder 12 1 (0.103 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 81 (8.342 %) Cisco 1 81 (8.342 %) Citrix 2 79 (8.136 %) VMware 3 50 (5.149 %) Altiris 4 47 (4.840 %) Oracle 5 30 (3.090 %) Symbian 6 24 (2.472 %) EMC 7 23 (2.369 %) HP 8 21 (2.163 %) IBM 9 16 (1.648 %) Dell 10 14 (1.442 %) Red Hat 10 14 (1.442 %) LANDesk 11 13 (1.339 %) VERITAS 12 12 (1.236 %) Avaya 13 11 (1.133 %) Lotus 14 9 (0.927 %) Sophos 15 8 (0.824 %) Symantec 15 8 (0.824 %) WatchGuard 15 8 (0.824 %) Nortel 16 7 (0.721 %) Interwoven