Glasgow SMS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Glasgow 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 5 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 Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London 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 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	97
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	9.239 %	0.870 %
Salaries quoted	16	0
Average minimum salary	£42,313	-
Average salary	£48,250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£54,188	-
UK excluding London average salary	£36,419	£39,236
% change on same period last year	-7.17 %
Communications & Networking Glasgow
Matching permanent IT job ads	184	230
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.096 %
Salaries quoted	152	135
Average minimum salary	£36,408	£35,406
Average salary	£39,315	£37,129
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum salary	£42,222	£38,852
UK excluding London average salary	£37,602	£39,396
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
SMS Scotland

SMS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SMS across the Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

SMS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMS across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 20 (62.50 %) Windows 2 12 (37.50 %) Windows Vista 3 11 (34.38 %) C++ 4 8 (25.00 %) DNS 4 8 (25.00 %) Active Directory 4 8 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 4 8 (25.00 %) Business Desktop Deployment 4 8 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 8 (25.00 %) Finance 5 7 (21.88 %) Games 5 7 (21.88 %) Pensions 5 7 (21.88 %) BREW 5 7 (21.88 %) J2ME 5 7 (21.88 %) J2SE 5 7 (21.88 %) C

5 7 (21.88 %) J2EE 5 7 (21.88 %) WAP 6 6 (18.75 %) SQL 7 5 (15.63 %) C# 7 5 (15.63 %) .NET 7 5 (15.63 %) SLA 8 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 8 4 (12.50 %) VB 8 4 (12.50 %) Banking 8 4 (12.50 %) SCCM 8 4 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 4 (12.50 %) PowerShell 8 4 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2008 8 4 (12.50 %) Investment Banking 8 4 (12.50 %) VMware

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 7 (21.88 %) J2EE 1 7 (21.88 %) J2ME 1 7 (21.88 %) J2SE 1 7 (21.88 %) WAP 1 7 (21.88 %) BREW 2 5 (15.63 %) .NET 3 1 (3.125 %) HTML 3 1 (3.125 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (3.125 %) CSS 3 1 (3.125 %) AJAX 3 1 (3.125 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 8 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (9.375 %) IIS 3 1 (3.125 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Communications & Networking 1 8 (25.00 %) DNS 2 3 (9.375 %) LAN 2 3 (9.375 %) WAN 2 3 (9.375 %) DHCP 2 3 (9.375 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 8 (25.00 %) Finance 2 7 (21.88 %) Games 2 7 (21.88 %) Pensions 3 4 (12.50 %) Banking 3 4 (12.50 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 9 (28.13 %) Architect 2 8 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 8 (25.00 %) Infrastructure Analyst 2 8 (25.00 %) Senior Analyst 2 8 (25.00 %) Design Engineer 2 8 (25.00 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst 3 7 (21.88 %) Senior Infrastructure Support Analyst 3 7 (21.88 %) Senior Support Analyst 3 7 (21.88 %) Support Analyst 3 7 (21.88 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 4 1 (3.125 %) Senior Server Engineer 4 1 (3.125 %) Windows Server Engineer 4 1 (3.125 %) Senior Windows Server Engineer 4 1 (3.125 %) Senior Programmer 4 1 (3.125 %) .NET Programmer 4 1 (3.125 %) Senior .NET Programmer 4 1 (3.125 %) Web Programmer 4 1 (3.125 %) J2EE Developer 4 1 (3.125 %) Administrator 4 1 (3.125 %) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous 1 4 (12.50 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 20 (62.50 %) Windows 2 12 (37.50 %) Windows Vista 3 4 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.00 %) Business Desktop Deployment 2 1 (3.125 %) E-Commerce 2 1 (3.125 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 11 (34.38 %) C++ 2 7 (21.88 %) C 3 6 (18.75 %) SQL 4 5 (15.63 %) C# 5 4 (12.50 %) VB 5 4 (12.50 %) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (15.63 %) SLA	System Software 1 8 (25.00 %) Active Directory 2 4 (12.50 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 4 (12.50 %) SCCM 2 1 (3.125 %) SCOM 2 1 (3.125 %) Tivoli 2 1 (3.125 %) MOM 2 1 (3.125 %) Netcool 2 1 (3.125 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 4 (12.50 %) VMware 2 3 (9.375 %) Cisco 3 1 (3.125 %) IBM 3 1 (3.125 %) HP