The first table below looks at the demand for SMPP skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMPP over the 3 months to 22 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) Protocol
Rank 599 642 629
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -13
Permanent jobs citing SMPP 2 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.005% 0.013% 0.002%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.025% 0.078% 0.013%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 1
Average salary - £45,000 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 - £31,500
All Communications & Networking
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
8004 9031 7842
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 18.19% 16.58% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 6569 7655 6620
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SMPP
England

SMPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London SMPP Jobs Demand Trend

SMPP
Salary Trend

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

London SMPP Salary Trend

SMPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SMPP 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 SMPP.

1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
1 5 (71.43%) SMS
2 4 (57.14%) Handset
2 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (57.14%) MySQL
2 4 (57.14%) CSS
2 4 (57.14%) Marketing
2 4 (57.14%) Symfony
2 4 (57.14%) PHP5
2 4 (57.14%) RESTful
2 4 (57.14%) Software Architecture
2 4 (57.14%) HTML5
2 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
2 4 (57.14%) Facebook
2 4 (57.14%) Mobile Marketing
3 3 (42.86%) HTTP
4 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
4 2 (28.57%) 2G
4 2 (28.57%) VoIP
4 2 (28.57%) 3G
4 2 (28.57%) Megaco
4 2 (28.57%) TCAP
4 2 (28.57%) SCCP
4 2 (28.57%) INAP
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) SLA
4 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) LDAP
4 2 (28.57%) SOAP

SMPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing SMPP 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 SMPP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) CSS
1 4 (57.14%) Symfony
1 4 (57.14%) RESTful
1 4 (57.14%) HTML5
2 2 (28.57%) SOAP
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) XHTML
3 1 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
3 1 (14.29%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) WAP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SMS
2 3 (42.86%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) 2G
3 2 (28.57%) VoIP
3 2 (28.57%) 3G
3 2 (28.57%) Megaco
3 2 (28.57%) TCAP
3 2 (28.57%) SCCP
3 2 (28.57%) INAP
3 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 2 (28.57%) LDAP
3 2 (28.57%) M3UA
3 2 (28.57%) GSM
3 2 (28.57%) 4G
3 2 (28.57%) XCAP
3 2 (28.57%) MGW
3 2 (28.57%) SCTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) MySQL
1 4 (57.14%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (57.14%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 1 (14.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Developer
2 4 (57.14%) Project Leader
2 4 (57.14%) Java Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Java Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Handset
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Solaris
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (57.14%) Software Architecture
1 4 (57.14%) Mobile Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) PHP
2 4 (57.14%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Facebook
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat