The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank - 176 165
Permanent jobs citing SMS 0 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.027% 0.103%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.167% 0.749%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
Average salary - £34,000 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -0.72%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
587 599 534
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 14.30% 16.25% 13.74%
Number of salaries quoted 491 532 465
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,700 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SMS
North West

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester SMS Salary Trend

SMS
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) TIBCO
1 2 (100.00%) IMAP
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) SMTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) IMAP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Technical Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat