Merseyside SMS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Merseyside 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Cirencester City of London Coventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England England Essex Folkestone Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Hampshire Havant High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Sleaford Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Surrey UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	69	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	3.960 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	4	0
Average minimum salary	£42,250	-
Average salary	£48,625	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£55,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,763	£38,943
% change on same period last year	-3.03 %
Communications & Networking Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	101	160
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.069 %
Salaries quoted	97	115
Average minimum salary	£36,650	£32,011
Average salary	£38,235	£34,612
% change on same period last year	+10.46 %
Average maximum salary	£39,820	£37,214
UK excluding London average salary	£37,898	£38,996
% change on same period last year	-2.81 %
SMS North West

SMS
Demand Trend

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

SMS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMS across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 7 October 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Liverpool	-	3	£41,500	-
Prescot	-	1	£70,000	-

SMS North West

SMS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 8 (72.73 %) VoIP 1 8 (72.73 %) Cisco 1 8 (72.73 %) Nortel 1 8 (72.73 %) Avaya 1 8 (72.73 %) CTI 1 8 (72.73 %) IVR 2 5 (45.45 %) Degree 3 2 (18.18 %) Content Management 3 2 (18.18 %) .NET 3 2 (18.18 %) ASP 3 2 (18.18 %) CSS 3 2 (18.18 %) XHTML 4 1 (9.091 %) SOA 4 1 (9.091 %) GPRS 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle

4 1 (9.091 %) B2C 4 1 (9.091 %) Internet 4 1 (9.091 %) Six Sigma 4 1 (9.091 %) Mobile Commerce 4 1 (9.091 %) Retail 4 1 (9.091 %) Logistics 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Fusion

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (18.18 %) .NET 1 2 (18.18 %) ASP 1 2 (18.18 %) CSS 1 2 (18.18 %) XHTML 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle Fusion	Communications & Networking 1 8 (72.73 %) VoIP 1 8 (72.73 %) CTI 2 1 (9.091 %) Internet 2 1 (9.091 %) GPRS
General 1 1 (9.091 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 9 (81.82 %) Architect 2 5 (45.45 %) Consultant 2 5 (45.45 %) Principal Consultant 2 5 (45.45 %) Principal Architect 3 2 (18.18 %) ASP Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Developer 3 2 (18.18 %) Graduate 3 2 (18.18 %) Graduate Developer 4 1 (9.091 %) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous 1 8 (72.73 %) IVR	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Content Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Logistics 2 1 (9.091 %) SOA 2 1 (9.091 %) B2C 2 1 (9.091 %) Six Sigma 2 1 (9.091 %) Mobile Commerce
Qualifications 1 5 (45.45 %) Degree	Vendors 1 8 (72.73 %) Cisco 1 8 (72.73 %) Nortel 1 8 (72.73 %) Avaya 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle