The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank - 150 151
Permanent jobs citing SMS 0 4 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.116% 0.145%
As % of the Communications & Networking category - 0.800% 1.106%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
Average salary - £37,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
413 500 452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.19% 14.54% 13.15%
Number of salaries quoted 223 326 315
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,150 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +6.66%
SMS
UK

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland SMS Salary Trend

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SMTP
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) FTP
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) MOM
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) AWK
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Social Network
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SMTP
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) FTP
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
1 2 (50.00%) Social Network
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) AWK
1 2 (50.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (50.00%) sed
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (25.00%) ISA Server
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) MOM
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Lotus
2 1 (25.00%) Symantec