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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)
Rank 149 128 147
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +19
Permanent jobs citing SMTP 5 25 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.157% 0.714% 0.263%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.205% 4.798% 1.974%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 4
Average salary £45,500 £25,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+82.00% -41.17%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -
All Communications & Networking
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
415 521 456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 13.01% 14.89% 13.34%
Number of salaries quoted 222 337 322
Average salary £41,246 £35,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.84% -7.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,850 £77,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland SMTP Jobs Demand Trend

SMTP
Salary Trend

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

Scotland SMTP Salary Trend

SMTP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMTP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Aberdeen - 2 £45,500 -
Renfrewshire - 2 - -
Edinburgh -11 1 £35,000 +40.00%
SMTP
UK

SMTP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing SMTP 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 SMTP.

1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
1 6 (46.15%) Python
1 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
2 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 5 (38.46%) Internet
3 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 4 (30.77%) PHP
3 4 (30.77%) TACACS
3 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 4 (30.77%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (30.77%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (30.77%) Retail
3 4 (30.77%) ZABBIX
3 4 (30.77%) nginx
3 4 (30.77%) Puppet
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) UNIX
4 3 (23.08%) HTTP
5 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
5 2 (15.38%) SMS
5 2 (15.38%) SNA
5 2 (15.38%) HTTPS
5 2 (15.38%) SLA
5 2 (15.38%) RACF
5 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
5 2 (15.38%) CICS
5 2 (15.38%) Assembly Language

SMTP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (30.77%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
2 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
2 2 (15.38%) LINQ
2 2 (15.38%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) Apache
2 4 (30.77%) nginx
3 2 (15.38%) CICS
3 2 (15.38%) MSMQ
3 2 (15.38%) SAS
3 2 (15.38%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Internet
2 4 (30.77%) TACACS
2 4 (30.77%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (23.08%) HTTP
4 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 2 (15.38%) SMS
4 2 (15.38%) SNA
4 2 (15.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (15.38%) FTP
5 1 (7.692%) FWSM
5 1 (7.692%) NetScreen
5 1 (7.692%) Firewall
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (7.692%) Network Security
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.692%) LAN
5 1 (7.692%) EIGRP
5 1 (7.692%) OSPF
5 1 (7.692%) DNS
5 1 (7.692%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
1 6 (46.15%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) DB2
3 1 (7.692%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (30.77%) Retail
2 2 (15.38%) Back Office
3 1 (7.692%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (30.77%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Programmer
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Programmer
3 1 (7.692%) Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
2 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 2 (15.38%) Social Network
2 2 (15.38%) Graphic Design
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 3 (23.08%) UNIX
3 2 (15.38%) zOS
4 1 (7.692%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Scrum
1 4 (30.77%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (15.38%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
2 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) PHP
3 2 (15.38%) Assembly Language
3 2 (15.38%) REXX
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 2 (15.38%) AWK
3 2 (15.38%) Bash shell
3 2 (15.38%) sed
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) RACF
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) ZABBIX
1 4 (30.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
1 2 (15.38%) BMC
1 2 (15.38%) CA
2 1 (7.692%) Cisco
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