Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Short Message Peer-to-peer Protocol (SMPP) skills within the South East region with a comparison to our Communications & Networking category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMPP over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkShort Message Peer-to-peer Protocol (SMPP)
Location
3 months to
2 Dec 2008
Same period last year
Rank424491
Rank change on same period last yearUp+67
Matching permanent IT job ads68
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.004 %0.004 %
As % of the category below0.098 %0.090 %
Salaries quoted57
Average minimum salary£32,000£45,000
Average salary£40,500£50,000
% change on same period last year-19.00 %
Average maximum salary£49,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,750£45,536
% change on same period last year-10.50 %
South East IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
South East
Matching permanent IT job ads61188928
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled4.092 %3.983 %
Salaries quoted51367243
Average minimum salary£37,111£37,067
Average salary£40,083£40,022
% change on same period last year+0.15 %
Average maximum salary£43,056£42,977
UK excluding London average salary£37,772£38,125
% change on same period last year-0.92 %
SMPP EnglandSMPP
England

SMPP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing SMPP across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

South East SMPP Demand Trend

SMPP
Salary Trend

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

South East SMPP Salary Trend

SMPP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMPP across the South East region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

South East SMPP Salary Histogram

SMPP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMPP within the South East region over the 3 months to 2 December 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.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
BerkshireNew entry-6£40,500-
SMPP EnglandSMPP
England

SMPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

17 (70.00 %)Linux
17 (70.00 %)SMTP
17 (70.00 %)SMS
26 (60.00 %)HTTP
26 (60.00 %)OO
26 (60.00 %)CSS
26 (60.00 %)HTML
26 (60.00 %)JavaScript
26 (60.00 %)PHP
26 (60.00 %)MySQL
26 (60.00 %)AJAX
34 (40.00 %)SOAP
43 (30.00 %)XML
43 (30.00 %)UNIX
43 (30.00 %)Java
43 (30.00 %)Telecoms
52 (20.00 %)Sun
52 (20.00 %)Perl
52 (20.00 %)SQL
52 (20.00 %)Solaris
52 (20.00 %)LDAP
52 (20.00 %)Stress Testing
61 (10.00 %)Interactive TV
61 (10.00 %)Red Hat Linux
61 (10.00 %)Mathematics
61 (10.00 %)SIGTRAN
61 (10.00 %)CRM
61 (10.00 %)GSM
61 (10.00 %)Oracle
61 (10.00 %)HP

SMPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the South East 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.

South East IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (60.00 %)HTML
16 (60.00 %)CSS
16 (60.00 %)AJAX
24 (40.00 %)SOAP
33 (30.00 %)XML
41 (10.00 %)NetBeans
South East IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
17 (70.00 %)SMS
17 (70.00 %)SMTP
26 (60.00 %)HTTP
32 (20.00 %)LDAP
41 (10.00 %)GSM
41 (10.00 %)TCP/IP
41 (10.00 %)Internet
41 (10.00 %)SS7
41 (10.00 %)SIGTRAN
South East IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
16 (60.00 %)MySQL
21 (10.00 %)Oracle 10g
South East IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
13 (30.00 %)Telecoms
21 (10.00 %)Back Office
South East IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
17 (70.00 %)Developer
22 (20.00 %)Web Developer
22 (20.00 %)Test Engineer
31 (10.00 %)Systems Developer
31 (10.00 %)PHP Developer
31 (10.00 %)Telecoms Engineer
South East IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (10.00 %)Clustering
11 (10.00 %)IVR
11 (10.00 %)Interactive TV
11 (10.00 %)Mathematics
South East IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
17 (70.00 %)Linux
23 (30.00 %)UNIX
32 (20.00 %)Solaris
41 (10.00 %)OpenVMS
41 (10.00 %)Red Hat Linux
South East IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
16 (60.00 %)OO
22 (20.00 %)Stress Testing
31 (10.00 %)CRM
South East IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
16 (60.00 %)JavaScript
16 (60.00 %)PHP
23 (30.00 %)Java
32 (20.00 %)SQL
32 (20.00 %)Perl
South East IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (20.00 %)Sun
21 (10.00 %)HP
21 (10.00 %)Red Hat
21 (10.00 %)Oracle
21 (10.00 %)Cisco