Surrey SMS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Short Message Service (SMS) skills within the Surrey 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Short Message Service (SMS)
Location Andover Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrow Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Keighley Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newport North West Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	207	226
Rank change on same period last year	+19
Matching permanent IT job ads	31	43
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.882 %	2.048 %
Salaries quoted	20	26
Average minimum salary	£34,800	£40,182
Average salary	£36,225	£41,424
% change on same period last year	-12.55 %
Average maximum salary	£37,650	£42,667
UK excluding London average salary	£36,638	£41,282
% change on same period last year	-11.25 %
Communications & Networking Surrey
Matching permanent IT job ads	1647	2100
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.869 %	0.860 %
Salaries quoted	1378	1776
Average minimum salary	£34,212	£38,769
Average salary	£36,936	£42,384
% change on same period last year	-12.85 %
Average maximum salary	£39,659	£45,999
UK excluding London average salary	£37,397	£39,734
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
SMS South East

SMS
Demand Trend

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

SMS
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SMS across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SMS
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMS within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Guildford	+29	4	£30,000	-20.00 %

SMS South East

SMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 34 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 32 (62.75 %) MCSE 2 32 (62.75 %) Microsoft Certification 3 31 (60.78 %) MOM 4 29 (56.86 %) SAN 4 29 (56.86 %) Cisco 4 29 (56.86 %) IIS 5 23 (45.10 %) SQL 6 19 (37.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 18 (35.29 %) VMware 7 18 (35.29 %) Backup Exec 8 17 (33.33 %) EMC 8 17 (33.33 %) Finance 9 15 (29.41 %) Citrix 9 15 (29.41 %) BizTalk Server

9 15 (29.41 %) ITIL 9 15 (29.41 %) UNIX 9 15 (29.41 %) DNS 9 15 (29.41 %) DHCP 9 15 (29.41 %) WebSphere 9 15 (29.41 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 15 (29.41 %) SCOM 10 14 (27.45 %) WSUS 10 14 (27.45 %) Dell 10 14 (27.45 %) Windows 10 14 (27.45 %) Windows Server 2003 11 13 (25.49 %) Terminal Services 11 13 (25.49 %) Network Load Balancing 11 13 (25.49 %) Clustering 11 13 (25.49 %) Exchange Server 2007

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 15 (29.41 %) WebSphere 2 3 (5.882 %) WPF 2 3 (5.882 %) HTML 2 3 (5.882 %) .NET 2 3 (5.882 %) CSS 2 3 (5.882 %) XML 2 3 (5.882 %) XSLT 2 3 (5.882 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 29 (56.86 %) IIS 2 19 (37.25 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 15 (29.41 %) BizTalk Server 4 13 (25.49 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 2 (3.922 %) Exchange Server 2000
Communications & Networking 1 29 (56.86 %) SAN 2 15 (29.41 %) DHCP 2 15 (29.41 %) DNS 3 12 (23.53 %) Cisco PIX 3 12 (23.53 %) iSCSI 4 7 (13.73 %) Wireless 4 7 (13.73 %) CDMA 4 7 (13.73 %) GPRS 4 7 (13.73 %) GSM 4 7 (13.73 %) UMTS 5 4 (7.843 %) VPN 6 1 (1.961 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.961 %) WAN 6 1 (1.961 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (9.804 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.882 %) MySQL 3 2 (3.922 %) SQL Server 2000
General 1 17 (33.33 %) Finance 2 7 (13.73 %) Electric 3 4 (7.843 %) Telecoms 4 3 (5.882 %) Health 4 3 (5.882 %) Pensions 4 3 (5.882 %) Education	Job Titles 1 15 (29.41 %) Analyst 1 15 (29.41 %) Infrastructure Analyst 1 15 (29.41 %) Senior Analyst 1 15 (29.41 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst 2 13 (25.49 %) Administrator 2 13 (25.49 %) Developer 2 13 (25.49 %) Systems Administrator 3 7 (13.73 %) Software Developer 4 4 (7.843 %) Programmer 4 4 (7.843 %) C Developer 4 4 (7.843 %) C Programmer 4 4 (7.843 %) PHP Developer 5 3 (5.882 %) PHP Web Developer 5 3 (5.882 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (5.882 %) Support Consultant 5 3 (5.882 %) Web Developer 5 3 (5.882 %) Consultant 6 2 (3.922 %) Server Support 6 2 (3.922 %) Senior Developer 6 2 (3.922 %) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 13 (25.49 %) Clustering 2 12 (23.53 %) Firmware 3 7 (13.73 %) Computer Science 4 3 (5.882 %) Web 2.0 4 3 (5.882 %) Mathematics 5 2 (3.922 %) Blackberry 5 2 (3.922 %) Celerra	Operating Systems 1 15 (29.41 %) UNIX 2 14 (27.45 %) Windows 2 14 (27.45 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (1.961 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (29.41 %) ITIL 2 13 (25.49 %) Network Load Balancing 3 2 (3.922 %) Incident Management 3 2 (3.922 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (1.961 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 23 (45.10 %) SQL 2 10 (19.61 %) C 3 7 (13.73 %) Java 3 7 (13.73 %) Assembly Language 4 6 (11.76 %) PHP 5 3 (5.882 %) XAML 5 3 (5.882 %) VB.NET 5 3 (5.882 %) JavaScript 5 3 (5.882 %) C#
Qualifications 1 32 (62.75 %) MCSE 1 32 (62.75 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (17.65 %) Degree 3 4 (7.843 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.961 %) CCNA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.922 %) SLA
System Software 1 34 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 18 (35.29 %) Backup Exec 3 15 (29.41 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 13 (25.49 %) Terminal Services 5 3 (5.882 %) ISA Server 5 3 (5.882 %) Terminal Server	Systems Management 1 31 (60.78 %) MOM 2 15 (29.41 %) SCOM 3 14 (27.45 %) WSUS 4 2 (3.922 %) DameWare
Vendors 1 29 (56.86 %) Cisco 2 18 (35.29 %) VMware 3 17 (33.33 %) EMC 4 15 (29.41 %) Citrix 5 14 (27.45 %) Dell 6 2 (3.922 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.922 %) 3Com 6 2 (3.922 %) SurfControl 7 1 (1.961 %) Sophos 7 1 (1.961 %) HP