The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 206 222 210
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -12
Permanent jobs citing SMS 5 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.095% 0.017% 0.114%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.416% 0.081% 0.561%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 6
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £52,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -33.64%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
1202 1228 1069
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 22.74% 20.44% 20.26%
Number of salaries quoted 993 1048 963
Average salary £40,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
SMS
South East

SMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey SMS Salary Trend

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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
Guildford - 4 £35,000 -
SMS
South East

SMS
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 4 (66.67%) EPoS
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
1 4 (66.67%) Business Development
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Software Distribution
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Altiris
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 2 (33.33%) RFID
2 2 (33.33%) CA
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) HP

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) RFID
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) EPoS
1 4 (66.67%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) CMDB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
1 4 (66.67%) Business Development
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Software Distribution
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (33.33%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Altiris
1 2 (33.33%) CA
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) HP
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