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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Peer-to-Peer (SMPP) Protocol
Rank 855 893 860
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -33
Permanent jobs citing SMPP 9 7 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.006% 0.008%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.043% 0.032% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 7 7 8
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +21.62%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 - £31,500
All Communications & Networking
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
21011 21540 19275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 19.32% 17.56% 15.77%
Number of salaries quoted 16969 17949 15959
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

SMPP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SMPP Jobs Demand Trend

SMPP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing SMPP within the UK.

SMPP Salary Trend

SMPP
Top 8 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 UK 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
England +34 9 £45,000 -
St Albans - 5 £45,000 -
Hertfordshire - 5 £45,000 -
East of England - 5 £45,000 -
London +43 2 - -
South East - 1 £50,000 -
Berkshire - 1 £50,000 -
Reading - 1 £50,000 -

SMPP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 18 (81.82%) HTTP
2 17 (77.27%) Solaris
2 17 (77.27%) Linux
2 17 (77.27%) Telecoms
3 12 (54.55%) 2G
3 12 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (54.55%) XCAP
3 12 (54.55%) GSM
3 12 (54.55%) UNIX
3 12 (54.55%) SLA
3 12 (54.55%) 3G
3 12 (54.55%) Red Hat
4 11 (50.00%) 4G
5 10 (45.45%) LTE
5 10 (45.45%) Java
6 9 (40.91%) CSS
6 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (36.36%) SIGTRAN
7 8 (36.36%) CDMA
8 6 (27.27%) ISO 9001
8 6 (27.27%) Cisco
8 6 (27.27%) Sun
8 6 (27.27%) HP
8 6 (27.27%) Clustering
8 6 (27.27%) Time Management
9 5 (22.73%) TDD
9 5 (22.73%) Erlang
9 5 (22.73%) Taleo
9 5 (22.73%) XMPP
9 5 (22.73%) Mac OS X

SMPP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

Application Development
1 9 (40.91%) CSS
2 5 (22.73%) XMPP
3 4 (18.18%) SOAP
3 4 (18.18%) Symfony
3 4 (18.18%) HTML5
3 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 1 (4.545%) JSON
4 1 (4.545%) Middleware
4 1 (4.545%) XML
4 1 (4.545%) .NET
4 1 (4.545%) XHTML
4 1 (4.545%) WAP
Business Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 18 (81.82%) HTTP
2 12 (54.55%) 2G
2 12 (54.55%) XCAP
2 12 (54.55%) GSM
2 12 (54.55%) 3G
3 11 (50.00%) 4G
4 10 (45.45%) LTE
5 8 (36.36%) SIGTRAN
5 8 (36.36%) CDMA
6 5 (22.73%) SMS
7 4 (18.18%) VoIP
7 4 (18.18%) LDAP
7 4 (18.18%) Megaco
7 4 (18.18%) TCAP
7 4 (18.18%) SCCP
7 4 (18.18%) INAP
7 4 (18.18%) DNS
7 4 (18.18%) MGW
7 4 (18.18%) SCTP
7 4 (18.18%) M3UA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) NoSQL
General
1 17 (77.27%) Telecoms
2 4 (18.18%) Marketing
3 1 (4.545%) Billing
3 1 (4.545%) Czech Language
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Customer Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Development Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Project Leader
3 4 (18.18%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Clustering
2 4 (18.18%) Handset
3 1 (4.545%) Mobile Payment
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Solaris
1 17 (77.27%) Linux
2 12 (54.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 12 (54.55%) UNIX
3 5 (22.73%) Mac OS X
4 1 (4.545%) Android
4 1 (4.545%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) Time Management
3 5 (22.73%) TDD
3 5 (22.73%) Project Management
4 4 (18.18%) Software Architecture
4 4 (18.18%) Mobile Marketing
5 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) Erlang
2 5 (22.73%) PHP
2 5 (22.73%) C
2 5 (22.73%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) C++
3 4 (18.18%) PHP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (54.55%) SLA
2 6 (27.27%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Red Hat
2 6 (27.27%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Sun
2 6 (27.27%) HP
3 4 (18.18%) Facebook