The first table below looks at the demand for SMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SMS over the 3 months to 17 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 West Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Short Message Service (SMS)
Rank 108 - 105
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing SMS 2 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 0.133% - 0.070%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.608% - 0.345%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £31,500 - £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Communications & Networking
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
329 198 290
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 21.93% 14.33% 20.31%
Number of salaries quoted 279 180 254
Average salary £42,500 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+19.71% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,400 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,750 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +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 West Sussex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 17 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
East Grinstead - 1 £25,500 -
SMS
South East

SMS
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAP SD
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PP
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) Email Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Online Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Plesk
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5

SMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) SAP SD
1 1 (50.00%) SAP MM
1 1 (50.00%) SAP PP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Email Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Online Marketing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) ABAP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP