Short Message Service (SMS)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for SMS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited SMS over the 6 months to 4 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 716 1006 899
Rank change year-on-year +290 -107 -180
Permanent jobs citing SMS 25 70 201
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.047% 0.056% 0.16%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.31% 0.46% 1.21%
Number of salaries quoted 14 42 72
10th Percentile - £29,525 £40,250
25th Percentile £38,591 £39,625 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,817 £65,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +35.42% -23.20%
75th Percentile £67,188 £77,036 £49,375
90th Percentile £71,875 £97,500 £71,125
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,634 £52,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year -24.51% +9.38% -18.30%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

SMS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,066 15,350 16,547
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.15% 12.38% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 6,330 10,317 11,453
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £68,000 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £47,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.26% +4.44% -

SMS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing SMS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for SMS in the UK

SMS
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing SMS.

Salary trend for SMS in the UK

SMS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing SMS over the 6 months to 4 December 2023.

Salary histogram for SMS in the UK

SMS
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SMS within the UK over the 6 months to 4 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +226 20 £39,634 -24.51% 30
England +279 15 £44,817 -31.05% 42
Scotland - 6 - - 2
North of England +136 4 £39,634 -33.94% 8
East of England - 3 £60,000 - 1
Wales - 3 £39,634 - 4
London +237 2 £60,000 -13.60% 16
South East +163 2 £50,000 +66.67% 7
North West +105 2 £39,634 -33.94% 7
Yorkshire +81 2 £39,634 -15.17%
South West +79 2 £39,634 -29.54% 4
Work from Home +214 1 - - 16

SMS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.00%) Looker
1 1 (4.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Marketing
3 10 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (40.00%) Finance
4 9 (36.00%) Advertising
4 9 (36.00%) Banking
5 2 (8.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.00%) Automotive
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Analyst
2 9 (36.00%) CRM Analyst
3 6 (24.00%) Operations Manager
4 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Architect
5 1 (4.00%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) CRM Manager
5 1 (4.00%) CRM Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) HR Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Information Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Information Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) Marketing Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Principal Consultant
5 1 (4.00%) Scrum Master
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) .NET
1 1 (4.00%) HTML
1 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 8 (32.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.00%) Blog
2 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.00%) CentOS
1 1 (4.00%) Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Analytics
1 11 (44.00%) CRM
2 10 (40.00%) Agile
2 10 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 10 (40.00%) Customer Experience
2 10 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (36.00%) Campaign Management
3 9 (36.00%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (20.00%) Data Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 5 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (20.00%) ETL
4 5 (20.00%) Migration
5 4 (16.00%) Actionable Insight
5 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (8.00%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 1 (4.00%) Data Protection
7 1 (4.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Bash
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (32.00%) Degree
2 6 (24.00%) HNC
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (24.00%) NEBOSH
2 1 (4.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Teradata
2 5 (20.00%) Databricks
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.00%) Hitachi
4 1 (4.00%) HubSpot
4 1 (4.00%) Oracle
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud