The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DTV in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTV over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Berkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Television (DTV)
Rank 120 - 116
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DTV 1 0 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.043% - 0.464%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.204% - 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 11
Average daily rate - - £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £380
% change year-on-year
- -7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £62.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £62.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
491 631 560
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 20.97% 19.91% 18.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 255 230
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £521 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 34
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £14.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £49.00 £39.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
DTV
South East

DTV
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing DTV across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Berkshire DTV Jobs Demand Trend

DTV
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DTV across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire DTV Daily Rate Trend

DTV
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DTV across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire DTV Hourly Rate Trend

DTV
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTV within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Newbury - - - - 1
DTV
South East

DTV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing DTV 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited DTV.

1 2 (66.67%) STB
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) OpenTV
2 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) JPA
2 1 (33.33%) Drools
2 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) HTML5
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (33.33%) Lucene
2 1 (33.33%) Spring
2 1 (33.33%) Maven
2 1 (33.33%) MediaHighway
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) JDBC
2 1 (33.33%) XML

DTV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing DTV also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited DTV. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) JPA
1 1 (33.33%) Drools
1 1 (33.33%) HTML5
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) ActiveMQ
1 1 (33.33%) Lucene
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) XSL
1 1 (33.33%) JMS
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) MHP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) DVB
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
1 1 (33.33%) TestDirector
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) STB
2 1 (33.33%) MediaHighway
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) XPath
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTV
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle