STB Contracts in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited STB 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Set-Top Box (STB)
Rank 119 - 117
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing STB 3 0 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.122% - 0.444%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.641% - 2.338%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 11
Average daily rate £325 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £33.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+19.40% -5.63%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 468 616 556
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 19.08% 19.20% 19.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 257 224
Average daily rate £375 £325 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -4.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 33
Average hourly rate £18.00 £22.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.18% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £14.48 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £50.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
STB
South East

STB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire STB Jobs Demand Trend

STB
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire STB Daily Rate Trend

STB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire STB Hourly Rate Trend

STB
Contract Locations

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

STB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing STB 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 STB.

1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) Flash
1 4 (57.14%) C
2 3 (42.86%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) UML
2 3 (42.86%) Middleware
2 3 (42.86%) Adobe
2 3 (42.86%) ActionScript
2 3 (42.86%) Flash Lite
3 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) DTV
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) DVB
4 1 (14.29%) MHP
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (14.29%) OpenTV
4 1 (14.29%) MediaHighway
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) VLAN
4 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
4 1 (14.29%) Fireworks
4 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
4 1 (14.29%) LAN

STB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing STB 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 STB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) Flash
2 3 (42.86%) Middleware
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) MHP
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Fireworks
1 1 (14.29%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DVB
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) TestDirector
1 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
1 1 (14.29%) Ant
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Flash Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Flash Lite
2 2 (28.57%) DTV
3 1 (14.29%) MediaHighway
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) UNIX
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
1 4 (57.14%) C
2 3 (42.86%) C++
2 3 (42.86%) ActionScript
3 2 (28.57%) ActionScript 2.0
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 2 (28.57%) Embedded C
3 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (14.29%) ActionScript 3.0
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Adobe
2 1 (14.29%) OpenTV
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
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