The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DTV in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTV 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Digital Television (DTV)
Rank 192 208 -
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -
Contract jobs citing DTV 9 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.143% 0.064% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.452% 0.194% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
Average daily rate £375 £380 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.31% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +33.80%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1991 2580 3971
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 31.63% 33.16% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1475 1982 3065
Average daily rate £500 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £298 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £650 £675
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 69 51
Average hourly rate £25.00 £21.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.27% +2.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £13.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
DTV
London

DTV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London DTV Daily Rate Trend

DTV
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTV across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London DTV Daily Rate Histogram

DTV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London DTV Hourly Rate Trend

DTV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (80.00%) SAP
1 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Electronics
1 8 (80.00%) Telecoms
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
1 8 (80.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (80.00%) Programme Management
1 8 (80.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 8 (80.00%) Marketing
1 8 (80.00%) Digital Marketing
2 6 (60.00%) Java
3 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 4 (40.00%) TDD
4 4 (40.00%) Scrum
5 3 (30.00%) QA
5 3 (30.00%) Selenium
5 3 (30.00%) JUnit
5 3 (30.00%) BDD
6 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (20.00%) TestNG
6 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
6 2 (20.00%) hybris
6 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 2 (20.00%) Windows
6 2 (20.00%) C#
6 2 (20.00%) Perl
6 2 (20.00%) VB
6 2 (20.00%) OO
6 2 (20.00%) HP

DTV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 2 (20.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (10.00%) Java EE
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) Commerce Server
1 1 (10.00%) WordPress
1 1 (10.00%) JCAPS
Business Applications
1 8 (80.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JUnit
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) TestNG
2 2 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (10.00%) FitNesse
3 1 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (10.00%) WATIR
3 1 (10.00%) Ant
General
1 8 (80.00%) Electronics
1 8 (80.00%) Telecoms
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
1 8 (80.00%) Manufacturing
1 8 (80.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) MPEG
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
1 1 (10.00%) STB
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) Programme Management
1 8 (80.00%) Digital Marketing
2 5 (50.00%) E-Commerce
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Test Management
5 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 2 (20.00%) Kanban
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (20.00%) OO
6 1 (10.00%) UML
6 1 (10.00%) Operations Management
6 1 (10.00%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) VB
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Ruby
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
3 1 (10.00%) PHP5
3 1 (10.00%) C
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) HL7
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) SAP
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) hybris
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) ATG
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
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