City of London OpenTV Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of OpenTV products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited OpenTV over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

OpenTV
Location Bath Berkshire Bristol City of London East of England England Essex Hampshire London Somerset South East South West Thames Valley UK Wokingham	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	214	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.027 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£335
% change on same period last year	+19.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£41.25	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	3736	3355
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.980 %	3.394 %
Daily rates quoted	1959	1410
Average minimum daily rate	£421	£440
Average daily rate	£454	£467
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£487	£495
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	167	140
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.23	£20.99
Average hourly rate	£24.87	£22.44
% change on same period last year	+10.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.51	£23.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
OpenTV London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the OpenTV Corporation .

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing OpenTV across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenTV across the City of London region.

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Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OpenTV 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 OpenTV .

1 3 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 3 (100.00 %) Perl 1 3 (100.00 %) XML 1 3 (100.00 %) C 1 3 (100.00 %) C++ 1 3 (100.00 %) HTML 1 3 (100.00 %) Interactive TV 1 3 (100.00 %) IPTV 1 3 (100.00 %) QA 2 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 2 (66.67 %) ISEB 3 1 (33.33 %) DTV 3 1 (33.33 %) BBC 3 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (33.33 %) TDD

3 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia 3 1 (33.33 %) Java 3 1 (33.33 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OpenTV 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 OpenTV . Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (100.00 %) HTML 1 3 (100.00 %) XML	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Tester 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) QA Manager 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Tester 1 1 (33.33 %) Test Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3 (100.00 %) Interactive TV 1 3 (100.00 %) IPTV 2 1 (33.33 %) DTV 2 1 (33.33 %) BBC
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 1 (33.33 %) TDD	Programming Languages 1 3 (100.00 %) C 1 3 (100.00 %) C++ 1 3 (100.00 %) JavaScript 1 3 (100.00 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) Java 2 1 (33.33 %) C#
Qualifications 1 2 (66.67 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (100.00 %) QA