The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Interactive TV in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Interactive TV over the 3 months to 24 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 England 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Interactive Television
Rank 494 542 540
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -2
Contract jobs citing Interactive TV 19 17 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.046% 0.032% 0.055%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.170% 0.126% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 21
Average daily rate £325 £375 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +29.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £270 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £484 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+26.53% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11208 13487 16440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.96% 25.29% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6896 8084 9903
Average daily rate £438 £437 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £607 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 617 685
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.60 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Interactive TV
UK

Interactive TV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Interactive TV Jobs Demand Trend

Interactive TV
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Interactive TV Daily Rate Trend

Interactive TV
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Interactive TV across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Interactive TV Daily Rate Histogram

Interactive TV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Interactive TV Hourly Rate Trend

Interactive TV
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interactive TV within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +45 17 £325 -12.16%
North West +9 2 £311 -17.00%
Interactive TV
UK

Interactive TV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Interactive TV 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 Interactive TV.

1 11 (36.67%) Photoshop
1 11 (36.67%) CSS
1 11 (36.67%) Scrum
1 11 (36.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 11 (36.67%) TDD
2 8 (26.67%) Games
2 8 (26.67%) Java
3 7 (23.33%) HTML
3 7 (23.33%) Web Services
3 7 (23.33%) Flash
3 7 (23.33%) Pair Programming
3 7 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (23.33%) Streaming Video
3 7 (23.33%) Marketing
3 7 (23.33%) HTML5
3 7 (23.33%) BDD
4 6 (20.00%) Ruby
4 6 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 6 (20.00%) ActionScript
4 6 (20.00%) Linux
4 6 (20.00%) OO
5 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.67%) Publishing
5 5 (16.67%) Internet
5 5 (16.67%) Windows
5 5 (16.67%) Retail
5 5 (16.67%) Content Management
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Digital Media
5 5 (16.67%) Mobile App

Interactive TV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Interactive TV 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 Interactive TV. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (36.67%) CSS
2 7 (23.33%) HTML
2 7 (23.33%) Web Services
2 7 (23.33%) Flash
2 7 (23.33%) HTML5
3 4 (13.33%) Spring
3 4 (13.33%) JSON
3 4 (13.33%) RESTful
3 4 (13.33%) XML
4 2 (6.667%) REST
4 2 (6.667%) JAX-RS
4 2 (6.667%) Hibernate
4 2 (6.667%) DHTML
4 2 (6.667%) XSLT
4 2 (6.667%) J2EE
5 1 (3.333%) ASP
5 1 (3.333%) JAXB
5 1 (3.333%) Series 60
5 1 (3.333%) iPhone SDK
5 1 (3.333%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Apache
1 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Photoshop
1 11 (36.67%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (10.00%) MS Office
3 2 (6.667%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (6.667%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (10.00%) SSH
3 1 (3.333%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) MySQL
1 3 (10.00%) CouchDB
2 2 (6.667%) MarkLogic
2 2 (6.667%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Maven
1 4 (13.33%) Subversion
1 4 (13.33%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.667%) Axure RP
3 2 (6.667%) Expression Blend
4 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.333%) Xcode
4 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.333%) Hudson
4 1 (3.333%) Selenium
4 1 (3.333%) Firebug
4 1 (3.333%) Robotium
General
1 8 (26.67%) Games
2 7 (23.33%) Marketing
3 5 (16.67%) Publishing
3 5 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (3.333%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.333%) Multimedia
4 1 (3.333%) Music
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Software Engineer
1 7 (23.33%) Designer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Digital Designer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Digital Designer
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Graphic Artist
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Designer
5 2 (6.667%) Web Designer
5 2 (6.667%) Java Software Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Project Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Digital Project Manager
6 1 (3.333%) User Experience Designer
6 1 (3.333%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) UI Designer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) Streaming Video
2 5 (16.67%) Digital Media
2 5 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 4 (13.33%) New Media
3 4 (13.33%) Social Network
4 3 (10.00%) Semantic Web
4 3 (10.00%) MHEG
4 3 (10.00%) Video on Demand
4 3 (10.00%) IPTV
5 2 (6.667%) Web 2.0
5 2 (6.667%) Graphic Design
6 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
6 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
6 1 (3.333%) iPhone
6 1 (3.333%) Open Source
6 1 (3.333%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 5 (16.67%) Windows
3 3 (10.00%) UNIX
4 1 (3.333%) Mac OS X
4 1 (3.333%) Android
4 1 (3.333%) bada
4 1 (3.333%) Maemo
4 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (3.333%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Scrum
1 11 (36.67%) TDD
2 7 (23.33%) Pair Programming
2 7 (23.33%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (23.33%) BDD
3 6 (20.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (20.00%) OO
4 5 (16.67%) Content Management
4 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 4 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (13.33%) UML
6 3 (10.00%) OOP
6 3 (10.00%) Service Delivery
6 3 (10.00%) Web Design
6 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (6.667%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Java
2 6 (20.00%) Ruby
2 6 (20.00%) ActionScript
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (13.33%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (13.33%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (13.33%) PHP
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) C#
4 4 (13.33%) C++
5 3 (10.00%) Perl
5 3 (10.00%) XAML
5 3 (10.00%) Bash shell
6 2 (6.667%) XPath
6 2 (6.667%) SPARQL
6 2 (6.667%) XQuery
7 1 (3.333%) C
7 1 (3.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (3.333%) ISEB
1 1 (3.333%) Degree
1 1 (3.333%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) OpenTV
2 2 (6.667%) Adobe
3 1 (3.333%) Apple
3 1 (3.333%) Symbian
City, London
They are now searching for a HTML5 Developer who will be charged with helping to drive their studios visual treatment of interactive TV... Working with both the design &...
Amiqus
Salary: £180 - £230 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Our client is an AAA Games Studio and they are currently seeking an HTML5 Developer to drive their visual treatment of interactive TV... Working with both the design...
Volt
Rate: £200.00 - £230.00 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Skills - Xbox Reference Application, Xbox Developer, XAML, XDK, OO code, Agile, Scrum, Pair programming We are looking for an Xbox Developer to work on contract developing interactive TV...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013