The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video on Demand in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Video on Demand over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Video on Demand (VOD)
Rank 469 457 493
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +36
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 49 105 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.118% 0.197% 0.140%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.438% 0.778% 0.479%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 80 56
Average daily rate £375 £400 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +1.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £317 £338 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £440 £375
% change year-on-year
-14.77% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11177 13497 16706
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.92% 25.28% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6881 8100 10073
Average daily rate £440 £435 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.14% -17.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £260 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £605 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 618 698
Average hourly rate £23.75 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.55% -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 £46.05 £41.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Video on Demand
UK

Video on Demand
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Video on Demand Jobs Demand Trend

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Video on Demand Daily Rate Trend

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Video on Demand across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Video on Demand Daily Rate Histogram

Video on Demand
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Video on Demand Hourly Rate Trend

Video on Demand
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video on Demand within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 -13 44 £375 -6.25%
East of England +10 3 £375 -
South East +16 1 £395 -10.22%
Video on Demand
UK

Video on Demand
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Video on Demand 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 Video on Demand.

1 45 (47.37%) JavaScript
2 37 (38.95%) Agile Software Development
3 30 (31.58%) TDD
4 28 (29.47%) HTML
4 28 (29.47%) Android
5 24 (25.26%) CSS
6 23 (24.21%) OO
7 22 (23.16%) BDD
8 20 (21.05%) jQuery
8 20 (21.05%) Java
9 18 (18.95%) IPTV
9 18 (18.95%) Apple iOS
10 17 (17.89%) Ruby
10 17 (17.89%) XML
11 16 (16.84%) Digital Media
12 15 (15.79%) Web Services
13 14 (14.74%) Scrum
13 14 (14.74%) Ajax
13 14 (14.74%) Spring
14 13 (13.68%) RESTful
15 12 (12.63%) Kanban
15 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (12.63%) Games
15 12 (12.63%) DOM
15 12 (12.63%) J2EE
15 12 (12.63%) HTTP
16 11 (11.58%) iPhone
16 11 (11.58%) STB
16 11 (11.58%) HTML5
16 11 (11.58%) Cucumber

Video on Demand
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Video on Demand 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 Video on Demand. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 28 (29.47%) HTML
2 24 (25.26%) CSS
3 20 (21.05%) jQuery
4 17 (17.89%) XML
5 15 (15.79%) Web Services
6 14 (14.74%) Ajax
6 14 (14.74%) Spring
7 13 (13.68%) RESTful
8 12 (12.63%) DOM
8 12 (12.63%) J2EE
9 11 (11.58%) HTML5
10 10 (10.53%) Spring Batch
10 10 (10.53%) Spring Integration
10 10 (10.53%) KnockoutJS
10 10 (10.53%) Grails
10 10 (10.53%) Cocoa
11 6 (6.316%) Cocoa Touch
11 6 (6.316%) CSS3
11 6 (6.316%) SOAP
12 5 (5.263%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.263%) Apache
1 5 (5.263%) CMS
2 2 (2.105%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.105%) IIS
3 1 (1.053%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.053%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (1.053%) ESB
Applications
1 4 (4.211%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.105%) OmniGraffle
3 1 (1.053%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.053%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.63%) HTTP
2 4 (4.211%) DVB
3 3 (3.158%) RTP
3 3 (3.158%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.105%) RTSP
4 2 (2.105%) Firewall
4 2 (2.105%) Internet
4 2 (2.105%) SAN
5 1 (1.053%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.53%) Hadoop
1 10 (10.53%) RDBMS
2 3 (3.158%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.105%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.105%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (2.105%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.105%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Cucumber
2 9 (9.474%) Selenium
2 9 (9.474%) Subversion
2 9 (9.474%) Git (software)
3 8 (8.421%) JIRA
4 3 (3.158%) Xcode
4 3 (3.158%) Mercurial
5 2 (2.105%) Axure RP
5 2 (2.105%) JUnit
6 1 (1.053%) Ant
6 1 (1.053%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.053%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.053%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.053%) Flash Builder
6 1 (1.053%) WATIR
6 1 (1.053%) Maven
General
1 12 (12.63%) Games
2 8 (8.421%) Telecoms
3 5 (5.263%) Finance
4 4 (4.211%) Marketing
5 3 (3.158%) Banking
5 3 (3.158%) Retail
5 3 (3.158%) Electronics
6 2 (2.105%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.053%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.053%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 38 (40.00%) Developer
2 12 (12.63%) Analyst
3 11 (11.58%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.53%) Project Manager
5 9 (9.474%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.368%) Tester
7 6 (6.316%) JavaScript Developer
7 6 (6.316%) Senior Tester
7 6 (6.316%) Designer
8 5 (5.263%) Web Developer
9 4 (4.211%) User Experience Designer
9 4 (4.211%) iOS Developer
9 4 (4.211%) Senior Developer
9 4 (4.211%) Test Engineer
10 3 (3.158%) Perl Developer
10 3 (3.158%) Senior Designer
10 3 (3.158%) Android Developer
11 2 (2.105%) Linux Engineer
11 2 (2.105%) Visual Designer
11 2 (2.105%) Lead Visual Designer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) IPTV
2 16 (16.84%) Digital Media
3 11 (11.58%) iPhone
3 11 (11.58%) STB
4 10 (10.53%) Streaming Video
5 8 (8.421%) Mobile App
6 6 (6.316%) New Media
7 4 (4.211%) Blackberry
8 3 (3.158%) NHS
8 3 (3.158%) FMCG
8 3 (3.158%) Open Source
8 3 (3.158%) Interactive TV
9 2 (2.105%) Social Network
9 2 (2.105%) Animation
9 2 (2.105%) Computer Science
9 2 (2.105%) Client/Server
9 2 (2.105%) DTV
10 1 (1.053%) iDTV
10 1 (1.053%) MPEG
10 1 (1.053%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (29.47%) Android
2 18 (18.95%) Apple iOS
3 10 (10.53%) Windows
3 10 (10.53%) Linux
4 2 (2.105%) Windows Mobile
4 2 (2.105%) CentOS
4 2 (2.105%) Windows Phone
4 2 (2.105%) SUSE
4 2 (2.105%) UNIX
5 1 (1.053%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.95%) Agile Software Development
2 30 (31.58%) TDD
3 23 (24.21%) OO
4 22 (23.16%) BDD
5 14 (14.74%) Scrum
6 12 (12.63%) Kanban
6 12 (12.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (10.53%) Product Management
7 10 (10.53%) Domain-Driven Design
7 10 (10.53%) Web Development
7 10 (10.53%) Project Management
8 9 (9.474%) UML
8 9 (9.474%) OOP
8 9 (9.474%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (9.474%) User Stories
9 8 (8.421%) DRM
10 7 (7.368%) Regression Testing
11 6 (6.316%) Test Scripting
11 6 (6.316%) Pair Programming
12 5 (5.263%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 45 (47.37%) JavaScript
2 20 (21.05%) Java
3 17 (17.89%) Ruby
4 10 (10.53%) Scala
4 10 (10.53%) Groovy
4 10 (10.53%) Objective-C
4 10 (10.53%) SQL
5 8 (8.421%) Perl
6 7 (7.368%) Python
7 3 (3.158%) PHP
8 2 (2.105%) C-shell
8 2 (2.105%) Bash shell
8 2 (2.105%) Clojure
8 2 (2.105%) C
9 1 (1.053%) C#
9 1 (1.053%) COBOL
9 1 (1.053%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.053%) ActionScript 3.0
9 1 (1.053%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 7 (7.368%) Degree
2 6 (6.316%) ISTQB
2 6 (6.316%) ISEB
3 2 (2.105%) CISM
3 2 (2.105%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.316%) QA
2 2 (2.105%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 2 (2.105%) Red Hat Spacewalk
1 2 (2.105%) Cobbler
1 2 (2.105%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (4.211%) Microsoft
1 4 (4.211%) Adobe
2 3 (3.158%) Apple
3 2 (2.105%) VMware
3 2 (2.105%) Cisco
3 2 (2.105%) Red Hat
3 2 (2.105%) JBoss
4 1 (1.053%) SAP
4 1 (1.053%) Oracle
4 1 (1.053%) Symbian
4 1 (1.053%) Zend
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