The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited STB 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 Hampshire 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
Set-Top Box (STB)
Rank 99 96 102
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +6
Contract jobs citing STB 5 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.323% 0.187% 0.270%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 1.441% 0.987% 1.471%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
Average daily rate £323 - £383
90% offered a daily rate of more than £309 - £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £337 - £397
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -46.66%
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
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
347 304 340
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 22.42% 18.96% 18.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 122 133
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £241 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £540 £456
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 57 66
Average hourly rate £35.00 £24.50 £34.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -27.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.18 £13.00 £13.56
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £39.05 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
STB
South East

STB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Southampton - 2 - -
STB
South East

STB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (81.82%) DVB
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
3 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
3 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
3 6 (54.55%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (36.36%) Bash shell
4 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
4 4 (36.36%) Streaming Video
4 4 (36.36%) DTV
4 4 (36.36%) UPnP
4 4 (36.36%) QA
4 4 (36.36%) IBM
4 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
4 4 (36.36%) HP
4 4 (36.36%) ClearQuest
4 4 (36.36%) VB
4 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
5 3 (27.27%) MPEG
6 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
6 2 (18.18%) ClearCase
6 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Perl
6 2 (18.18%) PHP
6 2 (18.18%) SQL
6 2 (18.18%) C

STB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 2 (18.18%) HTML
1 2 (18.18%) Flash
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 2 (18.18%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (18.18%) MS Project
2 2 (18.18%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (81.82%) DVB
2 4 (36.36%) UPnP
3 2 (18.18%) Ethernet
4 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Mining
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) ClearQuest
2 2 (18.18%) ClearCase
General
1 6 (54.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Software Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (36.36%) DTV
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (36.36%) Streaming Video
3 3 (27.27%) MPEG
4 2 (18.18%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (18.18%) Project Planning
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
2 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (18.18%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
3 1 (9.091%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) VB
1 4 (36.36%) Bash shell
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) C++
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) Perl
2 2 (18.18%) PHP
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) IBM
1 4 (36.36%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) Tandberg
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle