The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video on Demand in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 19 June 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 Hounslow 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Video on Demand (VOD)
Rank 15 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 3 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 5.357% 7.865% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.54% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £409 £408 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +8.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
26 28 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 46.43% 31.46% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 13 12
Average daily rate £438 £400 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% +21.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £13.50 £11.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
Video on Demand
London

Video on Demand
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow Video on Demand Daily Rate Trend

Video on Demand
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) Games
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
3 5 (71.43%) STB
4 4 (57.14%) IPTV
4 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
4 4 (57.14%) JIRA
4 4 (57.14%) Android
4 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
4 4 (57.14%) Python
4 4 (57.14%) ISEB
4 4 (57.14%) Mobile App
5 3 (42.86%) Automation Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Functional Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Cocoa Touch
5 3 (42.86%) User Stories
5 3 (42.86%) DRM
5 3 (42.86%) Cocoa
5 3 (42.86%) Objective-C
5 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Perl
5 3 (42.86%) CSS
5 3 (42.86%) DOM
5 3 (42.86%) OOP
5 3 (42.86%) OO
5 3 (42.86%) Cucumber

Video on Demand
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 7 (100.00%) HTML
2 3 (42.86%) Cocoa Touch
2 3 (42.86%) Cocoa
2 3 (42.86%) CSS
2 3 (42.86%) DOM
2 3 (42.86%) jQuery
2 3 (42.86%) Ajax
3 2 (28.57%) HTML5
3 2 (28.57%) CSS3
3 2 (28.57%) XSL
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) XML
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
4 1 (14.29%) XSLT
4 1 (14.29%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) JProfiler
3 1 (14.29%) JBehave
3 1 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (85.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Tester
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Senior Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) STB
2 4 (57.14%) IPTV
2 4 (57.14%) Mobile App
3 2 (28.57%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Android
1 4 (57.14%) Apple iOS
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (85.71%) TDD
2 6 (85.71%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) Automation Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Functional Testing
4 3 (42.86%) User Stories
4 3 (42.86%) DRM
4 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
4 3 (42.86%) OOP
4 3 (42.86%) OO
4 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Product Management
4 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Content Management
6 1 (14.29%) Service Management
6 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) Python
3 3 (42.86%) Objective-C
3 3 (42.86%) Perl
3 3 (42.86%) Ruby
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
1 4 (57.14%) ISEB
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) VMware