The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DTV in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTV 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 London 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
Digital Television (DTV)
Rank 350 370 425
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +55
Contract jobs citing DTV 35 36 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.162% 0.134% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.489% 0.420% 0.101%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 5
Average daily rate £363 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.64% +7.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £257 £249
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £428 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £38.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.84% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +33.80%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7160 8579 11824
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.16% 32.03% 37.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4979 5832 7989
Average daily rate £475 £475 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 205 199
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
DTV
England

DTV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London DTV Jobs Demand Trend

DTV
Daily Rate Trend

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

London DTV Daily Rate Trend

DTV
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTV across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London DTV Daily Rate Histogram

DTV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London DTV Hourly Rate Trend

DTV
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing DTV across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London DTV Hourly Rate Histogram

DTV
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DTV within the London 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
City of London +16 9 £375 -1.31%
Hounslow -1 3 - -
Isleworth - 1 - -
DTV
England

DTV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DTV 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 DTV.

1 29 (74.36%) Electronics
2 28 (71.79%) Telecoms
2 28 (71.79%) Finance
3 27 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
3 27 (69.23%) Marketing
4 24 (61.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 24 (61.54%) Programme Management
4 24 (61.54%) Manufacturing
4 24 (61.54%) SAP
4 24 (61.54%) Digital Marketing
5 12 (30.77%) CSS
5 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
6 11 (28.21%) Linux
6 11 (28.21%) Scrum
7 10 (25.64%) TDD
7 10 (25.64%) STB
7 10 (25.64%) NHS
8 9 (23.08%) Java
8 9 (23.08%) Python
8 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
8 9 (23.08%) Ruby
9 8 (20.51%) C
9 8 (20.51%) HTML
9 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
9 8 (20.51%) DVB
10 7 (17.95%) MySQL
10 7 (17.95%) IPTV
10 7 (17.95%) HTML5
11 6 (15.38%) CSS3
11 6 (15.38%) Digital Media

DTV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing DTV 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 DTV. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (30.77%) CSS
2 8 (20.51%) HTML
3 7 (17.95%) HTML5
4 6 (15.38%) CSS3
4 6 (15.38%) Ruby on Rails
4 6 (15.38%) jQuery
5 5 (12.82%) DOM
6 4 (10.26%) Ajax
6 4 (10.26%) Middleware
7 3 (7.692%) Spring
8 2 (5.128%) XML
8 2 (5.128%) Semantic HTML
8 2 (5.128%) Sinatra
8 2 (5.128%) Django
9 1 (2.564%) REST
9 1 (2.564%) JPA
9 1 (2.564%) Drools
9 1 (2.564%) Qt
9 1 (2.564%) WebSphere
9 1 (2.564%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.692%) WordPress
2 1 (2.564%) JCAPS
2 1 (2.564%) Apache
2 1 (2.564%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.564%) Commerce Server
2 1 (2.564%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.564%) CATIA
1 1 (2.564%) Pro/ENGINEER
1 1 (2.564%) Elements/Pro
Business Applications
1 24 (61.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) DVB
2 1 (2.564%) Wireless
2 1 (2.564%) HTTP
2 1 (2.564%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.564%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) MySQL
3 4 (10.26%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.128%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.128%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.564%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.564%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (2.564%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.564%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.564%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (2.564%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Subversion
1 4 (10.26%) JUnit
1 4 (10.26%) Selenium
1 4 (10.26%) Git (software)
2 3 (7.692%) TestNG
2 3 (7.692%) WebDriver
3 2 (5.128%) Cucumber
3 2 (5.128%) Mercurial
3 2 (5.128%) Maven
4 1 (2.564%) JIRA
4 1 (2.564%) WATIR
4 1 (2.564%) FitNesse
4 1 (2.564%) Xcode
4 1 (2.564%) Ant
4 1 (2.564%) Hudson
4 1 (2.564%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.564%) Trac
General
1 29 (74.36%) Electronics
2 28 (71.79%) Telecoms
2 28 (71.79%) Finance
3 27 (69.23%) Marketing
4 24 (61.54%) Manufacturing
5 6 (15.38%) Retail
6 5 (12.82%) Banking
7 1 (2.564%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.564%) Military
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 6 (15.38%) Front-End Developer
3 4 (10.26%) QA Engineer
3 4 (10.26%) JavaScript Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Ruby on Rails Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.692%) Test Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) Design Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Java Developer
5 2 (5.128%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (2.564%) Senior C++ Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Software Design Engineer
6 1 (2.564%) Mechanical Design Engineer
6 1 (2.564%) Mechanical Engineer
6 1 (2.564%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Data Manager
6 1 (2.564%) ETL Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Development Engineer
6 1 (2.564%) Android Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) NHS
1 10 (25.64%) STB
2 7 (17.95%) IPTV
3 6 (15.38%) Digital Media
4 5 (12.82%) FMCG
5 4 (10.26%) Open Source
5 4 (10.26%) Animation
6 3 (7.692%) Streaming Video
6 3 (7.692%) MPEG
6 3 (7.692%) Mobile App
7 2 (5.128%) Computer Science
8 1 (2.564%) iDTV
8 1 (2.564%) Video on Demand
8 1 (2.564%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
2 3 (7.692%) Windows
3 2 (5.128%) UNIX
3 2 (5.128%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (5.128%) Android
4 1 (2.564%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (69.23%) Business Intelligence
2 24 (61.54%) Programme Management
2 24 (61.54%) Digital Marketing
3 11 (28.21%) Scrum
4 10 (25.64%) TDD
5 8 (20.51%) E-Commerce
6 6 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (12.82%) Test Scripting
8 4 (10.26%) Validation
8 4 (10.26%) Web Development
8 4 (10.26%) BDD
9 3 (7.692%) Time Management
9 3 (7.692%) Kanban
9 3 (7.692%) Test Automation
9 3 (7.692%) Test Management
9 3 (7.692%) Software Testing
9 3 (7.692%) Automated Testing
9 3 (7.692%) Service Delivery
9 3 (7.692%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) JavaScript
2 9 (23.08%) Java
2 9 (23.08%) Python
2 9 (23.08%) Ruby
3 8 (20.51%) C
4 5 (12.82%) C++
5 4 (10.26%) C#
5 4 (10.26%) Perl
5 4 (10.26%) Clojure
6 3 (7.692%) SQL
6 3 (7.692%) VB
7 1 (2.564%) PHP
7 1 (2.564%) XPath
7 1 (2.564%) PHP5
7 1 (2.564%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.564%) Embedded C++
7 1 (2.564%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (7.692%) ISEB
1 3 (7.692%) ISTQB
1 3 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (2.564%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) QA
2 1 (2.564%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (2.564%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (61.54%) SAP
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (7.692%) HP
4 2 (5.128%) hybris
4 2 (5.128%) Facebook
4 2 (5.128%) Twitter
5 1 (2.564%) IBM
5 1 (2.564%) EMC
5 1 (2.564%) Autodesk
5 1 (2.564%) ATG
5 1 (2.564%) SolidWorks
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