London Interactive TV Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Interactive Television skills within the London region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Interactive TV over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Interactive Television
Location Berkshire City of London England London Reading South East UK	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	377	409
Rank change on same period last year	+32
Matching contract IT job ads	39	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.068 %
As % of the category below	0.424 %	0.492 %
Daily rates quoted	16	13
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£273
Average daily rate	£322	£292
% change on same period last year	+10.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£312
UK excluding London average daily rate	-	£250
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£9.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Miscellaneous London
Matching contract IT job ads	9192	13824
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	12.13 %	13.77 %
Daily rates quoted	4581	6096
Average minimum daily rate	£473	£491
Average daily rate	£510	£527
% change on same period last year	-3.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£547	£563
UK excluding London average daily rate	£351	£352
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	360	466
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.18	£23.94
Average hourly rate	£27.07	£25.78
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.97	£27.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.25	£28.69
% change on same period last year	-11.97 %
Interactive TV England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Interactive TV
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Interactive TV across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Interactive TV
Daily Rate Trend

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

Interactive TV
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Interactive TV across the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Interactive TV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Interactive TV
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interactive TV within the London region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-25	4	£328	+0.25 %

Interactive TV England

Interactive TV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 29 (41.43 %) Agile Software Development 2 13 (18.57 %) Project Management 2 13 (18.57 %) XML 2 13 (18.57 %) Psychology 3 12 (17.14 %) IPTV 3 12 (17.14 %) Degree 3 12 (17.14 %) HTML 4 11 (15.71 %) JavaScript 4 11 (15.71 %) Industrial Design 5 10 (14.29 %) OpenTV 5 10 (14.29 %) QA 5 10 (14.29 %) Perl 5 10 (14.29 %) C 5 10 (14.29 %) Finance 5 10 (14.29 %) C++

6 9 (12.86 %) Internet 7 8 (11.43 %) DTV 8 7 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (5.714 %) .NET 10 3 (4.286 %) MS Project 10 3 (4.286 %) ASP.NET 10 3 (4.286 %) C# 10 3 (4.286 %) Flash 10 3 (4.286 %) DSDM 10 3 (4.286 %) RUP 10 3 (4.286 %) Stakeholder Management 10 3 (4.286 %) Social Network 10 3 (4.286 %) Risk Analysis 10 3 (4.286 %) Scrum 10 3 (4.286 %) User Acceptance Testing

Interactive TV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 13 (18.57 %) XML 2 12 (17.14 %) HTML 3 4 (5.714 %) .NET 4 3 (4.286 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (2.857 %) AJAX 6 1 (1.429 %) CSS 6 1 (1.429 %) XHTML 6 1 (1.429 %) RSS 6 1 (1.429 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 1 (1.429 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (1.429 %) Apache 1 1 (1.429 %) Tomcat 1 1 (1.429 %) SharePoint 1 1 (1.429 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (4.286 %) MS Project 2 2 (2.857 %) MS Visio 3 1 (1.429 %) Photoshop 3 1 (1.429 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.429 %) ImageReady 3 1 (1.429 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.429 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.429 %) InfoPath 3 1 (1.429 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 9 (12.86 %) Internet 2 1 (1.429 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (2.857 %) MySQL 1 2 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.429 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 3 (4.286 %) Flash 2 1 (1.429 %) Visual Studio
General 1 10 (14.29 %) Finance 2 2 (2.857 %) Interactive Media 2 2 (2.857 %) Advertising 3 1 (1.429 %) Education 3 1 (1.429 %) Legal 3 1 (1.429 %) Telecoms 3 1 (1.429 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.429 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 15 (21.43 %) Project Manager 2 14 (20.00 %) Consultant 3 5 (7.143 %) QA Manager 4 3 (4.286 %) .NET Developer 4 3 (4.286 %) Programme Manager 4 3 (4.286 %) Developer 4 3 (4.286 %) Resource Manager 4 3 (4.286 %) Test Consultant 5 2 (2.857 %) Analyst 5 2 (2.857 %) Test Manager 5 2 (2.857 %) C# Developer 5 2 (2.857 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (1.429 %) Test Engineer 6 1 (1.429 %) Web Designer 6 1 (1.429 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (1.429 %) Systems Administrator 6 1 (1.429 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (1.429 %) Administrator 6 1 (1.429 %) Interactive Designer 6 1 (1.429 %) QA Test Manager
Miscellaneous 1 13 (18.57 %) Psychology 2 12 (17.14 %) IPTV 3 8 (11.43 %) DTV 4 3 (4.286 %) Social Network 5 2 (2.857 %) Web 2.0 5 2 (2.857 %) iDTV 5 2 (2.857 %) BBC 6 1 (1.429 %) RIA	Operating Systems 1 2 (2.857 %) Windows 1 2 (2.857 %) Linux 2 1 (1.429 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (1.429 %) Solaris 2 1 (1.429 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.429 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (1.429 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (41.43 %) Agile Software Development 2 13 (18.57 %) Project Management 3 11 (15.71 %) Industrial Design 4 7 (10.00 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (4.286 %) DSDM 5 3 (4.286 %) RUP 5 3 (4.286 %) Stakeholder Management 5 3 (4.286 %) Risk Analysis 5 3 (4.286 %) Scrum 5 3 (4.286 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (2.857 %) Performance Testing 6 2 (2.857 %) Load Testing 6 2 (2.857 %) Security Testing 6 2 (2.857 %) Pay per click 6 2 (2.857 %) Software Testing 6 2 (2.857 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (1.429 %) UML 7 1 (1.429 %) OO 7 1 (1.429 %) Change Management 7 1 (1.429 %) GAP Analysis	Programming Languages 1 11 (15.71 %) JavaScript 2 10 (14.29 %) Perl 2 10 (14.29 %) C 2 10 (14.29 %) C++ 3 3 (4.286 %) C# 4 2 (2.857 %) PHP 5 1 (1.429 %) VB.NET 5 1 (1.429 %) Java
Qualifications 1 12 (17.14 %) Degree 2 2 (2.857 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.857 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.429 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (14.29 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.429 %) Squid	Vendors 1 10 (14.29 %) OpenTV 2 2 (2.857 %) Microsoft 3 1 (1.429 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.429 %) Red Hat