The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Smart Meter over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Smart Metering
Rank 375 411 415
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +4
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 2 4 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.015% 0.087%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.028% 0.046% 0.229%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
Average daily rate £375 £525 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +5.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £363 £450
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £29.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
7191 8651 11771
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 33.20% 32.11% 37.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4968 5870 7935
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 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 209 196
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.22% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £13.49 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.40 £52.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Smart Meter
England

Smart Meter
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Smart Meter Jobs Demand Trend

Smart Meter
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Smart Meter Daily Rate Trend

Smart Meter
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Smart Meter 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 Smart Meter.

1 6 (42.86%) CRM
2 5 (35.71%) Billing
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
3 4 (28.57%) MapReduce
3 4 (28.57%) HBase
3 4 (28.57%) Mahout
3 4 (28.57%) Big Data
3 4 (28.57%) Apache Pig
3 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
4 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
4 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
4 3 (21.43%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
5 2 (14.29%) SAP
5 2 (14.29%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Load Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
6 1 (7.143%) PKI
6 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
6 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (7.143%) SAP PI
6 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
6 1 (7.143%) Finance
6 1 (7.143%) SAP CRM
6 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis

Smart Meter
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Smart Meter 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 Smart Meter. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (28.57%) MapReduce
2 1 (7.143%) SAP PI
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP IS-U
2 1 (7.143%) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) VPN
1 1 (7.143%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Hadoop
1 4 (28.57%) HBase
1 4 (28.57%) Mahout
1 4 (28.57%) Big Data
1 4 (28.57%) Apache Hive
2 3 (21.43%) NoSQL
2 3 (21.43%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (35.71%) Billing
2 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Business Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
5 1 (7.143%) Business Data Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Performance Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Author
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Author
5 1 (7.143%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Technical Writer
5 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Data Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) CRM
2 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) Data Architecture
3 3 (21.43%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
3 3 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 1 (7.143%) Performance Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Load Testing
4 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (7.143%) Security Architecture
4 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.143%) TOGAF
4 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) ISEB
1 1 (7.143%) CISSP
1 1 (7.143%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (7.143%) Business Objects
2 1 (7.143%) CA