The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Interactive TV in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Interactive TV 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 Manchester 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
Interactive Television
Rank 73 78 67
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -11
Contract jobs citing Interactive TV 2 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.214% 0.387% 0.480%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.905% 1.852% 2.381%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
Average daily rate £311 £375 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.00% -14.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £375 £365
% change year-on-year
+26.53% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
221 270 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 23.69% 20.90% 20.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 109 88
Average daily rate £302 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £191 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £436 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 21 20
Average hourly rate £13.50 £20.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.14% +57.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.08 £17.00 £9.74
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.49 £33.30 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Interactive TV
North West

Interactive TV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Interactive TV Jobs Demand Trend

Interactive TV
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Interactive TV Daily Rate Trend

Interactive TV
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Interactive TV within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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
Salford -3 2 £311 -17.00%
Interactive TV
North West

Interactive TV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Publishing
2 4 (80.00%) Streaming Video
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (60.00%) JSON
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Semantic Web
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) RESTful
4 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Social Network
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Web 2.0
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) XPath
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) New Media
4 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
4 2 (40.00%) MarkLogic
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT
4 2 (40.00%) Java
4 2 (40.00%) J2EE

Interactive TV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (60.00%) XML
1 3 (60.00%) JSON
2 2 (40.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) JAX-RS
2 2 (40.00%) XSLT
2 2 (40.00%) J2EE
2 2 (40.00%) Web Services
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Series 60
3 1 (20.00%) iOS SDK
3 1 (20.00%) iPhone SDK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
1 2 (40.00%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) Robotium
2 1 (20.00%) Firebug
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (80.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Streaming Video
2 3 (60.00%) Semantic Web
3 2 (40.00%) Social Network
3 2 (40.00%) Web 2.0
3 2 (40.00%) New Media
4 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) bada
1 1 (20.00%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) Content Management
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) RDF
4 2 (40.00%) UML
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Benchmarking
4 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) Competitor Analysis
5 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SPARQL
1 2 (40.00%) XPath
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) XQuery
1 2 (40.00%) Ruby
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Symbian