Somerset STB Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Set-Top Box (STB) skills within the Somerset region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited STB over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Set-Top Box (STB)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bournemouth Brentford Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Devon Dorset East of England England Hampshire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands North West Osterley Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South East South West Southampton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wiltshire Wokingham	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£383	£306
% change on same period last year	+25.17 %
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	£41.60	£37.23
% change on same period last year	+11.74 %
Miscellaneous Somerset
Matching contract IT job ads	15	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£296
Average daily rate	£310	£302
% change on same period last year	+2.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£343
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£24.13
Average hourly rate	£11.50	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-55.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	£27.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.46	£25.58
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
STB South West

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.

STB
Demand Trend

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

STB
Hourly Rate Trend

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