Smart Meter Contracts in the South East

Smart Metering
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Meter over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 189 215 223
Rank change year-on-year +26 +8 -27
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 11 11 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.20% 0.19% 0.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.70% 0.56% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 29
10th Percentile - £319 £493
25th Percentile £413 £422 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -17.50% +96.72%
75th Percentile £480 £538 £738
90th Percentile £492 £719 -
England median daily rate £495 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -5.71% -8.70% +35.29%

All Generic Skills
South East

Smart Meter is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,573 1,980 2,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 28.47% 33.97% 34.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 919 1,340 1,705
10th Percentile £205 £213 £213
25th Percentile £359 £386 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +2.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £725 £675
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 89 121
10th Percentile £11.72 £18.25 £16.11
25th Percentile £18.35 £20.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £47.19 £52.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.12% +144.19% -33.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Smart Meter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Meter in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Meter in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Smart Meter in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smart Meter in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Smart Meter in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Meter within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +8 5 £438 +6.71% 22
Hampshire +2 4 - - 14
Berkshire -6 4 £450 +9.76% 12
Buckinghamshire - 1 £425 - 3
Surrey - 1 £500 - 5
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (54.55%) Power Platform
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Functions
3 5 (45.45%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) IaaS
5 1 (9.09%) AWS
5 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub
5 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) LTE
1 1 (9.09%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Power BI
2 5 (45.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (36.36%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (27.27%) MongoDB
4 3 (27.27%) MySQL
4 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (27.27%) RDBMS
4 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
1 3 (27.27%) GitLab
General
1 5 (45.45%) Telecoms
2 1 (9.09%) Billing
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Data Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Integration Architect
4 1 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Support
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (27.27%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (9.09%) Clustering
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) NB-IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
1 7 (63.64%) Unix
2 5 (45.45%) Windows
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (27.27%) VMS
4 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Scrum
2 7 (63.64%) Analytics
3 6 (54.55%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (54.55%) ETL
3 6 (54.55%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (45.45%) Data Engineering
4 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
4 5 (45.45%) ETL Development
5 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Data Science
5 4 (36.36%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (36.36%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (36.36%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (36.36%) User Stories
6 3 (27.27%) Agile
6 3 (27.27%) Build Automation
6 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
6 3 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Bash
2 3 (27.27%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.09%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) vSphere
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
1 3 (27.27%) Packer
1 3 (27.27%) vRealize
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (9.09%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Ab Initio
2 3 (27.27%) Arqiva
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Veritas
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) Dell
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds