STB Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited STB over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Set-Top Box (STB)
Rank 210 242 233
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -9
Contract jobs citing STB 10 3 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.126% 0.030% 0.195%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.634% 0.156% 1.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 17
Average daily rate £340 - £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 - £198
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 - £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £333 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -46.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £33.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year
+19.40% -5.63%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 1577 1926 1933
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 19.91% 18.96% 18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 824 798
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 180 179
Average hourly rate £23.75 £27.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.63% -12.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%
STB
England

STB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East STB Jobs Demand Trend

STB
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing STB across the South East region.

South East STB Daily Rate Trend

STB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing STB across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East STB Daily Rate Histogram

STB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East STB Hourly Rate Trend

STB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing STB within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Berkshire - 5 £438 -
Hampshire -9 4 £323 -
Middlesex - 1 £450 -
STB
England

STB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing STB 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 STB.

1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 10 (45.45%) DVB
3 9 (40.91%) DTV
3 9 (40.91%) C
4 8 (36.36%) C++
5 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
5 7 (31.82%) Embedded Systems
6 6 (27.27%) Embedded Software Development
6 6 (27.27%) Java
6 6 (27.27%) Flash
6 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
7 5 (22.73%) Embedded C
7 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
7 5 (22.73%) Middleware
7 5 (22.73%) HP Quality Center
8 4 (18.18%) Bash shell
8 4 (18.18%) UPnP
8 4 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
8 4 (18.18%) QA
8 4 (18.18%) ClearQuest
8 4 (18.18%) HP
8 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
8 4 (18.18%) Streaming Video
8 4 (18.18%) Perl
8 4 (18.18%) PHP
8 4 (18.18%) VB
8 4 (18.18%) IBM
8 4 (18.18%) Data Mining
9 3 (13.64%) UML
9 3 (13.64%) ClearCase

STB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing STB 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 STB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (27.27%) Flash
2 5 (22.73%) Middleware
3 3 (13.64%) HTML
3 3 (13.64%) OpenGL
4 1 (4.545%) CSS
4 1 (4.545%) XML
4 1 (4.545%) DOM
4 1 (4.545%) MHP
4 1 (4.545%) jQuery
4 1 (4.545%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.091%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (9.091%) MS Project
2 2 (9.091%) MS Office
3 1 (4.545%) Photoshop
3 1 (4.545%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 10 (45.45%) DVB
2 4 (18.18%) UPnP
3 2 (9.091%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.545%) LAN
4 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
4 1 (4.545%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) ClearQuest
2 3 (13.64%) ClearCase
3 1 (4.545%) Ant
3 1 (4.545%) TestDirector
General
1 7 (31.82%) Telecoms
2 3 (13.64%) Electronics
3 1 (4.545%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Test Engineer
1 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Flash Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Software Project Manager
2 3 (13.64%) Software Manager
3 2 (9.091%) Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Applications Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Integration Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (40.91%) DTV
2 7 (31.82%) Embedded Systems
3 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
3 4 (18.18%) Streaming Video
4 3 (13.64%) MPEG
4 3 (13.64%) Flash Lite
5 2 (9.091%) IPTV
6 1 (4.545%) MediaHighway
6 1 (4.545%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Embedded Linux
3 2 (9.091%) UNIX
4 1 (4.545%) Windows
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Embedded Software Development
2 4 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (13.64%) UML
3 3 (13.64%) Project Management
3 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
3 3 (13.64%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (9.091%) Software Engineering
4 2 (9.091%) Project Planning
4 2 (9.091%) Configuration Management
4 2 (9.091%) MVC
5 1 (4.545%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) DRM
5 1 (4.545%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Performance Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Software Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.545%) Test Automation
5 1 (4.545%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) C
2 8 (36.36%) C++
3 6 (27.27%) Java
4 5 (22.73%) Embedded C
4 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
5 4 (18.18%) Bash shell
5 4 (18.18%) Perl
5 4 (18.18%) PHP
5 4 (18.18%) VB
6 3 (13.64%) Embedded C++
6 3 (13.64%) ActionScript
6 3 (13.64%) SQL
7 2 (9.091%) ActionScript 2.0
7 2 (9.091%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.545%) ActionScript 3.0
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) HP
1 4 (18.18%) IBM
2 3 (13.64%) Adobe
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.545%) Cisco
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle
4 1 (4.545%) OpenTV
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.545%) Tandberg
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