The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term DTV in IT contracts advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DTV 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 Staines 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
Digital Television (DTV)
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing DTV 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 4.688% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £125 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £37.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
54 25 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 42.19% 19.23% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 12
Average daily rate £400 £517 £451
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.63% +14.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £399 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £586 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
Average hourly rate £35.00 £41.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.66% +3.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
DTV
Surrey

DTV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines DTV Jobs Demand Trend

DTV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staines DTV Hourly Rate Trend

DTV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing DTV 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 DTV.

1 13 (92.86%) C
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) OpenGL
2 8 (57.14%) Electronics
2 8 (57.14%) Device Driver
2 8 (57.14%) C++
2 8 (57.14%) Embedded Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Smartphone
2 8 (57.14%) GLSL
2 8 (57.14%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (35.71%) ClearCase
3 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
4 4 (28.57%) POSIX
4 4 (28.57%) CM System
5 1 (7.143%) Test Strategy
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (7.143%) Test Automation
5 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
5 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
5 1 (7.143%) DNS
5 1 (7.143%) HP
5 1 (7.143%) ISEB
5 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.143%) SQL
5 1 (7.143%) Oracle
5 1 (7.143%) UNIX
5 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.143%) Python

DTV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (57.14%) OpenGL
2 4 (28.57%) POSIX
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) CM System
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) ClearCase
General
1 8 (57.14%) Electronics
2 5 (35.71%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 1 (7.143%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Device Driver
1 8 (57.14%) Smartphone
1 8 (57.14%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Linux
2 8 (57.14%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.143%) Test Strategy
1 1 (7.143%) Test Automation
1 1 (7.143%) Software Testing
1 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C
2 8 (57.14%) C++
2 8 (57.14%) GLSL
3 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
3 1 (7.143%) PL/SQL
3 1 (7.143%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (7.143%) HP
1 1 (7.143%) Oracle