The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Interactive TV in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Interactive TV over the 3 months to 20 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.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Interactive Television
Rank 514 557 560
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +3
Contract jobs citing Interactive TV 19 16 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.041% 0.027% 0.046%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.155% 0.112% 0.165%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 19
Average daily rate £375 £313 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% +7.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £263 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £447
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £363 £440
% change year-on-year
+30.89% -17.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12273 14324 16984
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.38% 24.55% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7382 8428 10080
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £251 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 539 660 718
Average hourly rate £22.66 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.47% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.05 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%

Interactive TV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Interactive TV Daily Rate Trend

Interactive TV
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Interactive TV within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Interactive TV Daily Rate Histogram

Interactive TV
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Interactive TV within the UK.

Interactive TV Hourly Rate Trend

Interactive TV
Top 9 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 UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +61 14 £325 +4.00%
London +23 12 £375 +25.00%
Scotland - 5 £475 -
Stirling - 5 £475 -
Stirlingshire - 5 £475 -
City of London +21 3 £325 -
North West +13 2 £311 -14.13%
Manchester +8 2 £311 -14.13%
Salford +1 2 £311 -14.13%

Interactive TV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 20 (57.14%) Scrum
2 14 (40.00%) Linux
3 13 (37.14%) Java
3 13 (37.14%) CSS
4 12 (34.29%) Web Services
4 12 (34.29%) Flash
4 12 (34.29%) IPTV
5 11 (31.43%) TDD
5 11 (31.43%) ActionScript
5 11 (31.43%) HTML
6 10 (28.57%) Internet
6 10 (28.57%) Games
6 10 (28.57%) Ruby
7 9 (25.71%) Retail
7 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
7 9 (25.71%) PHP
7 9 (25.71%) HTML5
7 9 (25.71%) Web Application Development
8 8 (22.86%) Photoshop
8 8 (22.86%) Streaming Video
8 8 (22.86%) Adobe Illustrator
9 7 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (20.00%) Marketing
9 7 (20.00%) Video on Demand
9 7 (20.00%) BDD
10 6 (17.14%) Pair Programming
10 6 (17.14%) Content Management
10 6 (17.14%) Publishing
10 6 (17.14%) E-Commerce
11 5 (14.29%) OO

Interactive TV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 13 (37.14%) CSS
2 12 (34.29%) Web Services
2 12 (34.29%) Flash
3 11 (31.43%) HTML
4 9 (25.71%) HTML5
5 4 (11.43%) RESTful
5 4 (11.43%) CSS3
5 4 (11.43%) XML
5 4 (11.43%) Spring
5 4 (11.43%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (11.43%) JSON
6 2 (5.714%) Hibernate
6 2 (5.714%) XSLT
6 2 (5.714%) J2EE
6 2 (5.714%) JAX-RS
6 2 (5.714%) DHTML
6 2 (5.714%) REST
7 1 (2.857%) Guava
7 1 (2.857%) iPhone SDK
7 1 (2.857%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.857%) Apache
1 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (22.86%) Photoshop
1 8 (22.86%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (8.571%) MS Office
3 2 (5.714%) Adobe After Effects
3 2 (5.714%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) Internet
2 4 (11.43%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (11.43%) Wireless
2 4 (11.43%) Broadband
3 2 (5.714%) SSH
4 1 (2.857%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.571%) MySQL
2 3 (8.571%) CouchDB
3 2 (5.714%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.714%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Git (software)
2 3 (8.571%) Cucumber
2 3 (8.571%) Subversion
2 3 (8.571%) Maven
2 3 (8.571%) JIRA
3 2 (5.714%) Axure RP
3 2 (5.714%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.857%) Xcode
4 1 (2.857%) Hudson
4 1 (2.857%) Robotium
4 1 (2.857%) Selenium
4 1 (2.857%) Firebug
4 1 (2.857%) Expression Blend
General
1 10 (28.57%) Games
2 9 (25.71%) Retail
3 7 (20.00%) Marketing
4 6 (17.14%) Publishing
5 5 (14.29%) Interactive Media
6 1 (2.857%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.857%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Developer
2 9 (25.71%) Software Developer
3 7 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Designer
5 5 (14.29%) Interactive Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Interactive Developer
5 5 (14.29%) UI Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior UI Developer
5 5 (14.29%) UI Programmer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Senior Software Developer
5 5 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 5 (14.29%) Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Web Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Applications Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Web Applications Developer
7 3 (8.571%) Digital Designer
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Digital Designer
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (34.29%) IPTV
2 8 (22.86%) Streaming Video
3 7 (20.00%) Video on Demand
4 5 (14.29%) Digital Media
4 5 (14.29%) New Media
4 5 (14.29%) Mobile App
4 5 (14.29%) Social Network
5 4 (11.43%) Smartphone
6 3 (8.571%) Web 2.0
6 3 (8.571%) Semantic Web
6 3 (8.571%) MHEG
7 2 (5.714%) Graphic Design
8 1 (2.857%) iPhone
8 1 (2.857%) Client/Server
8 1 (2.857%) Blackberry
8 1 (2.857%) Open Source
8 1 (2.857%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 14 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (11.43%) Windows
3 2 (5.714%) UNIX
4 1 (2.857%) Mac OS X
4 1 (2.857%) Windows Mobile
4 1 (2.857%) Android
4 1 (2.857%) bada
4 1 (2.857%) Maemo
4 1 (2.857%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.857%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Scrum
2 11 (31.43%) TDD
3 9 (25.71%) Web Application Development
4 7 (20.00%) BDD
4 7 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (17.14%) Pair Programming
5 6 (17.14%) Content Management
5 6 (17.14%) E-Commerce
6 5 (14.29%) UML
6 5 (14.29%) OO
6 5 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.43%) Business Analysis
7 4 (11.43%) MVC
7 4 (11.43%) Test Scripting
7 4 (11.43%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.43%) Software Testing
8 3 (8.571%) Test Automation
8 3 (8.571%) Use Case
8 3 (8.571%) User Stories
8 3 (8.571%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Java
2 11 (31.43%) ActionScript
3 10 (28.57%) Ruby
4 9 (25.71%) PHP
4 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
5 4 (11.43%) C#
5 4 (11.43%) C++
5 4 (11.43%) SQL
5 4 (11.43%) ActionScript 3.0
5 4 (11.43%) ActionScript 2.0
6 3 (8.571%) Perl
7 2 (5.714%) XQuery
7 2 (5.714%) Bash shell
7 2 (5.714%) XPath
7 2 (5.714%) SPARQL
8 1 (2.857%) C
8 1 (2.857%) XAML
8 1 (2.857%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (2.857%) ISEB
1 1 (2.857%) ISTQB
1 1 (2.857%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (8.571%) OpenTV
2 2 (5.714%) Adobe
3 1 (2.857%) Apple
3 1 (2.857%) Symbian