The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of OpenTV products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenTV over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the OpenTV Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
OpenTV
Rank 527 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing OpenTV 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.014% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £388 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

OpenTV
Jobs Demand Trend

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

OpenTV Jobs Demand Trend

OpenTV
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenTV within the UK.

OpenTV Daily Rate Trend

OpenTV
Hourly Rate Trend

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

OpenTV Hourly Rate Trend

OpenTV
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenTV within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 - 3 £388 -
London - 3 £388 -

OpenTV
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenTV 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 OpenTV.

1 4 (80.00%) C++
1 4 (80.00%) Flash
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (80.00%) IPTV
2 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) MHEG
2 3 (60.00%) CouchDB
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) Internet
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Games
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Interactive TV

OpenTV
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing OpenTV 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 OpenTV. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) Flash
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 1 (20.00%) WML
3 1 (20.00%) Middleware
3 1 (20.00%) MHP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) TestDirector
General
1 3 (60.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Interactive Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) IPTV
2 3 (60.00%) MHEG
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (60.00%) Interactive TV
3 1 (20.00%) MediaHighway
3 1 (20.00%) DTV
3 1 (20.00%) STB
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 3.0
2 3 (60.00%) ActionScript 2.0
2 3 (60.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) VB
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center