The first table below looks at the demand for RTSP skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited RTSP 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)
Rank 522 581 581
Rank change year-on-year
+59 0
Contract jobs citing RTSP 7 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.005% 0.005%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.104% 0.033% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
Average daily rate £450 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £350 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £350 £314
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - £300
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6757 9144 7905
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 14.57% 15.68% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 3304 4153 3577
Average daily rate £350 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 606 804
Average hourly rate £21.34 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%

RTSP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing RTSP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

RTSP Jobs Demand Trend

RTSP
Daily Rate Trend

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

RTSP Daily Rate Trend

RTSP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing RTSP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

RTSP Daily Rate Histogram

RTSP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

RTSP Hourly Rate Trend

RTSP
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RTSP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +50 7 £450 +28.57%
London +41 6 £450 +28.57%
South West - 1 £300 -

RTSP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RTSP 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 RTSP.

1 16 (94.12%) Apache
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) HTTP
2 15 (88.24%) RTP
3 14 (82.35%) SSL
3 14 (82.35%) Samba
3 14 (82.35%) Penetration Testing
3 14 (82.35%) Firewall
3 14 (82.35%) Network Security
3 14 (82.35%) DNS
3 14 (82.35%) JBoss
3 14 (82.35%) SAN
3 14 (82.35%) MySQL
3 14 (82.35%) Oracle
3 14 (82.35%) SOAP
3 14 (82.35%) NAS
3 14 (82.35%) CouchDB
3 14 (82.35%) MongoDB
3 14 (82.35%) NoSQL
3 14 (82.35%) REST
3 14 (82.35%) Redis
4 13 (76.47%) PHP
4 13 (76.47%) JIRA
5 12 (70.59%) Selenium
5 12 (70.59%) Maven
5 12 (70.59%) Java
5 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
5 12 (70.59%) Rackspace
5 12 (70.59%) Jenkins
5 12 (70.59%) Hudson

RTSP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing RTSP 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 RTSP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (82.35%) SOAP
1 14 (82.35%) REST
2 10 (58.82%) HTML5
2 10 (58.82%) XML
2 10 (58.82%) DHTML
2 10 (58.82%) HTML
2 10 (58.82%) Flash
2 10 (58.82%) J2EE
2 10 (58.82%) WSRP
2 10 (58.82%) JSR 168
2 10 (58.82%) Java EE
2 10 (58.82%) Ajax
3 9 (52.94%) .NET
4 8 (47.06%) LAMP
5 1 (5.882%) WAP
Application Platforms
1 16 (94.12%) Apache
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (58.82%) Amazon AWS
2 10 (58.82%) Tomcat
3 2 (11.76%) IIS
4 1 (5.882%) LiveSite
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) HTTP
1 15 (88.24%) RTP
2 14 (82.35%) SSL
2 14 (82.35%) Firewall
2 14 (82.35%) Network Security
2 14 (82.35%) DNS
2 14 (82.35%) SAN
2 14 (82.35%) NAS
3 2 (11.76%) DVB
4 1 (5.882%) ICMP
4 1 (5.882%) RTCP
4 1 (5.882%) POP3
4 1 (5.882%) SMTP
4 1 (5.882%) FTP
4 1 (5.882%) IMAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (82.35%) MySQL
1 14 (82.35%) CouchDB
1 14 (82.35%) MongoDB
1 14 (82.35%) NoSQL
1 14 (82.35%) Redis
2 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
3 10 (58.82%) RDBMS
3 10 (58.82%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (23.53%) Hadoop
4 4 (23.53%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) JIRA
2 12 (70.59%) Selenium
2 12 (70.59%) Maven
2 12 (70.59%) Jenkins
2 12 (70.59%) Hudson
2 12 (70.59%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (47.06%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Web Engineer
4 4 (23.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Web Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Linux Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Storage Systems Administrator
7 1 (5.882%) Testing Manager
7 1 (5.882%) Test Manager
7 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
7 1 (5.882%) Telecoms Engineer
7 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Taxonomies
1 10 (58.82%) Ontologies
2 8 (47.06%) Open Source
3 3 (17.65%) Client/Server
4 2 (11.76%) IPTV
4 2 (11.76%) Video on Demand
5 1 (5.882%) STB
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 6 (35.29%) UNIX
3 3 (17.65%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Penetration Testing
2 10 (58.82%) Information Architecture
2 10 (58.82%) DRM
2 10 (58.82%) SOA
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (58.82%) Load Balancing
3 5 (29.41%) E-Commerce
4 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (76.47%) PHP
2 12 (70.59%) Java
3 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 10 (58.82%) Perl
4 3 (17.65%) C
5 1 (5.882%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) QA
System Software
1 14 (82.35%) Samba
Systems Management
1 10 (58.82%) ZABBIX
1 10 (58.82%) Nagios
1 10 (58.82%) OpenView
2 6 (35.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) JBoss
1 14 (82.35%) Oracle
2 12 (70.59%) Rackspace
3 6 (35.29%) RightScale
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