Smart Meter Contracts

Smart Metering
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Meter over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 692 771
Rank change year-on-year +117 +79 -136
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 23 27 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.053% 0.045% 0.088%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 63
10th Percentile £413 £424 £363
25th Percentile £419 £472 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £584 £628 £600
90th Percentile £668 £655 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £513 £600
% change year-on-year -4.39% -14.58% +41.18%

All Generic Skills
UK

Smart Meter is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Smart Meter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Meter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Meter.

Daily rate trend for Smart Meter in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Meter over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Meter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smart Meter.

Hourly rate trend for Smart Meter in the UK

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Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Meter within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +122 20 £495 -5.71% 239
UK excluding London +63 15 £490 -4.39% 233
South East +26 11 £450 -9.09% 80
Work from Home +135 10 £490 -18.33% 41
London +100 5 £675 +12.50% 31
North of England +31 3 £635 +20.95% 40
Yorkshire - 3 £635 - 24
Midlands +23 1 £510 +2.00% 33
West Midlands - 1 £510 - 18

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 5 (21.74%) Azure Functions
3 5 (21.74%) Serverless
4 3 (13.04%) IaaS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) GitHub
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) Internet
1 1 (4.35%) LTE
1 1 (4.35%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 5 (21.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (17.39%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (13.04%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.04%) MySQL
4 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (13.04%) RDBMS
4 3 (13.04%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) GitLab
General
1 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
2 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (17.39%) Analyst
1 4 (17.39%) Architect
1 4 (17.39%) Azure Data Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (17.39%) Data Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Contracts Manager
2 3 (13.04%) IT Manager
2 3 (13.04%) IT Project Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
2 3 (13.04%) Smart Metering Project Manager
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Smart Metering Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) XML
2 2 (8.70%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.04%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.35%) Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) NB-IoT
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Unix
2 7 (30.43%) Linux
3 5 (21.74%) Windows
4 3 (13.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (13.04%) VMS
5 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Scrum
2 7 (30.43%) Analytics
3 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) ETL
3 6 (26.09%) Impact Assessments
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (26.09%) User Stories
4 5 (21.74%) Agile
4 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
4 5 (21.74%) Data Modelling
4 5 (21.74%) ETL Development
4 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (17.39%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (17.39%) Data Science
5 4 (17.39%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (17.39%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) Project Delivery
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) Bash
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) COBOL
3 1 (4.35%) Micro Focus COBOL
3 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
1 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) HND
3 1 (4.35%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (4.35%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) vSphere
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Packer
1 3 (13.04%) vRealize
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Ab Initio
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Arqiva
3 3 (13.04%) Veritas
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Dell
4 1 (4.35%) Micro Focus
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) SolarWinds