The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Streaming Video in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Streaming Video over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Video Streaming
Rank 470 527 540
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +13
Contract jobs citing Streaming Video 71 38 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.153% 0.065% 0.074%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.578% 0.265% 0.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 16 20
Average daily rate £400 £328 £354
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+22.13% -7.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £249 £250 £309
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £533
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £326 £425
% change year-on-year
+7.27% -23.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12277 14313 17463
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.50% 24.52% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7372 8397 10373
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 533 663 738
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.25 £45.00 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%

Streaming Video
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Streaming Video Jobs Demand Trend

Streaming Video
Daily Rate Trend

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

Streaming Video Daily Rate Trend

Streaming Video
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Streaming Video within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Streaming Video Daily Rate Histogram

Streaming Video
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Streaming Video Hourly Rate Trend

Streaming Video
Top 26 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Streaming Video within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +84 70 £400 +16.36%
London +44 27 £440 +28.00%
East of England - 27 £315 -
Hertfordshire - 27 £315 -
Stevenage - 11 - -
South East +14 8 £400 +23.07%
City of London +22 5 £440 +76.00%
Surrey +20 4 - -
Berkshire +20 4 £400 -
Guildford - 4 - -
Manchester +14 3 £311 -17.00%
North West +13 3 £311 -17.00%
Nottingham - 3 £350 -
Nottinghamshire - 3 £350 -
East Midlands - 3 £350 -
Salford +1 2 £311 -17.00%
South West - 2 £200 -
Bristol - 2 £200 -
Docklands, London - 2 £240 -
Reading +14 1 - -
Aberdeen -1 1 - -
Brentford -10 1 £425 +11.47%
Scotland -19 1 - -
Osterley - 1 £520 -
Hitchin - 1 - -
Bracknell - 1 £400 -

Streaming Video
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Streaming Video 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 Streaming Video.

1 65 (53.72%) Java
2 59 (48.76%) Android
3 44 (36.36%) JavaScript
4 37 (30.58%) XML
5 35 (28.93%) Linux
6 32 (26.45%) IPTV
7 31 (25.62%) CSS
7 31 (25.62%) HTML
8 30 (24.79%) C++
9 29 (23.97%) JBoss
9 29 (23.97%) Telecoms
10 28 (23.14%) C
11 27 (22.31%) HTML5
12 26 (21.49%) Subversion
12 26 (21.49%) 3G
12 26 (21.49%) Symantec
13 25 (20.66%) Scrum
13 25 (20.66%) TDD
14 24 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
15 23 (19.01%) jQuery
16 22 (18.18%) Ruby
16 22 (18.18%) MySQL
16 22 (18.18%) Python
17 20 (16.53%) Oracle
18 19 (15.70%) CSS3
19 18 (14.88%) SQL Server
19 18 (14.88%) RDBMS
19 18 (14.88%) Ajax
20 17 (14.05%) Ruby on Rails
20 17 (14.05%) Mobile App

Streaming Video
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Streaming Video 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 Streaming Video. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 37 (30.58%) XML
2 31 (25.62%) CSS
2 31 (25.62%) HTML
3 27 (22.31%) HTML5
4 23 (19.01%) jQuery
5 19 (15.70%) CSS3
6 18 (14.88%) Ajax
7 17 (14.05%) Ruby on Rails
8 16 (13.22%) Django
9 13 (10.74%) JNI
10 12 (9.917%) JSON
11 8 (6.612%) RESTful
12 7 (5.785%) Spring
13 6 (4.959%) REST
13 6 (4.959%) DOM
13 6 (4.959%) J2EE
13 6 (4.959%) OpenGL
14 5 (4.132%) XHTML
15 4 (3.306%) Web Services
16 3 (2.479%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.479%) CMS
2 2 (1.653%) Lync
2 2 (1.653%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.826%) Apache
3 1 (0.826%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.826%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.826%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (0.826%) Amazon S3
3 1 (0.826%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (0.826%) Drupal
Applications
1 10 (8.264%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.306%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.826%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.653%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.49%) 3G
2 13 (10.74%) Bluetooth
2 13 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
3 5 (4.132%) HTTP
4 4 (3.306%) UPnP
4 4 (3.306%) DVB
5 3 (2.479%) Internet
5 3 (2.479%) Broadband
6 2 (1.653%) LAN
6 2 (1.653%) VoIP
6 2 (1.653%) Firewall
7 1 (0.826%) BGP
7 1 (0.826%) RTP
7 1 (0.826%) SS7
7 1 (0.826%) OSPF
7 1 (0.826%) INAP
7 1 (0.826%) H.323
7 1 (0.826%) Softphone
7 1 (0.826%) ATM
7 1 (0.826%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (18.18%) MySQL
2 18 (14.88%) SQL Server
2 18 (14.88%) RDBMS
3 8 (6.612%) Data Mining
4 3 (2.479%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.479%) SQLite
5 2 (1.653%) MarkLogic
5 2 (1.653%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.826%) MS Access
6 1 (0.826%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 26 (21.49%) Subversion
2 4 (3.306%) ClearQuest
3 3 (2.479%) Git (software)
4 2 (1.653%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.653%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.826%) Bugzilla
5 1 (0.826%) JUnit
5 1 (0.826%) Flash Builder
5 1 (0.826%) Jasmine
General
1 29 (23.97%) Telecoms
2 12 (9.917%) Games
3 5 (4.132%) Publishing
3 5 (4.132%) Multimedia
4 4 (3.306%) Electronics
4 4 (3.306%) Finance
5 3 (2.479%) Marketing
6 2 (1.653%) Banking
6 2 (1.653%) Retail
6 2 (1.653%) Music
6 2 (1.653%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 91 (75.21%) Developer
2 52 (42.98%) Android Developer
3 16 (13.22%) Ruby on Rails Developer
4 10 (8.264%) Analyst
5 8 (6.612%) Business Analyst
6 6 (4.959%) Java Developer
6 6 (4.959%) Web Developer
7 4 (3.306%) Development Engineer
7 4 (3.306%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.306%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.306%) Applications Developer
8 3 (2.479%) Senior Developer
8 3 (2.479%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 3 (2.479%) Mobile Developer
8 3 (2.479%) PHP Developer
9 2 (1.653%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (1.653%) Senior Java Software Engineer
9 2 (1.653%) Designer
9 2 (1.653%) Senior Designer
9 2 (1.653%) Front-End Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (26.45%) IPTV
2 17 (14.05%) Mobile App
3 15 (12.40%) Open Source
4 13 (10.74%) Device Driver
5 11 (9.091%) Social Media
6 10 (8.264%) Video on Demand
7 8 (6.612%) New Media
8 7 (5.785%) Interactive TV
9 6 (4.959%) Computer Science
10 5 (4.132%) Management Information System
10 5 (4.132%) Client/Server
11 4 (3.306%) Kinect
11 4 (3.306%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (3.306%) STB
11 4 (3.306%) Social Network
11 4 (3.306%) Visualisation
11 4 (3.306%) iPhone
11 4 (3.306%) DTV
12 3 (2.479%) Blackberry
12 3 (2.479%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 59 (48.76%) Android
2 35 (28.93%) Linux
3 13 (10.74%) Embedded Linux
4 12 (9.917%) Windows
5 5 (4.132%) Windows 8
6 4 (3.306%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.653%) Windows Phone
7 2 (1.653%) Windows Phone 8
7 2 (1.653%) UNIX
8 1 (0.826%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.826%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (20.66%) Scrum
1 25 (20.66%) TDD
2 24 (19.83%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (9.091%) OO
4 9 (7.438%) Test Automation
4 9 (7.438%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (7.438%) Mobile Application Development
5 7 (5.785%) BDD
5 7 (5.785%) Content Management
5 7 (5.785%) Software Engineering
6 4 (3.306%) Analytics
6 4 (3.306%) Test Strategy
6 4 (3.306%) Automated Testing
6 4 (3.306%) Data Analysis
6 4 (3.306%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (3.306%) Game Development
6 4 (3.306%) Software Architecture
6 4 (3.306%) Process Architecture
6 4 (3.306%) UML
6 4 (3.306%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 65 (53.72%) Java
2 44 (36.36%) JavaScript
3 30 (24.79%) C++
4 28 (23.14%) C
5 22 (18.18%) Ruby
5 22 (18.18%) Python
6 10 (8.264%) SQL
7 4 (3.306%) Bash shell
7 4 (3.306%) VB
7 4 (3.306%) C#
7 4 (3.306%) PHP
8 3 (2.479%) Groovy
9 2 (1.653%) XPath
9 2 (1.653%) SPARQL
9 2 (1.653%) Scala
9 2 (1.653%) XQuery
9 2 (1.653%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.826%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.826%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.826%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 8 (6.612%) Degree
2 1 (0.826%) Avaya Certification
2 1 (0.826%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (0.826%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (0.826%) CCNA
2 1 (0.826%) GISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.132%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.826%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.306%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 29 (23.97%) JBoss
2 26 (21.49%) Symantec
3 20 (16.53%) Oracle
4 12 (9.917%) Google
5 11 (9.091%) Facebook
6 9 (7.438%) Twitter
7 5 (4.132%) Microsoft
8 4 (3.306%) IBM
8 4 (3.306%) HP
9 3 (2.479%) Cisco
10 2 (1.653%) Zend
10 2 (1.653%) Avaya
10 2 (1.653%) SAP
11 1 (0.826%) BT
11 1 (0.826%) VMware
11 1 (0.826%) Perforce
11 1 (0.826%) Sybase
11 1 (0.826%) Ericsson
11 1 (0.826%) Siemens
11 1 (0.826%) Apple
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