The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video on Demand in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Video on Demand over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Video on Demand (VOD)
Rank 485 459 526
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +67
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 56 111 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.116% 0.191% 0.120%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.432% 0.778% 0.434%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 73 50
Average daily rate £375 £400 £384
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +4.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £340 £306
10% offered a daily rate of more than £449 £495 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £409 £408 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +8.66%
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
12964 14261 17263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.94% 24.57% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7811 8294 10400
Average daily rate £425 £425 £501
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 691 684
Average hourly rate £22.25 £22.50 £22.81
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.11% -1.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.43 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.65 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%

Video on Demand
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Video on Demand Jobs Demand Trend

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Trend

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

Video on Demand Daily Rate Trend

Video on Demand
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Video on Demand within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Video on Demand Daily Rate Histogram

Video on Demand
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Video on Demand Hourly Rate Trend

Video on Demand
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Video on Demand within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England -44 54 £375 -6.25% 19
London -15 52 £375 -6.25% 13
City of London +4 9 £375 -13.04% 2
Hounslow -7 3 - -
South East +23 2 £409 +9.00%
Middlesex +6 1 £423 -
North Yorkshire - - - - 2
Yorkshire - - - - 3
Torfaen - - - - 1
Northern Ireland - - - -
South Wales - - - - 1
Wales - - - - 1
Slough - - - -
York - - - - 2
Berkshire - - - -
Kent - - - -
County Antrim - - - -
Belfast - - - -
Cwmbran - - - - 1
Feltham - - - -

Video on Demand
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Video on Demand 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 Video on Demand.

1 49 (46.23%) JavaScript
2 41 (38.68%) Agile Software Development
3 36 (33.96%) HTML
4 31 (29.25%) CSS
5 28 (26.42%) TDD
5 28 (26.42%) Android
6 24 (22.64%) IPTV
6 24 (22.64%) OO
7 22 (20.75%) Scrum
8 20 (18.87%) jQuery
8 20 (18.87%) BDD
8 20 (18.87%) Apple iOS
9 19 (17.92%) Java
10 18 (16.98%) Ruby
11 16 (15.09%) Ajax
12 15 (14.15%) STB
13 14 (13.21%) HTML5
13 14 (13.21%) Windows
13 14 (13.21%) XML
13 14 (13.21%) DOM
13 14 (13.21%) Digital Media
14 13 (12.26%) Web Services
14 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
15 12 (11.32%) Git (software)
15 12 (11.32%) Spring
15 12 (11.32%) Games
15 12 (11.32%) Linux
15 12 (11.32%) UML
15 12 (11.32%) User Stories

Video on Demand
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Video on Demand 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 Video on Demand. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (33.96%) HTML
2 31 (29.25%) CSS
3 20 (18.87%) jQuery
4 16 (15.09%) Ajax
5 14 (13.21%) HTML5
5 14 (13.21%) XML
5 14 (13.21%) DOM
6 13 (12.26%) Web Services
7 12 (11.32%) Spring
8 11 (10.38%) Cocoa
8 11 (10.38%) RESTful
9 10 (9.434%) J2EE
9 10 (9.434%) CSS3
10 8 (7.547%) Grails
10 8 (7.547%) Spring Batch
10 8 (7.547%) Spring Integration
10 8 (7.547%) KnockoutJS
11 6 (5.660%) Cocoa Touch
12 5 (4.717%) ASP
13 4 (3.774%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 7 (6.604%) CMS
2 6 (5.660%) Apache
3 2 (1.887%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.887%) IIS
4 1 (0.943%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.943%) ESB
Applications
1 3 (2.830%) MS Office
2 2 (1.887%) OmniGraffle
2 2 (1.887%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.943%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.943%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.434%) HTTP
2 7 (6.604%) DVB
3 5 (4.717%) Internet
4 4 (3.774%) Wireshark
4 4 (3.774%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (3.774%) Wireless
4 4 (3.774%) Broadband
5 3 (2.830%) FTP
5 3 (2.830%) RTP
6 2 (1.887%) RTSP
7 1 (0.943%) VoIP
7 1 (0.943%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.547%) Hadoop
1 8 (7.547%) RDBMS
2 5 (4.717%) MongoDB
3 3 (2.830%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.887%) MySQL
5 1 (0.943%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (0.943%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (11.32%) Git (software)
2 10 (9.434%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.491%) Selenium
4 8 (7.547%) Subversion
5 7 (6.604%) JIRA
6 3 (2.830%) Xcode
6 3 (2.830%) Mercurial
7 2 (1.887%) Axure RP
7 2 (1.887%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.887%) JUnit
7 2 (1.887%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.943%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.943%) Ant
8 1 (0.943%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.943%) JMeter
8 1 (0.943%) JBehave
8 1 (0.943%) Flash Builder
8 1 (0.943%) JProfiler
8 1 (0.943%) WATIR
8 1 (0.943%) Maven
General
1 12 (11.32%) Games
2 11 (10.38%) Telecoms
3 8 (7.547%) Retail
4 6 (5.660%) Marketing
4 6 (5.660%) Finance
5 5 (4.717%) Electronics
6 4 (3.774%) Banking
7 2 (1.887%) French Language
7 2 (1.887%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.887%) Advertising
8 1 (0.943%) Publishing
8 1 (0.943%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 41 (38.68%) Developer
2 18 (16.98%) Analyst
3 16 (15.09%) Business Analyst
4 10 (9.434%) Project Manager
4 10 (9.434%) Web Developer
5 9 (8.491%) Tester
5 9 (8.491%) Java Developer
6 6 (5.660%) Designer
6 6 (5.660%) Senior Tester
7 5 (4.717%) iOS Developer
7 5 (4.717%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.717%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.717%) Technical Business Analyst
7 5 (4.717%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (3.774%) Perl Developer
8 4 (3.774%) User Experience Designer
8 4 (3.774%) Software Developer
8 4 (3.774%) Applications Developer
8 4 (3.774%) Web Applications Developer
9 3 (2.830%) Senior User Experience Designer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.64%) IPTV
2 15 (14.15%) STB
3 14 (13.21%) Digital Media
4 11 (10.38%) Streaming Video
5 10 (9.434%) iPhone
6 9 (8.491%) Mobile App
7 7 (6.604%) Interactive TV
8 6 (5.660%) Blackberry
8 6 (5.660%) New Media
9 5 (4.717%) Smartphone
10 4 (3.774%) FMCG
10 4 (3.774%) NHS
10 4 (3.774%) DTV
11 3 (2.830%) MPEG
11 3 (2.830%) Animation
12 2 (1.887%) Social Network
12 2 (1.887%) Social Media
12 2 (1.887%) iPad
12 2 (1.887%) Client/Server
13 1 (0.943%) iDTV
Operating Systems
1 28 (26.42%) Android
2 20 (18.87%) Apple iOS
3 14 (13.21%) Windows
4 12 (11.32%) Linux
5 3 (2.830%) UNIX
5 3 (2.830%) Windows 7
5 3 (2.830%) Windows Mobile
6 2 (1.887%) CentOS
7 1 (0.943%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.943%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.68%) Agile Software Development
2 28 (26.42%) TDD
3 24 (22.64%) OO
4 22 (20.75%) Scrum
5 20 (18.87%) BDD
6 13 (12.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (12.26%) User Acceptance Testing
7 12 (11.32%) UML
7 12 (11.32%) User Stories
8 11 (10.38%) Product Management
9 10 (9.434%) Kanban
10 9 (8.491%) DRM
10 9 (8.491%) OOP
10 9 (8.491%) Project Management
10 9 (8.491%) Web Development
11 8 (7.547%) Domain-Driven Design
12 7 (6.604%) Regression Testing
13 6 (5.660%) Business Analysis
13 6 (5.660%) Content Management
13 6 (5.660%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (46.23%) JavaScript
2 19 (17.92%) Java
3 18 (16.98%) Ruby
4 11 (10.38%) Objective-C
5 9 (8.491%) SQL
6 8 (7.547%) Groovy
6 8 (7.547%) Scala
6 8 (7.547%) Perl
7 7 (6.604%) Python
8 4 (3.774%) PHP
9 3 (2.830%) C
9 3 (2.830%) Clojure
10 1 (0.943%) C#
10 1 (0.943%) COBOL
10 1 (0.943%) ActionScript
10 1 (0.943%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (0.943%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 7 (6.604%) ISEB
1 7 (6.604%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.887%) Degree
3 1 (0.943%) CISSP
3 1 (0.943%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.604%) QA
2 1 (0.943%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (0.943%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.943%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (0.943%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 4 (3.774%) Adobe
2 3 (2.830%) Apple
3 2 (1.887%) VMware
3 2 (1.887%) Symbian
4 1 (0.943%) SAP
4 1 (0.943%) Cisco
4 1 (0.943%) Microsoft
4 1 (0.943%) HP
4 1 (0.943%) Zend
London
Senior Frontend Developers (HTML 5 / Javascript) required for one of the highest award winning media agencies in the UK, based in Central London... As Front End Web Developer...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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