The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Video on Demand in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Video on Demand over the 3 months to 20 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 for the Yorkshire region.

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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Video on Demand (VOD)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Video on Demand 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £440 £375
% change year-on-year
-14.77% +17.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
394 320 357
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 20.89% 13.93% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 177 145
Average daily rate £313 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £203 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £343 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.18% +0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 31
Average hourly rate £15.25 £17.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.95 £11.00 £9.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £28.65 £46.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year
-8.16% -9.25%
Video on Demand
England

Video on Demand
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Video on Demand Daily Rate Trend

Video on Demand
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region 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 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) DVB
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) RTSP
1 2 (100.00%) IPTV
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) STB
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL

Video on Demand
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region 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 Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DVB
1 2 (100.00%) RTSP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) IPTV
2 1 (50.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) COBOL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA