The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited STB 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 for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Set-Top Box (STB)
Rank 314 321 323
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +2
Permanent jobs citing STB 6 7 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.052% 0.054% 0.026%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.125% 0.136% 0.059%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
Average salary £37,500 £51,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.18% -20.76%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +7.40%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
4813 5150 6833
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 41.49% 39.42% 43.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4146 4715 6198
Average salary £57,500 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
STB
London

STB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing STB across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

City of London STB Jobs Demand Trend

STB
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing STB across the City of London region.

City of London STB Salary Trend

STB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing STB 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 IT job ads sampled that cited STB.

1 14 (93.33%) Games
2 12 (80.00%) Scrum
2 12 (80.00%) Asset Management
2 12 (80.00%) Content Management
2 12 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 12 (80.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (20.00%) Video on Demand
4 2 (13.33%) DVB
4 2 (13.33%) MPEG
4 2 (13.33%) HTTP
4 2 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.667%) QA
5 1 (6.667%) WATIR
5 1 (6.667%) Selenium
5 1 (6.667%) Fiddler
5 1 (6.667%) JSON
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
5 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
5 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.667%) Streaming Video
5 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (6.667%) Internet
5 1 (6.667%) Remedy
5 1 (6.667%) DRM
5 1 (6.667%) C
5 1 (6.667%) C#
5 1 (6.667%) C++
5 1 (6.667%) Perl
5 1 (6.667%) .NET

STB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing STB also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited STB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.667%) JSON
1 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.667%) .NET
1 1 (6.667%) ASP
1 1 (6.667%) XML
1 1 (6.667%) RESTful
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) DVB
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
2 1 (6.667%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) WATIR
1 1 (6.667%) Selenium
1 1 (6.667%) Fiddler
1 1 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
1 1 (6.667%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.667%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (93.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (80.00%) Technical Manager
1 12 (80.00%) Project Manager
1 12 (80.00%) Technical Project Manager
1 12 (80.00%) ScrumMaster
2 1 (6.667%) Test Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (6.667%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.667%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (6.667%) Support Specialist
2 1 (6.667%) Applications Support
2 1 (6.667%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (80.00%) Digital Media
2 3 (20.00%) Video on Demand
3 2 (13.33%) MPEG
3 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.667%) Streaming Video
4 1 (6.667%) New Media
4 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Scrum
1 12 (80.00%) Asset Management
1 12 (80.00%) Content Management
1 12 (80.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (6.667%) Software Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (6.667%) DRM
2 1 (6.667%) Waterfall
2 1 (6.667%) BDD
2 1 (6.667%) Performance Testing
2 1 (6.667%) Security Testing
2 1 (6.667%) V-Model
2 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.667%) C
1 1 (6.667%) C#
1 1 (6.667%) C++
1 1 (6.667%) Perl
1 1 (6.667%) Python
1 1 (6.667%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) Remedy
1 1 (6.667%) Oracle