The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited STB over the 3 months to 17 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Set-Top Box (STB)
Rank 128 119 108
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -11
Permanent jobs citing STB 4 14 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.190% 0.620% 0.322%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.622% 2.401% 1.198%
Number of salaries quoted 3 14 6
Average salary £41,500 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.66% -8.53%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +6.09%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
643 583 501
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 30.53% 25.81% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 525 514 448
Average salary £40,000 £41,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,150 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
STB
Berkshire

STB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading STB Salary Trend

STB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) UML
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) PVCS
3 3 (60.00%) ClearCase
3 3 (60.00%) Ada
3 3 (60.00%) POSIX
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) C
3 3 (60.00%) C++
3 3 (60.00%) Embedded C
3 3 (60.00%) Middleware
3 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (60.00%) DTV
3 3 (60.00%) DVB
3 3 (60.00%) Electronics
3 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (60.00%) Degree
3 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (60.00%) CM System
3 3 (60.00%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (60.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Flash Lite
4 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
4 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (40.00%) Flash
4 2 (40.00%) ActionScript
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (40.00%) PHP
4 2 (40.00%) Adobe

STB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 4 (80.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) POSIX
2 3 (60.00%) Middleware
3 2 (40.00%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) CM System
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Photoshop
1 2 (40.00%) Fireworks
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DVB
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) PVCS
1 3 (60.00%) ClearCase
General
1 3 (60.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Broadcast Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Flash Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) DTV
1 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (60.00%) Embedded Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Flash Lite
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) Ada
2 3 (60.00%) Embedded C
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C++
3 2 (40.00%) ActionScript
3 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 3.0
4 1 (20.00%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle