The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in IT jobs advertised for the Staines 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 Staines region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Set-Top Box (STB)
Rank 37 51 58
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +7
Permanent jobs citing STB 3 12 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staines 1.515% 2.484% 2.486%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.688% 5.941% 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 3 12 13
Average salary £45,000 £43,250 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.04% -13.50%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
-2.29% +6.09%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Staines
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
64 202 182
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staines 32.32% 41.82% 34.80%
Number of salaries quoted 60 153 172
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £32,850 £37,300
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
STB
Surrey

STB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines STB Salary Trend

STB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staines 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 17 (85.00%) DVB
2 16 (80.00%) C
3 15 (75.00%) Middleware
4 13 (65.00%) Linux
4 13 (65.00%) Computer Science
5 12 (60.00%) Degree
6 10 (50.00%) Embedded C
7 9 (45.00%) DTV
8 8 (40.00%) POSIX
9 7 (35.00%) MPEG
9 7 (35.00%) Electronics
9 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
9 7 (35.00%) Embedded Systems
10 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (30.00%) Broadband
11 5 (25.00%) C++
11 5 (25.00%) VxWorks
12 4 (20.00%) Java
12 4 (20.00%) SQL
12 4 (20.00%) Oracle
12 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
13 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
13 3 (15.00%) MHEG
13 3 (15.00%) IPTV
13 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
13 3 (15.00%) XML
13 3 (15.00%) UML
13 3 (15.00%) Embedded C++
14 2 (10.00%) CA
14 2 (10.00%) Microsoft

STB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staines 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 15 (75.00%) Middleware
2 8 (40.00%) POSIX
3 3 (15.00%) XML
4 1 (5.000%) GStreamer
Communications & Networking
1 17 (85.00%) DVB
2 6 (30.00%) Broadband
3 2 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (5.000%) DLNA
4 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.000%) Internet
4 1 (5.000%) UPnP
General
1 7 (35.00%) Electronics
1 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.00%) Multimedia
3 1 (5.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Software Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Integration Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Software Integration Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Embedded C Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) C Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (65.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (45.00%) DTV
3 7 (35.00%) MPEG
3 7 (35.00%) Embedded Systems
4 3 (15.00%) MHEG
4 3 (15.00%) IPTV
5 2 (10.00%) Streaming Video
6 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Linux
2 5 (25.00%) VxWorks
3 2 (10.00%) UNIX
3 2 (10.00%) Windows
3 2 (10.00%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (15.00%) UML
3 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (15.00%) Software Architecture
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.000%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (80.00%) C
2 10 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 5 (25.00%) C++
4 4 (20.00%) Java
4 4 (20.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) Embedded C++
6 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
6 2 (10.00%) VB
7 1 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (60.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) HND
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) NDS
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) CA
2 2 (10.00%) Tandberg