Set-Top Box (STB)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited STB over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 894 958 1145
Rank change year-on-year +64 +187 -278
Permanent jobs citing STB 2 30 61
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.029% 0.039%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.006% 0.068% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 47
10th Percentile £60,500 £70,750 £58,750
25th Percentile £61,250 £73,750 £73,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £77,500 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% - +10.71%
75th Percentile £71,250 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £90,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £52,500
% change year-on-year - - -25.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

STB is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,973 44,403 73,664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.51% 42.72% 47.26%
Number of salaries quoted 23,052 23,953 34,149
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

STB
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing STB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for STB in the UK

STB
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing STB.

Salary trend for STB in the UK

STB
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing STB within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +106 2 £65,000 -16.13%
England +100 2 £65,000 -16.13% 2

STB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) GStreamer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
1 1 (50.00%) Over-the-Top Content
1 1 (50.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Black-Box Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Device Driver Development
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Video Processing
2 1 (50.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Hitachi