STB Contracts with Work from Home Options

Set-Top Box (STB)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited STB over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 - 618
Rank change year-on-year - - -146
Contract jobs citing STB 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% - 0.011%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.092% - 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £248
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.09%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - £595
UK median daily rate £275 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +18.06%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,361 8,067 13,944
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.43% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 5,673 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +8.79%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 153 228
10th Percentile £15.45 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.14 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%

STB
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing STB as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

STB trend for jobs with a WFH option

STB
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing STB.

STB daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

STB
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing STB.

STB hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

STB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DTV Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Yocto
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) JWT
2 1 (25.00%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Digital TV
2 1 (25.00%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Coaching
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana