Smart Meter Contracts in England

Smart Metering
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smart Meter over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 617 709
Rank change year-on-year +102 +92 -115
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 16 23 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.044% 0.048% 0.085%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.14% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 45
10th Percentile £413 £451 £413
25th Percentile £425 £461 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -2.33% +22.16%
75th Percentile £515 £563 £600
90th Percentile £677 £656 £738
UK median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +11.11%

All Generic Skills
England

Smart Meter 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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,144 16,209 23,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.60% 33.64% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,307 11,283 17,040
10th Percentile £266 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £573 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 814 571 628
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.16
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £26.98
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.66% +3.77%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £49.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.60
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Smart Meter as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Smart Meter in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smart Meter in England.

Daily rate trend for Smart Meter in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Meter in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Meter in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Smart Meter in England.

Hourly rate trend for Smart Meter in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smart Meter within the England region over the 6 months to 18 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +34 11 £450 -14.29% 65
London +96 2 £675 +12.50% 47
North of England +30 2 £568 +8.10% 14
Yorkshire - 2 £568 - 6
Midlands +23 1 £510 +2.00% 23
West Midlands - 1 £510 - 13
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 6 (37.50%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (37.50%) Power Platform
3 5 (31.25%) Azure Functions
3 5 (31.25%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) IaaS
5 1 (6.25%) AWS
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (6.25%) GitHub
5 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) LTE
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) Power BI
2 5 (31.25%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (18.75%) MongoDB
4 3 (18.75%) MySQL
4 3 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (18.75%) RDBMS
4 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Git
1 3 (18.75%) GitLab
General
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Integration Architect
4 1 (6.25%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Support
4 1 (6.25%) Linux Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Smart Metering Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.25%) Clustering
3 1 (6.25%) IoT
3 1 (6.25%) NB-IoT
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
3 1 (6.25%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
1 7 (43.75%) Unix
2 5 (31.25%) Windows
3 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (18.75%) VMS
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Scrum
2 7 (43.75%) Analytics
3 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) ETL
3 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 6 (37.50%) User Stories
4 5 (31.25%) Agile
4 5 (31.25%) Data Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Data Modelling
4 5 (31.25%) ETL Development
4 5 (31.25%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) Dimensional Modelling
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
6 3 (18.75%) Migration
6 3 (18.75%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) Bash
2 3 (18.75%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) Ansible
1 3 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 3 (18.75%) Packer
1 3 (18.75%) vRealize
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (6.25%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Ab Initio
2 3 (18.75%) Arqiva
2 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 3 (18.75%) Veritas
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 1 (6.25%) Dell
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds