STB Contracts in London

Set-Top Box (STB)
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term STB in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STB over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 479 599
Rank change year-on-year +87 +120 -100
Contract jobs citing STB 8 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.012% 0.013%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.033% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - - £338
25th Percentile - £306 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £313 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -30.56% +16.13%
75th Percentile - £447 £525
90th Percentile - £524 £563
England median daily rate £250 £313 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% -26.47% +13.33%

All Generic Skills
London

STB falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,844 9,036 14,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 33.05% 35.93% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,106 6,567 10,276
10th Percentile £315 £364 £400
25th Percentile £450 £495 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £743 £725
90th Percentile £850 £838 £813
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 104 201
10th Percentile £15.45 £18.28 £17.13
25th Percentile £18.41 £21.24 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £34.81 £42.02
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% -17.16% +20.47%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £84.63 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

STB
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for STB in London

STB
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing STB in London.

Daily rate trend for STB in London

STB
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing STB in London.

Hourly rate trend for STB in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing STB within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West London - 4 £250 -
STB
England

STB
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) DVB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Broadcast Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Broadcast Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Yocto
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) JWT
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (12.50%) MPEG
2 1 (12.50%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (12.50%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (25.00%) Open Source
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C
2 4 (50.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Grafana
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) BT