Smart Meter Contracts

Smart Metering
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smart Meter over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 679 786
Rank change year-on-year +116 +107 -123
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 21 18 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.032% 0.071%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.098% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 47
10th Percentile £413 £450 £413
25th Percentile £439 £460 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £701 £663 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -8.57% -8.70% +30.68%

All Generic Skills
UK

Smart Meter 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,045 18,435 29,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.87% 33.19% 33.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,307 12,697 20,403
10th Percentile £275 £310 £315
25th Percentile £413 £446 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 939 605 684
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.29
25th Percentile £15.39 £10.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%
75th Percentile £61.40 £58.75 £50.77
90th Percentile £71.88 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Smart Meter in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Smart Meter in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smart Meter over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smart Meter in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Smart Meter in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +84 16 £505 -3.81% 238
UK excluding London +30 12 £480 -8.57% 228
South East +19 10 £450 -14.29% 80
Work from Home +118 6 £510 -15.00% 5
London +80 4 £650 +8.33% 44
Midlands +17 1 £510 +2.00% 22
West Midlands - 1 £510 - 11
South West - 1 £725 - 26

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
2 6 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 5 (23.81%) Azure Functions
3 5 (23.81%) Serverless
4 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) IaaS
6 1 (4.76%) AWS
6 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.76%) GitHub
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
1 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Power BI
2 5 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (19.05%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (14.29%) Big Data
4 3 (14.29%) MongoDB
4 3 (14.29%) MySQL
4 3 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (14.29%) RDBMS
4 3 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Git
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Data Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Smart Metering Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Business Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Business IT Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Consultant
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) IT Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Programme Manager
6 1 (4.76%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) XML
2 4 (19.05%) PySpark
3 2 (9.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 3 (14.29%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.76%) Clustering
3 1 (4.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Linux
1 7 (33.33%) Unix
2 5 (23.81%) Windows
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (14.29%) VMS
4 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Analytics
2 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 6 (28.57%) ETL
4 6 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (23.81%) Data Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
5 5 (23.81%) ETL Development
5 5 (23.81%) User Stories
6 4 (19.05%) Agile
6 4 (19.05%) Data Analytics
6 4 (19.05%) Data Ingestion
6 4 (19.05%) Data Science
6 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
6 4 (19.05%) DevOps
6 4 (19.05%) Dimensional Modelling
6 4 (19.05%) Impact Assessments
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (14.29%) Bash
4 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) vSphere
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 3 (14.29%) Packer
1 3 (14.29%) vRealize
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Ab Initio
2 4 (19.05%) Databricks
3 3 (14.29%) Arqiva
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Veritas
3 3 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (4.76%) Dell
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds