C++ Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 44 34 34
Rank change year-on-year
-10 0
Contract jobs citing C++ 5 20 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.111% 3.215% 1.840%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.546% 8.197% 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £475 £225 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -18.18%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.34% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 141 244 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 31.33% 39.23% 28.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 137 87
Average daily rate £325 £301 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +7.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 0
Average hourly rate £37.00 £31.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.35% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C++
West Midlands

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

Birmingham C++ Jobs Demand Trend

C++
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++ across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing C++ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited C++.

1 12 (85.71%) C
2 9 (64.29%) UNIX
3 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 7 (50.00%) Finance
3 7 (50.00%) J2EE
3 7 (50.00%) Oracle
3 7 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (42.86%) SQL
5 5 (35.71%) ProC
5 5 (35.71%) AIX
5 5 (35.71%) CGI
5 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
5 5 (35.71%) Solaris
6 4 (28.57%) C#
7 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
7 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (14.29%) QA
8 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Games
8 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 2 (14.29%) System Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Automotive
8 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
8 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
8 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
9 1 (7.143%) OpenVMS
9 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
9 1 (7.143%) STL
9 1 (7.143%) Web Services

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing C++ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited C++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (50.00%) J2EE
2 5 (35.71%) CGI
3 1 (7.143%) STL
3 1 (7.143%) Web Services
3 1 (7.143%) .NET
3 1 (7.143%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) CMS
1 1 (7.143%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) RDBMS
2 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (35.71%) ProC
General
1 7 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Games
2 2 (14.29%) Automotive
3 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) C Developer
2 5 (35.71%) UNIX Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Tester
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Business Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Consultant
5 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) SQL Developer
5 1 (7.143%) QA Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C++ Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.143%) BizTalk Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) CAN bus
1 1 (7.143%) Open Source
1 1 (7.143%) Clustering
1 1 (7.143%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) UNIX
2 5 (35.71%) AIX
2 5 (35.71%) Solaris
3 1 (7.143%) OpenVMS
3 1 (7.143%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 2 (14.29%) System Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Migration
3 1 (7.143%) Embedded Software Development
3 1 (7.143%) Game Development
3 1 (7.143%) Multithreading
3 1 (7.143%) Manual Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) C
2 7 (50.00%) Shell Script
3 6 (42.86%) SQL
4 4 (28.57%) C#
5 1 (7.143%) COBOL
5 1 (7.143%) Java
5 1 (7.143%) PHP
5 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.143%) VB
5 1 (7.143%) Embedded C
5 1 (7.143%) Embedded C++
5 1 (7.143%) Pascal
5 1 (7.143%) PowerHouse
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) Oracle
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.143%) NEC
3 1 (7.143%) Fujitsu
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