Buckinghamshire C++ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for C++ skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardigan Ceredigion Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Rotherham Scotland Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warminster Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	46	34
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	39	77
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.052 %	0.078 %
As % of the category below	10.74 %	11.99 %
Daily rates quoted	16	10
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£328
Average daily rate	£393	£357
% change on same period last year	+10.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£386
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£339
% change on same period last year	-4.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£38.50
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£39.33
% change on same period last year	-4.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£40.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£36.95	£35.43
% change on same period last year	+4.28 %
Programming Languages Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	363	642
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.484 %	0.650 %
Daily rates quoted	123	137
Average minimum daily rate	£355	£287
Average daily rate	£366	£302
% change on same period last year	+21.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	73
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.18	£31.83
Average hourly rate	£35.73	£33.19
% change on same period last year	+7.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.28	£34.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.38	£33.07
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
C++ South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	-18	18	£390	-9.12 %
High Wycombe	-5	5	£325	-
Aylesbury	-3	2	£325	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 38 (39.18 %) Oracle 2 34 (35.05 %) Java 3 33 (34.02 %) Security Cleared 4 29 (29.90 %) Middleware 5 26 (26.80 %) MQSeries 6 23 (23.71 %) Tuxedo 6 23 (23.71 %) DV Cleared 7 22 (22.68 %) Windows 8 21 (21.65 %) J2EE 8 21 (21.65 %) Government 9 19 (19.59 %) C 9 19 (19.59 %) Linux 9 19 (19.59 %) UML 10 18 (18.56 %) RUP 10 18 (18.56 %) Finance

11 17 (17.53 %) C# 12 16 (16.49 %) HTML 13 15 (15.46 %) DB2 13 15 (15.46 %) .NET 13 15 (15.46 %) UNIX 13 15 (15.46 %) XML 13 15 (15.46 %) BizTalk Server 14 12 (12.37 %) Eclipse 15 11 (11.34 %) Ant 15 11 (11.34 %) SQL 15 11 (11.34 %) VB 15 11 (11.34 %) Project Management 15 11 (11.34 %) Banking 16 10 (10.31 %) JSP 17 9 (9.278 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 29 (29.90 %) Middleware 2 21 (21.65 %) J2EE 3 16 (16.49 %) HTML 4 15 (15.46 %) .NET 4 15 (15.46 %) XML 5 10 (10.31 %) JSP 6 8 (8.247 %) EJB 6 8 (8.247 %) CSS 6 8 (8.247 %) RSS 6 8 (8.247 %) XUL 6 8 (8.247 %) Hibernate 6 8 (8.247 %) Spring 7 5 (5.155 %) WinForms 8 3 (3.093 %) JNI 8 3 (3.093 %) WPF 8 3 (3.093 %) Java RMI 9 2 (2.062 %) JCE 9 2 (2.062 %) J2SE 9 2 (2.062 %) Servlets 9 2 (2.062 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 26 (26.80 %) MQSeries 2 23 (23.71 %) Tuxedo 3 15 (15.46 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.031 %) Oracle Spatial
Applications 1 4 (4.124 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 4 (4.124 %) Internet 2 3 (3.093 %) SS7 2 3 (3.093 %) Bluetooth 2 3 (3.093 %) LAN 2 3 (3.093 %) WLAN 2 3 (3.093 %) Wireless 2 3 (3.093 %) ZigBee 3 2 (2.062 %) Broadband 3 2 (2.062 %) ISUP 3 2 (2.062 %) Q.931 4 1 (1.031 %) ISDN 4 1 (1.031 %) ASN.1
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (15.46 %) DB2 2 8 (8.247 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 8 (8.247 %) Oracle 10g 3 4 (4.124 %) Oracle Reports 3 4 (4.124 %) SQL Server 4 2 (2.062 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 12 (12.37 %) Eclipse 2 11 (11.34 %) Ant 3 8 (8.247 %) JUnit 3 8 (8.247 %) Rational Rose 4 5 (5.155 %) ClearCase 5 4 (4.124 %) Visual Studio 5 4 (4.124 %) ClearQuest 5 4 (4.124 %) Subversion 6 3 (3.093 %) JMeter
General 1 21 (21.65 %) Government 2 18 (18.56 %) Finance 3 11 (11.34 %) Banking 4 7 (7.216 %) Financial Institution 5 4 (4.124 %) Telecoms 6 3 (3.093 %) Electronics 6 3 (3.093 %) Retail 6 3 (3.093 %) Investment Banking 6 3 (3.093 %) Retail Banking 7 2 (2.062 %) Electric 7 2 (2.062 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (1.031 %) Aerospace 8 1 (1.031 %) Automotive 8 1 (1.031 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 48 (49.48 %) Developer 2 19 (19.59 %) Team Leader 3 13 (13.40 %) Java Developer 4 12 (12.37 %) Tester 5 9 (9.278 %) C++ Developer 6 8 (8.247 %) Technical Team Leader 6 8 (8.247 %) Java/J2EE Developer 7 7 (7.216 %) Applications Tester 7 7 (7.216 %) Project Manager 8 5 (5.155 %) Software Engineer 9 4 (4.124 %) C# Developer 9 4 (4.124 %) JavaScript Developer 10 3 (3.093 %) Technical Manager 10 3 (3.093 %) C++/Java Developer 10 3 (3.093 %) Technical Project Manager 10 3 (3.093 %) Senior Developer 11 2 (2.062 %) Software Developer 11 2 (2.062 %) Systems Tester 11 2 (2.062 %) Senior C++ Developer 11 2 (2.062 %) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.062 %) N-Tier 1 2 (2.062 %) Mainframe 1 2 (2.062 %) Handset 1 2 (2.062 %) STB 2 1 (1.031 %) PKI 2 1 (1.031 %) Mathematics 2 1 (1.031 %) Tandem 2 1 (1.031 %) Device Driver 2 1 (1.031 %) EMV 2 1 (1.031 %) Firmware 2 1 (1.031 %) Smartcard 2 1 (1.031 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 22 (22.68 %) Windows 2 19 (19.59 %) Linux 3 15 (15.46 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.031 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (34.02 %) Security Cleared 2 23 (23.71 %) DV Cleared 3 19 (19.59 %) UML 4 18 (18.56 %) RUP 5 11 (11.34 %) Project Management 6 6 (6.186 %) Systems Analysis 7 5 (5.155 %) Agile Software Development 7 5 (5.155 %) OO 7 5 (5.155 %) SC Cleared 8 4 (4.124 %) PRINCE2 8 4 (4.124 %) CMMI 9 3 (3.093 %) TDD 10 2 (2.062 %) Workflow 10 2 (2.062 %) Use Case 10 2 (2.062 %) Test Scripting 10 2 (2.062 %) Continuous Integration 11 1 (1.031 %) Integration Testing 11 1 (1.031 %) Software Testing 11 1 (1.031 %) Information Management 11 1 (1.031 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 34 (35.05 %) Java 2 19 (19.59 %) C 3 17 (17.53 %) C# 4 11 (11.34 %) SQL 4 11 (11.34 %) VB 5 8 (8.247 %) JavaScript 6 7 (7.216 %) VC++ 7 6 (6.186 %) Python 7 6 (6.186 %) Embedded C 8 4 (4.124 %) Perl 8 4 (4.124 %) VB.NET 9 3 (3.093 %) Embedded C++ 10 2 (2.062 %) Ruby 10 2 (2.062 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 9 (9.278 %) Degree 2 2 (2.062 %) PMP 2 2 (2.062 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.062 %) QA 2 1 (1.031 %) SLA
Vendors 1 38 (39.18 %) Oracle 2 9 (9.278 %) Microsoft 3 8 (8.247 %) BEA 4 2 (2.062 %) Trolltech 5 1 (1.031 %) Fujitsu