Cambridgeshire C++ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for C++ skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Avon Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	6
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	100	157
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.140 %	0.158 %
As % of the category below	28.49 %	27.50 %
Daily rates quoted	15	21
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£277
Average daily rate	£287	£297
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£317
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£347
% change on same period last year	-6.96 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	35
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.91	£36.94
Average hourly rate	£41.52	£41.80
% change on same period last year	-0.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£44.13	£46.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.92	£36.65
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
Programming Languages Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	351	571
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.490 %	0.574 %
Daily rates quoted	74	87
Average minimum daily rate	£286	£296
Average daily rate	£309	£313
% change on same period last year	-1.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£332	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£335
% change on same period last year	-3.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	106
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.20	£31.93
Average hourly rate	£38.67	£34.45
% change on same period last year	+12.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.14	£36.98
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.48	£32.81
% change on same period last year	-0.99 %
C++ East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Cambridgeshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Cambridge	+1	80	£283	-4.28 %

C++ East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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++.

1 104 (56.52 %) C 2 58 (31.52 %) Linux 3 55 (29.89 %) Windows 4 36 (19.57 %) UNIX 5 35 (19.02 %) .NET 6 33 (17.93 %) C# 6 33 (17.93 %) Telecoms 7 31 (16.85 %) OO 8 26 (14.13 %) Software Engineering 9 23 (12.50 %) OOD 10 22 (11.96 %) GSM 10 22 (11.96 %) UML 10 22 (11.96 %) 3G 11 21 (11.41 %) Java 12 20 (10.87 %) Visual Studio

12 20 (10.87 %) XML 13 19 (10.33 %) Degree 14 18 (9.783 %) MFC 15 17 (9.239 %) Perl 16 16 (8.696 %) Windows CE 17 15 (8.152 %) TCP/IP 17 15 (8.152 %) SQL 17 15 (8.152 %) ASP.NET 17 15 (8.152 %) RNC 18 13 (7.065 %) SS7 19 12 (6.522 %) 2G 20 11 (5.978 %) Embedded C 20 11 (5.978 %) HTML 20 11 (5.978 %) PHP 20 11 (5.978 %) Python

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 35 (19.02 %) .NET 2 20 (10.87 %) XML 3 18 (9.783 %) MFC 4 15 (8.152 %) ASP.NET 5 11 (5.978 %) HTML 6 9 (4.891 %) STL 6 9 (4.891 %) OpenGL 7 5 (2.717 %) WinForms 8 4 (2.174 %) DirectX 8 4 (2.174 %) JSP 9 3 (1.630 %) J2EE 9 3 (1.630 %) Middleware 9 3 (1.630 %) AJAX 10 2 (1.087 %) .NET Framework 10 2 (1.087 %) ActiveX 10 2 (1.087 %) ATL 10 2 (1.087 %) COM 10 2 (1.087 %) CSS 11 1 (0.543 %) Series 60 11 1 (0.543 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 9 (4.891 %) Apache 2 1 (0.543 %) Commerce Server 2 1 (0.543 %) IIS
Applications 1 6 (3.261 %) Acrobat 2 3 (1.630 %) AutoCAD 3 2 (1.087 %) MATLAB 3 2 (1.087 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.087 %) MS Excel 4 1 (0.543 %) 3ds Max	Communications & Networking 1 22 (11.96 %) GSM 1 22 (11.96 %) 3G 2 15 (8.152 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (8.152 %) RNC 3 13 (7.065 %) SS7 4 12 (6.522 %) 2G 5 9 (4.891 %) Wireless 5 9 (4.891 %) UMTS 6 7 (3.804 %) Wi-Fi 7 6 (3.261 %) Internet 8 5 (2.717 %) DVB 9 4 (2.174 %) GPRS 10 3 (1.630 %) Bluetooth 10 3 (1.630 %) HSDPA 10 3 (1.630 %) HSUPA 10 3 (1.630 %) UWB 11 2 (1.087 %) Network Security 11 2 (1.087 %) IPsec 11 2 (1.087 %) CDMA 11 2 (1.087 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (4.891 %) MySQL 2 7 (3.804 %) SQL Server 3 3 (1.630 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (1.630 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (1.087 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.543 %) GIS 5 1 (0.543 %) SQLite 5 1 (0.543 %) DTS	Development Applications 1 20 (10.87 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (1.630 %) ClearCase 2 3 (1.630 %) Eclipse 3 2 (1.087 %) PVCS 3 2 (1.087 %) Ant 3 2 (1.087 %) JUnit 3 2 (1.087 %) Subversion 4 1 (0.543 %) Selenium 4 1 (0.543 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 1 (0.543 %) Flash 4 1 (0.543 %) QuickTest Pro 4 1 (0.543 %) InstallShield 4 1 (0.543 %) CruiseControl
General 1 33 (17.93 %) Telecoms 2 9 (4.891 %) 3D Graphics 3 7 (3.804 %) Games 4 6 (3.261 %) Pensions 4 6 (3.261 %) Electronics 5 4 (2.174 %) Electric 5 4 (2.174 %) Manufacturing 6 3 (1.630 %) Health 6 3 (1.630 %) Finance 6 3 (1.630 %) Automotive 6 3 (1.630 %) Multimedia 6 3 (1.630 %) Insurance 6 3 (1.630 %) Online Games 6 3 (1.630 %) Avionics 7 2 (1.087 %) Banking 8 1 (0.543 %) Retail 8 1 (0.543 %) Animation 8 1 (0.543 %) Pharmaceutical 8 1 (0.543 %) Government	Job Titles 1 70 (38.04 %) Software Engineer 2 63 (34.24 %) Developer 3 32 (17.39 %) C++ Developer 4 15 (8.152 %) C++ Software Engineer 5 11 (5.978 %) Software Developer 6 7 (3.804 %) Author 6 7 (3.804 %) Technical Author 7 6 (3.261 %) C# Developer 8 5 (2.717 %) Senior Software Engineer 8 5 (2.717 %) Programmer 8 5 (2.717 %) .NET Developer 8 5 (2.717 %) Linux Engineer 9 4 (2.174 %) C++ Software Developer 9 4 (2.174 %) Embedded Software Engineer 9 4 (2.174 %) Test Engineer 10 3 (1.630 %) Team Leader 10 3 (1.630 %) Java Developer 10 3 (1.630 %) Senior Developer 10 3 (1.630 %) Analyst 10 3 (1.630 %) WinForms Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (5.978 %) Device Driver 2 10 (5.435 %) Computer Science 3 9 (4.891 %) Verilog 4 7 (3.804 %) ASIC 4 7 (3.804 %) Multithreading 5 6 (3.261 %) ASIC Verification 5 6 (3.261 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 5 (2.717 %) IPTV 7 4 (2.174 %) Cryptography 8 3 (1.630 %) STB 8 3 (1.630 %) VHDL 8 3 (1.630 %) Mathematics 9 2 (1.087 %) Firmware 9 2 (1.087 %) Speech Recognition 9 2 (1.087 %) MPEG 9 2 (1.087 %) DTV 9 2 (1.087 %) BBC 10 1 (0.543 %) Streaming Video 10 1 (0.543 %) iDTV 10 1 (0.543 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 58 (31.52 %) Linux 2 55 (29.89 %) Windows 3 36 (19.57 %) UNIX 4 16 (8.696 %) Windows CE 5 6 (3.261 %) VxWorks 5 6 (3.261 %) Solaris 6 5 (2.717 %) AIX 6 5 (2.717 %) HPUX 6 5 (2.717 %) Embedded Linux 7 4 (2.174 %) Symbian OS 8 3 (1.630 %) Windows XP 9 2 (1.087 %) Mac OS X 9 2 (1.087 %) Windows Mobile 9 2 (1.087 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.543 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (16.85 %) OO 2 26 (14.13 %) Software Engineering 3 23 (12.50 %) OOD 4 22 (11.96 %) UML 5 6 (3.261 %) IC Design 6 4 (2.174 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (2.174 %) Unit Testing 7 3 (1.630 %) Stress Testing 7 3 (1.630 %) Security Testing 7 3 (1.630 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (1.630 %) Data Protection 7 3 (1.630 %) Security Cleared 7 3 (1.630 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (1.630 %) OOP 7 3 (1.630 %) OOA/OOD 7 3 (1.630 %) Identity Management 8 2 (1.087 %) Validation 8 2 (1.087 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (1.087 %) Requirements Analysis 8 2 (1.087 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 104 (56.52 %) C 2 33 (17.93 %) C# 3 21 (11.41 %) Java 4 17 (9.239 %) Perl 5 15 (8.152 %) SQL 6 11 (5.978 %) PHP 6 11 (5.978 %) Python 6 11 (5.978 %) Embedded C 7 8 (4.348 %) Embedded C++ 8 6 (3.261 %) VB 9 5 (2.717 %) VB.NET 10 3 (1.630 %) Objective-C 10 3 (1.630 %) VC++ 11 2 (1.087 %) VB6 11 2 (1.087 %) Tcl 11 2 (1.087 %) JavaScript 12 1 (0.543 %) ActionScript 12 1 (0.543 %) Shell Script 12 1 (0.543 %) XAML
Qualifications 1 19 (10.33 %) Degree 2 3 (1.630 %) ISEB 3 1 (0.543 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (0.543 %) Postgraduate	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (4.348 %) QA
System Software 1 5 (2.717 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 10 (5.435 %) Microsoft 2 7 (3.804 %) Adobe 2 7 (3.804 %) Symbian 3 5 (2.717 %) VMware 4 3 (1.630 %) Sybase 5 2 (1.087 %) Oracle 5 2 (1.087 %) Apple 5 2 (1.087 %) MKS