The first table below looks at the demand for OpenCL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited OpenCL over the 3 months to 23 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 Application Development category for the City of London 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Khronos Group OpenCL
Rank - - 243
Contract jobs citing OpenCL 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - - 0.020%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 -
% change year-on-year
-6.92% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £37.50 -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1810 2018 2793
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.49% 25.64% 28.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1434 1499 2176
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.50 £119.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
OpenCL
London

OpenCL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing OpenCL across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London OpenCL Jobs Demand Trend

OpenCL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing OpenCL across the City of London region.

City of London OpenCL Daily Rate Trend

OpenCL
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OpenCL 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 OpenCL.

1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) Java
1 7 (100.00%) STL
1 7 (100.00%) Front Office
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
1 7 (100.00%) Grid Computing
1 7 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 6 (85.71%) GPGPU
2 6 (85.71%) CUDA
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
3 5 (71.43%) TDD
3 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
3 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
4 4 (57.14%) Parallel Processing
5 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
6 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
6 1 (14.29%) Games
6 1 (14.29%) DataSynapse
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (14.29%) GigaSpaces
6 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
6 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds

OpenCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing OpenCL 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 OpenCL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (100.00%) STL
1 7 (100.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle Coherence
General
1 7 (100.00%) Front Office
1 7 (100.00%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 5 (71.43%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 1 (14.29%) Games
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) C++ Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Grid Computing
2 6 (85.71%) GPGPU
2 6 (85.71%) CUDA
3 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
5 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
5 1 (14.29%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
2 4 (57.14%) Parallel Processing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) DataSynapse
1 1 (14.29%) GigaSpaces