The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior C++ Developer role 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 Senior C++ Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Senior C++ Developer
Rank 191 218 214
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior C++ Developer 8 1 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.126% 0.013% 0.311%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.136% 0.014% 0.339%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 24
Average daily rate £638 £625 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £509 £625 £600
10% offered a daily rate of more than £725 £625 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £350 £295
% change year-on-year
+17.85% +18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 -
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5876 7201 9157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.51% 91.48% 91.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4326 5182 6677
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 179 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.25 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior C++ Developer
London

Senior C++ Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior C++ Developer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Senior C++ Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Senior C++ Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior C++ Developer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Senior C++ Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior C++ Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior C++ Developer in their job title 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 with Senior C++ Developer in their job title.

1 21 (100.00%) C++
2 13 (61.90%) Banking
2 13 (61.90%) Linux
3 12 (57.14%) UNIX
4 11 (52.38%) Investment Banking
5 10 (47.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 10 (47.62%) STL
5 10 (47.62%) Java
6 8 (38.10%) C#
7 7 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (33.33%) SQL
7 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
7 7 (33.33%) Derivative
8 6 (28.57%) Fixed Income
8 6 (28.57%) Equities
8 6 (28.57%) Sybase
9 5 (23.81%) HTTP
10 4 (19.05%) Grid Computing
10 4 (19.05%) Front Office
10 4 (19.05%) Finance
10 4 (19.05%) Windows
11 3 (14.29%) OO
11 3 (14.29%) Python
11 3 (14.29%) Interest Rate Derivative
11 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
12 2 (9.524%) FFastFill
12 2 (9.524%) Scrum
12 2 (9.524%) Django
12 2 (9.524%) Git (software)
12 2 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server

Senior C++ Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Senior C++ Developer in their job title 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 with Senior C++ Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (47.62%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 10 (47.62%) STL
2 2 (9.524%) Django
2 2 (9.524%) CSS
2 2 (9.524%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) .NET
3 1 (4.762%) XML
3 1 (4.762%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.762%) Spring
3 1 (4.762%) JNI
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) Rendezvous
2 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.524%) Git (software)
1 2 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (9.524%) Subversion
2 1 (4.762%) MSI
General
1 13 (61.90%) Banking
2 11 (52.38%) Investment Banking
3 4 (19.05%) Front Office
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 7 (33.33%) Derivative
2 6 (28.57%) Fixed Income
2 6 (28.57%) Equities
3 4 (19.05%) Grid Computing
4 3 (14.29%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (4.762%) Credit Derivative
5 1 (4.762%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (4.762%) Equity Risk
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Linux
2 12 (57.14%) UNIX
3 4 (19.05%) Windows
4 1 (4.762%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 3 (14.29%) OO
2 3 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
3 2 (9.524%) Scrum
3 2 (9.524%) Metaprogramming
3 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (9.524%) TDD
3 2 (9.524%) Migration
3 2 (9.524%) UML
4 1 (4.762%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) C++
2 10 (47.62%) Java
3 8 (38.10%) C#
4 7 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (4.762%) VBA
6 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Sybase
2 2 (9.524%) FFastFill
2 2 (9.524%) TIBCO
2 2 (9.524%) EasyScreen
2 2 (9.524%) CQG
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.762%) DataSynapse
City of London
Job Title: Senior C++ Developer / Technical LeadLocation: LondonContract: 6 months+Rate: £700-800 per day Senior C++ Developer / Technical lead to work on a number of migration projects...
Rate: £650 - £800 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
City, London
C++, STL, Boost, Linux/Unix, Java, Fixed Income... Essential C++ STL BOOST Unix/Linux Java Python My client is looking for someone with excellent oral and written communication...
Aston Carter
Rate: £500 - £600 per day + depending on experience
Posted: 17 May 2013