The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 17 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 Derbyshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 19 26 24
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -2
Contract jobs citing C++ 1 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 0.735% 4.167% 4.317%
As % of the Programming Languages category 2.941% 17.65% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £325 - £371
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Derbyshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
34 51 75
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derbyshire 25.00% 23.61% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 25
Average daily rate £275 £250 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -25.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £311
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 13
Average hourly rate - £36.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +38.46%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C++
East Midlands

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (40.00%) VBA
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) Linux

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire 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 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) XML
2 2 (40.00%) HTML
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Business Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Business Systems Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) C++ Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) C#