East of England STL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Standard Template Library (STL) skills within the East of England region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited STL over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Standard Template Library (STL)
Location Barnet Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent London Manchester Middlesex North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Redhill Sevenoaks South East South West Stockport Surrey Thames Valley UK	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	135	152
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.444 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£320
% change on same period last year	-12.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+40.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.38	£33.18
% change on same period last year	+6.62 %
Application Development East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	901	1362
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.201 %	1.359 %
Daily rates quoted	311	394
Average minimum daily rate	£345	£337
Average daily rate	£370	£357
% change on same period last year	+3.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	171
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.10	£30.08
Average hourly rate	£31.62	£31.16
% change on same period last year	+1.46 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.14	£32.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
STL 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.

STL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing STL across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

STL
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing STL across the East of England region.

STL
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing STL across the East of England region.

STL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing STL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Cambridgeshire	-	3	-	-
Hertfordshire	+16	1	-	-

STL England

STL
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing STL 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 STL.

1 5 (62.50 %) C++ 2 3 (37.50 %) C 2 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 3 2 (25.00 %) IPsec 3 2 (25.00 %) Embedded Linux 3 2 (25.00 %) UMTS 3 2 (25.00 %) Embedded C 3 2 (25.00 %) Siemens 3 2 (25.00 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) OO 4 1 (12.50 %) Client/Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Eclipse 4 1 (12.50 %) .NET 4 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows

4 1 (12.50 %) X.509 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Numerical Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) Multithreading 4 1 (12.50 %) Subversion 4 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 4 1 (12.50 %) C# 4 1 (12.50 %) Advertising 4 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Programme Management

STL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing STL 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 STL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) IPsec 1 2 (25.00 %) UMTS 2 1 (12.50 %) X.509
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) Eclipse 1 1 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (12.50 %) Subversion	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Telecoms 2 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 2 1 (12.50 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Software Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) C++ Software Engineer 2 2 (25.00 %) Programmer 3 1 (12.50 %) Security Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) C Software Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Embedded Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Client/Server 1 1 (12.50 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Embedded Linux 1 2 (25.00 %) Linux 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) OO 1 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Change Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Requirements Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Numerical Analysis 1 1 (12.50 %) Stakeholder Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Programme Management
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) C++ 2 3 (37.50 %) C 3 2 (25.00 %) Embedded C 4 1 (12.50 %) C#	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Siemens