C++ Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 20 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 Edinburgh 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 48 41 38
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -3
Contract jobs citing C++ 10 22 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.245% 2.000% 2.066%
As % of the Programming Languages category 4.484% 11.00% 9.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 4
Average daily rate £250 £313 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +60.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category		 223 200 271
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 27.77% 18.18% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 84 107
Average daily rate £313 £320 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.34% -1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £240 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +30.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C++
Scotland

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Edinburgh C++ Daily Rate Histogram

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) C#
2 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
3 5 (33.33%) Web Application Development
4 4 (26.67%) Java
4 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 3 (20.00%) C
5 3 (20.00%) HTML
5 3 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 3 (20.00%) Web Development
5 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
5 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (13.33%) Multithreading
6 2 (13.33%) System Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Banking
6 2 (13.33%) jQuery
6 2 (13.33%) OO
6 2 (13.33%) Wireless
6 2 (13.33%) Games
6 2 (13.33%) Firmware
6 2 (13.33%) MVC
6 2 (13.33%) Electronics
7 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
7 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
7 1 (6.667%) Fixed Income
7 1 (6.667%) Front Office
7 1 (6.667%) Flash
7 1 (6.667%) Python

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 2 (13.33%) jQuery
3 1 (6.667%) Qt
3 1 (6.667%) .NET
3 1 (6.667%) Flash
3 1 (6.667%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.667%) Spring
3 1 (6.667%) WPF
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Wireless
2 1 (6.667%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MongoDB
1 1 (6.667%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (13.33%) Games
1 2 (13.33%) Banking
1 2 (13.33%) Electronics
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.667%) Front Office
2 1 (6.667%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.667%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) Programmer
2 6 (40.00%) C++ Developer
3 5 (33.33%) C++ Programmer
4 4 (26.67%) Software Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Programmer
5 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) C++/C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) C++/Java Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Web Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Games Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Architect
6 1 (6.667%) Trainer
6 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (13.33%) Firmware
3 1 (6.667%) Fixed Income
3 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (6.667%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) Android
2 1 (6.667%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 3 (20.00%) Web Development
2 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) Multithreading
3 2 (13.33%) System Testing
3 2 (13.33%) OO
3 2 (13.33%) MVC
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) OOP
4 1 (6.667%) MVVM
4 1 (6.667%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) C
4 1 (6.667%) Perl
4 1 (6.667%) ActionScript
4 1 (6.667%) Python
4 1 (6.667%) Scala
4 1 (6.667%) ActionScript 3.0
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
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