The first table below looks at the demand for the C++ Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 England 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++ Programmer
Rank 522 551 567
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +16
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Programmer 8 10 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.018% 0.019% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.021% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 7
Average daily rate £375 £325 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -27.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £325 £328
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £325 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £325 £419
% change year-on-year
-23.07% -22.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40666 48260 52962
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.45% 92.52% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24069 27435 29642
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £243 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1999 2368 2784
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.36 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C++ Programmer
UK

C++ Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England C++ Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

C++ Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++ Programmer across the England region.

England C++ Programmer Daily Rate Trend

C++ Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England C++ Programmer Daily Rate Histogram

C++ Programmer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England C++ Programmer Hourly Rate Trend

C++ Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Programmer within the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London - 6 £450 - 4
South East +20 1 £375 +15.38% 2
East of England +17 1 - -
South West - - - - 3
West Midlands - - - -
Yorkshire - - - - 1
East Midlands - - - -
North West - - - -
C++ Programmer
UK

C++ Programmer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C++ Programmer 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 C++ Programmer in their job title.

1 23 (100.00%) C++
2 8 (34.78%) Mathematics
2 8 (34.78%) C#
3 7 (30.43%) VC++
4 6 (26.09%) MFC
4 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (21.74%) Finance
5 5 (21.74%) .NET
5 5 (21.74%) OpenGL
5 5 (21.74%) DirectX
5 5 (21.74%) Fortran
6 4 (17.39%) Linux
6 4 (17.39%) OO
6 4 (17.39%) C
6 4 (17.39%) Electronics
6 4 (17.39%) Degree
6 4 (17.39%) Qt
7 3 (13.04%) VeriFone
7 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
7 3 (13.04%) Physics
7 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 3 (13.04%) APACS
7 3 (13.04%) Perl
7 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
7 3 (13.04%) EPoS
7 3 (13.04%) EMV
7 3 (13.04%) Chip and PIN
8 2 (8.696%) Autodesk
8 2 (8.696%) OOD
8 2 (8.696%) STL

C++ Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C++ Programmer 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 C++ Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (26.09%) MFC
2 5 (21.74%) .NET
2 5 (21.74%) OpenGL
2 5 (21.74%) DirectX
3 4 (17.39%) Qt
4 2 (8.696%) STL
5 1 (4.348%) Boost C++ Libraries
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Maya
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) OLTP
1 1 (4.348%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.348%) Rational DOORS
2 1 (4.348%) CppUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Electronics
3 2 (8.696%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.696%) Games
4 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.348%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Mathematics
2 3 (13.04%) Physics
2 3 (13.04%) Computer Science
2 3 (13.04%) APACS
2 3 (13.04%) EPoS
2 3 (13.04%) EMV
2 3 (13.04%) Chip and PIN
3 2 (8.696%) Animation
3 2 (8.696%) Statistics
4 1 (4.348%) Credit Risk
4 1 (4.348%) Fixed Income
4 1 (4.348%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Linux
2 2 (8.696%) Windows
3 1 (4.348%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (17.39%) OO
3 3 (13.04%) Multithreading
4 2 (8.696%) OOD
4 2 (8.696%) Game Development
4 2 (8.696%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Analytics
5 1 (4.348%) Refactoring
5 1 (4.348%) Scrum
5 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C++
2 8 (34.78%) C#
3 7 (30.43%) VC++
4 5 (21.74%) Fortran
5 4 (17.39%) C
6 3 (13.04%) Perl
7 1 (4.348%) SQL
7 1 (4.348%) VB
7 1 (4.348%) VBA
7 1 (4.348%) Java
7 1 (4.348%) Python
7 1 (4.348%) Ada
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) VeriFone
2 2 (8.696%) Autodesk
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle
3 1 (4.348%) Sybase
3 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
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