The first table below looks at the demand for the C++ Software Engineer 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++ Software Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++ Software Engineer
Rank 483 482 514
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +32
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Software Engineer 30 77 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.072% 0.144% 0.101%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.156% 0.109%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 13
Average daily rate £300 £300 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £300 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £373
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £350 £285
% change year-on-year
-17.85% +22.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 30 32
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £39.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £38.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-1.31% -5.00%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38421 49352 52077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.41% 92.53% 92.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22588 27902 28893
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 1983 2412 2765
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 £11.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.86 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C++ Software Engineer
UK

C++ Software Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England C++ Software Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England C++ Software Engineer Daily Rate Trend

C++ Software Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England C++ Software Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

C++ Software Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England C++ Software Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

C++ Software Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Software Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
South East -4 20 £350 -
South West +26 6 £253 -
Yorkshire - 2 £300 -
London +14 1 - -
North West +13 1 - -
C++ Software Engineer
UK

C++ Software Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C++ Software Engineer 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++ Software Engineer in their job title.

1 72 (100.00%) C++
2 37 (51.39%) C
3 33 (45.83%) UML
4 31 (43.06%) Linux
5 18 (25.00%) Electronics
6 16 (22.22%) Embedded C++
7 15 (20.83%) OO
7 15 (20.83%) Windows
8 13 (18.06%) OOD
8 13 (18.06%) MS Office
9 12 (16.67%) STL
9 12 (16.67%) Subversion
9 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 11 (15.28%) Visual Studio
10 11 (15.28%) UNIX
11 10 (13.89%) VC++
11 10 (13.89%) Mathematics
11 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
11 10 (13.89%) Qt
12 9 (12.50%) Configuration Management
12 9 (12.50%) C#
13 8 (11.11%) MFC
14 7 (9.722%) Agile Software Development
14 7 (9.722%) .NET
14 7 (9.722%) ClearCase
14 7 (9.722%) Telecoms
14 7 (9.722%) Microsoft
14 7 (9.722%) OpenGL
14 7 (9.722%) GSM
14 7 (9.722%) Boost C++ Libraries

C++ Software Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C++ Software Engineer 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++ Software Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (16.67%) STL
2 10 (13.89%) Qt
3 8 (11.11%) MFC
4 7 (9.722%) .NET
4 7 (9.722%) OpenGL
4 7 (9.722%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 5 (6.944%) XML
5 5 (6.944%) DirectX
6 2 (2.778%) Motif
6 2 (2.778%) Flash
6 2 (2.778%) wxWidgets
7 1 (1.389%) WinForms
7 1 (1.389%) XSL
7 1 (1.389%) Middleware
7 1 (1.389%) OpenCL
Applications
1 13 (18.06%) MS Office
2 2 (2.778%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.389%) LabWindows
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.722%) GSM
2 5 (6.944%) TCP/IP
3 4 (5.556%) LTE
3 4 (5.556%) Internet
3 4 (5.556%) UMTS
3 4 (5.556%) 3G
3 4 (5.556%) 2G
4 3 (4.167%) RANAP
4 3 (4.167%) RTP
4 3 (4.167%) VoIP
4 3 (4.167%) PBX
4 3 (4.167%) Asterisk PBX
5 2 (2.778%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.389%) ASN.1
6 1 (1.389%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.778%) Ingres
1 2 (2.778%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Subversion
2 11 (15.28%) Visual Studio
3 7 (9.722%) ClearCase
3 7 (9.722%) GoogleTest
4 6 (8.333%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (8.333%) CppUnit
4 6 (8.333%) Ant
4 6 (8.333%) NUnit
5 4 (5.556%) GCC
5 4 (5.556%) TeamCity
5 4 (5.556%) Maven
6 3 (4.167%) Trac
6 3 (4.167%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.167%) GDB
7 2 (2.778%) ClearQuest
7 2 (2.778%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 2 (2.778%) Rational Rose
7 2 (2.778%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.778%) LabVIEW
7 2 (2.778%) CruiseControl
General
1 18 (25.00%) Electronics
2 7 (9.722%) Telecoms
3 6 (8.333%) Military
3 6 (8.333%) Aerospace
4 2 (2.778%) Finance
4 2 (2.778%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Front Office
4 2 (2.778%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Mathematics
2 6 (8.333%) Embedded Systems
3 5 (6.944%) Physics
4 3 (4.167%) Device Driver
4 3 (4.167%) Computer Science
5 2 (2.778%) SCADA
5 2 (2.778%) Derivative
6 1 (1.389%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 1 (1.389%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.389%) APACS
6 1 (1.389%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 31 (43.06%) Linux
2 15 (20.83%) Windows
3 11 (15.28%) UNIX
4 4 (5.556%) Solaris
5 2 (2.778%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.778%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.778%) Windows XP Embedded
6 1 (1.389%) Android
6 1 (1.389%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (45.83%) UML
2 15 (20.83%) OO
3 13 (18.06%) OOD
4 12 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 9 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 7 (9.722%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (8.333%) RUP
7 6 (8.333%) Multithreading
7 6 (8.333%) Unified Process
8 5 (6.944%) Embedded Software Development
9 3 (4.167%) Integration Testing
10 2 (2.778%) Signal Processing
10 2 (2.778%) Memory Management
10 2 (2.778%) Project Management
10 2 (2.778%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (2.778%) Use Case
10 2 (2.778%) Refactoring
10 2 (2.778%) Scrum
11 1 (1.389%) Software Testing
11 1 (1.389%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 72 (100.00%) C++
2 37 (51.39%) C
3 16 (22.22%) Embedded C++
4 10 (13.89%) VC++
5 9 (12.50%) C#
6 6 (8.333%) Fortran
6 6 (8.333%) Perl
7 4 (5.556%) Embedded C
8 3 (4.167%) Python
8 3 (4.167%) Java
9 2 (2.778%) SQL
10 1 (1.389%) Ruby
10 1 (1.389%) Ada
10 1 (1.389%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 10 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.333%) SC Cleared
2 6 (8.333%) Degree
3 2 (2.778%) PhD
4 1 (1.389%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.556%) DO-178B
2 1 (1.389%) TickIT
Vendors
1 7 (9.722%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.167%) Cisco
3 2 (2.778%) Freescale
3 2 (2.778%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.389%) Google
4 1 (1.389%) Serena
4 1 (1.389%) Green Hills
4 1 (1.389%) QNX
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