The first table below looks at the demand for the C++/C# Developer 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++/C# Developer in their job title 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++/C# Developer
Rank 469 507 445
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -62
Contract jobs requiring a C++/C# Developer 41 51 127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.099% 0.096% 0.225%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.107% 0.103% 0.243%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 37 96
Average daily rate £500 £525 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £276 £540
10% offered a daily rate of more than £615 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £230
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +30.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £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 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
C++/C# Developer
UK

C++/C# Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England C++/C# Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C++/C# Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England C++/C# Developer Daily Rate Trend

C++/C# Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++/C# Developer across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England C++/C# Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C++/C# Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England C++/C# Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C++/C# Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++/C# Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +15 28 £500 -9.09%
South East +29 7 £350 +34.61%
North West - 4 £313 -
South West +20 1 £220 -8.33%
East of England +12 1 £400 +29.03%
C++/C# Developer
UK

C++/C# Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C++/C# Developer 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++/C# Developer in their job title.

1 92 (100.00%) C#
1 92 (100.00%) C++
2 49 (53.26%) Windows
3 48 (52.17%) Fixed Income
4 46 (50.00%) Derivative
5 43 (46.74%) .NET
6 41 (44.57%) Python
7 40 (43.48%) Oracle
8 39 (42.39%) XML
8 39 (42.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 34 (36.96%) Interest Rate Derivative
10 31 (33.70%) SQL
11 29 (31.52%) STL
12 28 (30.43%) Front Office
13 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
13 24 (26.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 22 (23.91%) Oracle Coherence
15 21 (22.83%) Analytics
15 21 (22.83%) MS Excel
15 21 (22.83%) Banking
16 20 (21.74%) Visual Studio
17 19 (20.65%) Swaptions
18 18 (19.57%) Windows 7
19 17 (18.48%) Risk Analysis
19 17 (18.48%) Spreadsheet
19 17 (18.48%) Oracle Forms
19 17 (18.48%) Windows XP
19 17 (18.48%) Oracle 8/8i
19 17 (18.48%) CMS
20 15 (16.30%) Finance

C++/C# Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited C++/C# Developer 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++/C# Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 43 (46.74%) .NET
2 39 (42.39%) XML
3 29 (31.52%) STL
4 24 (26.09%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 10 (10.87%) WCF
6 9 (9.783%) WPF
7 5 (5.435%) Middleware
8 4 (4.348%) Web Services
8 4 (4.348%) COM
8 4 (4.348%) HTML5
9 3 (3.261%) Unity DI Container
9 3 (3.261%) OpenGL
9 3 (3.261%) Murex Flex
10 2 (2.174%) CSS
10 2 (2.174%) HTML
10 2 (2.174%) ATL
10 2 (2.174%) Django
11 1 (1.087%) RESTful
11 1 (1.087%) REST
11 1 (1.087%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 22 (23.91%) Oracle Coherence
2 17 (18.48%) CMS
3 3 (3.261%) Rendezvous
4 2 (2.174%) GemFire
5 1 (1.087%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 21 (22.83%) MS Excel
2 17 (18.48%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.087%) Endur
1 1 (1.087%) Summit
1 1 (1.087%) Kondor+
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.174%) HTTP
1 2 (2.174%) ASN.1
1 2 (2.174%) TETRA
2 1 (1.087%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.087%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.087%) 3G
2 1 (1.087%) TELNET
2 1 (1.087%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.48%) Oracle 8/8i
2 14 (15.22%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.174%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.087%) SQLite
4 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Visual Studio
2 17 (18.48%) Oracle Forms
3 8 (8.696%) Subversion
4 6 (6.522%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (5.435%) Git (software)
6 3 (3.261%) NUnit
7 2 (2.174%) Eclipse
7 2 (2.174%) GCC
8 1 (1.087%) ClearCase
General
1 28 (30.43%) Front Office
2 21 (22.83%) Banking
3 15 (16.30%) Finance
4 12 (13.04%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.261%) Games
5 3 (3.261%) Back Office
6 2 (2.174%) Electronics
7 1 (1.087%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 48 (52.17%) Fixed Income
2 46 (50.00%) Derivative
3 39 (42.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 34 (36.96%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 19 (20.65%) Swaptions
6 11 (11.96%) Mathematics
7 7 (7.609%) Grid Computing
8 5 (5.435%) Equities
9 3 (3.261%) 3D Graphics
9 3 (3.261%) Hedge funds
10 2 (2.174%) Embedded Systems
10 2 (2.174%) N-Tier
10 2 (2.174%) Physics
10 2 (2.174%) Computer Science
10 2 (2.174%) PKI
10 2 (2.174%) Statistics
11 1 (1.087%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (1.087%) Credit Risk
11 1 (1.087%) Client/Server
11 1 (1.087%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 49 (53.26%) Windows
2 18 (19.57%) Windows 7
3 17 (18.48%) Windows XP
4 6 (6.522%) UNIX
5 5 (5.435%) Linux
6 3 (3.261%) Android
7 2 (2.174%) VxWorks
8 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (1.087%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (22.83%) Analytics
2 17 (18.48%) Risk Analysis
3 13 (14.13%) OO
4 12 (13.04%) Scrum
4 12 (13.04%) Multithreading
5 9 (9.783%) TDD
6 6 (6.522%) UML
7 5 (5.435%) Agile Software Development
7 5 (5.435%) Risk Management
8 4 (4.348%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.348%) Web Application Development
8 4 (4.348%) MVC
9 3 (3.261%) Game Development
9 3 (3.261%) Kanban
9 3 (3.261%) 3D Modelling
10 2 (2.174%) Metaprogramming
10 2 (2.174%) Web Development
10 2 (2.174%) SOA
10 2 (2.174%) Configuration Management
11 1 (1.087%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 92 (100.00%) C#
1 92 (100.00%) C++
2 41 (44.57%) Python
3 31 (33.70%) SQL
4 12 (13.04%) C
5 10 (10.87%) Java
6 4 (4.348%) C++/CLI
7 3 (3.261%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.174%) VBA
8 2 (2.174%) Scala
9 1 (1.087%) XPath
9 1 (1.087%) VC++
9 1 (1.087%) VB
9 1 (1.087%) Perl
9 1 (1.087%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (4.348%) SC Cleared
1 4 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.261%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.261%) MCTS
2 3 (3.261%) Degree
2 3 (3.261%) MCP
2 3 (3.261%) MCAD
2 3 (3.261%) MCSD
3 1 (1.087%) PhD
System Software
1 2 (2.174%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 40 (43.48%) Oracle
2 24 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.609%) DataSynapse
4 4 (4.348%) Murex
5 3 (3.261%) Sybase
5 3 (3.261%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.174%) FFastFill
6 2 (2.174%) Green Hills
6 2 (2.174%) EasyScreen
6 2 (2.174%) CQG
7 1 (1.087%) ION Trading
7 1 (1.087%) OpenLink
7 1 (1.087%) DevExpress
7 1 (1.087%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 1 (1.087%) Reuters
7 1 (1.087%) Fidessa
7 1 (1.087%) Nortel
7 1 (1.087%) Ericsson
London
C++, STL, Boost, Multi-threading, C#, WCF, Python, Distributed, Grid, Synapse, Coherence, Risk. A tier 1 investment bank based in Canary Wharf, London is looking to appoint a...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Main technologies used will be C++ and C# with grid computing technologies such as DataSynapse and middleware technologies such as Solace and Oracle Coherence... *XML technologies... Oracle Coherence).
Aston Carter
Rate: £575 - £625 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013