The first table below looks at the demand for CppUnit skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CppUnit 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 of the Development Applications category 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
CppUnit
Rank 495 557 558
Rank change year-on-year
+62 +1
Contract jobs citing CppUnit 18 2 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.043% 0.004% 0.023%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.389% 0.040% 0.216%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 8
Average daily rate £288 - £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £35.00
All Development Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
4623 4974 6010
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 11.12% 9.325% 10.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2946 3009 3467
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £585
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 205 309
Average hourly rate £37.80 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £23.88 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
CppUnit
UK

CppUnit
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CppUnit across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

England CppUnit Jobs Demand Trend

CppUnit
Daily Rate Trend

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

England CppUnit Daily Rate Trend

CppUnit
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England CppUnit Hourly Rate Trend

CppUnit
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CppUnit 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 - 17 £288 -
London +38 1 £350 -
CppUnit
UK

CppUnit
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing CppUnit 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 CppUnit.

1 18 (100.00%) C++
1 18 (100.00%) NUnit
2 17 (94.44%) GoogleTest
2 17 (94.44%) C
2 17 (94.44%) Ant
2 17 (94.44%) UNIX
2 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 17 (94.44%) UML
2 17 (94.44%) ClearCase
2 17 (94.44%) OOD
3 13 (72.22%) Motif
4 12 (66.67%) Configuration Management
4 12 (66.67%) CruiseControl
4 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (61.11%) wxWidgets
5 11 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (61.11%) XML
5 11 (61.11%) Ingres
5 11 (61.11%) SQL
6 10 (55.56%) ClearQuest
6 10 (55.56%) RUP
6 10 (55.56%) Python
6 10 (55.56%) Unified Process
6 10 (55.56%) Subversion
7 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
8 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
9 6 (33.33%) Rational Rose
9 6 (33.33%) Multithreading
10 5 (27.78%) OO
10 5 (27.78%) Windows

CppUnit
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing CppUnit 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 CppUnit. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (72.22%) Motif
2 11 (61.11%) wxWidgets
2 11 (61.11%) XML
3 1 (5.556%) .NET
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (61.11%) Ingres
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 18 (100.00%) NUnit
2 17 (94.44%) GoogleTest
2 17 (94.44%) Ant
2 17 (94.44%) ClearCase
3 12 (66.67%) CruiseControl
4 10 (55.56%) ClearQuest
4 10 (55.56%) Subversion
5 6 (33.33%) Rational Rose
6 1 (5.556%) PyUnit
6 1 (5.556%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (5.556%) Hudson
6 1 (5.556%) GDB
6 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
6 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
6 1 (5.556%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) C++ Developer
1 7 (38.89%) Software Engineer
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 6 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) UNIX
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) UML
1 17 (94.44%) OOD
2 12 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 12 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (55.56%) RUP
3 10 (55.56%) Unified Process
4 7 (38.89%) Software Engineering
5 6 (33.33%) Multithreading
6 5 (27.78%) OO
7 4 (22.22%) Project Management
7 4 (22.22%) Refactoring
7 4 (22.22%) Use Case
7 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Memory Management
8 1 (5.556%) Analytics
8 1 (5.556%) Code Coverage
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C++
2 17 (94.44%) C
3 11 (61.11%) SQL
4 10 (55.56%) Python
5 1 (5.556%) C#
5 1 (5.556%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.556%) Coverity
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle