The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term GPGPU in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited GPGPU 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 terms in our Miscellaneous 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
General-Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU)
Rank 508 556 -
Rank change year-on-year
+48 -
Contract jobs citing GPGPU 5 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.006% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.045% 0.022% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £255 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
11208 13487 16440
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 26.96% 25.29% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6896 8084 9903
Average daily rate £438 £437 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.11% -16.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £607 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 492 617 685
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.44% -2.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £46.60 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
GPGPU
UK

GPGPU
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England GPGPU Jobs Demand Trend

GPGPU
Daily Rate Trend

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

England GPGPU Daily Rate Trend

GPGPU
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England GPGPU Daily Rate Histogram

GPGPU
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England GPGPU Hourly Rate Trend

GPGPU
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GPGPU 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
London +41 5 £255 -
GPGPU
UK

GPGPU
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) C++
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Front Office
3 7 (58.33%) Java
3 7 (58.33%) STL
3 7 (58.33%) Grid Computing
3 7 (58.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (58.33%) CUDA
3 7 (58.33%) OpenCL
4 6 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 6 (50.00%) C
5 5 (41.67%) 3D Graphics
5 5 (41.67%) OpenGL
5 5 (41.67%) DirectX
5 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (41.67%) .NET
5 5 (41.67%) WPF
5 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
5 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
5 5 (41.67%) TDD
5 5 (41.67%) Banking
5 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
5 5 (41.67%) WebGL
6 4 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
6 4 (33.33%) RESTful
6 4 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (33.33%) HTTP
7 3 (25.00%) TIBCO
7 3 (25.00%) Risk Management

GPGPU
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 7 (58.33%) STL
1 7 (58.33%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 7 (58.33%) OpenCL
2 5 (41.67%) OpenGL
2 5 (41.67%) DirectX
2 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) WPF
2 5 (41.67%) WebGL
3 4 (33.33%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) HTTP
General
1 12 (100.00%) Finance
2 8 (66.67%) Front Office
3 5 (41.67%) Banking
3 5 (41.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
4 1 (8.333%) Games
4 1 (8.333%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) C++ Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Market Data Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Data Visualisation Specialist
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Grid Computing
1 7 (58.33%) CUDA
2 5 (41.67%) 3D Graphics
2 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
2 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) Fixed Income
3 2 (16.67%) Hedge funds
4 1 (8.333%) Credit Risk
4 1 (8.333%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 5 (41.67%) TDD
3 4 (33.33%) Parallel Processing
4 3 (25.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (25.00%) User Experience Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) C++
2 7 (58.33%) Java
3 6 (50.00%) C
4 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) TIBCO
2 1 (8.333%) DataSynapse
2 1 (8.333%) GigaSpaces