The first table below looks at the demand for OpenCL 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 OpenCL 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 of the Application Development 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Khronos Group OpenCL
Rank 522 554 -
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -
Contract jobs citing OpenCL 8 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.018% 0.013% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.065% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12324 13806 16296
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.02% 26.47% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 7927 8459 9812
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 355 514
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.30 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.10% -4.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
OpenCL
UK

OpenCL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England OpenCL Jobs Demand Trend

OpenCL
Daily Rate Trend

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

England OpenCL Daily Rate Trend

OpenCL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England OpenCL Hourly Rate Trend

OpenCL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OpenCL 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 +25 7 £300 - 5
South East +24 1 - -
East of England - - - -
OpenCL
UK

OpenCL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing OpenCL 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 OpenCL.

1 21 (91.30%) Linux
2 13 (56.52%) C
3 12 (52.17%) Software Testing
3 12 (52.17%) C++
4 11 (47.83%) HTML
4 11 (47.83%) Python
5 10 (43.48%) Embedded C
5 10 (43.48%) Embedded Systems
6 8 (34.78%) OpenGL
7 7 (30.43%) GLSL
7 7 (30.43%) OpenGL ES
7 7 (30.43%) HLSL
8 5 (21.74%) CUDA
9 4 (17.39%) Java
10 3 (13.04%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (13.04%) Android
10 3 (13.04%) Embedded Software Development
10 3 (13.04%) Tizen
10 3 (13.04%) DirectCompute
11 2 (8.696%) Parallel Processing
11 2 (8.696%) Boost C++ Libraries
11 2 (8.696%) GPGPU
11 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
11 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
11 2 (8.696%) C#
11 2 (8.696%) TDD
11 2 (8.696%) Front Office
11 2 (8.696%) Finance
11 2 (8.696%) Device Driver
11 2 (8.696%) 3D Graphics

OpenCL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 11 (47.83%) HTML
2 8 (34.78%) OpenGL
3 7 (30.43%) OpenGL ES
4 3 (13.04%) DirectCompute
5 2 (8.696%) Boost C++ Libraries
5 2 (8.696%) .NET
5 2 (8.696%) STL
General
1 2 (8.696%) Front Office
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Test Engineer
1 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Programmer
2 3 (13.04%) C++ Developer
2 3 (13.04%) Graphics Programmer
3 2 (8.696%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) C Software Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (43.48%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (21.74%) CUDA
3 2 (8.696%) GPGPU
3 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.696%) Device Driver
3 2 (8.696%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (8.696%) Fixed Income
3 2 (8.696%) Grid Computing
4 1 (4.348%) STB
4 1 (4.348%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 21 (91.30%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Android
2 3 (13.04%) Tizen
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Software Testing
2 3 (13.04%) Embedded Software Development
3 2 (8.696%) Parallel Processing
3 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
3 2 (8.696%) TDD
4 1 (4.348%) Automated Testing
4 1 (4.348%) Digital Signal Processing
4 1 (4.348%) Signal Processing
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) C
2 12 (52.17%) C++
3 11 (47.83%) Python
4 10 (43.48%) Embedded C
5 7 (30.43%) GLSL
5 7 (30.43%) HLSL
6 4 (17.39%) Java
7 2 (8.696%) C#
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