The first table below looks at the demand for VC++ 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 VC++ 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 of the Programming Languages 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Visual C++
Rank 489 495 490
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -5
Contract jobs citing VC++ 21 63 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.051% 0.118% 0.145%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.135% 0.333% 0.380%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 38 56
Average daily rate £400 £335 £538
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.40% -37.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £258 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
+39.13% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
Average hourly rate - £27.00 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -21.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £27.00 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -19.40%
All Programming Languages
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
15581 18915 21575
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 37.48% 35.45% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9811 11457 12674
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 582 673 891
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £17.50 £19.51
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £46.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
VC++
UK

VC++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VC++ Jobs Demand Trend

VC++
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VC++ Daily Rate Trend

VC++
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England VC++ Daily Rate Histogram

VC++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VC++ Hourly Rate Trend

VC++
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VC++ 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 16 £525 -4.54%
East of England +16 4 £400 -
West Midlands +4 1 £340 +147.27%
VC++
UK

VC++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VC++ 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 VC++.

1 67 (98.53%) C++
2 49 (72.06%) Windows
3 32 (47.06%) Microsoft
4 29 (42.65%) Linux
5 27 (39.71%) Mathematics
6 26 (38.24%) Computer Science
7 25 (36.76%) Degree
7 25 (36.76%) Software Engineering
8 23 (33.82%) C#
9 20 (29.41%) Physics
10 18 (26.47%) .NET
10 18 (26.47%) OO
11 16 (23.53%) Maven
11 16 (23.53%) TeamCity
12 14 (20.59%) Multithreading
12 14 (20.59%) Finance
12 14 (20.59%) XML
12 14 (20.59%) Java
13 13 (19.12%) Visual Studio
13 13 (19.12%) Artifactory
14 11 (16.18%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (16.18%) MFC
14 11 (16.18%) SQL
14 11 (16.18%) Oracle
15 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
15 10 (14.71%) STL
15 10 (14.71%) UNIX
16 9 (13.24%) Python
16 9 (13.24%) VB
16 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared

VC++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VC++ 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 VC++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (26.47%) .NET
2 14 (20.59%) XML
3 11 (16.18%) MFC
4 10 (14.71%) STL
5 8 (11.76%) Django
6 7 (10.29%) SOAP
7 6 (8.824%) XSLT
7 6 (8.824%) Web Services
7 6 (8.824%) OpenGL
8 5 (7.353%) DirectX
8 5 (7.353%) WSDL
9 4 (5.882%) HTML5
9 4 (5.882%) CSS
10 3 (4.412%) XSL
11 2 (2.941%) ODBC
11 2 (2.941%) DOM
11 2 (2.941%) ATL
11 2 (2.941%) ADO
11 2 (2.941%) REST
11 2 (2.941%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.353%) Apache
1 5 (7.353%) nginx
2 1 (1.471%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (1.471%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 4 (5.882%) MS Excel
2 3 (4.412%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.353%) FTP
1 5 (7.353%) HTTP
1 5 (7.353%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.471%) RTP
2 1 (1.471%) SS7
2 1 (1.471%) ISDN
2 1 (1.471%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.353%) MySQL
2 3 (4.412%) SQL Server
2 3 (4.412%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.471%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.471%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.471%) Big Data
3 1 (1.471%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (23.53%) Maven
1 16 (23.53%) TeamCity
2 13 (19.12%) Visual Studio
2 13 (19.12%) Artifactory
3 8 (11.76%) Subversion
3 8 (11.76%) LLVM
4 5 (7.353%) Eclipse
5 2 (2.941%) Bugzilla
5 2 (2.941%) NetBeans
5 2 (2.941%) WiX
5 2 (2.941%) JUnit
General
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 8 (11.76%) Banking
3 5 (7.353%) Investment Banking
3 5 (7.353%) Front Office
4 4 (5.882%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.412%) Advertising
5 3 (4.412%) Military
6 1 (1.471%) Back Office
6 1 (1.471%) Electronics
6 1 (1.471%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (72.06%) Developer
2 30 (44.12%) C++ Developer
3 14 (20.59%) Software Engineer
4 12 (17.65%) Programmer
5 11 (16.18%) C++ Software Engineer
6 10 (14.71%) C++ Programmer
7 7 (10.29%) Analyst Programmer
7 7 (10.29%) Analyst
8 5 (7.353%) Quantitative Developer
8 5 (7.353%) C++ Analyst Programmer
8 5 (7.353%) Software Programmer
8 5 (7.353%) C++ Quantitative Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Python Developer
9 4 (5.882%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.412%) Senior C++ Developer
10 3 (4.412%) Mobile Applications Developer
10 3 (4.412%) Mobile Developer
10 3 (4.412%) Windows Mobile Developer
11 2 (2.941%) Senior Programmer
11 2 (2.941%) C Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (39.71%) Mathematics
2 26 (38.24%) Computer Science
3 20 (29.41%) Physics
4 8 (11.76%) Open Source
5 4 (5.882%) Fixed Income
5 4 (5.882%) Derivative
6 3 (4.412%) Social Media
6 3 (4.412%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.412%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (4.412%) Visualisation
7 2 (2.941%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 2 (2.941%) Device Driver
7 2 (2.941%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.471%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 49 (72.06%) Windows
2 29 (42.65%) Linux
3 10 (14.71%) UNIX
4 6 (8.824%) Windows XP
5 5 (7.353%) Windows 7
6 3 (4.412%) Windows CE
6 3 (4.412%) Windows Mobile
7 1 (1.471%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Software Engineering
2 18 (26.47%) OO
3 14 (20.59%) Multithreading
4 11 (16.18%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (8.824%) OOP
6 5 (7.353%) Scrum
7 4 (5.882%) OOA/OOD
8 3 (4.412%) RAD
8 3 (4.412%) OOD
8 3 (4.412%) CAD
8 3 (4.412%) TDD
8 3 (4.412%) Operations Research
9 2 (2.941%) Time Management
9 2 (2.941%) Data Visualisation
9 2 (2.941%) Mobile Application Development
9 2 (2.941%) MVC
9 2 (2.941%) RDF
9 2 (2.941%) Data Modelling
10 1 (1.471%) Configuration Management
10 1 (1.471%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 67 (98.53%) C++
2 23 (33.82%) C#
3 14 (20.59%) Java
4 11 (16.18%) SQL
5 10 (14.71%) JavaScript
6 9 (13.24%) VB
6 9 (13.24%) Python
7 8 (11.76%) C
8 6 (8.824%) Fortran
9 5 (7.353%) Perl
9 5 (7.353%) PHP
10 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
10 1 (1.471%) VBA
10 1 (1.471%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.471%) VB6
Qualifications
1 25 (36.76%) Degree
2 9 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 8 (11.76%) PhD
4 7 (10.29%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.412%) MBA
5 3 (4.412%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.471%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) SLA
1 1 (1.471%) QA
Vendors
1 32 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 11 (16.18%) Oracle
3 1 (1.471%) Tradeweb
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