The first table below looks at the demand for the C++ Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Glasgow 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
C++ Developer
Rank 37 59 62
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +3
Contract jobs requiring a C++ Developer 42 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.502% 0.381% 0.288%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.767% 0.400% 0.303%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 0
Average daily rate £413 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £313 £313
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -0.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
881 750 660
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.43% 95.30% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 352 379
Average daily rate £338 £319 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.79% -8.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 36 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £22.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.77% +18.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
C++ Developer
Scotland

C++ Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow C++ Developer Jobs Demand Trend

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Glasgow C++ Developer Daily Rate Trend

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Glasgow C++ Developer Daily Rate Histogram

C++ Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow C++ Developer Hourly Rate Trend

C++ Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited 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++ Developer in their job title.

1 52 (100.00%) C++
2 35 (67.31%) Java
3 32 (61.54%) C#
4 29 (55.77%) Perl
4 29 (55.77%) Multithreading
5 21 (40.38%) Fixed Income
6 19 (36.54%) Finance
7 18 (34.62%) Banking
8 13 (25.00%) Oracle
8 13 (25.00%) Sybase
9 12 (23.08%) C++/CLI
9 12 (23.08%) Analytics
10 10 (19.23%) XML
10 10 (19.23%) UNIX
10 10 (19.23%) Spring
11 9 (17.31%) Python
11 9 (17.31%) STL
11 9 (17.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
12 8 (15.38%) Scala
12 8 (15.38%) OOP
13 7 (13.46%) OO
13 7 (13.46%) Investment Banking
13 7 (13.46%) Hibernate
13 7 (13.46%) Front Office
13 7 (13.46%) Electronic Trading
14 6 (11.54%) Mathematics
14 6 (11.54%) Physics
14 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
14 6 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 4 (7.692%) WPF

C++ Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow region that cited 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++ Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (19.23%) XML
1 10 (19.23%) Spring
2 9 (17.31%) STL
2 9 (17.31%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 7 (13.46%) Hibernate
4 4 (7.692%) WPF
5 3 (5.769%) XML Messaging
5 3 (5.769%) Apache CXF
5 3 (5.769%) RESTful
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.846%) HTTP
2 1 (1.923%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.923%) MongoDB
1 1 (1.923%) NoSQL
General
1 19 (36.54%) Finance
2 18 (34.62%) Banking
3 7 (13.46%) Investment Banking
3 7 (13.46%) Front Office
4 1 (1.923%) Games
4 1 (1.923%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.923%) Retail Banking
4 1 (1.923%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 21 (40.38%) Fixed Income
2 6 (11.54%) Mathematics
2 6 (11.54%) Physics
2 6 (11.54%) Computer Science
2 6 (11.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (7.692%) Derivative
3 4 (7.692%) Equity Derivative
4 1 (1.923%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.23%) UNIX
2 3 (5.769%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) Multithreading
2 12 (23.08%) Analytics
3 8 (15.38%) OOP
4 7 (13.46%) OO
4 7 (13.46%) Electronic Trading
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) C++
2 35 (67.31%) Java
3 32 (61.54%) C#
4 29 (55.77%) Perl
5 12 (23.08%) C++/CLI
6 9 (17.31%) Python
7 8 (15.38%) Scala
8 3 (5.769%) SQL
9 1 (1.923%) C
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Oracle
1 13 (25.00%) Sybase
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Contract C++ Developer, Multi-threading experience, 12 months, Glasgow. Harvey Nash's client currently seeks a strong C++ Developer with multi-threading experience... Successful candidates will require to...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 23 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Contract C++ Developer, Multi-threading experience, 12 months, GlasgowHarvey Nash's client currently seeks a strong C++ Developer with multi-threading experience.If you are available or becoming...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 24 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Due to an upturn in business activity and the birth of recent projects they are currently looking to on-board the following: **C++Developer** - Successful candidate will possess...
TEKsystems
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
My leading Financial Services client requires an experienced C++ Developer to join their expanding team based in Glasgow City Centre. The successful candidate will have knowledge of the...
FPSG Connect
Posted: 23 May 2013