Gloucestershire C++ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for C++ skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Programming Languages category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cardigan Ceredigion Channel Islands Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London County Antrim Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnham Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Mid Wales Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Portsmouth Preston Queensferry Reading Redhill Rotherham Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warminster Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	31
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching contract IT job ads	15	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	7.538 %	13.69 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£450
Average daily rate	£350	£450
% change on same period last year	-22.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£340
% change on same period last year	-3.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.80	£32.00
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£32.77
% change on same period last year	+19.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.20	£33.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.68	£36.66
% change on same period last year	-2.66 %
Programming Languages Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	199	168
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.280 %	0.170 %
Daily rates quoted	51	26
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£311
Average daily rate	£381	£328
% change on same period last year	+16.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£404	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£334
% change on same period last year	-2.98 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.55	£31.33
Average hourly rate	£31.39	£32.64
% change on same period last year	-3.84 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.23	£33.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.24	£32.80
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
C++ South West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++ across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Programming Languages category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucester	-	4	-	-
Cheltenham	-6	3	-	-

C++ South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing C++ 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 C++.

1 20 (68.97 %) C 2 9 (31.03 %) VB 2 9 (31.03 %) Security Cleared 3 6 (20.69 %) Integration Testing 3 6 (20.69 %) Java 4 5 (17.24 %) Embedded C 4 5 (17.24 %) Configuration Management 5 4 (13.79 %) Embedded C++ 5 4 (13.79 %) .NET 5 4 (13.79 %) Windows 5 4 (13.79 %) UML 5 4 (13.79 %) OO 5 4 (13.79 %) RUP 5 4 (13.79 %) Aerospace 5 4 (13.79 %) DV Cleared

6 3 (10.34 %) SC Cleared 6 3 (10.34 %) Test Scripting 6 3 (10.34 %) Northgate 6 3 (10.34 %) Electronics 6 3 (10.34 %) Finance 6 3 (10.34 %) UNIX 6 3 (10.34 %) Unified Process 6 3 (10.34 %) CRM 6 3 (10.34 %) ClearCase 6 3 (10.34 %) VC++ 6 3 (10.34 %) Linux 6 3 (10.34 %) C# 6 3 (10.34 %) COBOL 6 3 (10.34 %) Simulink 6 3 (10.34 %) Project Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing C++ 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 C++. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (13.79 %) .NET 2 1 (3.448 %) J2EE 2 1 (3.448 %) MAPI	Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) Simulink 2 1 (3.448 %) MATLAB
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.897 %) Ethernet 1 2 (6.897 %) FTP 1 2 (6.897 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.448 %) Wireless	Development Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) ClearCase 2 2 (6.897 %) Telelogic DOORS 2 2 (6.897 %) Telelogic Rhapsody 3 1 (3.448 %) C++Builder 3 1 (3.448 %) Ant 3 1 (3.448 %) Visual Studio
General 1 4 (13.79 %) Aerospace 2 3 (10.34 %) Electronics 2 3 (10.34 %) Finance 3 2 (6.897 %) Government 3 2 (6.897 %) Marketing 3 2 (6.897 %) Avionics 4 1 (3.448 %) Military 4 1 (3.448 %) Pensions 4 1 (3.448 %) Electric	Job Titles 1 14 (48.28 %) Software Engineer 2 9 (31.03 %) Developer 3 4 (13.79 %) Applications Developer 4 3 (10.34 %) C++ Developer 5 2 (6.897 %) Embedded Software Engineer 5 2 (6.897 %) Test Engineer 5 2 (6.897 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) C++ Software Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Software Test Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Java Analyst Programmer 6 1 (3.448 %) Embedded C Software Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Java Programmer 6 1 (3.448 %) Graduate Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior C++ Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) Embedded C Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) C Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) C Software Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior C Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) Senior Developer 6 1 (3.448 %) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) VHDL 1 2 (6.897 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (3.448 %) PDA 2 1 (3.448 %) Physics 2 1 (3.448 %) Computer Science 2 1 (3.448 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 4 (13.79 %) Windows 2 3 (10.34 %) Linux 2 3 (10.34 %) UNIX 3 2 (6.897 %) Windows CE 3 2 (6.897 %) VxWorks 4 1 (3.448 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (31.03 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (20.69 %) Integration Testing 3 5 (17.24 %) Configuration Management 4 4 (13.79 %) UML 4 4 (13.79 %) OO 4 4 (13.79 %) RUP 4 4 (13.79 %) DV Cleared 5 3 (10.34 %) CRM 5 3 (10.34 %) Project Management 5 3 (10.34 %) Test Scripting 5 3 (10.34 %) SC Cleared 5 3 (10.34 %) Unified Process 6 2 (6.897 %) Software Engineering 6 2 (6.897 %) Requirements Management 7 1 (3.448 %) Requirements Analysis 7 1 (3.448 %) Agile Software Development 7 1 (3.448 %) BC Cleared 7 1 (3.448 %) QMS 7 1 (3.448 %) Quality Management 7 1 (3.448 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 20 (68.97 %) C 2 9 (31.03 %) VB 3 6 (20.69 %) Java 4 5 (17.24 %) Embedded C 5 4 (13.79 %) Embedded C++ 6 3 (10.34 %) VC++ 6 3 (10.34 %) C# 6 3 (10.34 %) COBOL 7 2 (6.897 %) Ada 8 1 (3.448 %) Assembly Language 8 1 (3.448 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (3.448 %) Sun Certification 1 1 (3.448 %) Degree	Vendors 1 3 (10.34 %) Northgate 2 2 (6.897 %) Telelogic 2 2 (6.897 %) Microsoft 3 1 (3.448 %) Sun 3 1 (3.448 %) Borland