Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 18 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Programming Languages category for the Guildford region.

 C++
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank81113
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Up+2
Matching contract IT job ads5129
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford7.042 %9.600 %5.294 %
As % of the Programming Languages category15.15 %24.00 %23.68 %
Daily rates quoted356
Average daily rate£145£375£290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-61.33 %+29.31 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£318£320£340
% change year-on-year
-0.780 %-5.880 %
Hourly rates quoted001
Average hourly rate--£32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£35.00£35.00£37.50
% change year-on-year
--6.660 %
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryAll Programming Languages
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
335038
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford46.48 %40.00 %22.35 %
Daily rates quoted202513
Average daily rate£270£265£290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.880 %-8.620 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£145£211£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£425£450£316
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£300£325
% change year-on-year
--7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted124
Average hourly rate£13.00£7.50£32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+73.33 %-76.92 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£28.50£30.00£35.00
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-14.28 %
C++ SurreyC++
Surrey

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.

C++
Demand Trend

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

Guildford C++ Demand Trend

C++
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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++.

14 (66.67 %)Games
23 (50.00 %).NET
23 (50.00 %)C#
32 (33.33 %)HTML
32 (33.33 %)JavaScript
32 (33.33 %)Microsoft
32 (33.33 %)SQL Server
32 (33.33 %)ASP.NET
32 (33.33 %)CSS
32 (33.33 %)XML
32 (33.33 %)XSLT
32 (33.33 %)Content Management
32 (33.33 %)Insurance
32 (33.33 %)Computer Science
32 (33.33 %)Lua
32 (33.33 %)C
41 (16.67 %)Continuous Integration
41 (16.67 %)Statistics
41 (16.67 %)Mathematics
41 (16.67 %)Perforce
41 (16.67 %)Asset Management
41 (16.67 %)Windows
41 (16.67 %)Python
41 (16.67 %)SOA
41 (16.67 %)STL
41 (16.67 %)Web Services
41 (16.67 %)CMS
41 (16.67 %)DirectX
41 (16.67 %)Middleware

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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.

Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (50.00 %).NET
22 (33.33 %)HTML
22 (33.33 %)ASP.NET
22 (33.33 %)CSS
22 (33.33 %)XML
22 (33.33 %)XSLT
31 (16.67 %)STL
31 (16.67 %)Web Services
31 (16.67 %)DirectX
31 (16.67 %)Middleware
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (16.67 %)CMS
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (33.33 %)SQL Server
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (66.67 %)Games
22 (33.33 %)Insurance
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12 (33.33 %)Developer
12 (33.33 %)Programmer
21 (16.67 %)C++/C# Developer
21 (16.67 %)CMS Developer
21 (16.67 %)Network Programmer
21 (16.67 %)C++ Developer
21 (16.67 %)C# Developer
21 (16.67 %)Support Engineer
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (33.33 %)Computer Science
21 (16.67 %)Statistics
21 (16.67 %)Mathematics
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11 (16.67 %)Windows
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12 (33.33 %)Content Management
21 (16.67 %)Continuous Integration
21 (16.67 %)Asset Management
21 (16.67 %)SOA
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (50.00 %)C#
22 (33.33 %)JavaScript
22 (33.33 %)Lua
22 (33.33 %)C
31 (16.67 %)Python
Guildford IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (33.33 %)Microsoft
21 (16.67 %)Perforce