The first 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 19 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 Programming Languages category for the Guildford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
C++
Rank 16 9 21
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +12
Contract jobs citing C++ 18 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 9.091% 9.677% 3.497%
As % of the Programming Languages category 17.65% 23.08% 8.929%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £225 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +12.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £339 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.23% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 3
Average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £39.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-3.84% +11.42%
All Programming Languages
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
102 52 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 51.52% 41.94% 39.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 23 31
Average daily rate £320 £335 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +15.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £429 £425 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £31.50 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £42.50 £54.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £35.00
C++
Surrey

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford C++ Jobs Demand Trend

C++
Daily Rate Trend

This 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

This 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 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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++.

1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 12 (48.00%) STL
2 12 (48.00%) Telecoms
2 12 (48.00%) UMTS
2 12 (48.00%) GSM
2 12 (48.00%) LTE
3 11 (44.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 11 (44.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 11 (44.00%) Games
3 11 (44.00%) Subversion
3 11 (44.00%) PBX
3 11 (44.00%) VoIP
3 11 (44.00%) Cisco
3 11 (44.00%) OO
3 11 (44.00%) OOD
3 11 (44.00%) GCC
3 11 (44.00%) GDB
3 11 (44.00%) Trac
4 8 (32.00%) Game Development
4 8 (32.00%) C
4 8 (32.00%) C#
5 7 (28.00%) Degree
5 7 (28.00%) RANAP
5 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
5 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
5 7 (28.00%) RTP
6 6 (24.00%) Code Coverage
6 6 (24.00%) SQL
6 6 (24.00%) Data Mining
6 6 (24.00%) MS Excel

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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.

Application Development
1 12 (48.00%) STL
2 11 (44.00%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (8.000%) WCF
3 2 (8.000%) Middleware
3 2 (8.000%) Web Services
3 2 (8.000%) REST
4 1 (4.000%) .NET
4 1 (4.000%) HTML
4 1 (4.000%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (24.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.000%) FrameMaker
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) UMTS
1 12 (48.00%) GSM
1 12 (48.00%) LTE
2 11 (44.00%) Asterisk PBX
2 11 (44.00%) PBX
2 11 (44.00%) VoIP
3 7 (28.00%) RANAP
3 7 (28.00%) RTP
4 4 (16.00%) GGSN
4 4 (16.00%) SGSN
5 1 (4.000%) 3G
5 1 (4.000%) 2G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (8.000%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Subversion
1 11 (44.00%) GCC
1 11 (44.00%) GDB
1 11 (44.00%) Trac
2 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (48.00%) Telecoms
2 11 (44.00%) Games
3 1 (4.000%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (24.00%) Development Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Network Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) Programmer
5 3 (12.00%) Audio Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Audio Programmer
6 2 (8.000%) Software Development Engineer
6 2 (8.000%) Gameplay Programmer
7 1 (4.000%) Author
7 1 (4.000%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (24.00%) Kinect
3 4 (16.00%) Streaming Video
3 4 (16.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (8.000%) Mathematics
4 2 (8.000%) Animation
4 2 (8.000%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.000%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.000%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Linux
2 5 (20.00%) Windows
3 4 (16.00%) Windows 8
4 1 (4.000%) UNIX
4 1 (4.000%) Solaris
4 1 (4.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) OO
1 11 (44.00%) OOD
2 8 (32.00%) Game Development
3 6 (24.00%) Code Coverage
3 6 (24.00%) Software Architecture
3 6 (24.00%) Process Architecture
3 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (24.00%) Automated Testing
3 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (20.00%) Analytics
5 4 (16.00%) Regression Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Software Engineering
5 4 (16.00%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.00%) Scrum
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (8.000%) Load Testing
6 2 (8.000%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (4.000%) Reverse Engineering
7 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) C
1 8 (32.00%) C#
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Python
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.000%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Cisco
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.000%) Adobe
Guildford, Surrey
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Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £35 - £40 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013