Hertfordshire STL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Standard Template Library (STL) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited STL over the 3 months to 28 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Standard Template Library (STL)
Location Barnet Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent London Manchester Middlesex North East North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Redhill Sevenoaks South East South West Stockport Surrey Thames Valley UK	3 months to 28 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	96
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.274 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£320
% change on same period last year	-12.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+40.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.56	£33.18
% change on same period last year	+7.16 %
Application Development Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	365	498
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.486 %	0.497 %
Daily rates quoted	164	213
Average minimum daily rate	£360	£325
Average daily rate	£390	£348
% change on same period last year	+12.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£420	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.86	£30.97
Average hourly rate	£32.09	£32.31
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.33	£33.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.68	£33.02
% change on same period last year	-1.02 %
STL East of England

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 STL across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

STL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing STL 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 STL.

1 2 (66.67 %) Siemens 2 1 (33.33 %) Advertising 2 1 (33.33 %) Multithreading 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ 2 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) OO 2 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 28 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing STL 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 STL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Advertising
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Programmer 2 1 (33.33 %) C++ Software Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) C++	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Siemens