The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ 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 of the Programming Languages category for the Kent 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++
Rank 32 33 37
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing C++ 4 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.394% 1.136% 0.993%
As % of the Programming Languages category 3.846% 3.896% 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £235 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
104 77 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 36.24% 29.17% 35.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 32 62
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £213 £182
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 3
Average hourly rate £35.79 £17.50 £93.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+104.48% -81.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.37 £17.50 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £30.00 £170.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C++
South East

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) UML
1 5 (71.43%) OO
1 5 (71.43%) Embedded Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Requirements Analysis
1 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Google App Engine
2 2 (28.57%) Game Development
2 2 (28.57%) MSBuild
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Lua
2 2 (28.57%) Games
2 2 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Google App Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (28.57%) MSBuild
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
1 5 (71.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) UML
1 5 (71.43%) OO
1 5 (71.43%) Requirements Analysis
1 5 (71.43%) Multithreading
2 2 (28.57%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Lua
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Google