The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 26 61 48
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -13
Contract jobs citing C++ 51 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 6.901% 0.690% 0.943%
As % of the Programming Languages category 16.45% 1.796% 2.830%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 4 3
Average daily rate £275 £255 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.73% -21.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
310 334 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 41.95% 38.43% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 218 112
Average daily rate £275 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £221 £221
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £390 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 8
Average hourly rate £33.00 £27.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.22% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.10 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £61.25 £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C++
West Yorkshire

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds C++ Daily Rate Trend

C++
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds C++ Daily Rate Histogram

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 48 (87.27%) Python
2 47 (85.45%) Ruby
3 45 (81.82%) Web Services
4 44 (80.00%) Amazon AWS
4 44 (80.00%) Node.js
5 43 (78.18%) PHP
5 43 (78.18%) Linux
6 42 (76.36%) DNS
7 41 (74.55%) Apache
7 41 (74.55%) Bash shell
8 40 (72.73%) nginx
8 40 (72.73%) MySQL
9 39 (70.91%) Amazon EC2
9 39 (70.91%) Amazon S3
9 39 (70.91%) MongoDB
9 39 (70.91%) Redis
9 39 (70.91%) Kanban
9 39 (70.91%) Route 53
9 39 (70.91%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (63.64%) Internet
11 33 (60.00%) Configuration Management
12 32 (58.18%) Puppet
13 31 (56.36%) Oracle
14 27 (49.09%) Java
14 27 (49.09%) Client/Server
15 25 (45.45%) Telecoms
15 25 (45.45%) Test Automation
15 25 (45.45%) TDD
16 24 (43.64%) Perl
17 23 (41.82%) HTTP

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 45 (81.82%) Web Services
2 44 (80.00%) Node.js
3 16 (29.09%) POSIX
4 7 (12.73%) HTML5
4 7 (12.73%) REST
4 7 (12.73%) CSS3
4 7 (12.73%) Spring
4 7 (12.73%) jQuery
4 7 (12.73%) Hibernate
4 7 (12.73%) J2EE
4 7 (12.73%) CSS
4 7 (12.73%) SOAP
5 5 (9.091%) LAMP
6 3 (5.455%) .NET
7 2 (3.636%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 44 (80.00%) Amazon AWS
2 41 (74.55%) Apache
3 40 (72.73%) nginx
4 39 (70.91%) Amazon EC2
4 39 (70.91%) Amazon S3
4 39 (70.91%) Route 53
5 7 (12.73%) Adobe CQ
5 7 (12.73%) Apache Solr
5 7 (12.73%) Tomcat
6 2 (3.636%) WebLogic
6 2 (3.636%) SharePoint
6 2 (3.636%) SAS
Business Applications
1 13 (23.64%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.636%) JDE OneWorld
Communications & Networking
1 42 (76.36%) DNS
2 35 (63.64%) Internet
3 23 (41.82%) HTTP
4 20 (36.36%) DHCP
4 20 (36.36%) SSL
5 18 (32.73%) TCP/IP
6 13 (23.64%) Intrusion Detection
7 3 (5.455%) SSH
8 1 (1.818%) Network Security
8 1 (1.818%) OpenLDAP
8 1 (1.818%) NetScreen
8 1 (1.818%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (72.73%) MySQL
2 39 (70.91%) MongoDB
2 39 (70.91%) Redis
2 39 (70.91%) Amazon RDS
3 19 (34.55%) NoSQL
4 16 (29.09%) SimpleDB
4 16 (29.09%) RDBMS
4 16 (29.09%) Couchbase
5 2 (3.636%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 7 (12.73%) Git (software)
1 7 (12.73%) Maven
1 7 (12.73%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (45.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (36.36%) Software Engineer
2 14 (25.45%) Developer
3 9 (16.36%) Operations Engineer
4 7 (12.73%) Java Developer
5 4 (7.273%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Cloud Software Developer
6 3 (5.455%) Cloud Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Administrator
7 2 (3.636%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.636%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (3.636%) Security Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Senior Security Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Applications Support Specialist
8 1 (1.818%) Oracle Consultant
8 1 (1.818%) Senior Network Security Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Python Developer
8 1 (1.818%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (1.818%) Mobile Developer
8 1 (1.818%) Applications Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 27 (49.09%) Client/Server
2 2 (3.636%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.818%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.818%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.818%) Open Source
3 1 (1.818%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 43 (78.18%) Linux
2 2 (3.636%) Windows
2 2 (3.636%) Apple iOS
2 2 (3.636%) Android
3 1 (1.818%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.818%) Solaris
3 1 (1.818%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (70.91%) Kanban
2 33 (60.00%) Configuration Management
3 25 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 25 (45.45%) TDD
4 21 (38.18%) Scrum
5 19 (34.55%) Security Testing
6 18 (32.73%) Load Balancing
7 16 (29.09%) Capacity Management
7 16 (29.09%) Incident Management
7 16 (29.09%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (12.73%) BDD
8 7 (12.73%) Software Engineering
8 7 (12.73%) SOA
9 6 (10.91%) Performance Testing
10 2 (3.636%) ITIL
10 2 (3.636%) UML
10 2 (3.636%) Network Design
10 2 (3.636%) Problem Management
11 1 (1.818%) Data Migration
11 1 (1.818%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 48 (87.27%) Python
2 47 (85.45%) Ruby
3 43 (78.18%) PHP
4 41 (74.55%) Bash shell
5 27 (49.09%) Java
6 24 (43.64%) Perl
7 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.636%) C
8 2 (3.636%) C#
9 1 (1.818%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.818%) Assembly Language
9 1 (1.818%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.818%) SQL
9 1 (1.818%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (7.273%) Degree
2 3 (5.455%) SC Cleared
2 3 (5.455%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.818%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 32 (58.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (56.36%) Oracle
2 17 (30.91%) Percona
3 9 (16.36%) hybris
4 7 (12.73%) Adobe
5 2 (3.636%) JD Edwards
5 2 (3.636%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.818%) Blue Coat
6 1 (1.818%) McAfee
6 1 (1.818%) Sun
6 1 (1.818%) Juniper
6 1 (1.818%) NetApp
6 1 (1.818%) Cisco
6 1 (1.818%) Microsoft
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