The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester 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 Leicester 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 15 13 18
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs citing C++ 5 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 5.000% 4.494% 5.769%
As % of the Programming Languages category 12.50% 13.33% 9.836%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £26.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +30.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Programming Languages
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category
40 30 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 40.00% 33.71% 58.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 10
Average daily rate £325 £300 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £250 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £475 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 20
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
C++
Leicestershire

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester C++ Hourly Rate Trend

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 7 (70.00%) C
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) CAE
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (20.00%) WPF
3 2 (20.00%) WinForms
3 2 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) MFC
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Apache
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (10.00%) PHP
4 1 (10.00%) Workflow
4 1 (10.00%) LAMP
4 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
4 1 (10.00%) Perforce
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) NUnit
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) WCF
4 1 (10.00%) WF
4 1 (10.00%) LINQ
4 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (10.00%) MVVM

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 2 (20.00%) WPF
1 2 (20.00%) WinForms
1 2 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) MFC
2 1 (10.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) WCF
2 1 (10.00%) WF
2 1 (10.00%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) NUnit
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) PHP Developer
3 1 (10.00%) WPF Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) CAE
2 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
3 1 (10.00%) Workflow
3 1 (10.00%) TDD
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) C
1 7 (70.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) Perforce