London C++ Developer Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the C++ Developer role in IT contracts within the London region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited C++ Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

C++ Developer
Location Abingdon Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Blackburn Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Croydon Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Preston Rotherham Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Stockport Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	125	66
Rank change on same period last year	-59
Matching contract IT job ads	416	1104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.591 %	1.115 %
As % of the category below	1.506 %	2.598 %
Daily rates quoted	177	522
Average minimum daily rate	£491	£526
Average daily rate	£524	£569
% change on same period last year	-7.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£557	£611
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£325
% change on same period last year	-0.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£37.14	£33.00
Average hourly rate	£41.07	£35.09
% change on same period last year	+17.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£37.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.66	£41.49
% change on same period last year	-16.45 %
Job Titles London
Matching contract IT job ads	27622	42500
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	39.25 %	42.92 %
Daily rates quoted	11487	16033
Average minimum daily rate	£401	£423
Average daily rate	£430	£451
% change on same period last year	-4.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£459	£479
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1556	2261
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.80	£24.08
Average hourly rate	£25.36	£25.73
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.91	£27.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.69	£25.18
% change on same period last year	-5.93 %
C++ Developer 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.

C++ Developer
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing C++ Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing C++ Developer across the London region.

C++ Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

C++ Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C++ Developer
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

C++ Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
City of London	-45	123	£513	-8.92 %
Docklands, London	-3	27	£542	-10.95 %
Canary Wharf	-4	12	£575	+19.17 %
Luton	+21	6	£285	-
Croydon	-	2	-	-
Hounslow	-8	1	£350	-
Wimbledon	-	1	-	-

C++ Developer England

C++ Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited C++ Developer in their job title 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 with C++ Developer in their job title.

1 799 (100.00 %) C++ 2 334 (41.80 %) Banking 3 258 (32.29 %) UNIX 4 252 (31.54 %) Front Office 5 250 (31.29 %) Investment Banking 6 243 (30.41 %) Finance 7 228 (28.54 %) Derivative 8 198 (24.78 %) Windows 8 198 (24.78 %) SQL 9 161 (20.15 %) Java 10 133 (16.65 %) STL 10 133 (16.65 %) OO 11 130 (16.27 %) C# 12 122 (15.27 %) VC++ 13 119 (14.89 %) Equities

14 109 (13.64 %) Oracle 14 109 (13.64 %) Sybase 15 108 (13.52 %) Fixed Income 16 100 (12.52 %) Linux 17 98 (12.27 %) XML 18 90 (11.26 %) Multithreading 19 81 (10.14 %) MFC 20 70 (8.761 %) Microsoft 20 70 (8.761 %) Degree 21 69 (8.636 %) Equity Derivative 22 62 (7.760 %) .NET 23 60 (7.509 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 24 57 (7.134 %) ClearCase 25 54 (6.758 %) Perl 26 49 (6.133 %) OOD

C++ Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited C++ Developer in their job title 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 with C++ Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 133 (16.65 %) STL 2 98 (12.27 %) XML 3 81 (10.14 %) MFC 4 62 (7.760 %) .NET 5 27 (3.379 %) WebSphere 6 21 (2.628 %) Middleware 7 18 (2.253 %) ATL 8 14 (1.752 %) FIX Protocol 9 13 (1.627 %) JNI 10 12 (1.502 %) COM 11 10 (1.252 %) Swing 12 9 (1.126 %) UIQ 12 9 (1.126 %) OpenGL 13 8 (1.001 %) Series 60 14 7 (0.876 %) .NET Framework 14 7 (0.876 %) Spring 14 7 (0.876 %) J2ME 14 7 (0.876 %) J2SE 14 7 (0.876 %) CORBA 14 7 (0.876 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 24 (3.004 %) WebSphere MQ 2 9 (1.126 %) TIBCO EMS 3 6 (0.751 %) Rendezvous 4 3 (0.375 %) MQSeries 4 3 (0.375 %) WebLogic 5 1 (0.125 %) Tuxedo 5 1 (0.125 %) SAS 5 1 (0.125 %) SmartSockets 5 1 (0.125 %) MTS
Applications 1 33 (4.130 %) MS Excel 2 7 (0.876 %) Spreadsheet 3 2 (0.250 %) MS Office 3 2 (0.250 %) Photoshop 3 2 (0.250 %) MS Visio 4 1 (0.125 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.125 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 10 (1.252 %) Summit 2 8 (1.001 %) Oracle General Ledger 3 6 (0.751 %) Sophis RISQUE 4 1 (0.125 %) RMDS 4 1 (0.125 %) JDE OneWorld 4 1 (0.125 %) Sophis VALUE
Communications & Networking 1 12 (1.502 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.125 %) RTSP 2 1 (0.125 %) UMTS 2 1 (0.125 %) VoIP 2 1 (0.125 %) HTTP 2 1 (0.125 %) Bluetooth 2 1 (0.125 %) GPRS 2 1 (0.125 %) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 46 (5.757 %) SQL Server 2 21 (2.628 %) OLTP 3 17 (2.128 %) Crystal Reports 4 7 (0.876 %) RDBMS 5 3 (0.375 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (0.375 %) MySQL 5 3 (0.375 %) Reference Data 6 2 (0.250 %) Data Cleansing 6 2 (0.250 %) Oracle OLAP 6 2 (0.250 %) OLAP 6 2 (0.250 %) Oracle 9i 6 2 (0.250 %) Oracle 10g 7 1 (0.125 %) DB2 UDB 7 1 (0.125 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 1 (0.125 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 57 (7.134 %) ClearCase 2 39 (4.881 %) Visual Studio 3 24 (3.004 %) MSI 4 18 (2.253 %) Flash 5 13 (1.627 %) ClearQuest 6 7 (0.876 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 6 (0.751 %) Subversion 8 5 (0.626 %) NUnit 9 4 (0.501 %) Ant 9 4 (0.501 %) JUnit 10 1 (0.125 %) Rational Rose 10 1 (0.125 %) Eclipse	General 1 334 (41.80 %) Banking 2 252 (31.54 %) Front Office 3 250 (31.29 %) Investment Banking 4 243 (30.41 %) Finance 5 31 (3.880 %) Games 6 24 (3.004 %) Back Office 7 22 (2.753 %) Financial Institution 8 10 (1.252 %) Education 9 9 (1.126 %) Telecoms 10 4 (0.501 %) Pensions 10 4 (0.501 %) General Ledger 10 4 (0.501 %) Government 11 3 (0.375 %) Insurance 12 2 (0.250 %) 3D Graphics 13 1 (0.125 %) Electronics 13 1 (0.125 %) Construction 13 1 (0.125 %) Health 13 1 (0.125 %) Manufacturing 13 1 (0.125 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 228 (28.54 %) Derivative 2 119 (14.89 %) Equities 3 108 (13.52 %) Fixed Income 4 90 (11.26 %) Multithreading 5 69 (8.636 %) Equity Derivative 6 60 (7.509 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 39 (4.881 %) Credit Derivative 8 31 (3.880 %) Computer Science 9 29 (3.630 %) Mathematics 10 23 (2.879 %) Interest Rate Derivative 11 20 (2.503 %) Client/Server 12 14 (1.752 %) Market Risk 13 11 (1.377 %) Grid Computing 13 11 (1.377 %) Credit Risk 14 10 (1.252 %) Handset 15 8 (1.001 %) N-Tier 16 6 (0.751 %) Physics 17 5 (0.626 %) Contract for Difference 18 4 (0.501 %) Swaptions 19 3 (0.375 %) Exotic Derivative	Operating Systems 1 258 (32.29 %) UNIX 2 198 (24.78 %) Windows 3 100 (12.52 %) Linux 4 23 (2.879 %) Solaris 5 15 (1.877 %) Windows Server 2003 6 11 (1.377 %) Windows NT 7 9 (1.126 %) VMS 8 5 (0.626 %) Windows 2000 9 3 (0.375 %) SUSE 10 1 (0.125 %) Windows Mobile 10 1 (0.125 %) OS/400 10 1 (0.125 %) HPUX 10 1 (0.125 %) Red Hat Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 133 (16.65 %) OO 2 49 (6.133 %) OOD 3 41 (5.131 %) Algorithmic Trading 4 36 (4.506 %) Risk Management 5 31 (3.880 %) Regression Testing 6 30 (3.755 %) UML 7 24 (3.004 %) Scrum 8 23 (2.879 %) Unit Testing 9 18 (2.253 %) Asset Management 10 17 (2.128 %) Electronic Trading 10 17 (2.128 %) Agile Software Development 11 16 (2.003 %) Performance Management 12 15 (1.877 %) Business Analysis 12 15 (1.877 %) RAD 13 14 (1.752 %) Migration 14 11 (1.377 %) Extreme Programming 15 9 (1.126 %) E-Commerce 15 9 (1.126 %) Monte Carlo Method 16 8 (1.001 %) Risk Analysis 16 8 (1.001 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 799 (100.00 %) C++ 2 198 (24.78 %) SQL 3 161 (20.15 %) Java 4 130 (16.27 %) C# 5 122 (15.27 %) VC++ 6 54 (6.758 %) Perl 7 47 (5.882 %) VB 8 38 (4.756 %) C 9 29 (3.630 %) VBA 10 16 (2.003 %) Python 11 14 (1.752 %) Shell Script 11 14 (1.752 %) ActionScript 12 5 (0.626 %) Korn 12 5 (0.626 %) Pascal 12 5 (0.626 %) PHP 13 4 (0.501 %) PL/SQL 13 4 (0.501 %) VB.NET 14 3 (0.375 %) Ruby 14 3 (0.375 %) PHP5 15 2 (0.250 %) Jython
Qualifications 1 70 (8.761 %) Degree 2 7 (0.876 %) PhD 3 2 (0.250 %) Postgraduate 3 2 (0.250 %) MBA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (0.375 %) QA 2 2 (0.250 %) MiFID
System Software 1 6 (0.751 %) Orbix	Systems Management 1 27 (3.379 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 109 (13.64 %) Oracle 1 109 (13.64 %) Sybase 2 70 (8.761 %) Microsoft 3 37 (4.631 %) TIBCO 4 26 (3.254 %) ION Trading 5 20 (2.503 %) DataSynapse 6 19 (2.378 %) Murex 7 18 (2.253 %) Calypso 7 18 (2.253 %) Sophis 8 10 (1.252 %) Tradeweb 8 10 (1.252 %) Symbian 9 9 (1.126 %) Reuters 9 9 (1.126 %) MarketAxess 10 8 (1.001 %) Yolus 10 8 (1.001 %) Fidessa 11 6 (0.751 %) Bloomberg 12 4 (0.501 %) BT 13 3 (0.375 %) Algorithmics 13 3 (0.375 %) IONA 13 3 (0.375 %) Mercator