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C++ Contracts in London

Browse 344 C++ job vacancies in London

The first table below looks at the demand for C++ skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited C++ over the 3 months to 19 June 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 London 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.

3 months to
19 Jun 2013

Same period 2012

Same period 2011

C++

Rank

Rank change year-on-year

+11

-26

Contract jobs citing C++

906

827

1549

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

3.973%

3.110%

4.923%

As % of the Programming Languages category

9.362%

8.073%

11.50%

Number of daily rates quoted

655

538

1071

Average daily rate

£550

£570

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

-3.50%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£350

£325

£350

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£650

£625

£668

UK excluding London average daily rate

£339

£325

£300

% change year-on-year

+4.23%

+8.33%

Number of hourly rates quoted

Average hourly rate

£40.00

£37.50

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

+6.66%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£37.50

£30.00

£32.50

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£58.10

£60.00

£51.25

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£37.50

£39.00

£35.00

% change year-on-year

-3.84%

+11.42%

All Programming Languages
London

Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Programming Languages category

9677

10244

13467

As % of all contract IT jobs located in London

42.44%

38.53%

42.80%

Number of daily rates quoted

6907

6983

9169

Average daily rate

£440

£438

£475

Average daily rate % change year-on-year

+0.57%

-7.89%

90% offered a daily rate of more than

£300

£280

£300

10% offered a daily rate of more than

£600

£625

UK excluding London average daily rate

£325

Number of hourly rates quoted

119

151

146

Average hourly rate

£35.00

£37.00

Average hourly rate % change year-on-year

-5.40%

90% offered a hourly rate of more than

£18.75

£20.00

£19.52

10% offered a hourly rate of more than

£48.84

£50.00

£55.00

UK excluding London average hourly rate

£35.00

C++
England

C++
Jobs Demand Trend

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

C++
Daily Rate Trend

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

C++
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

C++
Hourly Rate Trend

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

C++
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing C++ across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

C++
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing C++ within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Find Job Vacancies
City of London	+28	252	£550	-	159
Canary Wharf	+16	35	£600	-
Hounslow	+1	6	£338	-
Docklands, London	+1	4	£481	+25.00%
Chiswick	-	2	£375	-	2
Twickenham	-	1	£325	-
Feltham	-	1	-	-
Croydon	-	-	-	-
New Malden	-	-	-	-	2
Teddington	-	-	-	-
Ealing	-	-	-	-
Hackney	-	-	-	-
Hammersmith	-	-	-	-
C++ England

C++
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	586 (36.88%)	Java
2	537 (33.79%)	C#
3	526 (33.10%)	Banking
4	411 (25.87%)	Finance
5	404 (25.42%)	Linux
6	402 (25.30%)	Front Office
7	371 (23.35%)	SQL
8	354 (22.28%)	UNIX
9	350 (22.03%)	Multithreading
10	342 (21.52%)	Investment Banking
11	314 (19.76%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	297 (18.69%)	Python
13	276 (17.37%)	Windows
14	266 (16.74%)	C
15	265 (16.68%)	OO

16	255 (16.05%)	Oracle
17	232 (14.60%)	STL
18	227 (14.29%)	Derivative
19	222 (13.97%)	.NET
20	195 (12.27%)	Fixed Income
21	189 (11.89%)	XML
22	175 (11.01%)	Degree
23	168 (10.57%)	Agile Software Development
24	166 (10.45%)	SQL Server
25	156 (9.817%)	Boost C++ Libraries
26	149 (9.377%)	Perl
27	144 (9.062%)	Computer Science
28	127 (7.992%)	Analytics
29	124 (7.804%)	VBA
30	117 (7.363%)	Microsoft

C++
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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	232 (14.60%)	STL
2	222 (13.97%)	.NET
3	189 (11.89%)	XML
4	156 (9.817%)	Boost C++ Libraries
5	103 (6.482%)	Web Services
6	66 (4.154%)	JSON
7	64 (4.028%)	Middleware
8	62 (3.902%)	WPF
9	52 (3.272%)	WCF
10	46 (2.895%)	XSLT
11	42 (2.643%)	HTML
11	42 (2.643%)	REST
12	40 (2.517%)	CSS
12	40 (2.517%)	OpenGL
13	39 (2.454%)	HTML5
14	37 (2.329%)	iOS SDK
15	30 (1.888%)	Spring
16	29 (1.825%)	.NET Framework
16	29 (1.825%)	SOAP
17	28 (1.762%)	Rendezvous

Application Platforms
1	41 (2.580%)	Apache
2	40 (2.517%)	Oracle Coherence
3	26 (1.636%)	Tomcat
4	21 (1.322%)	CMS
5	19 (1.196%)	WebLogic
6	16 (1.007%)	Windows Azure
6	16 (1.007%)	MQSeries
7	15 (0.944%)	Google App Engine
8	14 (0.881%)	SAS
9	13 (0.818%)	Apache Pig
10	12 (0.755%)	ESB
11	11 (0.692%)	SharePoint
11	11 (0.692%)	TIBCO EMS
12	9 (0.566%)	nginx
12	9 (0.566%)	Confluence
13	7 (0.441%)	GemFire
13	7 (0.441%)	Amazon AWS
13	7 (0.441%)	Amazon EC2
14	6 (0.378%)	Mule
15	4 (0.252%)	Drupal

Applications
1	68 (4.279%)	MS Excel
2	42 (2.643%)	Spreadsheet
3	17 (1.070%)	Photoshop
4	13 (0.818%)	MS Project
5	10 (0.629%)	MS Office
6	9 (0.566%)	SPSS
7	3 (0.189%)	XMetaL
7	3 (0.189%)	MS Visio
8	1 (0.063%)	Maya
8	1 (0.063%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	26 (1.636%)	Summit
2	9 (0.566%)	Front Arena
2	9 (0.566%)	Oracle EBS
3	6 (0.378%)	RMDS
4	5 (0.315%)	Sophis RISQUE
4	5 (0.315%)	Murex MxG2000
5	4 (0.252%)	Bond Adapt
5	4 (0.252%)	ION MarketView
6	3 (0.189%)	Remedy ITSM
6	3 (0.189%)	SunGard APT
7	2 (0.126%)	SAP Oil and Gas
7	2 (0.126%)	SunGard Martini
7	2 (0.126%)	CODA-Financials
8	1 (0.063%)	Endur
8	1 (0.063%)	WebTrends
8	1 (0.063%)	Google Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	70 (4.405%)	HTTP
2	56 (3.524%)	TCP/IP
3	33 (2.077%)	Internet
4	19 (1.196%)	SAN
5	18 (1.133%)	LDAP
6	14 (0.881%)	DNS
6	14 (0.881%)	Kerberos
7	7 (0.441%)	Wi-Fi
8	6 (0.378%)	NFC
9	5 (0.315%)	Wireless
9	5 (0.315%)	Firewall
9	5 (0.315%)	FTP
10	4 (0.252%)	VoIP
10	4 (0.252%)	LAN
10	4 (0.252%)	Bluetooth
11	3 (0.189%)	SNMP
11	3 (0.189%)	HTTPS
11	3 (0.189%)	DVB
11	3 (0.189%)	Ethernet
11	3 (0.189%)	AMQP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	166 (10.45%)	SQL Server
2	39 (2.454%)	RDBMS
3	32 (2.014%)	MySQL
4	26 (1.636%)	OLTP
4	26 (1.636%)	SQL Server 2008
5	25 (1.573%)	Oracle 8/8i
6	22 (1.385%)	KDB
7	21 (1.322%)	NoSQL
8	19 (1.196%)	Big Data
9	18 (1.133%)	Data Warehouse
10	17 (1.070%)	MongoDB
10	17 (1.070%)	Hadoop
11	16 (1.007%)	SQL Server 2012
11	16 (1.007%)	OLAP
12	13 (0.818%)	Apache Hive
13	11 (0.692%)	HBase
13	11 (0.692%)	Apache Cassandra
14	9 (0.566%)	Sybase ASE
14	9 (0.566%)	Mahout
15	8 (0.503%)	Data Mining

Development Applications
1	79 (4.972%)	Subversion
2	52 (3.272%)	Visual Studio
3	40 (2.517%)	Xcode
4	37 (2.329%)	Git (software)
4	37 (2.329%)	ClearCase
5	34 (2.140%)	Team Foundation Server
6	32 (2.014%)	JIRA
7	31 (1.951%)	TeamCity
8	22 (1.385%)	Selenium
9	21 (1.322%)	CruiseControl
9	21 (1.322%)	Oracle Forms
10	20 (1.259%)	Mercurial
11	18 (1.133%)	Hudson
11	18 (1.133%)	Eclipse
11	18 (1.133%)	Maven
12	16 (1.007%)	GitHub
12	16 (1.007%)	Trac
13	15 (0.944%)	JUnit
14	14 (0.881%)	LLVM
14	14 (0.881%)	Balsamiq Mockups

General
1	526 (33.10%)	Banking
2	411 (25.87%)	Finance
3	402 (25.30%)	Front Office
4	342 (21.52%)	Investment Banking
5	47 (2.958%)	Games
6	31 (1.951%)	Back Office
7	16 (1.007%)	Publishing
8	14 (0.881%)	Telecoms
8	14 (0.881%)	Retail
9	13 (0.818%)	Marketing
10	11 (0.692%)	Electronics
11	7 (0.441%)	Billing
12	6 (0.378%)	Manufacturing
13	5 (0.315%)	Financial Institution
13	5 (0.315%)	German Language
14	4 (0.252%)	French Language
15	3 (0.189%)	Multimedia
15	3 (0.189%)	Advertising
16	2 (0.126%)	Military
16	2 (0.126%)	Automotive

Job Titles
1	1122 (70.61%)	Developer
2	568 (35.75%)	C++ Developer
3	136 (8.559%)	C# Developer
4	108 (6.797%)	Senior Developer
5	106 (6.671%)	Analyst
6	81 (5.098%)	Java Developer
7	65 (4.091%)	C++/C# Developer
8	64 (4.028%)	iOS Developer
9	57 (3.587%)	Quantitative Developer
10	56 (3.524%)	Android Developer
11	55 (3.461%)	Senior C++ Developer
12	52 (3.272%)	C++ Quantitative Developer
13	50 (3.147%)	Front Office Developer
14	47 (2.958%)	Software Engineer
15	45 (2.832%)	Python Developer
16	43 (2.706%)	Access Developer
17	36 (2.266%)	Support Analyst
18	35 (2.203%)	Architect
19	32 (2.014%)	UNIX Developer
20	27 (1.699%)	Programmer

Miscellaneous
1	314 (19.76%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
2	227 (14.29%)	Derivative
3	195 (12.27%)	Fixed Income
4	144 (9.062%)	Computer Science
5	104 (6.545%)	Mathematics
6	94 (5.916%)	Credit Risk
7	82 (5.160%)	Physics
8	74 (4.657%)	Equities
9	64 (4.028%)	Mobile App
10	55 (3.461%)	Grid Computing
11	54 (3.398%)	Field-Programmable Gate Array
12	53 (3.335%)	Open Source
13	44 (2.769%)	Interest Rate Derivative
14	38 (2.391%)	iPhone
15	32 (2.014%)	Equity Derivative
16	30 (1.888%)	Hedge funds
17	28 (1.762%)	Statistics
18	27 (1.699%)	iPad
19	25 (1.573%)	Blackberry
20	22 (1.385%)	Swaptions

Operating Systems
1	404 (25.42%)	Linux
2	354 (22.28%)	UNIX
3	276 (17.37%)	Windows
4	114 (7.174%)	Android
5	86 (5.412%)	Apple iOS
6	44 (2.769%)	Solaris
7	33 (2.077%)	Windows 7
8	27 (1.699%)	Windows XP
9	23 (1.447%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10	18 (1.133%)	Windows Server 2003
11	16 (1.007%)	SUSE
12	14 (0.881%)	Embedded Linux
12	14 (0.881%)	Windows Server 2008
13	12 (0.755%)	AIX
14	10 (0.629%)	Windows NT
14	10 (0.629%)	Windows 2000
15	9 (0.566%)	Windows 8
16	7 (0.441%)	Windows Phone
17	6 (0.378%)	Windows Mobile
17	6 (0.378%)	CentOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	350 (22.03%)	Multithreading
2	265 (16.68%)	OO
3	168 (10.57%)	Agile Software Development
4	127 (7.992%)	Analytics
5	112 (7.048%)	Risk Management
6	96 (6.042%)	TDD
7	94 (5.916%)	OOP
8	86 (5.412%)	Scrum
8	86 (5.412%)	Electronic Trading
9	79 (4.972%)	Continuous Integration
10	77 (4.846%)	E-Commerce
11	74 (4.657%)	Software Engineering
12	53 (3.335%)	Unit Testing
12	53 (3.335%)	Monte Carlo Method
13	48 (3.021%)	OOD
13	48 (3.021%)	UML
14	42 (2.643%)	Regression Testing
15	38 (2.391%)	MVC
16	37 (2.329%)	Algorithmic Trading
17	36 (2.266%)	Migration

Programming Languages
1	586 (36.88%)	Java
2	537 (33.79%)	C#
3	371 (23.35%)	SQL
4	297 (18.69%)	Python
5	266 (16.74%)	C
6	149 (9.377%)	Perl
7	124 (7.804%)	VBA
8	116 (7.300%)	JavaScript
9	90 (5.664%)	Objective-C
10	77 (4.846%)	Shell Script
11	58 (3.650%)	Ruby
12	46 (2.895%)	VB
13	33 (2.077%)	VC++
14	28 (1.762%)	PHP
15	25 (1.573%)	PL/SQL
16	22 (1.385%)	Scala
17	20 (1.259%)	PowerShell
18	19 (1.196%)	T-SQL
19	14 (0.881%)	R
19	14 (0.881%)	Assembly Language

Qualifications
1	175 (11.01%)	Degree
2	48 (3.021%)	PhD
3	22 (1.385%)	Postgraduate
4	13 (0.818%)	Security Cleared
5	6 (0.378%)	SC Cleared
6	4 (0.252%)	ITIL Certification
7	2 (0.126%)	ISTQB
7	2 (0.126%)	PMP
7	2 (0.126%)	PMI Certification
7	2 (0.126%)	ISEB
8	1 (0.063%)	MBA
8	1 (0.063%)	ACCA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	51 (3.210%)	QA
2	9 (0.566%)	SLA
2	9 (0.566%)	Basel III
3	5 (0.315%)	Basel II
4	2 (0.126%)	ISO/IEC 14443
4	2 (0.126%)	ISO/IEC 7816
5	1 (0.063%)	ISO 8583
5	1 (0.063%)	ISO 9001
5	1 (0.063%)	WCAG

System Software
1	11 (0.692%)	NFS
2	10 (0.629%)	Veritas Volume Manager
3	8 (0.503%)	VMware Infrastructure
4	6 (0.378%)	Active Directory
5	5 (0.315%)	Xen
6	4 (0.252%)	Hyper-V
7	1 (0.063%)	NDS
7	1 (0.063%)	Apache ZooKeeper
7	1 (0.063%)	Apache Flume
7	1 (0.063%)	Cygwin

Systems Management
1	9 (0.566%)	Tivoli
2	8 (0.503%)	Puppet
3	7 (0.441%)	Unicenter
3	7 (0.441%)	MOM
3	7 (0.441%)	Netcool
3	7 (0.441%)	BMC PATROL
3	7 (0.441%)	SCOM
3	7 (0.441%)	HP Quality Center
4	6 (0.378%)	BladeLogic
5	5 (0.315%)	CA SiteMinder
5	5 (0.315%)	HP Operations Orchestration
6	4 (0.252%)	Splunk
7	2 (0.126%)	Ionix
7	2 (0.126%)	CA Wily
8	1 (0.063%)	Oozie

Vendors
1	255 (16.05%)	Oracle
2	117 (7.363%)	Microsoft
3	83 (5.223%)	TIBCO
4	59 (3.713%)	Sybase
5	43 (2.706%)	Reuters
6	40 (2.517%)	Bloomberg
7	39 (2.454%)	Google
8	34 (2.140%)	DataSynapse
9	30 (1.888%)	Red Hat
10	25 (1.573%)	Perforce
11	18 (1.133%)	IBM
12	17 (1.070%)	JBoss
12	17 (1.070%)	Informatica
12	17 (1.070%)	Twitter
13	16 (1.007%)	Facebook
13	16 (1.007%)	Murex
14	15 (0.944%)	HP
15	12 (0.755%)	Trayport
15	12 (0.755%)	SAP
15	12 (0.755%)	BMC

TPF Developer

West London

Excellent Quantitative and in-depth Analytical skills with a proven background developing TPF (in Assembler or C and/or C++). Airline Departure Control Systems, Reservations, Inventory systems knowledge...

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Posted: 14 June 2013

C++ Developer

City of London

As the C++ Developer you will be working within a Front office trading environment. The role will require you to have strong C++ Development skills and experience on...

harringtonstarr

Rate: £300 - £350 per day

Posted: 13 June 2013

C++ Developer - Contract - London - Finance

City of London

They are looking for a C++ Developer with extensive commercial experience on the Linux platform to join their team. They are looking for a C++ Developer of the...

Real Staffing

Rate: £500 - £600 per annum

Posted: 12 June 2013

C++ Developer

City, London

C++, Low Latency, HFT, UNIX, LINUX, Multi threading Financial Trading Day Rate: £350 per day Harrington Starr is working with an Multi Asset Trading House based in the...

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Rate: £300 - £350 per day

Posted: 13 June 2013

Exceptional Junior Java Developers Required -T1 INVESTMENT BANK

City, London

Exceptional Junior Java Developers Required / High Performance Development, Java, C++, C#, SQL... C++ / C# Previous front office exposure would be highly advantageous... Java / SQL / low latency, high frequency...

Thomson Keene Associates

Rate: £350 - £550 per day

Posted: 14 June 2013

Front Arena Developer - London - Up to £600/day!

City of London

Orgtel

Rate: £550 - £650 per day

Posted: 6 June 2013

Python Developer required at top Hedge Fund

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Rate: £550 per day